COVID, Bride Kidnapping and Venezuela Among the Subjects at TheWrap’s Shorts Showcase

NEW YORK -- As part of the cast of “Clyde’s,” Reza Salazar does eight performances a week at the Hayes Theater on Broadway alongside award-winning Uzo Aduba and others. It's an achievement that he does not take for granted: The Peruvian actor began his career out of necessity at a very young age, when he and his mother would dress up as clowns to earn a living.“I believe that what I did with my mother is still my foundation, the essence of what I continue to do now,” says Salazar.

Broadway box office tumbled last week, dropping 26% from the previous week to a combined tally of $22,511,627 for the 31 productions. Attendance for the week ending Dec. 19 – a week marked by the emergence in New York of the Omicron covid variant and the beginning of a rush of Broadway cancellations – was down 23% to 184,227.

rising cases of the COVID-19 Omicron variant during a recent interview with the Hollywood Reporter.The news comes as several shows including Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” and Disney’s “Aladdin” have shuttered performances through Christmas and Alanis Morissette’s “Jagged Little Pill” announced its closing notice yesterday.According to St.

Jagged Little Pill, the Grammy and Tony Award-winning musical based on Alanis Morissette’s 1995 album of the same name, has been shut down due to COVID-19.The jukebox musical opened in late 2019, but the run was halted in 2020 because of the spread of the Coronavirus.

@BillOReilly he got the vaccine booster shot. pic.twitter.com/fhkOQEeeEQTrump previously told the Wall Street Journal he “probably” wouldn’t get a booster.

Place and Time, a musical celebration of LGBTQ+ diversity in theater, featuring Broadway stars Tituss Burgess, Amber Gray, Telly Leung, Daisy Eagan, and a host of other talents performing songs written by the 2021 Richard Rodgers Award-winning duo.Lyricist Chary, who’s lesbian, and composer Gwinn, who identities as queer and gender-fluid, teamed up while both were in the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at New York University.

who stepped down from the board back in May, after it was announced he’ll take over a new company formed from a merger with WarnerMedia.According to the 8-K filing, “The Board has determined that Mr. Sloan qualifies as an “independent” director of the Company under the New York Stock Exchange listing standards.

Kate Ferdinand has revealed that her husband Rio cheekily ate her Chinese takeaway after giving birth to their son Cree last year. The 30 year old former TOWIE star, who has launched a support platform after feeling 'isolated' as a stepmum, shared a throwback snap after giving birth to her son Cree to her 1.4million Instagram followers ahead of his first birthday on Thursday 16 December.

NEW YORK -- Adrienne Warren had studiously avoided ever touching a Tony Award her entire stage career. Her motto was that she'd only hold one if she deserved to.On Sept 26, 2021, she finally held one.

Robin Roberts lives in a gorgeous penthouse in the Upper East Side of New York during the weekdays so that she is in close proximity to the Good Morning America studios. MORE: Robin Roberts shares health updateo on her beloved family memberAnd this week, the star's partner Amber Laign shared a rare glimpse inside the impressive property in a new video posted on Instagram.

EXCLUSIVE: ABC Entertainment Talent and Casting will mark the 20th year of its annual New York and Los Angeles Disney Television Discovers: Talent Showcases with a virtual event combining the two.

Actress Olga Merediz stopped by Deadline’s Contenders: New York on Saturday to talk about reprising her role as Abuela Claudia from Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes’ Broadway musical In the Heights for Jon M. Chu’s Warner Bros film of the same name.

Deadline’s Contenders Film returns to New York this morning with a hybrid in-person and livestreamed showcase at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, and a lineup of 23 films spotlighting the best motion pictures this awards season has to offer. The in-person event kicks off with a breakfast sponsored by United Artists Releasing at 8 a.m. ET, with panels and livestream coverage kicking off at 9:30 a.m.

Clayton Davis No more pencils, no more books… it’s time for the critics’ awards’ dirty looks.The first of the two most vital precursors of the awards season will be handed out – National Board of Review on Thursday followed by New York Film Critics on Friday.After a pandemic year that brought unclear frontrunners and differing eligibility calendars, the two groups, in addition to Los Angeles Film Critics Association, which will announce on Dec.