By Dade Hayes
07.04.2020 - 19:05 / variety.com
By Brent Lang
Executive Editor of Film and Media
The Obie Awards, honoring the best of Off-and Off-Off Broadway theater, will be re-imagined as a virtual event due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The annual celebration of stage work was originally scheduled to be held at Terminal 5 on May 18. Instead it will be postponed until a later, as yet unannounced, date. In an interview with Variety, Heather Hitchens, president and CEO of the American Theatre Wing, one of the organizations behind the
By Dade Hayes
Tame Impala rocker Kevin Parker and Delta Goodrem are among the stars from Australia and New Zealand marking the countries’ Anzac Day memorial with a TV concert.
People with 'moderate' coronavirus symptoms will be directed by their GP to a new ‘hot clinic’ in Stretford.
By Ben Croll
Like so many other major events this year, Burning Man has officially been canceled. Organizers of the annual event— which was initially set to take place August 30 to September 7 — wrote that "after much listening, discussion, and careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision not to build Black Rock City in 2020" on the Burning Man Project blog on Friday night.
By Bruce Haring
The show is finding a way to go on. While every TV show has shut down production due to the current pandemic, CBS' All Rise is going back into production virtually to try something brand new. The drama, which is set in a Los Angeles courthouse, will air an episode shot on FaceTime, WebEx, Zoom, and other social media and technology as a way to show how the LA justice system is still operating during the pandemic, while still following all social distancing guidelines, with insight from
By Joe Otterson
By Bruce Haring
The CMT Music Awards will be pushed from June 3 to Oct. 14 because of the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic, the network announced Friday.
By Denise Petski
The British Soap Awards will not be held for the first time in its 21 year history, it has been confirmed.The awards ceremony has been a favourite amongst soap fans since its inception in 1999, but will not take place this year due to the coronavirus crisis. Hosted by Phillip Schofield since 2006, the awards show celebrates the best in British soap operas — with EastEnders, Emmerdale, Coronation Street, Hollyoaks, Doctors and their stars going head to head in a number of categories.
A 13-year-old London schoolboy has become the UK's youngest coronavirus victim.
In yet another sign of the times, the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) today announced that the 2020 installment of its Indie Week conference — the world’s biggest gathering point specifically for the independent music community — is moving online this year, obviously due to the coronavirus pandemic. The event, which also includes the Libera Awards, celebrating the accomplishments of the indie sector, will still take place June 15-18, 2020.
The 2020 APRA Music Awards is the latest music event changing tac in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.