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Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticJerry Seinfeld has no hard feelings for the “putz” Manhattan comedy club co-owner who declared a coronavirus-ravaged New York City “dead forever.”“I have nothing against that guy,” Seinfeld tells CBS’ 60 Minutes this week about Stand Up N.Y. comedy club co-owner James Altucher, who wrote the R.I.P New York article on LinkedIn two months ago.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticLarry Rosen, a producer of The Partridge Family, the Sally Field sitcom The Girl With Something Extra and The Mike Douglas Show, died Sept. 14 in Los Angeles of complications from pancreatic cancer.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticBonni Lou Kern, one of the original Mouseketeers on television’s pioneering The Mickey Mouse Club of the 1950s, died September 28 of natural causes at an assisted living facility in Wooster, OH. She was 79.Kern, a California native whose married name was Bonni Carr, appeared as a Mouseketeer in 1955-56 and was featured in the episode titled “Save Bonni Lou Kern!” in which the 14-year-old girl was caught in a fishing net.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticKevin Burns, president and creator of Prometheus Entertainment and a producer of Netflix’s Lost in Space reboot, died Sunday of cardiac arrest at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 65.Burns’ death was confirmed by Derek Thielges, vice president marketing and development at Prometheus.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticSPOILER ALERT: This interview contains crucial plot details about Netflix’s The Boys in the Band filmMuch has changed in the two years since director Joe Mantello was readying his revival of The Boys in the Band, Mart Crawley’s 1968 landmark of gay theater, for a 2018 Broadway audience.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticEXCLUSIVE: Disney Junior’s Emmy and BAFTA Award-nominated animated series Vampirina has lined up a roster of season 3 guest stars from both Broadway and television, including Audra McDonald and, from Hamilton, Christopher Jackson and Taran Killam, among others.Season 3 of Disney Junior’s Vampirina premieres Monday, October 5, 11 a.m.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticBobcat Fire crews today are monitoring containment lines in preparation for forecasted Santa Ana conditions of increased temperatures, lower relative humidities, and increases to wind speed and changes in wind direction.According to the U.S. Forest Service, the changes could result in critical fire weather conditions late tonight and into tomorrow.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticActor Dennis Quaid and gospel singer Cece Winans will be among the celebrities appearing in a $300 million White House ad campaign touting the Trump Administration’s response to COVID-19, according to a report by Politico. The ad blitz, promoting a “defeat despair” message, is set to launch prior to Election Day on Nov.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticDirector M. Night Shyamalan unveiled the title and artwork for his upcoming Universal thriller, now revealed to be called Old.“Feels like a miracle that I am standing here shooting the first shot of my new film.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticRobert L. Lasky, attorney and cofounder of Agency of the Performing Arts whose clients once included Liberace, Johnny Cash and Harry Belafonte, died Sept.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticAn all-star digital performance of scenes from Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, benefiting amFAR’s COVID-19 fund, will feature Glenn Close as Roy Cohn, with other roles from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play performed by, among others, Laura Linney, Patti LuPone, S. Epatha Merkerson, Brian Tyree Henry, Paul Dano, Andrew Rannells and Slave Play playwright Jeremy O.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticSaturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels “doubts” that the longrunning sketch show has seen the last of Kate McKinnon’s popular Ruth Bader Ginsburg character.In a New York Times interview today, Michaels was asked whether the death of the beloved Supreme Court Justice will mean the end of McKinnon’s recurring impersonation. “I doubt it,” was Michael’s cryptic response.The NBC sketch show returns Oct.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticColiesa McMillian, the Louisiana woman who appeared on the latest season of TLC’s My 600-lb Life, died Tuesday, apparently due to complications from weight-loss surgery. She was 41.Her death was announced by her daughters in a Facebook post, and confirmed by TLC in a tweet.“TLC is saddened to learn of the loss of Coliesa McMillian, who shared her story on My 600lb Life,” the network wrote.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticChris Rock will host the Oct. 3 season premiere of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, with Megan Thee Stallion as musical guest.Rock’s appearance on the show’s 46th annual season premiere will mark the comedian’s third SNL hosting gig, and comes just after the Sept.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticKiefer Sutherland and Joey King will lend their voices to Shudder’s upcoming animated The Creepshow Halloween Special, based on two stories by Stephen King and his author son Joe Hill.Sutherland (24, Designated Survivor) will star in “Survivor Type,” based on King’s short story adapted by the special’s director Greg Nicotero.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticOff Broadway’s Signature Theatre will take its acclaimed production of Lauren Yee’s play with music Cambodian Rock Band on the road, marking the theater company’s first production to tour. The production, with songs by L.A.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticHappy Distanced New Year.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticEXCLUSIVE: Robert Horn, the Tony Award-winning book writer of the Broadway musical Tootsie, has signed with Verve for representation in all areas.Horn, who began his career as a writer for TV’s Designing Women and Living Single before going on to create CBS’ High Society and FX’s Partners, currently is writing the stage musical adaptation of Hercules for Disney Theatricals, and the film adaptation of 13: The Musical for Netflix.And last November,

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticTommy DeVito, a founding member and lead guitarist of the 1960s chart-topping vocal group The Four Seasons and the inspiration for a key character in the 2005 jukebox musical Jersey Boys and the 2014 movie adaptation, died from complications related to COVID-19 last night in Las Vegas. He was 92.His death was announced by his friend, the actor Alfred Nittoli, in a Facebook post today.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticSouth Korean boyband BTS will make nightly appearances in a weeklong series on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, beginning Monday, Sept. 28.The late night show’s “BTS Week” will feature a unique performance each night, including a rendition of their single “Dynamite,” as well as comedy bits with Fallon and a virtual interview.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticFor the first time in 17 years, the cast of The West Wing will reunite, along with creator Aaron Sorkin and executive producer/director Thomas Schlamme, for a special benefit stage presentation of a 2002 episode on HBO Max. The Oct.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticWriters Guild of America West has announced the results of its 2020 Board of Directors election, with eight members elected for two-year terms.Of the eight, only one – Eric Haywood – is a non-incumbent.The elected members include Haywood, Betsy Thomas, Deric A. Hughes, Ashley Gable, Patti Carr, David Slack, Travis Donnelly and Patric M.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticThe Emmys’ In Memoriam segment Sunday left out a number of actors we lost in 2020, but the Television Academy hasn’t entirely overlooked them.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticNick Cordero was not included in the Emmy Award’s In Memoriam segment Sunday night, and Zach Braff, the late actor’s friend and former Broadway co-star, says it wasn’t for supporters’ lack of trying.“For those wondering: The Emmys chose to leave Nick Cordero out of the memorial montage,” Braff tweeted today. “I had no idea one had to campaign to get their loved one in.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticFor only the second time in its century-plus history, Actors’ Equity Association, the union representing more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers in live theater, has endorsed a candidate for U.S. president and vice president: Joseph Biden and Kamala Harris.“It didn’t have to be this way,” said Kate Shindle, president of Actors’ Equity Association.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticThe Morning Show‘s Billy Crudup brought Apple TV+ it’s first Emmy win tonight, taking the award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.Crudup beat out a trio of Succession actors and a Morning Show costar, among others, to put Apple’s signature drama in a winner’s circle.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticTonight’s Emmy Awards – or “Pandemmie Awards,” as host Jimmy Kimmel called it – started traditionally enough: Kimmel walked onstage at the Staples Center to a rousing ovation, and the full house laughed, gasped and rolled eyes just as in years past.Of course, the audience was from years past: reaction shots from previous Emmys were slotted in for every one of Kimmel’s punchlines with the accuracy and timing of a laugh track.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticRepublican congressional candidate Kim Klacik took a cheap shot at The View‘s Joy Behar today when she pulled out, apropos of nothing, an old accusation of blackface in an attempt to blindside the ABC co-host.Any angry Behar once again denied that her long-ago, much-discussed costume party get-up was blackface, calling it “homage.” She cut the interview short, but not before her outraged co-host Sunny Hostin asked Klacik “What planet are you living

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticThe upcoming season of Encores! at New York’s City Center will include an adaptation by Pose‘s Billy Porter of The Life, a musical last seen in New York on Broadway in 1997.Porter’s adaptation, which he’ll direct, is one of two upcoming Encores! productions reviving rarely staged Broadway musicals centering on Black lives; also in development is director Kenny Leon’s production of 1983’s The Tap Dance Kid.

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Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticNick Cordero’s album Live Your Life: Live at Feinstein’s/54 Below, released posthumously yesterday on what would have been the Broadway star’s 42nd birthday, hit #1 on iTunes album chart last night.Cordero’s wife Amanda Kloots wrote on Instagram last night, “#1 on ITunes might be the BEST birthday gift Nick could have ever got! He’s up in heaven going “Guys! Oh my God! Really?! This is incredible! THANK YOU!” If you know my husbands voice you can

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticTony Tanner, the Tony Award-nominated director and choreographer of Broadway’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in 1982, died Sept. 8 at his home in Los Angeles.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticEXCLUSIVE: Bob Martin, co-writer of the Tony Award-nominated book for Broadway’s The Prom and the upcoming Netflix film adaptation, has signed with Verve for representation in all areas.Martin, who won a Tony for co-writing (with Don McKellar) the book for Broadway’s The Drowsy Chaperone (2006), has a slate of big-ticket projects coming up, including writing the stage musical adaption of The Princess Bride with Rick Elice and composer David Yazbek for

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticA coronavirus relief fund for New York City’s small theaters was launched today by The Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, the arts service organization dedicated to supporting nonprofit theaters.The Relief Fund for NYC Small Theatres, seeded by a gift by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, is designed for small stage venues based in or primarily produce in New York City with annual budgets under $250,000.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticKorean actress, model and YouTuber Oh In-hye died Monday after being discovered unconscious at her home by a friend. She was 36.Incheon Yeonsu Police confirmed to South Korean media Tuesday that the actress was in cardiac arrest when she was found around 5 a.m.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticA new series of “The More You Know” PSAs will tackle systemic racism and speak up for social justice, equality and equity, NBCUniversal says.