Sara Bareilles Shares Emotional Message As ‘Waitress’ Is Forced To Close Ahead Of Schedule Amid Omicron Surge

A radical plan to pay family to take care of a loved one to ease the crisis in the NHS is being considered across Scotland.

NATPE Miami has become the latest major in-person entertainment industry event to be shelved due to concerns over the current Covid spike driven by the highly infectious Omicron variant.

E3 will once again take on a virtual and online-only format in 2022, becoming the latest event casualty of the Omicron variant.

France is on the verge of relaxing travel rules for UK passengers brought in last month.

Exactly a year after the winter 2021 Covid surge delayed post-holiday break return to production on most TV shows, the Omicron variant’s ultra wide spread is once again interrupting TV production.

Following speculation and amid an unprecedented wave of Covid infections fueled by the Omicron variant, CBS and the Recording Academy have officially put the 64th Annual Grammy Awards on hold.

Jared Leto’s upcoming “Morbius” has been bumped from its release this month and will now be released in April amid the Omicron surge, Sony Pictures announced on Monday.Sony’s film based on a Marvel character now set to open on April 1.More to come…

For many TV series, the start of the holiday production hiatus in mid-December coincided with the beginning of the latest Covid surge, fueled by the highly contagious Omicron variant. A handful of series, including CBS’ Ghosts, stopped filming a few days earlier as a result of positive tests in the central Zone A, which includes the cast and those in direct interaction with them.

Better safe than sorry! On Tuesday, December 28, Sarah Jessica Parker and the entire SJP Collection boutique staff announced the closure of the New York City flagship as the Omicron variant continues to spread at a jarringly fast rate.

There will be no browsing for now at Apple’s New York City stores amid a surge in Covid-19 cases. Some one dozen locations in the city, including Fifth Avenue, SoHo, Grand Central and World Trade Center, will be temporarily closed to shoppers amid the rise in cases.

It was an emotional Boxing Day night for former Coronation Street star Catherine Tyldesley - who triumphed on ITV's All Star Musicals with a brilliant performance from Cats.

two Broadway productions permanently closed due to surging COVID-19 cases.The shows “Waitress” and “Thoughts of a Colored Man” said on Friday that their productions would not reopen after performing their final shows earlier this week, Playbill reported.Sara Bareilles’ “Waitress” returned to Broadway in September and was expected to run through next month, but its limited engagement at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre was also thwarted by cases of the virus among its cast and company, Playbill

Sara Bareilles has written an emotional goodbye to her Broadway musical Waitress after it abruptly closed without the cast getting to have a final performance.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterThe National Board of Review has postponed its annual gala, which was scheduled to be held on Jan.

th Annual Critics Choice Awards, originally slated for January 9, 2022.   We are in regular communication with LA County Public Health officials, and we are currently working diligently to find a new date during the upcoming awards season in which to host our annual gala in-person with everyone’s safety and health remaining our top priority.  We will be sharing additional   details with our friends and colleagues throughout the entertainment industry as soon as we can,” the Critics Choice

Celine Dion has spoken out to pay tribute to two fellow performers who tragically died with an emotional message on Instagram. The Canadian singer - who recently had to postpone her Las Vegas residency due to ill health - shared some moving words as she described the sad loss of Renée Martel and Il Divo's Carlos Marin.SEE: Celine Dion shares health update as she announces heartbreaking newsHer message read: "Last weekend we sadly lost two incredible artists.

The NHL has postponed more games, becoming the first major American professional sports league to halt play entirely in the face of rising infections from the fast-spreading Omicron coronavirus variant.

which canceled the Awards Gala portion of the event that had been scheduled for Jan. 6.