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Broadway readies imminent ticket sales for a fall reopening MARK KENNEDY, AP Entertainment Writer May 5, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3FILE - Broadway posters hang outside the Richard Rodgers Theatre during Covid-19 lockdown in New York on May 13, 2020. Many Broadway productions are scrambling to resume ticket sales to welcome theater-goers this fall after city and state leaders have green-lit a reopening of the Great White Way at full capacity. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Broadway th...

Broadway Is Reopening. But Not Until September. Even as New York City begins to reopen this summer, Broadway will not resume performances until Sept. 14. Here’s why. Broadway, a powerful economic driver of New York City, will begin to reopen Sept. 14 with full-capacity shows.  Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times May 5, 2021 Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo says that most pandemic capacity restrictions will ease in two weeks. Mayor Bill de Blasio says he wants the city to fully reopen on July 1. B...

‘Pass Over,’ About Black Men Trapped by Dread, Heads to Broadway The play, by Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu, has previously been staged at several prominent theaters and filmed by Spike Lee for Amazon. From left, Gabriel Ebert (in the background), Jon Michael Hill and Namir Smallwood in “Pass Over” Off Broadway.Credit...Jeremy Daniel May 4, 2021 “Pass Over,” a searing play about two Black men trapped by existential dread in a world where too many of their peers have b...

Olympia Dukakis, a character actress best known for her Oscar-winning supporting turn in Norman Jewison’s “Moonstruck” and for her role as the wealthy widow in “Steel Magnolias,” has died. She was 89. Dukakis’ brother, Apollo Dukakis, announced her death in a Facebook post, writing: “My beloved sister, Olympia Dukakis, passed away this morning in New

A veteran of the stage who also had a long list of film and TV credits, she was best known for playing characters who were worldly wise and world-weary.

How Politics Saves Lives Good morning. We look at an Ebola epidemic that didn’t happen. A school official measured a pupil’s temperature during the ebola outbreak in Lagos, Nigeria.Credit...Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters April 30, 2021, 6:30 a.m. ET On a Sunday in July 2014, a man boarded a plane in Monrovia, Liberia, and flew to Lagos, Nigeria. He felt sick with a fever when the trip began and was in worse shape by the time he landed. The Nigerian authorities took him to a hospital, where doct...

‘Great Gatsby’ Musical Sets Creative Team The production will feature lyrics by Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine and a book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Martyna Majok. Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine is co-writing the music for a stage adaptation of “The Great Gatsby.”Credit...Rob Grabowski/Invision, via Rob Grabowski, via Invision, via Associated Press April 28, 2021Updated 11:17 a.m. ET After F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel about Ame...

Florence Welch The Florence and the Machine vocalist will collaborate with composer Thomas Bartlett, playwright Martyna Majok and director Rebecca Frecknall on a stage revamp of F. Scott Fitzgeralds timeless novel. Jay Gatsby will soon be singing a new song. Florence Welch, the Grammy-nominated British singer-songwriter known for the ethereal baroque pop of Florence and the Machine, will tackle a stage adaptation of the classic F. Scott Fitzgerald Jazz Age novel, titled  The Great Gatsby, A Ne...

Release Dates for Broadway CDs, Streaming, Cast Albums, Solo Releases, iTunes & More Ride the Cyclone (World Premiere Cast Recording) 2021 Part comedy, part tragedy, and wholly unexpected, this wildly imaginative story delivers surprises at every turn. The lives of six teenagers from a Canadian chamber choir are cut short in a freak accident aboard a roller coaster. A mechanical fortune-teller invites each to tell their story of a life interrupted, offering the chance to come to terms with thei...

Theodore Lambrinos, Baritone With a Zest for the Road, Dies at 85 Mr. Lambrinos sang performances at the Metropolitan Opera and was a stalwart of New York Grand Opera. He died of Covid-related pneumonia. Theodore Lambrinos as Tonio in a 2006 performance of “Pagliacci” put on by the New York Grand Opera in the Naumberg Bandshell in Central Park.Credit...Jennifer Taylor for The New York Times April 27, 2021, 11:55 a.m. ET This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the cor...