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Judge bemoans NYC's bike hazard in 'Gone Girl' actor's death
Read full article: Judge bemoans NYC's bike hazard in 'Gone Girl' actor's deathA judge has decried New York City's problems with electric and gas-powered bikes as he sentenced the electric scooter rider who crashed into āGone Girlā actor Lisa Banes to one to three years in prison for his manslaughter conviction.
āMurder She Wroteā actress Angela Lansbury dies at 96
Read full article: āMurder She Wroteā actress Angela Lansbury dies at 96Angela Lansbury, the scene-stealing British actor who kicked up her heels in the Broadway musicals āMameā and āGypsyā and solved endless murders as crime novelist Jessica Fletcher in the long-running TV series āMurder, She Wrote,ā has died.
Bob LuPone, who helped lead MCC Theater, has died at 76
Read full article: Bob LuPone, who helped lead MCC Theater, has died at 76Bob LuPone, who as an actor earned a Tony nomination in the original run of āA Chorus Lineā and went on to help lead the influential off-Broadway theater company MCC Theater for almost 40 years, has died.
Virus shuts many UK theaters but online the show goes on
Read full article: Virus shuts many UK theaters but online the show goes on(Aaron Chown/PA via AP)LONDON ā When Andrew Lincoln steps onstage at Londonās Old Vic Theatre as Ebenezer Scrooge in āA Christmas Carol,ā he looks out on an empty auditorium. The Old Vic is among theaters trying to keep the flame alive. That includes London, where theaters had just begun to reopen after a four-week national lockdown ended Dec. 2. The Old Vic has mounted an āIn Cameraā season of plays performed on its stage and broadcast online. Playwright Jack Thorneās adaptation has been a hit at the Old Vic for the past three Christmases.
Show goes on for Olivier Awards, even with UK theaters shut
Read full article: Show goes on for Olivier Awards, even with UK theaters shutScott and Ian McKellen were among acting winners as Britains Laurence Olivier Awards celebrated the best of the London stage in bittersweet fashion Sunday night, Oct. 25, 2020 - most U.K. theaters remain closed because of the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)LONDON ā Andrew Scott and Ian McKellen were among acting winners as Britainās Laurence Olivier Awards celebrated the best of the London stage in bittersweet fashion Sunday night ā most U.K. theaters remain closed because of the coronavirus pandemic. McKellen won a special Olivier ā his seventh ā for his one-man 80th birthday tour of the U.K., staged before the pandemic as a fundraiser for regional theaters. A handful of theaters have reopened to reduced, socially distanced audiences, but many are still shut and relying on emergency funding from the government to stay afloat. Olivier organizers say the next awards ceremony will likely not be until 2022, because so little work has been staged this year.