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Shania Twain moving up, up, up in acting world with 'I Still Believe'

TORONTO — With her son now 18 and the usual parental demands of school runs and lunches behind her, Canadian pop-country superstar Shania Twain has found herself with more time and mental space to devote to other things. Enter acting.

Mar 13, 2020 11:42 AM Read more >

Shania Twain moving up, up, up in acting world with 'I Still Believe'

TORONTO — With her son now 18 and the usual parental demands of school runs and lunches behind her, Canadian pop-country superstar Shania Twain has found herself with more time and mental space to devote to other things. Enter acting.

Mar 13, 2020 11:42 AM Read more >

Late-night comics adjust to shows without an audience

NEW YORK — Due to the new coronavirus, late-night comedians — Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Pete Buttigieg — are taking to the stage without the affirmation of adoring audiences. Wait a second.

Mar 13, 2020 11:02 AM Read more >

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Charles Wuorinen dies at 81

NEW YORK — Charles Wuorinen, winner of the 1970 Pulitzer Prize in Music and composer of the operas "Brokeback Mountain" and "Haroun and the Sea of Stories," died from injuries sustained in a fall last September. He was 81.

Mar 13, 2020 10:41 AM Read more >

Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson taking diagnoses 'one day at a time'

CANBERRA, Australia — Tom Hanks said he and wife Rita Wilson were taking their new coronavirus infection “one day at a time" while Australian television hosts who had interviewed Wilson were awaiting test results Friday.

Mar 13, 2020 7:23 AM Read more >

Virus darkens stages, silences orchestras across the US

NEW YORK — The stage at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle is quiet. There is no music coming from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the members of Pearl Jam won't tour.

Mar 13, 2020 1:16 AM Read more >

Virus darkens stages, silences orchestras across the US

NEW YORK — The stage at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle is quiet. There is no music coming from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the members of Pearl Jam won't tour.

Mar 13, 2020 1:16 AM Read more >

Coronavirus brings entertainment world to a standstill

NEW YORK — The entertainment industry prepared Thursday for an unprecedented shutdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus, cancelling upcoming movies, suspending all Broadway performances and scuttling concert tours until it's safe to welcome crowd

Mar 12, 2020 10:46 PM Read more >

Global concert industry in flux as coronavirus spreads

NEW YORK — Multi-platinum rock band Third Eye Blind had never cancelled a tour, even when its members “all had salmonella poisoning and we were all green and vomiting,” as bandleader Stephan Jenkins put it.

Mar 12, 2020 5:45 PM Read more >

Top 20 Global Concert Tours from Pollstar

The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows Worldwide.

Mar 12, 2020 4:30 PM Read more >