Sarah Jessica Parker
A woman walks past the Walter Kerr Theatre, Thursday, May 6, 2021, in New York where Hadestown was showing before the coronavirus pandemic forced its closing a year ago. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has announced that Broadway theaters can reopen Sept. 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
'Hadestown' jumps ahead of pack to welcome Broadway patrons

By Mark Kennedy May. 24, 2021 09:51 AM EDT

FILE - 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 theaters can reopen Sept. 14 and will be allowed to decide their own entry requirements. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
Broadway readies imminent ticket sales for a fall reopening

By Mark Kennedy May. 05, 2021 02:30 PM EDT

Dr. Ken Duckworth writing mental health guide, due in 2022

Apr. 14, 2021 09:07 AM EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — A leading mental health expert and commentator has a book deal his publisher is calling an “authoritative yet compassionate guide to managing...

Today in History

By The Associated Press Mar. 25, 2021 04:00 AM EDT
Today in History Today is Thursday, March 25, the 84th day of 2021. There are 281 days left in the year. Today’s...

CORRECTS DAY OF CONCERT - FILE - Patti Smith attends a special screening of "Pavarotti" at the iPic Theater in New York on May 28, 2019. Smith performed a mini-concert at the Brooklyn Museum on Tuesday, March 9, to honor photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and also adding her voice to a series of pop-up events that represent the city’s first baby steps toward the return of live indoor performances. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
Patti Smith returns to singing live with Brooklyn concert

By Mark Kennedy Mar. 09, 2021 04:47 PM EST

FILE - In this Sept. 30, 2020, file photo, Waiter Lenworth Thompson serves lunch to David Zennario, left, and Alex Ecklin at Junior's Restaurant in New York. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday that city restaurants will be able to reopen for indoor dining at one-quarter capacity on Friday, Feb. 12, ahead of the Valentine's Day weekend, two days earlier than he'd previously announced. New York restaurants have been closed to indoor dining since Dec. 14, 2020, to stem a surge in coronavirus cases as the holidays approached. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
Cuomo says indoor restaurant dining in NYC can start Friday

By Karen Matthews And Jennifer Peltz Feb. 08, 2021 01:44 PM EST

This image released by Amazon Studios shows, from right, Leslie Odom Jr., Eli Goree and Aldis Hodge in a scene from "One Night in Miami." (Patti Perret/Amazon Studios via AP)
With ‘Mank’ and ‘The Crown,’ Netflix dominates Globes noms

By Jake Coyle Feb. 03, 2021 09:28 AM EST

FILE- Tina Fey participates in the curtain call for the "Mean Girls" opening night on Broadway at the August Wilson Theatre on April 8, 2018, in New York. Producers of the musical, based on Tina Fey's hit film, have decided not to reopen when authorities allow theaters to open in New York City, the second and likely not last established show casualty of COVID-19 on the Great White Way. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP, File)
Sidelined 'Mean Girls' musical won't reopen on Broadway

By Mark Kennedy Jan. 07, 2021 07:12 PM EST

FILE - A view of the stage appears prior to the start of the 73rd annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York on June 9, 2019. Tony Award Productions said Friday that the celebration of live theater will be digital but offered no date or streaming platform. Final eligibility determinations will be made by the Tony Awards Administration Committee “in the coming days.” Broadway theaters abruptly closed on March 12, knocking out all shows — including 16 that were still scheduled to open. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
Tony Awards for shortened Broadway season will go digital

By Mark Kennedy Aug. 21, 2020 11:36 AM EDT

A stack of cassettes, MiniDiscs and CDs representing some of AP journalist Jaime Holguin’s decades-rich audio archive sit on a table, Sunday, July 12, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Jaime Holguin)
VIRUS DIARY: Keeping New York alive, one song at a time

By Jaime Holguin Jul. 27, 2020 08:27 AM EDT

FILE - In this March 5, 2006 file photo, Reese Witherspoon, nominated for an Oscar for best actress in a leading role for her work in "Walk the Line," arrives for the 78th Academy Awards in Los Angeles, as her publicist Nanci Ryder, left, looks on. Ryder, a powerful Hollywood publicist and co-founder of BWR Public Relations died Thursday, June 11, 2020, of Lou Gehrig’s disease in Los Angeles. She was 67. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
Hollywood power publicist and pal to stars Nanci Ryder dies

By Mark Kennedy Jun. 11, 2020 11:26 PM EDT

This image released by Disney Theatricals shows Ciara Renee as Elsa in the musical "Frozen." The big budget musical will not reopen when Broadway theaters restart, marking the first time an established show has been felled by the coronavirus pandemic. The Disney show opened in March 2018 and placed among the top five Broadway productions for both gross and attendance over both years it ran, often pulling in over $1 million. (Mary Ellen Matthews/Disney Theatricals via AP)
Stopped cold: 'Frozen' musical on Broadway not to reopen

By Mark Kennedy May. 14, 2020 05:22 PM EDT

FILE - This Feb. 1, 1993 file photo shows Pop superstar Michael Jackson performing during the halftime show at the Super Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. A stage musical about Michael Jackson has pushed its Broadway debut until next year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Preview performances of “MJ” are now set to begin in March 2021 at the Neil Simon Theatre. (AP Photo/Rusty Kennedy, file)
Michael Jackson musical postpones its Broadway debut

By Mark Kennedy May. 13, 2020 01:20 PM EDT

Britain's premier female darts player Fallon Sherrock poses for a photo in Milton Keynes, England, Friday April 24, 2020. Sherrock became the first woman to beat a man at the darts world championship late last year, breaking down barriers in a game that is usually considered to be a man's domain. It proved to be a life-changing experience and although she is now on lockdown because of the coronavirus she will regularly play in future men's events, Sherrock tells The Associated Press Friday April 24, 2020. (Sue Sherrock via AP)
AP Interview: Darts queen on fame, equality and trailblazing

By Steve Douglas Apr. 25, 2020 05:30 AM EDT

FILE - This April 4, 2016 file photo shows members of The Rolling Stones, from left, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards at the Rolling Stones Exhibitionism preview in London. The Rolling Stones will join Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder and Billie Eilish for the upcoming TV special aimed at fighting the coronavirus pandemic. Advocacy organization Global Citizen announced Friday that the Stones will appear Saturday on “One World: Together At Home,” a two-hour televised event that will air at 8 p.m. Eastern simultaneously on ABC, NBC, CBS, iHeartMedia and Bell Media networks. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP, File)
Rolling Stones to join Gaga for TV event battling COVID-19

By The Associated Press Apr. 17, 2020 12:02 PM EDT