As the summer heat feels just slightly less oppressive, it s a good time to enjoy an evening outing. Just in time for this slight weather break is First Friday, when
RIYADH: Stage hits from some of the West End and Broadway’s biggest musicals thrilled capacity audiences during a series of Culture Square performances at Riyadh Front. Classics from “The Phantom of the Opera,” “Cats,” “Les Miserables,” “Mamma Mia” and “Wicked” came to life as Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Culture hosted “Magnificent Broadway” at the capital’s performance venue.
Further 579 cases of virus in North East and North Yorkshire Figures released by the government this afternoon said there had been 18,450 new cases in the UK in the last 24-hours, this brings the total to 1,888,116 of people with a positive test. There were 506 additional deaths in the UK in the last 24-hours. This brings the UK total to 64,908. There were no additional deaths in North East and North Yorkshire hospitals between December 13 and 14, (which are the latest figures released).
Care home residents reunite with loved ones thanks to visitor pods Residents at seven care homes across the North-East have been overjoyed to reunite with loved ones who can now visit the homes inside Covid-safe visitor pods. After nine months of separation to protect them from Covid-19, residents can safely see their family and friends once again.
Government ‘must change direction or there’s no way out for theatres’
PA
15 December 2020, 5:36 pm
There will be “no viable way out for theatres” unless the Government changes its policy on live entertainment, according to one performer.
Jon Ranger is a piano player on A Christmas Carol at the Dominion Theatre in London’s West End, which – like all other theatres in the capital – will be forced to close its doors again as Tier 3 restrictions are introduced on Wednesday.
Mr Ranger said he felt “a combination of anger, frustration, a bit of hopelessness” at the news, telling the PA news agency: “We fought so hard as an industry to prove that we could open safely and we’d done everything that was asked of us, yet it doesn’t seem to be enough.”