Carolines on Broadway, one of the country’s most famous and influential comedy clubs, will host the final performances at its Times Square home on New Year’s Eve, ending a 30-year run at the location just as the nearby ball drops on 2022. “After 30 wonderful years at our location in Times Square,” the club posted on Instagram, “we have decided […]

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EXCLUSIVE: Writer, director, producer, and actor Jim Cummings (The Beta Test) has signed with Anonymous Content for management. Cummings is an acclaimed indie filmmaker who most recently teamed with PJ McCabe to co-write and direct The Beta Test — a genre-bending feature, which world premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival. He also produced and starred in that title alongside […]

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Germany’s consumer price inflation slowed in November amid a sharp easing in energy price growth, which still remains strong, while economists cautioned that it is too early to say inflation has embarked on a downward trend in the biggest euro area economy. The consumer price index, or CPI, rose 10.0 percent year-on-year following a 10.4 percent increase in October, preliminary […]

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Adani Enterprises’ proposed Rs 20,000 crore (Rs 200 billion) fundraising via fresh issue of equity shares through a public offer would be the fourth biggest by Indian companies, excluding banks and non-banking financial companies. Reliance Industries’ rights issue in April 2020 when the company raised Rs 53,124 crore (Rs 531.24 billion) remains the single-biggest equity issuance by the corporate sector […]

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European stocks are likely to open on a steady note Tuesday after China reported a drop in the number of daily infections for the first time in more than a week and the country’s regulator announced new measures to support the property sector. Meanwhile, amid unrest over COVID-19 restrictions, China’s state council will hold a press conference at 3 p.m. […]

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A new stage musical based on the life of Grammy- and Emmy-winning songwriter Diane Warren is in development, with Tony winners Joe DiPietro and Kathleen Marshall attached to write and direct, respectively. The project is the second DiPietro-Marshall project announced in recent weeks: They’re also working on a Frank Sinatra stage musical. Obsessed, The Story of Diane Warren…So Far will […]

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Foxconn, Apple Inc.’s key iPhone assembler, expects that its major plant in China, which is being hit hard by worker unrest following Covid-19 spread and related restrictions, would restart full production around late December to early January, Reuters reported citing a Foxconn source. At the world’s biggest iPhone factory in the Zhengzhou city, called iPhone City, the situation related to […]

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A combination of one of the lowest labour costs and a large surplus workforce, which will continue to grow until 2031, is one of the key competitive edges that India is leveraging to challenge its rivals in Southeast Asia in the race for a China-Plus-One strategy. Apart from India, the countries in the race to woo global companies that manufacture […]

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Two new productions opened on Broadway within the last few days, demonstrating that Broadway, at the very least, can accommodate works of remarkable diversity – a diversity in levels of ambition not least. One takes remarkable chances and all but announces the arrival of a singular new theatrical voice. The other, with a team of immensely talented Broadway veterans both […]

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Silver Saunders Friedman, who ran the New York Improv until it closed in 1992, has died. No details on the cause were immediately available. Her death comes less than a month after the passing of her ex-husband, Budd Friedman, who cofounded the New York club and later ran the L.A. Improv. The New York Improv opened in 1963 as a […]

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