Today on Broadway: Thursday, October 1, 2020

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Disney Lays Off 28,000 Employees And Equity Responds, A First Look At Chadwick Boseman In “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”

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1) Coronavirus-Related News

Disney To Lay Off 28,000 Employees As Coronavirus Slams Its Theme Park Business

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/29/disney-to-layoff-28000-employees-as-coronavirus-slams-theme-park-business.html

Equity Points to Disney Layoffs to Urge the Senate to Act Now

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Equity-Points-to-Disney-Layoffs-to-Urge-the-Senate-to-Act-Now-20200929

“The Mousetrap” indefinitely postpones plans to reopen in London’s West End

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/sep/29/mousetrap-postpones-plans-reopen-london-west-end-agatha-christie

2) Recommendations:

“I Even Missed the Smell”: What It’s Like to Be Back at the Theater

Watch Jake Gyllenhaal, Tom Sturridge, Carrie Cracknell, More Reflect on Sea Wall/A Life

https://www.playbill.com/article/watch-jake-gyllenhaal-tom-sturridge-carrie-cracknell-more-reflect-on-sea-wall-a-life

First Look: Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”

“The Boys in the Band” Now on Netflix

https://www.netflix.com/browse?jbv=81000365