Tony Awards Committee Deems Eighteen Broadway Productions Eligible For 2020 Nominations

A fine Saturday of racing ahead as we are at Newbury, Kelso, Doncaster and Lingfield.

EastEnders favourite Nitin Ganatra has opened up about his family being targeted by thugs over the years at his family’s corner shop. The BBC soap star, 54, has recently spoken out about his family’s corner shop “being targeted a lot” when he was growing up.The actor played popular character Masood Ahmed for over ten years on EastEnders, from 2007 until he left the popular soap in 2019. Nitin chatted openly on the Made in the Midlands podcast.

video she brings in a mug of hot water and breaks the lettuce in half before soaking them in."I'm too afraid to try it myself because I still have to wake up if Maisy (her daughter), wakes up in the night," she says.Few minutes later, she removes the lettuce and hands the drink to Mike, who is surprised by the pleasant taste of it.After a while, he starts to feel drowsy and within 10 minutes, he is knocked out while resting on the sofa.The next day Mike told his wife that he slept through the night and didn't wake up at all.The mum then shared the recipe to TikTok, explaining: "I washed the lettuce and let it sit in the boiling water for five minutes until it was wilted. My husband knocked out, he had a really good night sleep."There's science behind this too – there is properties in lettuce, especially Romaine lettuce, that helps trigger the part in your brain that help you sleep."I think it works the same if you eat a big bowl of salad before bed, as long as you're ingesting the lettuce, the same thing will happen."But drinking warm liquid before sleep will help you relax.

Premier League season is far from over, next season’s supposed shirts are beginning to pop up on social media and quickly gaining some poor reviews.Chelsea’s new kits have already been unveiled by Footy Headlines, and Blues fans are not happy.The Stamford Bridge outfit have had some clean, professional shirts over the past few years, though some of their away kits have raised eyebrows.However, both the home shirt has gone down poorly, and it hasn’t even been officially released yet!The home shirt is expected to be plain blue but with a grandad collar-esque neck that is white with light blue squiggly lines.The random lines theme continues on the pre-match top with a blue strip coated in random markings from top to bottom. Both the Nike tick and the Trivago sponsor are white.Understandably, fans are furious with the home shirt.One wrote: “What’s that? That home kit is an insult, just look at the neck.”Whilst another added: “Looks like a cheap teamwear jersey with a kids crayon scribblings on the collar.

Ukraine as the conflict continues to worsen amid Vladimir Putin's invasion.Experts have warned that the Russian President could be ready to take the war to a new level as Ukrainian forces have managed to largely repel his force's advances. There are fears that the power-mad ruler has sarin gas, one of the most toxic and fast-acting chemical weapons ever created.The concerns follow news that Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, said that the US was developing “biological materials” in Ukraine, reports the Telegraph.Mr Lavrov said Moscow had information that the US was “worried it would lose control” over alleged chemical weapons sites in Ukraine.One expert, Washington’s ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said "nothing is off the table with this guy," referring to the Russian president.

Elon Musk has mocked Russia following the news that they will stop providing the US with engines for their rockets in response to sanctions placed on the country. The sanctions come as the country started their brutal invasion of Ukraine last week.

Game of Thrones actor John Stahl has died aged 68, his agent has confirmed.

Shane Warne's mother Bridgette has broken her silence following the shock passing of her beloved son at age 52. Australian cricket legend Shane was in Thailand at the time when he passed away following a suspected heart attack. His management confirmed the news in a statement which said: "Shane was found unresponsive in his villa and despite the best efforts of medical staff, he could not be revived.

Retailer Marks and Spencer has been praised over its plans to donate to the people of Ukraine.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticCaesar Cordova, a character actor whose long association with Al Pacino included appearances in Scarface and Carlito’s Way, died Aug. 26 of natural causes in Atlantic City.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticEXCLUSIVE: Jason Sherwood, an Emmy Award-winning production designer for Fox’s Rent: Live in 2019 and the youngest person to design the set for the Academy Awards, has signed with CAA.Sherwood’s set design for the 2020 Academy Awards was Emmy-nominated for Outstanding Production Design for a Variety Special. At 30, Sherwood was the Oscar’s youngest-ever production designer.Among Sherwood’s stage credits is his 2017 set design for the Off Broadway musical The View Upstairs, which garnered him Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award and American Theatre Wing Henry Hewes Design Award nominations.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticAuthor J.K. Rowling has returned a 2019 Robert F.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticCathy Smith, the onetime girlfriend of singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot who might have been best remembered for inspiring the hit song “Sundown” had she not met up with John Belushi at the Chateau Marmont on March 5, 1982, died Aug. 18 at the age of 73.Her death was reported by Canada’s The Globe and Mail.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticStephen Colbert didn’t watch a minute of last night’s Republican National Convention, and feels all the better for it.“I know by not watching the RNC I didn’t do my job tonight,” the host of CBS’ The Late Show said in an intense monologue last night (watch it above). “And I just want to say: I feel great about it….Why subject ourselves to their lies that stick to your soul like hot tar? Lies like: Donald Trump cares whether you live or die.”In the intense monologue, Colbert addressed COVID-19 deaths, “Rambo wannabes,” Hurricane Laura, the police shooting of Jacob Blake and the NBA’s strike.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway Critic“Anthony! Anthony!,” the mother shouted from the second floor of a Boston North End tenement apartment building overlooking an urban alley, her voice seeming to carry over numerous city blocks as 12-year-old Anthony runs home for his favorite Prince-brand spaghetti dinner.The image from the long-running television commercial (watch it below) will be familiar to any regular TV watcher of the late 1960 and ’70s, as will the look of happiness on the boy’s face when he arrives home for family dinner.Anthony Martignetti, the 12-year-old Boston kid who starred in the spot, died at 63  in his sleep Sunday Aug. 23 at his home in West Roxbury, Mass.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticThe Off Broadway run of Drew Droege’s well-received solo show Happy Birthday Doug was cut short by the COVID-19 shutdown, but a specially-filmed quarantine performance, produced by Michael Urie, is set to make its streaming debut.Happy Birthday Doug, directed at the Soho Playhouse by Tom DeTrinis and directed for film and edited by Jim Hansen, will premiere on streaming service BroadwayHD September 24.Written and performed by Droege, Happy Birthday Doug chronicles the 41st birthday of the title character.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticIn a lawsuit that offers a glimpse of COVID-19’s economic threat to the Broadway industry, Jujamcyn Theaters, owner of five major Broadway venues, is suing its insurance companies after the insurers offered to pay a mere $250,000 of what Jujamcyn claims should be “tens of millions of dollars” in losses due to the coronavirus shutdown.Jujamcyn, which owns the theaters housing hits Hadestown, The Book of Mormon, Moulin Rouge and Mean Girls (and, until its recent permanent closing, Disney’s Frozen), filed the suit this week in the U.S.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticLive comedy, or dead? Sides were drawn this week in the debate over the future of stand-up, with a longtime Manhattan comedy club co-owner pretty much writing an obituary for New York City and its cultural nightlife, which in turn got him called “a putz” by Jerry Seinfeld.And while traditional comedy venues won’t be taking reservations anytime soon – Caroline’s owner Caroline Hirsh told Deadline that comedy clubs like hers will likely take their cues from Broadway, and Broadway won’t be reopening until next spring, at the earliest – some comics are finding ways to reach audiences without Zoom.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticEXCLUSIVE: Broadway and TV writers, actors and directors Wesley Taylor and Alex Wyse have signed with ICM for literary representation across all media.Taylor is best known for performances in Broadway’s Spongebob Squarepants musical and Rock of Ages and, on TV, Smash and The Good Wife. Wyse appeared in Broadway’s Waitress and Spring Awakening, and on TV in Iron Fist and The Bold and the Beautiful.The two first partnered as writers on the Emmy-nominated digital series Indoor Boys, with three seasons now streaming at http://www.indoorboys.tv.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticRiley Gale, the lead singer of Texas thrash metal band Power Trip who recently contributed vocals to rapper-actor Ice-T’s “Point the Finger” song and video, died Aug. 24 at the age of 34.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticCastmates of the late Nick Cordero from such stage productions as A Bronx Tale, Bullets Over Broadway, The Toxic Avenger, Rock of Ages and Waitress will take part in a special memorial tribute honoring the actor who recently died from COVID-19 complications.The celebration of Cordero’s life is set for Sunday, September 6 at 7 pm ET on BroadwayOnDemand.com.