The Mix

NEW YORK — ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC averaged 1,836,000 viewers for 16 broadcasts in Major League Baseball’s expanded wild-card round, drawing far more viewers for 16 games but an average down vastly from the single-knockout contests in previous years.

A new report suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic has struck a devastating blow to Toronto's already struggling live music sector, shutting down at least 11 venues in the city and cutting income for dozens of workers.

“I'm illegal,” says Rosario “Rose” Garcia (Eva Noblezada), a Filipina living undocumented in Texas, in Diane Paragas' “Yellow Rose.” The way she says it is meant, as it is, to sound ridiculous.

NEW YORK — It’s Saturday at 9:30 p.m. and Stevie Nicks is singing on the phone. The rock icon is at her Los Angeles home, where she’s been cooped up since December after wrapping the “An Evening with Fleetwood Mac” tour.

NEW YORK — Nominations for this year's Tony Awards have been set for Oct. 15, pitting 18 eligible shows in competition for 26 competitive categories in a coronavirus-shortened season.

TORONTO — Audiences are set to be welcomed back to the Princess of Wales Theatre for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered indoor stage productions in March.

NEW YORK — Stevie Nicks — who is releasing a new song Friday and a concert film later this month — discusses the TV miniseries she’s working on as well as her relationships with Tom Petty, Prince, Beyoncé, Harry Styles and the members of Fleetwood Ma

TORONTO — Howie Mandel says he's doing as well as one can expect a germaphobe to fare during a pandemic. The Toronto-raised comedy star notes he's relatively healthy and just finished another season as a judge on NBC's "America's Got Talent.

NEW YORK — When Hollywood does biopics on musicians, we're used to lots of saucy tales of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. Not so much when it comes to astronauts.

OTTAWA — Trust. Capt. Kirk Sullivan is talking about running what has become one of the most talked-about Twitter accounts in the federal government.