National Lifestyle

TORONTO — Outdoor productions. Concert versions of musicals. Shorter shows with no intermission.

LAS VEGAS — Nevada is open for visitors with precautions in place, tourism and coronavirus response leaders declared Monday, despite a weekend where the state passed the 200,000 mark in known COVID-19 infections and tallied 73 new deaths.

Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.

LOS ANGELES — Country singer K.T. Oslin, who hit it big with the 1987 hit “80's Ladies” and won three Grammy awards, has died. She was 78. Oslin’s friend Robert K. Oermann said he learned of her death on Monday morning from her aunt.

WHISTLER, B.C. — A Newfoundland and Labrador film about the agonizing disorderliness of family took home a tidy sum and the top prize at this year's Whistler Film Festival.

Does it spread more easily? Make people sicker? Mean that treatments and vaccines won’t work? Questions are multiplying as fast as new strains of the coronavirus, especially the one now moving through England.

TORONTO — Michelle Latimer says she's resigning from the second season of CBC's Indigenous TV series "Trickster" where she served as co-creator and director. The Thunder Bay, Ont.

NEW ORLEANS — Chicago's South Side comes alive through the writings of Gabriel Bump's debut novel, “Everywhere You Don't Belong," which has earned him recognition as the 2020 winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence.

Walt Disney Co. veteran Alan Bergman has been named chairman of Disney Studios, the company said Monday. Bergman will be succeeding Alan Horn, who will remain chief creative officer. Horn and Bergman have been operating as co-chairs since May 2019.

New lineages of the virus responsible for COVID-19 have led to travel bans and concerns over increased transmissibility, but experts say it’s unclear whether the latest strains are more potent than previous versions.