A Broadway performance of To Kill a Mockingbird ended in panic as people mistook a motorcycle backfire outside for gunshots and fled the Shubert Theatre in New York City. Gideon Glick, an actor in the play starring Jeff Daniels, tweeted that the show stopped as people thought the noise was "a bomb or a shooting." "Screaming civilians tried to storm our theater for safety," he wrote. "The audience started screaming…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 12:25AM on August 7, 2019