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UPDATE: This year’s A Capitol Fourth, the annual televised Independence Day concert, will feature a celebration of West Side Story‘s 65th anniversary, headlined by Chita Rivera, and a centennial salute to the Lincoln Memorial. Just added to the lineup are Cynthia Erivo and Jake Owen. The event, to be broadcast on PBS…

Ariana DeBose took home the SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for her turn in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story on Sunday night—an accolade that is helping to break the glass ceiling for queer Afro Latinas in Hollywood. She is the first openly queer woman of color to win an individual film…

From West Side Story through Bye Bye Birdie, from Chicago to Kiss of the Spider Woman, one actor has been a constant – Chita Rivera. Now, the two-time Tony winner is recapping her Broadway career for HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, which announced her memoir today. The book, publication release date…

There are more than a few streaming services in the marketplace — far more than 200, in fact — but a service billing itself as the first streaming network dedicated to the world of theater is planning to debut in late summer. Stage will launch in August with a free version before phasing in a subscription-based…

Two-time Tony Award winner Chita Rivera and prolific Broadway composer-producer Andrew Lloyd Webber have been selected to receive Special Tony Awards at this year’s ceremony. The honors will recognize their lifetime achievement in the theater. The Tony Awards Administration Committee unveiled the news today and the…

The Actors Fund named Warren Beatty, Chita Rivera, Uma Thurman and film/theater director Kenny Leon (currently on Broadway with his new production of Children of a Lesser God), as its 2018 Medal of Honor recipients. The awards will be handed out at the Fund’s annual gala on Monday, May 14. Brian Stokes Mitchell…

UPDATES with more information below. Broadway and Hollywood greats took the stage at the packed New Amsterdam Theatre today to salute the life and adventures of Roger Rees, the Broadway and television (Cheers, The West Wing) star who died in July at 71. Among those remembering the Welsh-born actor with words, song…

A Latin musical tribute to Michael Jackson, concerts by Chita Rivera and Danny Elfman, and productions of Show Boat and Billy Elliott The Musical are among this year’s line-up of the PBS Arts Fall Festival, the network announced at Saturday’s TCA. The fifth-annual fest kicks off October 9 with Unity – The Latin Tribute…

As surely as Monday follows Sunday, closing notices go up for struggling shows that leave the Tony Awards empty-handed. First to go dark in the wake of last night’s awards will be The Visit. A nominee for best musical and for leading lady Chita Rivera as well as three other Tonys, the show has searched for an audience…

With less than two weeks to go before the Tony Awards are handed out live June 7 on CBS, knuckles are white, fingernails are bitten, eyelids are twitching, feet are pacing, chat rooms are buzzing, Anna Wintour is doing whatever she does, and Ben Brantley, Charles Isherwood and Michael Riedel are telling you who’s…

The Drama League, a service group whose members are theatergoers from across the U.S., announced its 81st annual awards on Friday, providing a bit of chatter-worthy insight into how the winds are blowing for the June 7 Tony Awards. An American In Paris was voted Distinguished Production of a Musical, and The Curious In…

UPDATE, Friday A.M.: Corrects production history of Hot l Baltimore in last paragraph. Outcasts and losers link The Visit and Airline Highway, the two final entries in 2014-2015 Tony Awards sweepstakes (the nominations for this year’s awards will be announced on Tuesday morning). Seeing them — the former is a musical…