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Ticketbuyers clamoring to be in the room where it happens — namely the Richard Rodgers Theatre, home of the season’s runaway blockbuster Hamilton — helped push the Broadway box office to its highest tally ever as the 2015-2016 season came to a close on Sunday. Total attendance reached 13,317,980 and Broadway shows…

UPDATE, Writethru with more info, complete list of nominees: History filtered through the prisms of race and sex will dominate the race to the June 12 Tony Awards, as nominees for Broadway’s top prizes were announced this morning. Leading the pack are Hamilton, with a record-breaking 16 nominations, and Shuffle Along…

U2 frontman and human rights activist Bono took to the stage of Broadway’s Golden Theater on Saturday afternoon following the matinee of Eclipsed. He lead an emotion-packed dedication of the performance to the abducted and still-missing 219 schoolgirls of Chibok, Northern Nigeria, taken in April 2014 by the terrorist…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth talk about the state of the industry, the only stipulation being no holds barred. ROTH: I’ve been having the most exhilarating play-going experiences lately, most recently the opening night of Eclipsed, an astounding new…

A few things worth noting about Eclipsed, which opened tonight at New York’s Golden Theatre: It marks the Broadway debuts of both Lupita Nyong’o and Danai Gurira. Nyong’o is a stage-trained actor who won an Oscar for her performance in 12 Years A Slave.  and currently is part of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens…

Updated with video: Playwright-actress Danai Gurira, who plays Michonne on The Walking Dead, guests on CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert tonight to chat about her play Eclipsed. The production has begun previews for a March 6 opening on Broadway, which will mark the Main Stem debut of Oscar winner Lupita…

EXCLUSIVE: Actress, radio personality and author Alani Nicole Anthony — better known as La La — has joined the producing team of Eclipsed, the celebrated drama that will mark the Broadway debut of Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o. The drama, by playwright-actress Danai Gurira (Michonne on AMC’s The Walking Dead), was…

12 Years A Slave star Lupita Nyong’o, who’s also about to be seen as the motion-capture character Maz Kanata in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, will continue with Eclipsed when it moves to Broadway in February. The drama, written by Zimbabwean-American playwright and actress Danai Gurira (co-author of In The Continuum…