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Emma Feiwel is returning to WME, joining as an agent in the theater department. She had launched her career at the agency in 2012 and most recently had been in UTA’s theater department. She will be based in WME’s New York office. She joins a team that reps some of Broadway’s biggest shows including Hamilton and The Boo…

EXCLUSIVE: In a letter circulating union inboxes today, dozens of IATSE members have come to Matthew Loeb's defense over claims by the Motion Picture Editors Guild of recent "unprofessional and potentially illegal acts" and disparaging remarks by the International president. However, to paraphrase Lin-Manuel Miranda's…

The Kennedy Center Honors said that Cher, composer Philip Glass, Reba McEntire and jazz great Wayne Shorter will be the recipients of this year’s annual awards, which recognize artists who have made enduring and indelible marks on the culture. The organization also revealed that it will honor the creators of Hamilton…

A week after Netflix announced it will film Bruce Springsteen’s hotter-than-hot one-man Broadway show for streaming in December, a similar – but big-screen – plan reportedly is in the works for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton. The Wall Street Journal reports today that unnamed Hollywood studios are bidding for the…

With Broadway in the final days of its statistically extended 2017-2018 year (53 weeks instead of 52, long story), grosses held steady for the week ending May 20, according to figures from the Broadway League. The tally for 35 shows (down one after Lobby Hero‘s exit) reached $38,813,251, a virtual dead heat with the…

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child set a Broadway record in previews with $2,138,859 gross for the week ending April 8, pacing overall box office for the week as Tony season kicks into gear. Even with 300 seats at every performance selling for $40 or less, the two-parter at the Lyric Theatre became the top-grossing…

Hamilton‘s revolutionary run is recording more milestones in the UK, with the Lin-Manuel Miranda show collecting seven Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical. On the drama side, Jez Butterworth's Northern Irish drama The Ferryman was named Best New Play. It also snagged a Best Director Olivier for Sam Mendes and…

Matthew Morrison, Rachel Bloom, Wayne Brady and cast members of Hamilton, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and The Band’s Visit will be among the Broadway and TV performers in a one-night-only Florida benefit concert for victims and survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. Some of the songs have been written…

The 2018 Olivier Awards nominations are led by Lin-Manuel Miranda’s phenom Hamilton with a record-breaking 13. That takes the crown from Harry Potter And The Cursed Child which last year scored 11 (tying with 2008’s Hairspray). Also notable among today’s reveal are first-time nominations for such talent as Bryan Cranst…

Broadway last week had that flu that’s been raging around the country. How else to account for a 10% free-fall in ticket sales from the previous week? Even Hamilton dipped (not enough to improve your chances of scoring a ticket, but still…). The musico-historico-blockbustero was off nearly $300K from the week before…

With the three-day Martin Luther King holiday weekend as a spur, the Broadway box office defied the January trend, pole-vaulting 27% over the same week in 2017 and even surpassing the previous week by 2%. All that despite some staggering nose-dives among the family-friendly crowd. That includes Disney’s two shows: The…

Rory O’Malley, a Tony nominee for The Book of Mormon who’s now playing the crowd-pleasing comic role of King George III in the national tour of Hamilton, has signed with The Rosenzweig Group for management duties. His other stage credits include a run in the world premiere of James Lapine and William Finn’s musical…