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The 2020 Sundance Film Festival will be full of stars and legends, but the opening weekend of the snowy Robert Redford-founded shindig looks to solidly belong to Hillary Rodham Clinton. First, there’s a world premiere of the Hulu docuseries Hillary, about the candidate who won the popular vote in the 2016 presidential…

Broadway’s Freestyle Love Supreme, co-created by Hamilton team Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail and Anthony Veneziale, has recouped its capitalization after 14 weeks, making it one of the first shows of the season to recoup. The $3.6M improvisational production, which blends hip-hop and comedy, will play its final…

The first full trailer for Warner Bros’ In the Heights – the much-anticipated film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway musical, directed by Jon M. Chu – has just been released, giving a more extensive look at the film’s individual cast members and character details. We see Anthony Ramos’ Usnavi opening his…

Playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda has tweeted Warner Bros’ first-look teaser for the film adaptation of his Broadway hit In The Heights. A full trailer will arrive tomorrow. “This is the story of a block that was disappearing,” begins the 15-second clip, with snippets of the jubilant title song being performed by an…

The ranks of celebrity supporters for former America’s Got Talent host Gabrielle Union continues to swell, as new backers chime in on social media over her dismissal from the show. Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ariana Grande, Debra Messing, Ellen Pompeo, Jameela Jamil, Yara Shahidi, and Patricia Arquette have so far voiced…

Maybe Lin-Manuel Miranda really can do everything. When Broadway’s favorite bookstore — The Drama Book Shop — was evicted from its longtime Theater District home in January, Miranda and some influential pals came to its rescue. But as any New Yorker knows to their bones, the only thing riskier than an audition is…

The dæmons were out last night with the debut of His Dark Materials on HBO. Animal manifestations of the human soul, repressive theology, the multiverse, a sprinkling of streampunk and the search for a missing friend kicked off the premium cabler's adaptation of Philip Pullman's novels last night with a bit of a roar…

X-Men actress Alexandra Shipp is set to star opposite Andrew Garfield in tick, tick…BOOM!, the feature directorial debut project from Lin-Manuel Miranda. Vanessa Hudgens (The Princess Switch, Rent: Live) and Tony nominee Robin de Jesus (The Boys in the Band) will also co-star in Netflix adaptation based on the…

EXCLUSIVE: Lin-Manuel Miranda has set Andrew Garfield to star in tick, tick…BOOM! Miranda makes his feature directorial debut for Netflix on the adaptation of the autobiographical Off Broadway show written by Jonathan Larson, who shortly after went on to write the Pulitzer-winning musical Rent. Larson died tragically…

Saturday Night Live took on CNN’s LGBTQ Town Hall, with a little help from Emmy-winning Pose actor Billy Porter. Porter served as the ultra-dramatic announcer on SNL’s version of the Democratic town hall, which took place Thursday in Los Angeles. Impeccably dressed in a red and black smoking jacket and bedazzled…

As one character notes in this trailer for HBO’s His Dark Materials, there is, indeed, a myriad of worlds, certainly in Philip Pullman’s modern classic of imaginative fiction. In this clip alone we see demons in the forms of leopards, monkeys and one huge big bear. Actually, that bear might not be a demon – some…

The Freestyle Love Supreme I saw on Broadway last week won’t be the Freestyle Love Supreme theatergoers see tonight or tomorrow or any other night in its limited, 16-week run. An energetic, insistently likable mash-up of rap, improvisational comedy, hip hop, R&B crooning and, crucially, audience participation, FLS…