Daphne Rubin-Vega, Stephanie Beatriz and Dascha Polanco are the latest In The Heights castings announced via Twitter by Lin-Manuel Miranda. The trio join the Jon M. Chu-directed Warner Bros film adaptation of Miranda’s musical a day after the announcement of Jimmy Smits’ casting.

According to Miranda, Rubin-Vega will p…

Jimmy Smits, Olga Merediz and Gregory Diaz have joined In The Heights, the Jon M. Chu-directed Warner Bros film adaptation of the Lin-Manuel Miranda musical.

Miranda tweeted the news (see the tweet below), announcing that Merediz will play Abuela Claudia, Diaz will be Sonny and Smits has been cast ast Kevin Rosario.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda on Twitter announced additional cast members for the feature adaptation of his Tony-winning musical In The Heights from Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu. Joining Corey Hawkins, who was previously announced as Benny and Anthony Ramos, who plays Usnavi, is singer/songwriter Leslie Grace as Nina…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline hears that Straight Outta Compton‘s Corey Hawkins has been tapped for the role of Benny in Jon M. Chu’s feature adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda's four-time Tony winning musical In the Heights for Warner Bros.

In the original storyline, bodega owner Usnavi (who will be played in the movie by Anthony…

Refresh for updates Barbra Streisand and Bette Midler, two of the most celebrated successors to Carol Channing’s most indelible role – and indeed her legacy – have added their names to the stars praising the late, great Broadway actress.

“Carol was a true life-force…a kind and effervescent woman who never allowed the p…

Jimmy Fallon has described his Tonight Show visit to Puerto Rico, airing this evening, as a "party party" not "pity party" for the island still recovering from an historic 2017 hurricane, ongoing costs of which have been estimated at more than $130B.

“You can feel the energy and the spirit of this place – the history…

Wrack up another anti-Donald Trump tweet by Lin-Manuel Miranda.

The playwright/actor/songwriter, who has a history of liberal activism and recently had former President Barack Obama do a reading on a remix, was apparently reacting to yesterday’s Fox News interview and tweetstorm by President Trump.

Miranda currently is…

Crazy Rich Asians has of course swept in a much-needed new era for actors of Asian descent, given that it's the first all-Asian cast studio film since The Joy Luck Club 25 years ago. It certainly rocked the box office, but when director Jon M. Chu set out on the project, rather than being crushed by the weight of its…

When Rob Marshall took on the follow-up to Disney’s beloved behemoth Mary Poppins, it seemed a natural fit for the Oscar-winning Chicago director who's long upheld the value of musical film. But with over 50 years between the Robert Stevenson-directed original and Mary Poppins Returns, Marshall had his work cut out in…

Lin-Manuel Miranda, his Hamilton director Thomas Kail and producer Jeffrey Seller are coming to the rescue of a beloved New York bookstore. Along with theater owner James L. Nederlander, the group has agreed to buy the beleaguered Drama Book Shop in Manhattan’s theater district.

The new owners, with support from the NY…

Fans of The Late Late Show know that James Corden loves the musicals. And Tuesday on his CBS show, he chose to dedicate the “Role Call” segment to “celebrating some of the greatest movie musicals of all time, as fast as we can.”

Sounds like more than a one-man challenge, right? Enter Mary Poppins Returns star Emily Blu…