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Imagine a New York where construction workers tap dance on steel girders high above the city, sorta like that famous photograph you’ve seen a million times, and where kindly landladies who once played Carnegie Hall might tutor a young Holocaust refugee to a Julliard scholarship, and breezy jam sessions do…

What’s a Camelot without a little magic? Aaron Sorkin works up an answer to that question in the new Lincoln Center Theater production of the 1960 Lerner & Loewe musical, and the result is an adaptation that seems at every turn to be pleading its case for its own relevance. Where the West Wing…

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jamie Foxx, Mel Brooks, Viola Davis and Questlove have received nominations for the Best Audio Book, Narration and Storytelling Recording at the 65th Grammy Awards, which were announced this morning. If Davis were to win on February 5, the Oscar, Emmy and Tony winner would…

EXCLUSIVE: Lin-Manuel Miranda is set for a key guest-starring role on Disney+’s upcoming series Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Based on Rick Riordan’s bestselling book series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians tells the fantastical story of a 12-year-old modern demigod, Percy Jackson (Walter…

The Clinton Global Initiative, the signature event of the Clinton Foundation, is returning next week after a six-year absence. The lineup for the Sept. 19-20 event again includes a mix of international leaders, politicians, corporate executives and celebrity philanthropists. Many participants make measurable…

EXCLUSIVE: Start spreading the news! A new musical loosely based on Martin Scorsese's 1977 film New York, New York will begin performances on Broadway, theater to be announced, in March 2023. Opening night will be in April, with Tony and Olivier Award winner Susan Stroman on board to direct and choreograph. The show…

The Texas church that staged two performances of a highly altered and “Christianized” version of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical Hamilton has apologized for the unauthorized productions and will pay unspecified damages. In a statement posted today on its Instagram page, the Door Christian Fellowship Ministries in…

“Stop running from God, Alexander…His word says if we confess our sins, he is faithful and [wants] just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us.” Don’t remember that line from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Hamilton? Well neither does Miranda. The line is from an unauthorized, “Christianized” version of…

Lin-Manuel Miranda promises that Tony Awards host Ariana DeBose, an original cast member in Hamilton before her Oscar win for West Side Story will have “a doozy of an opening number” kicking off Sunday night’s show. “There will be dancing,” he predicted in a telephone interview with Deadline, without revealing…

Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell won the Best Song Oscar for "No Time to Die," the brother-sister duo’s power ballad from the James Bond film No Time to Die. Eilish in their acceptance speech thanked the Bond film team, while O’Connell paid tribute to the duo’s parents “who have always been our biggest inspirations…

The 2022 Met Gala returns to its traditional spot on the first Monday of May, and this year the hosts and co-chairs will reflect the strong Hollywood theme: Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Regina King and Lin-Manuel Miranda have been named to the posts. The gala, set for May 2, a primary source of income for the…

It’s good to be Lin-Manuel Miranda. He has three songs on the Disney soundtrack to Encanto, which currently sits at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Album Charts. He’s also up for a Best Original Song Oscar for  “Dos Oruguitas,” which reflects his immersion in Colombian culture to capture the vibe. The Academy Award…