Andy Blankenbuehler News

The hip hop musical is the winner of the Kennedy Prize for Historical Drama. The news was announced by Columbia University and Jean Kennedy Smith. The award, named in honor of Senator Edward M. Kennedy

On today's LIVE WITH KELLY AND MICHAEL, host Kelly Ripa explained how she is convinced her son Joaquin knows so much history because of the smash hit musical HAMILTON and wants Broadway to come up with an 'algebra' musical

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, following a critically acclaimed, hit world premiere engagement at Paper Mill Playhouse this fall, The Bandstand will open on Broadway in the 2016 - 2017 season starring Tony Award® nominee Laura Osnes(Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella) and Corey Cott (Newsies). Directed and choreographed by Tony Award® winner Andy Blankenbuehler (Hamilton, In the Heights), The Bandstand features music by Richard Oberacker and a book and lyrics by Richard Oberacker and Robert Taylor. Below, check out a just-released photo of Osnes and Cott in costume!

The satirical website reports of complaints that the title character, who was born in the Caribbean, was not played by a white actor.

In the Broadway hit HAMILTON, Phillipa Soo plays Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, wife of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and co-founder of the first private orphanage in New York City.

Get your tickets now for what could become the hottest ticket of the 2016 theater season.

Following a performance of HAMILTON's opening number 'Alexander Hamilton' telecast live via satellite from the Richard Rodgers theater, presenter Seth MacFarland announced that Broadway's hip hop musical was the winner of the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. Below, watch Lin-Manuel Miranda rap an epic acceptance speech!

The world premiere of THE WILDNESS: SKY-PONY'S ROCK FAIRY TALE, with text by Obie Award winner Kyle Jarrow and Lauren Worsham and songs by Kyle Jarrow, presented by Ars Nova in collaboration with The Play Company, plays a limited Off-Broadway engagement, tonight, February 16, through March 19, with an official opening night on Monday, February 29, 2016.

Following a live performance of the show's opening number 'Alexander Hamilton' telecast live via satellite from the Richard Rodgers theater, presenter Seth MacFarland announced that the hip hop musical was the winner of a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.

Talented a cappella group RANGE cover the hit Broadway musical HAMILTON in just 7 minutes! Check out the video below!

Broadway In Chicago has announced its next season line-up: the Broadway musical HAMILTON, the North American tour premiere of Disney's ALADDIN, 2014 Tony Award-Winning Best Revival of a Musical HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, the 2015 Tony Award-Winning Best Play THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME and THE BODYGUARD.

?'Broadway Watches the Oscars' returns to Henry's on Sunday February 28th 7:30p.

Thank you, world! Leslie Odom Jr. took a moment during intermission at Hamilton tonight (as if he wasn't busy enough being awesome onstage as 'Aaron Burr' in Lin-Manuel Miranda's hit musical) to drop his new single, 'Good For You,' featuring co-star Daveed Diggs.

Andrew Lloyd Webber's classic musical Cats will be making its return to Broadway this summer. But is the feline fantasy also heading to the big screen?

Below, check out a photo of a proper reunion of Benny's dispatch, as Gomez poses with Christopher Jackson!

The cast of Broadway's hit musical HAMILTON gathered together in the video below to announce that they will be performing via satellite at the 2016 GRAMMY AWARDS!

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, the national tour of the Broadway musical HAMILTON will launch from California in spring 2017. HAMILTON will anchor the 2016-2017 seasons at both the SHN Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco (with performances starting March 2017) and the Hollywood Pantages in Los Angeles (from August 11 to December 30). There might still be over a year until the tour's launch, but San Francisco is ready!

HAMILTON stars Daveed Diggs and Anthony Ramos will guest star on the next episode of NBC's LAW & ORDER: SVU, airing Wednesday, Feb. 3, at 9 p.m. on NBC.

Fans are getting another shot at entering online for a chance to see one of Broadway's biggest hits. HAMILTON's digital lottery returns tomorrow!