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Vineyard Theatre and Developing Artists will partner again to present Developing Artists' REBEL VERSES Youth Arts Festival, Thursday through Saturday August 9-18 at Vineyard Theatre (108 E. 15th St.). Since the festival's inception in 2001, REBEL VERSES has provided young artists, ages 13-19, with the opportunity to collaborate and network with their peers and prominent artists, and to showcase their original work. This two-week event, now in its second season Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre, will feature over one hundred artists and performers from ten young-artist companies hailing from all five boroughs of New York City and beyond.

Vineyard Theatre and Developing Artists will partner again to present Developing Artists' REBEL VERSES Youth Arts Festival, Thursday through Saturday August 9-18 at Vineyard Theatre (108 E. 15th St.). Each night will include a prominent Guest Artist joining the festival for a special performance.

After a long week of treading the boards, what better way for performers to unwind than with the affection of a furry friend? To get ready for the big weekend, we're flashing back through our own series, Tails of Broadway, in which photographer Jessica Fallon Gordon captures priceless moments between Broadway's brightest stars and their pets. Click here for more of Tails of Broadway!

ICM Partners Theater Department hosted their second annual Tony Award Party on Thursday, June 7 at the Whitby Hotel in New York City to celebrate the season's Award Nominees. Check out the photos below!

Following Broadway's biggest night, the 2018 Tony Awards, Rick Miramontez celebrated the 10th Annual O&M Tony Awards Party at the Carlyle Hotel. Check out more photos from the star-studded afterparty below!

Good morning BroadwayWorld! Today's top stories: The Tony Award nominations are announced, and more!

In the latest release in Lin-Manuel Miranda's #Hamildrop series, five of the women currently or recently playing Eliza in Hamilton recording the first draft of the show's powerful ballad 'Burn.' Watch the music video, featuring vocals by Arianna Afsar, Julia Harriman, Lexi Lawson, Rachelle Ann Go, and Shoba Narayan, below!

Last Monday, the best of Broadway gathered in celebration of one of the most anticipated events of the theatrical season- MCC Theater's annual Miscast gala. Among the performers was James Monroe Iglehart, who performed Satisfied from Hamilton, featuring his costars Javier Munoz and Lexi Lawson. Watch the video below!

Last night, sixteen female Broadway stars were featured in Broadway Sings Rihanna, the latest concert in the Broadway Sings concert series. The tribute concerts take the music of well-known music icons and create new, unique arrangements and orchestrations by twisting the style to fit the strength of the performer. Previous fifteen concerts have included Adele, Stevie Wonder, Justin Timberlake, and Sara Bareilles. On June 18, the series will continue with Broadway Sings Kelly Clarkson.

Kirstin Maldonado, of the Grammy Award winning a capella group "Pentatonix" and current star of Kinky Boots, joins the lineup for the 15th installment of the acclaimed Broadway Sings concert series, Broadway Sings Rihanna. Cast members from other Broadway shows including Hamilton, Waitress, Dear Evan Hansen, and Wicked will also sing completely new arrangements of the hits of the R&B superstar, accompanied by a 14-piece orchestra playing original orchestrations of her music.

The new Broadway cast of Hamilton did not throw away their (snap)shot, get an inside look at the founding fathers and co in the latest photos!

Mandy Gonzalez shared a video to Instagram of herself and fellow Schuyler Sisters, Lexi Lawson and Joanna Alexis Jones covering 'Here Comes the Sun' in celebration of George Harrison's birthday, as well as 'the fight for love and change.' Watch the video below!

The full lineup is set for the 15th installment of the acclaimed Broadway Sings concert series, Broadway Sings Rihanna. Cast members from Broadway shows including Hamilton, Waitress, Dear Evan Hansen, and Wicked will sing completely new arrangements of the hits of the hip hop and R&B superstar, accompanied by a 14-piece orchestra playing original orchestrations of her music.

Mandy Gonzalez shared a video on Twitter of herself joined by Hamilton cast members James Monroe Iglehart, Lexi Lawson, and more singing a beautifully harmonized version of the civil rights song 'Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around.' The tweet that accompanied the video encourages people to join in the March For Our Lives, a march organized in the wake of the recent school shooting in Florida to end gun violence.

Earlier this week, one of the theatre community's most beloved podcasts, 'The Hamilcast' celebrated two years of episodes. En route to becoming 'the official unofficial podcast of HAMILTON,' the show's creator, host, and producer Gillian Pensavalle has released more than 100 episodes, which include conversations with many of the show's performers and creators, in-depth discussions of the Ron Chernow biography that inspired the musical, and an epic, four-part October sit-down with creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, appropriately dubbed #Lintoberfest.

Hamilton has tweeted a tribute to Javier Mu oz, who has been involved with the show for five years and plays his final performance today. The video features clips and photos from Mu oz' time with Hamilton. Watch the video here!