Thomas Jefferson News

The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord, a blistering comedy battle of wits from Scott Carter, Executive Producer of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, that examines what happens when great men of history are forced to repeat it, comes to the Herberger Theater Center, 222 E. Monroe, May 5-29. I. Michael and Beth Kasser are Arizona Theatre Company's 2015-16 Season Sponsors. 

HAMILTON's Renee Elise Goldsberry goes face to face with PEOPLE for a game of 'Musical Password.' Check it out below!

NBC TODAY's Willie Geist chatted with Rory O'Malley, HAMILTON's newest King George. ' It is the most wonderful and terrifying thing I've ever done in my whole life,' says the Tony nominated actor.

HAMILTON star Leslie Odom, Jr. took TODAY's Willie Geist around backstage at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. The two discussed Odom Jr.'s 17-year-long Broadway career, what it's like being in HAMILTON, and more. Watch the video here!

HAMILTON's Renee Elise Goldsberry, along with fellow Schuyler sisters Phillipa Soo and Jasmine Cephas-Jones, performed a curtain call rap informing audience members about the ways they can support Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS at Hamilton...and at the end, they bid a goodbye to their now-former king, Jonathan Groff. Check out the video here!

If you were ever curious as to what would occur if you locked our third president of the United States, the author of A Christmas Carol, and the author of War and Peace in an exitless room, you'll need to make it down to the Temple of Music and Art before April 30th.

Northlight Theatre concludes its 41st Season, under the direction of Artistic Director BJ Jones and Executive Director Timothy J. Evans, with The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord by Scott Carter. Discord, directed by Kimberly Senior, runs May 6 - June 12, 2016 at Northlight Theatre, 9501 Skokie Blvd in Skokie.

Contemporary audiences have less patience for the slave-owner who wrote 'All men are created equal.'

The action at the Richard Rodgers Theatre began early, with performances by the students themselves and a Q&A session with cast members. Check out coverage of the event from last night's NBC NIGHTLY NEWS.

More than just an afternoon at the theatre, #EduHam is a full curriculum inspiring students to look at history with a modern eye.

Good news - Hamilton's digital lottery is officially continuing on from winter, meaning that fans can enter online daily for a chance to see one of Broadway's biggest hits. Better news - this means that digital #Ham4Ham is also happening, featuring surprise performances from the cast. Today's video features the coronation of new 'King George' Rory O'Malley (who started performances in HAMILTON on Monday) by former ruler Jonathan Groff. Check it out below!

The Richard Rodgers Theatre is packed with New York City students for a full day of HAMILTON fun.

To close the 2015-16 season, The Media Theatre has a musical to lead Philadelphia into the time frame of the upcoming 2016 Democratic Convention which will be hosted by the City of Brotherly Love. 

HAMILTON welcomed its 2nd Mormon king to Broadway last night as Rory O'Malley took on the plum role.

The iconic department store has announced that they will sell HAMILTON merchandise from the show in two New York locations this week, SoHo (504 Broadway) and 59th street (1000 3rd Avenue).

Aaron Burr teaches the mayor to be hip-hop and the presidential hopeful has a few words of advice.

If last Friday night's performance of the hit Broadway musical HAMILTON felt especially hot, it may due to the appearance of Bernie 'Feel the Bern' Sanders.

A final, vintage look at Jonathan Groff in his royal robes before Rory O'Malley ascends the throne.

As BroadwayWorld reported last month, Kenneth Joseph 'Ken' Howard, Jr., a Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor and president of the performers union SAG-AFTRA died on March 23rd at his home near Los Angeles. He was 71. A celebration of his life will be held today, April 11, 2016 and will be live-streamed at SAGAFTRA.org.

In THE SECRET LIFE OF THE AMERICAN MUSICAL, Jack Viertel takes about musicals, puts them back together, sings their praises, marvels at their unflagging inventiveness, and occasionally despairs over their more embarrassing shortcomings. In the process, he invites us to fall in love with the art form all over again by showing us how musicals happen, what makes them work, how they captivate audiences, and how one landmark show leads to the next-by design or by accident, by emulation or by rebellion from OKLAHOMA! to HAMILTON and onward.