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Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Today's big news: The 2017 New York Musical Festival kicks off today, and Dominique Morisseau's PIPELINE opens tonight at Lincoln Center Theater!

In an acceptance speech for outstanding achievement at the South Bank Sky Arts Awards  this week, Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber stressed the need for arts funding and the urgency of protecting the arts during these uncertain political times.

Composer Stephen Sondheim sat down with CBS this week to discuss the importance of teachers and the profound effect his own teacher, Oscar Hammerstein, had on his own life and career.

In a recent interview, composer Alan Menken, revealed tentative plans for a stage version of his 1997 Disney hit, Hercules.

After PARAMOUR, last season's ambitious but underwritten attempt to incorporate their world-class circus arts performers into a book and score Broadway musical, Cirque du Soleil returns to town doing what they do best.

Watch below as Wicked's Jennifer DiNoia, Michael Campayno and Kara Lindsay perform 'The Wizard and I,' 'As Long As You're Mine,' and 'Popular.

Bernadette Peters and Malcolm McDowell, co-hosted yesterday's 19th annual dog & cat adoption event, Broadway Barks.

New Zealand's Artsplash Festival has found itself in a bit of trouble due to inexplicable artistic choices made in their production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Imagine growing up in a world where your neighbors were Tennessee Williams, The Marx Brothers, Alan Jay Lerner, Noel Coward, Arthur Miller, and scores of others.

Updated this week! Check out upcoming Equity Auditions from Sunday, July 9, 2017 for both productions in your area and around the country including what/when/where and how to audition!

Today is Saturday, and that means it's time for what has become one of the theatre community's most beloved traditions- BroadwayWorld's 'Saturday Intermission Pics' roundup! This week we've got the golden ticket into Willy Wonka's factory as we check in before curtain and join in some oompa-loompa m

Will Hammerstein, grandson of musical theatre legend Oscar Hammerstein II, has every intention of preserving his grandfather's legacy.

Freestyle Love Supreme didn't rush a #Ham4All, waiting for the perfect setting and just the right assistance.

Watch below as Jeremy Stolle, Rachel Eskenazi-Gold and Rodney Ingram perform 'The Phantom of the Opera,' 'All I Ask of You,' and 'The Music of the Night.

The 19th annual Broadway Barks, the star-studded dog and cat adoption event benefiting New York City animal shelters and adoption agencies, will feature celebrities from the hottest shows currently on Broadway.

Variety has reported that Tony Award-winner, Laura Benanti has departed her role as Alura on the CW superhero series, Supergirl, a role she originated from Season One.

Bay Street Theater is pleased to announce the full cast for AS YOU LIKE IT by William Shakespeare, directed by Tony Award winner John Doyle.

Below, BWW brings you exclusive video content from TNT's newest show WILL, premiering Monday, July 10th.

BroadwayWorld has teamed up with renowned caricature artist Ken Fallin, a life-long theater enthusiast, who has drawn many Broadway and Off-Broadway productions.

In honor of the new Spiderman movie being released today, Netflix has released an extended clip of Tituss Burgess singing a song from their fictional version of a Spiderman musical, from their series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

The best of Broadway will perform for FREE on six consecutive Thursdays this summer with '106.

The tunes of Nirvana and more will hit the stage in a new '90s grunge musical in development at Seattle Repertory Theatre.

Tony Award nominee and renowned Broadway actor Michel Bell makes his Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston debut this month.

The musical stage adaptation of Jane Eyre, which originally debuted on Broadway in 2000, will receive a new developmental reading presented by Cleveland Musical Theatre with an industry presentation on July 19th at Opera America in NYC.

The Public Theater presents HAMLET, featuring Golden Globe Award winner Oscar Isaac as the tormented Danish Prince.