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Daveed Diggs speaks about HAMILTON backstage dance parties that go down in the wings during 'The Schuyler Sisters' number and reveals that castmate Okieriete Onaodowan has killer dance moves!

NBC welcomes HAMILTON star and Tony nominee Daveed Diggs on TODAY, this morning, May 12th, to talk about his hit Broadway musical. 

Earlier this week, Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric sat down at The Knickerbocker hotel rooftop for an in-depth interview with HAMILTON Tony nominee Daveed Diggs. Couric and Diggs discussed his rap career, his Oakland roots, how he met HAMILTON creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, and more.

Got the dough? Free your schedule and take your shot! You can purchase tickets for performances running this November through January of Broadway's 16-time Tony-nominated phenomenon HAMILTON, starting NOW by clicking here.

HAMILTON's Lin-Manuel Miranda turned to Twitter last night to make it clear that while he and his fellow cast members are pouring their hearts out on stage every night, they are also well aware of rude behaviors among a handful of audience members.

Voting runs through May 31 for the 13th Annual BroadwayWorld.com Awards! Once again last year, hundreds of thousands of theatregoers and fans weighed in, breaking site traffic records and further solidifying the BroadwayWorld.com Awards place as the largest and most popular online Broadway polling event of its kind, open to all and with fully visible and audited results.  There's 20 days to go!   Check out the current standings below and click here to cast your vote!

Enjoy some of the magic moments that made the 2015-16 Broadway season a winner.

Franklin impersonator Brian Patrick Mulligan as the American patriot left out of the Broadway smash.

Daveed Diggs holds the record for fastest rapper on Broadway (in the number 'Guns and Ships' he raps 19 words in 3 seconds!), but he showed Jimmy Fallon he can rap even faster than he does as Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in HAMILTON.

SiriusXM announced today that it will present an exclusive Town Hall special with the Tony Award® nominated cast and creative team of the Broadway musical HAMILTON. The Q&A session, hosted by Anderson Cooper, will air on SiriusXM's On Broadway channel. HAMILTON was recently nominated for a record breaking 16 Tony Award® nominations including Best Musical.   

Tony Award nominee Andrew Rannells, also known as King George III the Third, recently visited The Tonight Show and told Jimmy Fallon about the time he forgot the lyrics during 'You'll Be Back.' Watch the hilarious story below!

The sardonic social commentator isn't exactly a fan of musicals, but she says HAMILTON is great.

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, HAMILTON leading man Lin-Manuel Miranda will be exiting the show at the end of July to focus on his upcoming projects, including the starring role in Disney's MARY POPPINS opposite Emily Blunt. Last week, Miranda told CBS This Morning, 'Everyone's contracted for a year and everyone has the option to re-up and we'll see where we'll land.'

NBC has announced that HAMILTON star and Tony nominee Daveed Diggs will visit 'Today' on Thursday, May 12th to talk about his hit Broadway musical.  On Friday, May 13th, the cast of Broadway's TUCK EVERLASTING will perform.

Puerto Rico's crumbling economy has inspired Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and star of the Broadway smash HAMILTON to help his parents' place of origin.

Now that this year's TONY nominees have been revealed, it's time for the honorees to chose their fashion for the big night.

Rapper and actor Daveed Diggs, who was nominated for a Tony Award for his role in HAMILTON stopped by this week's CHARLIE ROSE to talk about the hit Broadway musical.

Who really cares about spring? Awards season has arrived- the only time of the year that really matters to Broadway fans everywhere. The 2016 Tony nominees were announced earlier this week, with a record 16 nods going to HAMILTON, and show like SHUFFLE ALONG, SHE LOVES ME and LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT also picking up a considerable amount of recognition. Just yesterday the nominees flocked to the Paramount Hotel, where they met with the press for the first time since getting the big news. BroadwayWorld will be bringing you coverage from the epic day over the next month (so watch out for lots more), but for now, hold yourself over with some beautiful portraits of the nominees as captured by Walter McBride.

The ensemble member assumes the role of town crier to introduce his giddy new backstage video.

On last night's LATE NIGHT, HAMILTON Director Thomas Kail stopped by to talk about the show's record-breaking 16 Tony nominations, and shared that he was not expecting the achievement.