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Jesse Tyler Ferguson, currently starring in Broadway's Fully Committed, appears on NBC's THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON tonight, April 15th.

Let's see what the critics had to say...

Roundabout Theatre Company, in association with Ryan Murphy, presents Eugene O'Neill's LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, starring Academy and Emmy Award winner Jessica Lange as 'Mary Tyrone,' Golden Globe winner and Tony Award nominee Gabriel Byrneas 'James Tyrone,' Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon as 'James Tyrone, Jr.,' Tony Award winner John Gallagher Jr. as 'Edmund Tyrone,' and Colby Minifie as 'Cathleen.' BroadwayWorld has a first look at the stars onstage below!

In the lead-up to the April 24th Broadway opening of Waitress at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, DMI Soundtracks is proud to announce the release of a forthcoming original cast album for the production, with the cast and band hitting the studio in early May.  The album will be distributed by Warner-Elektra-Atlantic Corporation.

THE FATHER, a new play by Moliere Award winner Florian Zeller, in a translation by two-time Tony Award winner Christopher Hampton (Sunset Boulevard, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, God of Carnage), opens tonight, April 14, 2016 on Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street).

Roundabout Theatre Company's hit revival of She Loves Me, which opened to unanimous rave reviews, has been extended by four weeks through July 10, 2016 only, it was announced today.

After an amazing first day of sales, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter's book is going into 3rd printing.

EW has an exclusive first listen to the highly anticipated audiobook HAMILTON: THE REVOLUTION, which hit bookshelves yesterday, April 12th. Check it out at left!

Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it? Today's big news: CSC's NATHAN THE WISE, starring F. Murray Abraham and Stark Sands, opens off-Broadway!

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).

Show creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda and cultural critic Jeremy McCarter, who co-wrote the book, joined 'CBS This Morning' to discuss the process of creating the musical.

CABARET, the musical masterpiece comes direct from Broadway to the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County, tonight, April 12, through April 17, 2016. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the cast in action below!

Something Rotten! this way comes - along with a healthy assortment of recent Broadway hits, a homegrown version of an Andrew Lloyd Webber hit and a transfer from London's West End - as the Tennessee Performing Arts Center revealed the list of shows included in their 2016-17 HCA/TriStar Health Broadway at TPAC series during a Monday night event.

The Public Theater announced an additional one-week extension today for the New York premiere of Head of Passes, part of Oskar Eustis' 10th anniversary season.

Broadway's WAITRESS began performances on Friday March 25 with a bang, setting a house record for a single performance the Brooks Atkinson Theatre with a gross of $$145,532.00 and announcing a new block of tickets on sale through January 1, 2017. WAITRESS opens Sunday, April 24, 2016. BroadwayWorld brings you a first look at the cast in action below!

NBC has announced that Jesse Tyler Ferguson, currently starring in Broadway's FULLY COMMITTED will appear on THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON this Friday, April 15th.

Stage star Laura Benanti took to Twitter today to apologize to theatergoers for her absence from tonight's performance of Roundabout Theatre Company's SHE LOVES ME. The actress is ill but hopes to return to the show tomorrow. BroadwayWorld wishes her a speedy recovery!

Gearing up for Live #Ham4Ham to return? Didn't have time to check in on your favorite Broadway stars? Well don't worry BroadwayWorld has rounded up some of the biggest stories from this week from Broadway and beyond with BroadwayWorld's 'This Week in Pictures.'

Theater Close-Up -- the unique collaboration between THIRTEEN and the large community of New York City area non-profit Off-Broadway theaters -- will present Pulitzer Prize-winner Arthur Miller's play INCIDENT AT VICHY in an acclaimed production from Signature Theatre, captured live on-stage, in THIRTEEN's trademark 'up-close' style.

The completely original, hit musical comedy, Something Rotten! sweetens the 6th Annual Shakespeare's Birthday Sonnet Slam this year with a musical performance of 'Hard to be the Bard' by cast member Eric Sciotto (Broadway credits: Annie Get Your Gun, Aida, Sweet Smell of Success, Sweet Charity and 42nd Street among others).