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Production designer and creative director David Korins returns to the Oscars, having been the designer in 2019. Korins’s prolific work for Broadway includes the Tony® Award-winning musicals “Hamilton” and “Dear Evan Hansen,” as well as “Beetlejuice.' He has also designed for Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Mariah Carey, Andrea Bocelli, and more.

New music is coming from Jeremy Jordan! The Broadway favorite announced today on Instagram that he will soon release music with his new band, Age of Madness. 'I tried doing it one way, but this was the only way it was ever really happening,' he writes.

Put on your prom dresses and tuxedos and get ready for a memorable night out… The National Tour of the 2019 Drama Desk Award winner for Outstanding Musical THE PROM will play at Overture Center from Tuesday, March 22 through Sunday, March 27.

Following the week-long virtual experience, the NAACP celebrated the stellar achievements of the “53rd NAACP Image Awards” winners last night during a special LIVE broadcast on BET hosted by seven-time NAACP Image Awards winner Anthony Anderson and presented by Wells Fargo. Watch an encore presentation of the “53rd NAACP Image Awards” Monday, February 28 at 9 PM ET/PT on BET.

As previously reported, the “53rd NAACP Image Awards” will include a performance by Nine-time Grammy Award winning singer Mary J. Blige and appearances by Issa Rae, Kerry Washington, LL Cool J, Michael Strahan, Morgan Freeman, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Paula Patton, Questlove, Samuel L. Jackson, Simu Lius, Tiffany Haddish and Zendaya.

The virtual show will be hosted by Affion Crockett and presenters include Aida Rodriquez, Asiahn Bryant, Clint Coley, Cory Hardrict, Courtney Nichole, Karen Boykin-Towns, Khleo Thomas, Lauren Wesley Wilson, Leon W. Russell, Lori Harvey, Luke Lawal, Jr., Marcel Spears, Matt Cedeno, Melissa L. Williams, Wendy Raquel Robinson, and more.

The promo featured Kevin Hart and Mark Walhberg (Me Time), Millie Bobby Brown and Henry Cavill (Enola Holmes 2), Daniel Craig (Knives Out 2), Ryan Gosling (The Gray Man), Jonah Hill and Eddie Murphy (You People),  Jennifer Lopez (The Mother), Jamie Foxx (Day Shift), and Charlize Theron and Kerry Washington (The School for Good and Evil).

Grier will join the previously announced Steve Carell, Domhall Gleeson, Linda Emond, Laura Niemi and Andrew Leeds in the cast of the eight-episode half-hour series. Details of Grier's role are currently being kept under wraps. The Patient was co-written by Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg.

Everyone's invited to the national tour of the 2019 Drama Desk Award winner for Outstanding Musical, THE PROM, playing the Providence Performing Arts Center from March 8 – 13, 2022!

The Green Room 42 has announced their February line-up for in-person performances. Additionally, The Green Room 42 is excited to launch 5/5/5 Tickets – in celebration of their 5th Anniversary, five $5 tickets will be available for every show from February 15, 2022, through February 14, 2023.

The National Tour of the 2019 Drama Desk Award winner for Outstanding Musical THE PROM will play at the historic Orpheum Theatre.

Washington is set to star and executive produce under the Simpson Street banner, along with her head of development, Pilar Savone. The series is Simpson Street’s first Audible Original production. Academy Award nominated and Emmy winner Laurence Fishburne and SAG winner Daniel Dae Kim have been cast in the upcoming Audible Original podcast series

MPTP Productions Intl. in association with 24 Bond Arts Center present a return engagement of DOWN TO EARTHA, a one woman show written and performed by Dierdra McDowell (2-time AUDELCO Award nominee for Outstanding Solo Performance as Eartha Kitt), and directed by Marishka S. Phillips. In celebration of Black History Month, performances run February 23-27 at Gene Frankel Theatre.

Audible Inc., the leading creator and provider of premium audio storytelling, today announced three scripted multi-cast Audible Original productions with Emmy winning Simpson Street Productions, helmed by Kerry Washington (Scandal, Little Fires Everywhere) and Simpson Street EVP and producer Pilar Savone (Django Unchained, Death Proof).

Producers and co-Presidents of the Prom Committee are excited that the National Tour of the 2019 Drama Desk Award winner for Outstanding Musical THE PROM will play at the Fabulous Fox Theatre from January 25 – February 6.

Producers and co-presidents of the Prom Committee announced today that the National Tour of the 2019 Drama Desk Award winner for Outstanding Musical THE PROM will play at Overture Center for the Arts from Tuesday, March 22 through Sunday, March 27.

The new special will feature John Lithgow, Kevin Hart and more reenacting 'The Facts of Life' and 'Different Strokes'. The first two installments featured all-star casts recreating episodes of “All in the Family” and “The Jeffersons” in spring 2019, and an additional classic episode of “All in the Family” and “Good Times” in winter 2019.

Producers and co-Presidents of the Prom Committee announced the National Tour of the 2019 Drama Desk Award winner for Outstanding Musical THE PROM will play at the Broward Center from December 14, 2021 - December 19, 2021.

Today's top stories include a new ad campaign from the MTA encouraging New Yorkers to take the subway to Broadway. Plus, casting for Slave Play's return to Broadway, Chicken & Biscuits cancelled three performances due to breakthrough cases of Covid-19, and more.