Lin-Manuel Miranda News

Good morning BroadwayWorld! Today's top stories: Catherine McCormack joins the cast of The Ferryman, and more!

ACT (A Contemporary Theater) of Connecticut is thrilled to announce that legendary Broadway and film composer, Alan Menken and 2018 TONY Award winner Lindsay Mendez, recent star of the Broadway revival of Carousel, have joined ACT's Artistic Advisory Board, adding their extensive theatrical expertise and talent to aid in the future success of the theater.

The Marsh Berkeley announces the extension of That Don Reed Show created by acclaimed comedian/playwright, Theatre Bay Area (TBA) 2018 nominee, and 2016 TBA winner Don Reed. Saturday Night Live said Don was "too white," while the network executive for In Living Color said he wasn't "black enough." So Don created That Don Reed Show-his own sketch variety show-bringing Bay Area audiences an evening of irreverent sketches, edgy stand-up, and music.

Lin-Manuel Miranda has just released another demo recorded during the early days of Hamilton!

Concord Music is pleased to announce the acquisition of legendary theatre publisher and licensor Samuel French and the formation of Concord Theatricals. Concord Theatricals is comprised of the professional and amateur theatrical licensing catalogs of Samuel French, Rodgers & Hammerstein Theatricals, Tams-Witmark and Concord Music's joint venture with Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group, The Musical Company.

From stage to screen, Broadway will be represented on TV for the week of December 17, 2018!

Good morning BroadwayWorld! Today's top stories: Celebrity Autobiography holds its final performance, and more!

Every so often the musical theatre landscape experiences a swell of enthusiasm and excitement for a fresh, new and engaging play. Theatre fans (and casual viewers) alike can recall the hype when THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA or LES MISERABLES first opened (and went on tour). More recently the WICKED phenomenon brought young and old alike out to experience the magic and electricity that only a live performance can elicit. Today, the show that everyone is talking about (and obsessing over) is Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony winning musical HAMILTON. Like its popular predecessors, it has recently begun touring around the country - riding the wave of enthusiasm and further cementing its place as a true pop-culture phenomenon. But unlike its flashy, big budget predecessors, HAMILTON, in many ways, lives in its own category. It is a show that is modern, fresh, and that pushes boundaries and delivers in two and a half hours an experience unlike anything this reviewer has experienced before. I am thrilled to say, in the production that has now arrived at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford, CT - HAMILTON shines brilliantly, delivering in every way (and beyond) on the hype that precedes it.

Tony-winner Lin-Manuel Miranda will return to The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon this week  in support of his new film Mary Poppins Returns. Lin will return to the show on Monday, December 17, alongside guests Tyler 'Ninja' Blevins and musical guest Black Thought ft. Salaam Remi.

This week has been a week of releases from Lin-Manuel Miranda as he released three demos recorded during the early days of Hamilton! We've collected all three demos below for your listening enjoyment! Here's to hoping that even more demos will be released soon!

Below, watch as the composers of the new film, Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, are joined by original Mary Poppins composer Richard Sherman to talk about how they channeled his original sound!

Award-winning actor Emily Blunt, who is already earning praise for her work in "Mary Poppins Returns," says she's up for doing a sequel, in an interview with Anthony Mason for CBS SUNDAY MORNING to be broadcast Sunday, Dec. 16(9:00 AM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

Lin-Manuel Miranda has just released another demo recorded during the early days of Hamilton! Of the track, 'This One's Mine', Miranda says: 'I wrote this song about Eliza meeting Hamilton. I played it for my wife. She said, 'Eh. It's good, but it doesn't feel like your final draft.' I stormed off. HOW DARE SHE? An hour later, I wrote Helpless. She was right.'

Lin Manuel Miranda was the first Broadway star to go Behind The Tweets, Twitter's new series where celebrities share the stories behind some of their most popular Tweets.

Arena Stage Artistic Director Molly Smith's gift to Baltimore/Washington theater patrons this season is just plain delightful.

Good morning BroadwayWorld! Today's top stories: the Original Broadway Cast Recording of The Prom is available digitally today, and more!

While out and about on the promotional trail for his latest film, Mary Poppins Returns, Lin-Manuel Miranda stopped by the Wired studio to answer all of our most-Googled questions! See Lin's responses to the Auto-Complete Quiz here!

Tickets for HAMILTON will be available online through Ticketmaster Verified Fan, today, December 14 at 10:00 AM CT. Verified Fan is a new fan-facing technology from Ticketmaster that allows pre-registered fans to unlock access to tickets without competing against scalpers and bots.

Below, watch as producer Marc Platt explains why the original film meant so much to him, why it so important that they get the sequel right, and so much more!

She's back! On December 19 Mary Poppins returns in... MARY POPPINS RETURNS- a sequel to Disneys beloved 1964 film.