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Un 21 de diciembre de 2017 el telón del Victoria Palace Theatre se alzaba para acoger al gran éxito de los últimos años en Broadway: HAMILTON.

On this day in 2017, Lin Manuel-Miranda's Hamilton brought its revolution to London's West End!

2020, thank you for at least providing us with exquisite forms of entertainment throughout this year. We couldn’t have made it without them!

Why am I already hopeful for a stage version?

I wanted to talk about the bigger picture: what is the current state of movie musicals? 

PS CLASSICS will release All the Girls – the new album from Rebecca Luker and Sally Wilfert – on Friday, December 25 in digital and streaming formats. A CD will be available on Friday, January 15, 2021. The pair have recorded a celebration of womanhood in all its complexities and expressions.

As we find ourselves in the midst of the holiday calendar, a normally busy time for producing organizations across the world feels very different this year.

Daveed talks about working during the pandemic, celebrating “Meat Fest” with his family and friends, writing a Hanukkah song for kids, being cast as Sebastian the crab in the new live action remake of The Little Mermaid, Lin-Manuel Miranda, his Disney-Pixar movie Soul, and playing in the high school band.

Hamilton will make its return to the West End next year! According to the show's official social media accounts, the hit musical returns to the Victoria Palace Theatre in May 2021.

De manera virtual se entregó el Premio Bellas Artes de Traducción Literaria Margarita Michelena 2020, convocado por la Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno de México y el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL), a través de la Coordinación Nacional de Literatura (CNL), en conjunto con el Gobierno del estado de Hidalgo y su Secretaría de Cultura. 

Tony and GRAMMY winning superstar Leslie Odom Jr. brings the holiday cheer with this song from 'The Christmas Album,' his new project that reimagines a host of holiday favorites.

The Johnny Mercer Foundation (JMF) and the American Music Theatre Project (AMTP) at Northwestern University are seeking the nation's most talented young songwriters and writing teams for the 16th annual Johnny Mercer Foundation Songwriters Project. The free weeklong songwriting workshop will take place virtually from June 20-26, 2021.

The PlayGround Experiment has announced the fifth presentation of new works created by members of the Voices of America Writers Workshop. The fourth group of writers to take part in The PlayGround Experiment's exciting new workshop are Lou Johnson and Bonita Elery. They'll be joined by Voices of America alumni Emma Claye, Angela Hsu, Michael Perdomo, and José Manuel Pereyra. The workshop culminates on December18th with a public presentation of excerpts from these writers' new works.

Today's top stories: Moulin Rouge! announces new tour dates, Laura Osnes sings from Carousel, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Audra McDonald sing from Ragtime, Lin-Manuel Miranda on the future of theatre, and more!

Producer Mark Cortale has announced that five award-winning stars of the stage and screen will join the January 2021 line-up of The Seth Concert Series, the live weekly series based on Seth Rudetsky’s international Broadway series that began at The Art House in Provincetown ten years ago.

Production images have been released today for this year’s OLD VIC: IN CAMERA version of Jack Thorne’s A Christmas Carol starring Andrew Lincoln as Ebenezer Scrooge. Directed by Matthew Warchus, the festive favorite has returned for its fourth year and this time is streamed live for 16 live performances now through December 24, 2020.

In a conversation with Variety, 'Hamilton' creator Lin-Manuel Miranda spoke about the pandemic, the return of theatre, and the ways art has been revolutionized by multimedia presentation. 

La Secretaría de Cultura y el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL), conmemoran de manera virtual el 250 aniversario del nacimiento de Ludwig van Beethoven, con una serie de conciertos a cargo del Coro de Madrigalistas y Concertistas de Bellas Artes, así como el estreno de Beethoven 250.  Fidelio, ¡Oh, qué alegría, respirar en libertad!… 

The nonprofit Sundance Institute announced today the showcase of new independent work selected across the Feature Film, Short Film, Indie Series and New Frontier categories for the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.

Inside Broadway has presented a special class-based scholarship program to 75 students at P.S. 5 in The Bronx in memory of the late Broadway veteran from The Bronx Doreen Montalvo who passed-away October 17 following a sudden ailment at age 56.