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Today's #Ham4Ham featured DAMES AT SEA stars Betsy Struxness, Mara Davi, Lesli Margherita and Danny Gardner. Below, watch as they wow the crowd with traditional, rap and tap versions of 'Row, Row, Row Your Boat'!

Tonight's #Ham4Ham featured their first sing-along contest, with three competitors (one, Andrew Kober, a ringer from LES MISERABLES), crowd participation and a training session from Lin-Manuel Miranda and Daveed Diggs. Check it out below, recorded by Howard Sherman!

The playwright had begun urging audiences and the media not to attend or cover the production, claiming, 'I literally have had my play stolen from me.'

Topical humor has a short shelf life and a spoof of British foibles 130 years ago can be seen as racially offensive today.

Today's #Ham4Ham lottery featured HAMILTON's Okieriete Onaodowan reinterpreting Maureen's 'Over The Moon' from RENT, with Renee Elise Goldsberry and Lin-Manuel Miranda on backup and cow bell. Check it out below!

Today's edition of HAMILTON's mega-popular #Ham4Ham lottery celebrated 'Love for the Techies Day' with creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda and the entire company of the show, including production stage manager J. Philip Bassett calling the cues to 'Ten Duel Commandments.' Check out the video below, recorded by Howard Sherman!

HAMILTON's #Ham4Ham lottery performance has quickly become one of Broadway's most enjoyable new traditions! In today's special pre-show performance, FUN HOME's Joel Perez performed a hip hop remix of his show's 'Changing My Major' with castmate Roberta Colindrez beatboxing the accompaniment. Check out the video below, recorded by Howard Sherman!

The Casting Society of America (CSA), in partnership with Inclusion in the Arts, will host a Town Hall conversation between casting directors and actors with disabilities on Monday, September 21, 2015 beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the Equity Council Room at The Actor's Equity Building (165 West 46th Street, 14th Floor). The event is the first in CSA's 'Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion in Casting Initiative,' a series of conversations and workshops designed to effect measurable change in how actors from historically underrepresented communities are afforded access to job opportunities.

In today's special pre-show performance, FINDING NEVERLAND star Matthew Morrison joined the party to freestyle rap based on the word 'Disneyland,' with HAMILTON star/creator Lin-Manuel Miranda. In addition, HAMILTON music director Alex Lacamoire accompanied Morrison as he serenaded Miranda with LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA, the show for which Morrison received a Tony nomination. Check out the video below, recorded by Howard Sherman!

Actors in Michaela Richards' IT STOPS HERE, taken from first-hand accounts of sexual violence, get catcalled and heckled during premiere performance.

HAMILTON's #Ham4Ham lottery performance has quickly become one of Broadway's most enjoyable new traditions. In today's special pre-show performance, THE KING AND I's Kelli O'Hara covered both LL Cool J and Frank Loesser ('Somebody Somewhere' from THE MOST HAPPY FELLA), accompanied by HAMILTON star and creator Lin-Manuel Miranda. Check it out below, shot by Howard Sherman!

With our thanks to Howard Sherman for providing the video, LES MISERABLES' home, Broadway's Imperial Theatre dimmed their lights last night, September 1, in honor of Kyle Jean-Baptiste.

The Casting Society of America (CSA), in partnership with Inclusion in the Arts, will host a Town Hall conversation between casting directors and actors with disabilities on Monday, September 21, 2015 beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the Equity Council Room at The Actor's Equity Building (165 West 46th Street, 14th Floor). 

HAMILTON's #Ham4Ham lottery performance has quickly become one of Broadway's most enjoyable new traditions. In today's special pre-show performance, Shockwave from Freestyle Love Supreme showed off his beat boxing skills with HAMILTON star and creator Lin-Manuel Miranda. Check it out below, shot by Howard Sherman!

The Ham4Ham mini-concerts continue for the dedicated fans who show up for the Hamilton lottery. in a recent edition, cast members Jonathan Groff and Emmy Raver-Lampman treat the crowd to a duet of HAIR's 'White Boys.' Below, check out a video of their performance, as captured by Howard Sherman.

The cast of Lin-Manuel Miranda's hit Broadway musical HAMILTON continued their series of mini-concerts for the dedicated fans who showed up for tonight's lottery. Tonight's performance featured HAMILTON's Schuyler Sisters - Renee Goldsberry, Philippa Soo and Jasmine Cephas Jones - harmonizing to Alicia Keys' vintage hit 'Fallin'. Check it out below!

BroadwayWorld has just obtained photos from the recently buzzed about production of RENT in Tullahoma, Tennessee. Presented by the South Jackson Civic Center's Performing Arts for Children and Teens, the show has met with local religious opposition, as first reported on Director of the Arts Integrity Initiative at the New School for Drama, Howard Sherman's blog. Check out the snapshots below!

As BroadwayWorld previously reported last year, Timberlane Regional High School planned to present a PG version of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd but administrators feared it would not be family friendly and attempted to cancel the production. In response, hundreds of supporters for SWEENEY TODD gathered at a meeting to fight for the show. At the three-hour forum, the majority of the attendees were in support of SWEENEY. Superintendent Earl Metzler said he was not completely opposed to the play but that he needed to think of the community as a whole. In the end, the show went on, an Stephen Sondheim himself even wrote to the company to applaud their persistence. He writes: 'I've never understood why Sweeney Todd is considered 'controversial.' The incidents in the plot may be lurid, but the show's themes are primarily injustice, morality and greed, as Howard Sherman pointed out. More important, it's a wonderful scary story- what Sweeney Todd is really about is having a good time.' Check out his full letter below!

The Dramatists Guild Fund celebrated moving into their new offices on April 17. Check out photos from their Music Hall and Office warming party below!

92Y presents an evening of conversation and musical performances from the cast and creative team of the new Broadway musical Doctor Zhivago, as they discuss bringing this timeless tale of romance and revolution to the Broadway stage. Stars Tam Mutu (Yurii Zhivago) and Kelli Barrett (Lara Guishar) perform songs from the new show; they also join composer Lucy Simon (a two-time Grammy winner and Tony nominee for The Secret Garden) and director Des McAnuff (the Tony-winning director of Jersey Boys) to discuss bringing Boris Pasternak's classic tale to the stage, and making Doctor Zhivago sing. The conversation is moderated by Howard Sherman, U.S. correspondent for The Stage in London.