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As part of BroadwayWorld's expansive coverage of the 70th Annual Tony Awards, we are providing the full text of all of the 2016 Tony Award acceptance speeches; from the emotional to the bizarre, and everything in between. Keep up with all of the winners' speeches on our continuously updated list below.

Howell Binkley has won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical for HAMILTON.

Paul Tazewell has won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Musical for HAMILTON. 

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the recently Tony-nominated Phillipa Soo has set the date for her final HAMILTON performance. She will reportedly leave the show after July 9th, the day that many of the current company members' contracts expire. Earlier this month, THR also reported that Lin-Manuel Miranda will leave the show that day.

A very funny public service announcement from 'Weehawken Institute for the Treatment of Hamilaria.'

After much speculation, Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton will officially hit the West End next year.

60 MINUTES will offer a 'director's cut' that's nearly double the length of Charlie Rose's original report first broadcast last November.

In the '#BARS Mixtape Musical Medley Vol. 1' video below, HAMILTON star Daveed Diggs and his writing partner Rafael Casal gathered a group of Broadway actors along with other talented singers to remix movie dialogue from 12 iconic scenes

On today's CBS THIS MORNING, Tony-nominated actresses Renee Elise Goldsberry and Phillipa Soo along with Jasmine Cephas Jones shared their thoughts about working on the groundbreaking show. HAMILTON.

Excited high school students, educators and supportive friends and family members packed McCaw Hall to celebrate The 14th Annual 5th Avenue Awards Honoring High School Musical Theater. The highly anticipated event, directed by Kat Ramsburg, handed out awards in 21 categories ranging from Outstanding Overall Musical Production to Outstanding Lobby Display. The crowd eagerly cheered for Washington's finest teenage performers as awards were accepted, local celebrity presenters spoke and nominated students performed musical excerpts from their acclaimed shows. This Tony Awards style program hosted by The 5th Avenue Theatre is proudly sponsored by Wells Fargo with additional support from Alaska Airlines and The Boeing Company.

Just you wait! Come Tonys night, a new block of tickets for Hamilton will go on sale, covering January 2017 to May 2017.

If you'd like to be in the room where it happens when the Tony nominated HAMILTON star says goodbye to the hip hop musical, it's going to cost you!

It must be nice to be Daveed Diggs! The Broadway newbie has taken the theatre world by storm in the duel roles of Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in HAMILTON, a performance for which he has earned a Tony nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical. So how is he dealing with the extra attention that the show has brought his way? Watch below to find out!

HAMILTON director Thomas Kail and Tony nominees Daveed Diggs and Leslie Odom, Jr. joined WNYC's THE LEONARD LOPATE SHOW yesterday, where they opened up about the show's background, their parts, and the making of the music. You can listen to the full interview below!

The Tony-nominated HAMILTON star will be chatting live with Facebook members before this evening's performance.

Tonight's planned live Facebook Q&A with HAMILTON's Phillipa Soo has been pushed to tomorrow, Friday, June 3 at 5:30PM EST, it was announced on the show's Twitter account this evening.

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, HAMILTON star and creator Lin-Manuel Miranda is due to depart his hit show this summer. According to the Hollywood Reporter, his exit date is set- July 9, 2016. 

In the latest episode of ENTRANCES, EXITS, & EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN, the YouTube documentary series following Tony-winning legend Patti LuPone and created by her son Joshua Johnston, audiences get an inside glimpse at her recent stop at the Richard Rodgers Theater, where she took part in HAMILTON's popular #Ham4Ham live lottery show. Check it out below!

The latest honor bestowed upon Miranda is one of the most iconic in the music industry.

Among the subjects discussed were how social media has intensified fan interest on not just the musical, but on each individual artist involved.