Thomas Kail News

The Public Theater announced a final one-week extension today for the world premiere play DRY POWDER by Sarah Burgess and directed by Thomas Kail. Part of Oskar Eustis' 10th Anniversary season, this  deliciously funny new drama about the people shaping, and skewing, the American economy begins previews on Tuesday, March 1 and has now been extended a final week to Sunday, May 1, with an official press opening on Tuesday, March 22.

In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, he revealed more about the project, including that Busta Rhymes, Ben Folds, Regina Spektor, Latifah, Common, and Chance the Rapper will all record songs. He explained: 'People are coming out of the woodwork, knocking on the door. Half the songs are cover versions of songs in the show, and the others are interpolations- we'll take some of this, some of that, and make something new out of it.'

The Public Theater welcomes HOMELAND's Claire Danes, Hank Azaria, and Sanjit De Silva, joining John Krasinksi in the world premiere of Sarah Burgess' DRY POWDER, a 'new drama about the people shaping, and skewing, the American economy.'

Daveed Diggs who portrays Thomas Jeffersonand Marquis de Lafayette in the Broadway smash musical hit HAMILTON made his first ever late-night appearance on last night's 'The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore'

Daveed Diggs who portrays Thomas Jefferson and Marquis de Lafayette in the Broadway smash musical hit HAMILTON will make his first ever late-night appearance on Comedy Central's 'The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore'.

According to the New York Post, 29-year-old special education teacher Danielle Posner set up a scheme to catch a Craigslist HAMILTON ticket scalper, after realizing that her tickets were fake. 

Tony Award-nominees Penny Fuller (Applause, A New Brain, Dividing The Estate) and Sally Mayes (Closer Than Ever, She Loves Me) have joined the starry line-up for a Feinstein's/54Below's benefit concert for The Drama Book Shop. Also joining the roster is Ali Stroker, who recently made her debut in Deaf West's revival of Spring Awakening, and composer Nancy Ford (I'm Getting My Act Together...).

Today's #Ham4Ham video features new HAMILTON cast member Karla Garcia leading Lin-Manuel Miranda and Leslie Odom, Jr. in THE TAGLISH COMMANDMENTS - 'Taglish' being Filipino Tagalog and English, featuring Kurt Crowley on the keyboard. Check out the video here!

It was last Monday night's Grammy Award performance by the HAMILTON cast that inspired this entry.

Talented singer and beatbox artist Morgan Reilly has shared her acappella cover of the opening number to Broadway's HAMILTON.

Good news - HAMILTON's digital lottery is officially back for the winter, meaning that fans can enter online daily for a chance to see one of Broadway's biggest hits. Better news - this means that Digital #Ham4Ham is back, featuring surprise performances from the cast. Today's #Ham4Ham video features Lin-Manuel Miranda in his first time onstage at Hunter College Elementary School's Talent Show. Below, watch 1st-grade Lin lip-sync to 'Land of Confusion' by Genesis (featuring lead singer Phil Collins, of course). Commenting on his hip shades, Miranda wrote, 'The sunglasses were a whole thing, I had to get rid of them.' But we think they were a pretty good look!

CBS News correspondent Chip Reid speaks to Ron Chernow, author of the Hamilton biography that inspired Lin-Manuel Miranda to write his hip-hop musical.

The city game and Broadway's historic hip-hop musical seem like a perfect match.

On last night's LATE NIGHT, Renee Elise Goldsberry, who portrays Angelica Schuyler in the hit Broadway show HAMILTON, stopped by talk about the musical's recent Grammy performance

The swing and assistant dance captain is the latest subject for Josh Lehrer's series of vintage photos.

A Spanish language, English subtitled video for Telemundo/NBC features the author/star and his parents.

Renee Elise Goldsberry, who stars as Angelica Schuyler in the hit Broadway musical HAMILTON, will appear on tonight's TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON on NBC.

The hip hop musical is the winner of the Kennedy Prize for Historical Drama. The news was announced by Columbia University and Jean Kennedy Smith. The award, named in honor of Senator Edward M. Kennedy

The Tony Award-winning Drama Book Shop has been helping theatre artists for 99 years. Now, it needs their help after a recent water pipe burst caused extensive damage to the shop and half of its inventory. For more information on the shop and its famed history, please visit www.dramabookshop.com.

Lin-Manuel Miranda visits the Drama Book Shop for today's digital #Ham4Ham show, encouraging viewers to buy a book!