Interview: Jacob Slane Combats Anti-LGBTQIA+ Legislation With DRAG ISN'T DANGEROUS
by Gil Kaan - Apr 28, 2023
Producer Entertainment Group (PEG) will be presenting their telethon Drag Isn’t Dangerous May 7, 2023 broadcasting live at moment.co/dangerous. An endless list of some of the biggest names in drag and film will be participating. PEG’s co-founder Jacob Slane was most gracious to share some of the behind-the-scenes of Drag Isn’t Dangerous, the biggest fundraising effort to combat recent anti-LGBTQIA+ legislation to date.
IN THE HEIGHTS Comes to Center REP in May
by Stephi Wild - Apr 21, 2023
Center Repertory Company kicks off the summer with Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes' exuberant Tony Award-winning Broadway musical In the Heights. From the creator of Hamilton comes this jubilant story of New York's Washington Heights neighborhood and its vibrant community.
ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING Adds Don Darryl Rivera, Gerald Caesar & Allison Guinn For Season Three
by Michael Major - Mar 29, 2023
Don Darryl Rivera, Gerald Caesar, and Allison Guinn have joined the new season of Only Murders of the Building in recurring roles. They join Selena Gomez, Martin Short, Steve Martin, Meryl Streep, Ashley Park, Jesse Williams, Paul Rudd, Andrea Martin, Linda Emond, Wesley Taylor, and Jeremy Shamos in the new season.
Interview: Meet the 2022 Jimmy Awards Winners- Nicholas Barrón and Kendall Becerra
by Team BWW - Jun 29, 2022
On Monday night, Kendall Becerra and Nicholas Barrón's lives changed forever when they were announced the winners of the the thirteenth annual Jimmy Awards. Watch as they perform their winning solos ('Breathe' from In the Heights and 'This is Not Over Yet' from Parade) and read as BroadwayWorld checks in with the pair following their big wins!
Lin-Manuel to Appear in FREESTYLE LOVE SUPREME in Philadelphia on June 10
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 1, 2022
The Kimmel Cultural Campus has announced that FREESTYLE LOVE SUPREME founding member, producer, and Pulitzer Prize, Grammy®, Emmy®, and Tony Award® Winner Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton, In the Heights, Disney’s Encanto) will join the national tour of FREESTYLE LOVE SUPREME as a special guest at the 8 p.m. performance on June 10, 2022.
BWW Review: HAMILTON at The Orpheum Theatre Memphis
by AniKatrina Fageol - Dec 27, 2021
In 2009, at the peak of his Broadway musical In The Heights, Lin Manuel Miranda took a little vacation and started to read a copy of the 2004 biography Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow. Shortly after, he began to work on a project entitled The Hamilton Mixtape.
BWW Interview: Javier Muñoz Talks MONUMENTS, HEIGHTS, & EUREKA
by Sarah Jae Leiber - Jun 7, 2021
BroadwayWorld caught up with the 'Heights' and 'Hamilton' star via Email to talk about his role in 'Monuments,' his experience creating roles alongside Lin-Manuel Miranda, his new role as a voice actor, and the ways he navigated the pandemic as a person and as a performer.
IN THE HEIGHTS, HARRY POTTER & More Come to HBO Max This June
by Sarah Jae Leiber - May 20, 2021
The Warner Bros. Pictures film fuses Lin-Manuel Miranda’s kinetic music and lyrics with director Jon M. Chu’s lively and authentic eye for storytelling that captures a world very much of its place, but universal in its experience.