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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!

Today, May 11, The Municipal Art Society will present the 2016 Brendan Gill Prize to Broadway's HAMILTON: AN AMERICAN MUSICAL and the documentary film IN JACKSON HEIGHTS.

The national tour of the Broadway musical Hamilton will be coming to the Kennedy Center as part of the 2017-2018 season, it was announced today by producer Jeffrey Seller and the Kennedy Center.  Information regarding engagement dates and how to purchase group and single tickets will be announced at a later date. 

Franklin impersonator Brian Patrick Mulligan as the American patriot left out of the Broadway smash.

Daveed Diggs holds the record for fastest rapper on Broadway (in the number 'Guns and Ships' he raps 19 words in 3 seconds!), but he showed Jimmy Fallon he can rap even faster than he does as Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in HAMILTON.

BroadwayWorld is happy to report that four theater artists will be honored by the Henry Hewes Design Awards Committee during the presentation of its 2015 Awards in a luncheon ceremony, set for the coming fall.

On Wednesday, May 11, The Municipal Art Society will present the 2016 Brendan Gill Prize to Broadway's HAMILTON: AN AMERICAN MUSICAL and the documentary film IN JACKSON HEIGHTS.

The national tour of HAMILTON will head to ASU Gammage as part of its 2017-2018 Desert Schools Federal Credit Union Broadway in Arizona season, it's been announced by producer Jeffrey Seller and ASU Gammage.

SiriusXM announced today that it will present an exclusive Town Hall special with the Tony Award® nominated cast and creative team of the Broadway musical HAMILTON. The Q&A session, hosted by Anderson Cooper, will air on SiriusXM's On Broadway channel. HAMILTON was recently nominated for a record breaking 16 Tony Award® nominations including Best Musical.   

He has won a Pulitzer Prize, appeared on the cover of Time Magazine, performed on the Grammy Awards...and that's all just in the past few months. Now Lin-Manuel is taking the Tony Awards by storm, with his HAMILTON having earned a record sixteen nominations. Below, watch as Lin explains how he has come to terms with the success of the show.

The sardonic social commentator isn't exactly a fan of musicals, but she says HAMILTON is great.

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, HAMILTON leading man Lin-Manuel Miranda will be exiting the show at the end of July to focus on his upcoming projects, including the starring role in Disney's MARY POPPINS opposite Emily Blunt. Last week, Miranda told CBS This Morning, 'Everyone's contracted for a year and everyone has the option to re-up and we'll see where we'll land.'

Puerto Rico's crumbling economy has inspired Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and star of the Broadway smash HAMILTON to help his parents' place of origin.

Rapper and actor Daveed Diggs, who was nominated for a Tony Award for his role in HAMILTON stopped by this week's CHARLIE ROSE to talk about the hit Broadway musical.