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Lin-Manuel Miranda has announced the launch of a new Prizeo sweepstakes, which will offer fans the chance at an unforgettable New York City experience this April. 

Single tickets for Westport Country Playhouse's 2022 Season, the historic theater's 91st year, will go on sale beginning Tuesday, March 1.

San Diego Repertory Theatre (San Diego REP) announced that Sam Woodhouse will step down as Artistic Director in September 2022 after leading the company for 46 years. At the end of this season, San Diego REP will have produced 333 productions under Woodhouse’s leadership - more than 50 of them were world premieres.

Grier will join the previously announced Steve Carell, Domhall Gleeson, Linda Emond, Laura Niemi and Andrew Leeds in the cast of the eight-episode half-hour series. Details of Grier's role are currently being kept under wraps. The Patient was co-written by Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg.

Si crees que ves (o escuchas) a Lin-Manuel en todas partes, seguramente es así.

Richard Bach's bestselling 1970 novella “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” is brought vividly to life in Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Solo Flight by Adapter and Performer Andrew Thacher who invites us to join Jonathan on his journey through the here and now, and all of eternity, as he soars to the heights of perfection, freedom, and Love.

Fronted by Olly Alexander, now standing solo, the album features pulsating queer anthems “Crave”, “Starstruck,” latest single, “Sweet Talker” (with Galantis) and more future-favorites from Olly Alexander. Years & Years has recently collaborated with Kylie Minogue, Lady Gaga, and more. Listen to the new album now!

Years & Years has released a brand new track today, “Sooner or Later,” offering a final preview of the hugely-anticipated new album ‘Night Call’. The album features pulsating queer anthems “Crave”, “Starstruck” and latest single, “Sweet Talker” (with Galantis). Years & Years recently released collaborations with Lady Gaga and Kylie Minogue.

Stars on stage in New York are shining bright as we continually celebrate the experience of live theater. As new shows prepare to head to the great bright way, let’s see which famous Broadway stars, celebrities from film and TV, and more you can see in upcoming shows!

BroadwayWorld has learned that the production of In The Heights, set to play Puerto Rico at the Centro de Bellas Artes de Caguas later this month, has been canceled due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Today's episode features Broadway favorite Andréa Burns. 'My very first professional job was playing 'Maria' in West Side Story on a European tour. I left school to do it. It kinda became my college education. Instead of going to school I was at West Side U,' Burns explained in the episode. 'Some many things happened... I got my Equity card, I met my future husband (who played Tony), and now we have a son who is half-Jet half-Shark! [The show] is incredibly meaningful to me.'

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.

Have you ever seen a fight in a play when tempers flare? How is it done? In this new episode of “THEATER: All the Moving Parts, Host Patrick Pacheco interviews Ron Piretti, a veteran fight director of theater and film, who turns slapping, slugging, and fencing into an art form.

Chris Isaacson Presents and Ronn Goswick have announced the addition of the Season 10 winner of NBC's The Voice Alisan Porter along with Chad Doreck, Kate Harmon, Bethany Joy Lenz, Nicole Santiago, Matt Zarley, and newcomer Ava Delaney to the lineup of performers for the 12th Annual A Broadway Christmas. 

Years & Years & Galantis have today released a video for brand new single “Sweet Talker”. The video for “Sweet Talker,” directed by Sophia Ray, offers a surreal twist on Olly Alexander’s latest anthem, transforming the ghosting behind the track into a modern, medieval fable. Years & Years recently collaborated with Kylie Minogue and Lady Gaga.

Tonight, NBC will air its sixth live musical production. Following in the footsteps of The Sound of Music, Peter Pan, The Wiz, Hairspray, and Jesus Christ Superstar, the peacock network will be presenting Annie. Based on Harold Gray's comic strip titled Little Orphan Annie, this musical tells the story of a little orphan with equal measures of pluck and positivity who charms everyone's hearts, despite a next-to-nothing start in New York City in the year 1933.

El musical estará dirigido y coreografiado por José Félix Romero.

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, KPOP, The Musical has its sights set on Broadway in the coming year. Now, the rumor mill is circulating that K-Pop star Luna may be making her Broadway debut in the production.

Page 73 has announced 10 semifinalists for the 2022 Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship. From a pool of over 300 applicants, Page 73 has selected Melis Aker, Syreeta Briggs, Vichet Chum, Kate Douglas, Ryan Drake, Marvin González De León, Majkin Holmquist, Deepa Purohit, Gab Reisman, and Haygen-Brice Walker.

Florida Studio Theatre will produce the World Premiere of America in One Room by Jason Odell Williams, a fast-paced comedy inspired by the real-life 2019 convention of the same name. In this brand-new play, eight strangers arrive at the event, which promises discussion on a variety of topics—from immigration to foreign policy.

Dallas Theater Center has announced the addition of several full-time resident artists!

Dallas Theater Center has announced the addition of several full-time resident artists! Zachary J. Willis, Christina Austin Lopez, and Bob Hess join the Diane and Hal Brierley Resident Acting Company. while Jonathan Norton, DTC playwright-in-residence, has been promoted to a full-time staff member!

From Coming to America to Crazy Rich Asians, see our picks for the films we would most like to see get the movies to Broadway treatment!

Lizzie Borden, who maintained her innocence of the axe murders of her father and stepmother until the day she died in 1927, was very possibly the progenitor of every piece of tabloid journalism that continues to titillate readers to this very day. Who better than she then to become the protagonist in a provocative work of musical theater that lays bare all the rumors that surrounded her in life and which gives her agency over her own story almost a hundred years after her death?

Rehearsal images have been released for Hampstead Theatre’s production of the astonishing Pulitzer Prize-winning play ‘night, Mother by Marsha Norman. Featuring Stockard Channing and Rebecca Night, with direction by the theatre’s Artistic Director, Roxana Silbert, ‘night, Mother will run from 22 October until 4 December 2021.