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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.

The ensemble member assumes the role of town crier to introduce his giddy new backstage video.

On last night's LATE NIGHT, HAMILTON Director Thomas Kail stopped by to talk about the show's record-breaking 16 Tony nominations, and shared that he was not expecting the achievement.

Good news - Hamilton's digital lottery is officially continuing on from 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 also happening, featuring surprise performances from the cast. In honor of today's annual STAR WARS celebration, 'May the Fourth be With You,' 'THE FORCE AWAKENS' director J.J. Abrams stopped by to perform the film's cantina song alongside Lin-Manuel Miranda - check it out below!

'No prior theatre experience necessary' read the casting notice for singers who rap.

NBC has announced that HAMILTON star and recent Tony Award nominee Daveed Diggs will visit THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON on Monday, May 9th.

This season features an episode guest starring several cast members from the Broadway phenomenon HAMILTON including Jasmine Cephas Jones, Javier Muñoz, Sydney James Harcourt, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Daniel J. Watts, and Austin Smith.