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Thursday, June 16, 2016

Lin-Manuel Miranda Is Officially Leaving Hamilton in July; Will Be Succeeded by Javier Muñoz by Nate Jones

The rumors were true: Lin-Manuel Miranda really is leaving Hamilton next month, the show confirmed in a press release Thursday. The recent Tony winner's last performance in the rol…

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:13PM
Friday, June 10, 2016

You Will Have a Slightly Better Chance at Winning the Hamilton Lottery Next Year by Nate Jones

In an effort to cut down on online ticket scalping, Hamilton is changing its pricing structure: The show's producers tell the New York Times that they're doubling the number of tickets avail…

SOURCE: Vulture at 05:32AM
Thursday, June 2, 2016

Lin-Manuel Miranda Is Heading to Carpool Karaoke; Finally, James Corden Will Be Satisfied by Nate Jones

I'm sure plenty of people have screamed the Hercules Mulligan rap from "Yorktown" while driving, but only Hamilton superfan James Corden will get to scream the Hercules Mulligan ra…

SOURCE: Vulture at 08:41PM
Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Hamilton’s Daveed Diggs Raps Super-Fast on The Tonight Show, Proves Why He Should Be on Money, Too by Nate Jones

Daveed Diggs! He's taking this horse by the reins, making sport of Tony campaigns! Daveed Diggs! And he's never gonna stop wearing those cool tops and rapping totally insane! …

SOURCE: Vulture at 04:34PM
Monday, May 9, 2016

Darren Criss to Strap on the Glitter Once More for Hedwig’s National Tour by Nate Jones

If you missed Darren Criss warbling his way through Hedwig and the Angry Inch on Broadway back in 2015, you're in luck: The New York Times reports that Criss will return to the title role in…

SOURCE: Vulture at 06:34PM
Wednesday, April 20, 2016

The Internet Wrote a Full-Length, Crowd-Sourced Hamilton Parody About Jeb Bush That Must Be Experienced to Be Believed by Nate Jones

When you're trying to parody Hamilton, you've got to get up pretty early to get one over the likes of "HAMILTRUMP (Hamilton Musical vs. Trump Parody)," "BATLEXANDER MANILTON (…

SOURCE: Vulture at 06:16AM
Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Who’s Getting Rich Off of Hamilton? Everybody! by Nate Jones

How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean, by providence impoverished in squalor, make a rich man of Lin-Manuel Mi…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:16AM
Monday, April 4, 2016

Times Square Bomb Scare Interrupts Hamilton Performance by Nate Jones

Saturday night's Hamilton performance reportedly had to be paused after a driver left his truck idling on 46th Street near the Richard Rodgers Theater. Police feared that the white box truck…

SOURCE: Vulture at 01:34PM
Thursday, March 24, 2016

Ken Howard, Character Actor and Union President, Dies at 71 by Nate Jones

Ken Howard, the veteran actor who served as the head of influential Hollywood talent union SAG-AFTRA, died on Wednesday at the age of 71, the union announced. Over the course of 45 years in …

SOURCE: Vulture at 07:31AM
Monday, March 14, 2016

The Hamilton Cast Is Having a Great Time at the White House by Nate Jones

The Hamilton cast could have been anywhere in the world this week, but they're here with the Obamas in Washington, D.C.: Monday is the day of the cast's visit to the White House, a…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:23PM
Sunday, March 13, 2016

Mariska Hargitay Is Not Throwing Away Her Shot to Narrate the Hamilton Audiobook by Nate Jones

Geniuses, lower your voices: Mariska Hargitay is stealing all of your choices. The SVU star is as big of a fan of Hamilton as Taylor Swift is of her, and so, EW reports, she'll be the one wh…

SOURCE: Vulture at 06:16PM

Hamilton Is Headed Back to the White House by Nate Jones

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction: Seven years after unveiling Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda is taking Hamilton back to the room where it first happened. In Wednesday's Ham…

SOURCE: Vulture at 06:16PM

Hamilton Mixtape Nabs Sia, Usher, Chance the Rapper, and More by Nate Jones

The whole gang is here for the upcoming Hamilton Mixtape. As Lin-Manuel Miranda tells Vanity Fair, the album, featuring remixes, covers, and other songs "inspired by" the a…

SOURCE: Vulture at 06:14PM

Your Boyfriends Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Channing Tatum Are Making a Movie-Musical About Pilots Who Sing and Dance by Nate Jones

Channing Tatum has caught dancing fever ... and he's infected Joseph Gordon-Levitt! THR reports that the pair have signed on to star in an untitled musical project written by 21 Jump St…

SOURCE: Vulture at 06:05PM

Disney Is Making a High School Musical 4, and They Want Your Teen to Star in It by Nate Jones

If you thought Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens growing up would stop Disney from making another High School Musical film, you thought wrong. The Mouse has officially started its search for new…

SOURCE: Vulture at 06:05PM
Thursday, February 11, 2016

Aaron Sorkin Adapting To Kill a Mockingbird for Broadway, Which Is Really Quite Something by Nate Jones

Aaron Sorkin is returning to Broadway with a stage adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, producer Scott Rudin announced on Wednesday. The production will be directed by The King and I's …

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:25AM

Frozen Is Coming to Broadway in 2018, Giving You Just Enough Time to Conceive a Child Who Will Beg You to Take Them to Frozen on Broadway by Nate Jones

Do you have a kid yet? If not, better get to work on that — Disney announced Tuesday that the Frozen musical will make its way to Broadway in 2018, with a preview run in another city …

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:25AM
Tuesday, February 9, 2016

The Hamilton Cast Will Perform a Song at the Grammys, So You’re 1/46th of the Way to Actually Seeing It by Nate Jones

It is a truth rarely acknowledged that some of the world's most fervent Hamilton fans have not actually seen Hamilton. (Those ticket prices!) To help us poor souls, the Grammys today announc…

SOURCE: Vulture at 04:21AM

James Corden and Rosie O’Donnell Did the Hamilton Rap Because They’re Even More Obsessed With It Than You Are by Nate Jones

How does a comedian, View woman, scene-stealer in Now and Then, sitting at the side of Tony host James Corden, end up spitting bars about a dead white man named Hamilton? Well, tha…

SOURCE: Vulture at 04:21AM
Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Congratulations, James Corden, You’re Hosting the Tony Awards This Year by Nate Jones

In less than 18 months, James Corden has gone from "who?" to America's favorite karaoke singer, and now he's capped his ascent with a gig hosting this year's Tony Awards, which, like…

SOURCE: Vulture at 08:53PM
Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Joseph Fiennes to Play Michael Jackson — Wait, What? by Nate Jones

Joseph "Shakespeare in Love" Fiennes is set to play yet another creative genius: The Guardian reports that Fiennes has confirmed he'll play Michael Jackson — yes, that Michael Jack…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:06PM
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Here’s Your First Look at Hamilton Stars on Law & Order: SVU by Nate Jones

Because it's filmed in the greatest city in the wooooooooorld, Law & Order: SVU is a handy way for Broadway stars to stretch their TV muscles in between shows, and the cast of Hamilton i…

SOURCE: Vulture at 06:55AM
Saturday, January 23, 2016

Don’t Tell Paul Giamatti That John Adams Isn’t in Hamilton — Oh Wait, Seth Meyers Just Did by Nate Jones

Shhh! Paul Giamatti hasn't seen Hamilton yet, and he's looking forward to seeing how the hit musical portrays John Adams, whom he won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for playing in the HBO mini-s…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:01AM
Thursday, January 21, 2016

Cats Is Coming Back to Broadway, Meow Meow Meow! by Nate Jones

Cats will no longer be just a memory: Deadline reports that Andrew Lloyd Webber's feline musical will return to Broadway this summer for the first time since 2000. Based on a tail by T.S. El…

SOURCE: Vulture at 01:59PM
Monday, January 18, 2016

Hamilton Is Getting a PBS Documentary, Just Like the Founders Intended by Nate Jones

It's like John Laurens said: We'll never be truly free until there's a Hamilton documentary on public TV. To that end, then, PBS announced on Monday that it would premiere a Hamilt…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:59PM
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Nerding Out With Hamilton Musical Director, Alex Lacamoire by Nate Jones

How does a Berklee hotshot halfway to an EGOT end up playing keyboards on a tribute to a melting pot, spend half a decade working to eliminate its weak spots, and find himself sitting at the…

SOURCE: Vulture at 07:18PM

NBC’s Next Live Musical Will Be Hairspray by Nate Jones

NBC can't stop the beat, even if it wanted to: Fresh off the widespread acclaim for its version of The Wiz, the network announced at the TCA tour on Wednesday that its next prime-time theate…

SOURCE: Vulture at 07:18PM
Thursday, December 31, 2015

Tony Winner Tonya Pinkins Quits Off Broadway Brecht Revival, Says Her Role Was ‘Neutered’ by Nate Jones

Tonya Pinkins has left the Off Broadway production of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, currently in previews, saying the production had "neutered" her character "…

SOURCE: Vulture at 06:31PM
Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda Wrote the New Star Wars Cantina Song; This Man Is Nonstop by Nate Jones

How does a Nuyorican Genius who sells out arenas with his keenness end up writing music for intergalactic cantinas? J.J. Abrams told the story on Tonight: The director was seeing Hamilton wi…

SOURCE: Vulture at 07:12PM
Monday, November 16, 2015

Daniel Radcliffe Truly Understands Why You Think He’s Elijah Wood by Nate Jones

On Monday, Daniel Radcliffe appeared on Marc Maron's "WTF" podcast to talk about the magical curse that continues to haunt his life: the unbreakable hex Aspecto Lignum, which makes e…

SOURCE: Vulture at 05:08PM
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Benedict Cumberbatch Somehow Became Even More British by Nate Jones

On Tuesday, Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch, Old Harrovian and son of Tim and Wanda, defied all rational limits and became somehow even more British when he was named a Commander of the…

SOURCE: Vulture at 08:14PM

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