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Who is Hamlet? This might seem like a strange question to ask about the most famous character in all literature, a figure incarnated by some of the most brilliant actors of the last four cen…
A small matter of a musical about that guy named Alex on the $10 bill. Our Confederate monument legacy. And an energizing Mozart opera in Austria. I'm Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer for t…
Playwright Roger Bean has based his career on jukebox musicals like "Life Could Be a Dream" and "The Marvelous Wonderettes," durable crowd-pleasers that have been widely produced throughout …
More than two years after "Hamilton: An American Musical" had its world premiere at New York's Public Theater, becoming the biggest theatrical sensation in at least a generation, it's still …
"This is something you haven't seen too often," Guido Lamell, music director of the Santa Monica Symphony, said Wednesday night during the encore for the orchestra's summer fundraiser, the e…
When the curtain finally rose and those first familiar notes of "Hamilton" rang out inside the Hollywood Pantages Theatre on opening night Wednesday, the audience erupted in applause so loud…
Lin-Manuel Miranda has taken the stage " not inside the Hollywood Pantages Theatre, where "Hamilton" has its opening night Wednesday, but outside the building along Hollywood Boulevard. Hund…
Lin-Manuel Miranda's "Hamilton" cabinet gathered onstage at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre on Monday night to talk about just exactly why and how the musical has so quickly become a piece of…
While the country confronts the violent reemergence of white supremacists, Los Angeles is welcoming an antidote in "Hamilton." The hip-hop musical about equality and inclusion, officially op…
More than 2,500 "Hamilton" fans filed in the gilded Hollywood Pantages Theatre on Monday evening, though the musical isn't set to have its opening night until Wednesday. Instead, the crowd a…
Contestants in "Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda's #Ham4All campaign were vying for a rare prize: tickets to opening night of the musical in Los Angeles, plus airfare, hotel accommodatio…
THEATER Capsule reviews are by Philip Brandes (P.B.), Charles McNulty (C.M.) and Daryl H. Miller (D.H.M.). Openings Mighty Morphin Midsummer Night's Dream The Actors' Gang presents a kid-f…
At 6:55 p.m. on Friday, the gilded foyer of Old Hollywood's Pantages Theatre buzzed with restless anticipation. With just an hour on the clock until "Hamilton" took the stage for its first p…
Heard of this little show called "Hamilton"? Oh, that's just a little arts editor humor now that the most anticipated musical to hit Hollywood has rolled into town. I'm Craig Nakano, The Tim…
NEW YORK " Michael Moore looked like a fish out of water " or was it a deer in headlights? " at a preview of his Broadway show, "The Terms of My Surrender," which had its official opening at…
Among the costumed actors posing for pictures with tourists on Hollywood Boulevard, not one but two convincing Johnny Depp look-alikes " one dressed as Willy Wonka, the other as Edward Sciss…
Be sure that your wallet is full of Hamiltons if you plan on walking away from Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical with merchandise to commemorate the day. At the pop-up store in the Paramount Hote…
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., Phillipa Soo, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Daveed Diggs and more: Where you will see them next.
Alex Lacamoire has hearing loss. But the Tony-winning music director of "Hamilton" wants you to know, he's no Beethoven. He's heard that you can see teeth marks on the wood inside Beethoven'…
Jumping on bandwagons is my least favorite activity. Don't force me to tell you all the must-see movies I've skipped ("Forrest Gump" is all you'll get out of me), the No. 1 bestsellers I've …
"Have you heard of a show called 'Hamilton'?" Emmy Raver-Lampman's agent asked her in spring 2015. The actress had just concluded the national tour of "Wicked" in Los Angeles. The hype surro…
Joshua Henry is at a loss for words. It doesn't happen often. The gregarious, golden-voiced actor who stars as Aaron Burr in the national tour of "Hamilton" opening Aug. 16 at the Hollywood …
Oskar Eustis, artistic director of the Public Theater, shares in his own words his memories of "Hamilton's" evolution from a 4-minute pop song to an Off-Broadway sensation and more.
The musical's storied rise from a single 4-minute, 20-second song to mixtape to Off-Broadway project to Broadway hit and worldwide sensation. London, you're next.
Hollywood Boulevard, 4:45 a.m. The sky is charcoal-colored and hazy, the nearly empty streets bathed in a blur of red, orange and green from a thicket of neon signage " the W Hollywood hotel…
