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The late musician Prince, performing at the Super Bowl in 2007 in Miami Gardens, Fla.

Prince's 'Purple Rain' is becoming a stage musical

1:19pm January 08, 2024

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

Plans are still coming together, but two up-and-coming names on Broadway are already attached to the Prince project: playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and director Lileana Blain-Cruz.

Sondheim had the highest standards for himself, the director of Here We Are said.

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The task? Finish Stephen Sondheim's last musical. No pressure.

5:13am October 23, 2023

by Jeff Lunden

When the composer/lyricist died in 2021 at age 91, he left behind a partly finished show called Here We Are. But his collaborators say Sondheim loved a puzzle — and he left them all the pieces.

A rare recording of Phinney's Rainbow — thought to be the first produced musical of Stephen Sondheim (shown here as a wizened showbiz veteran of 32, with three Broadway musicals under his belt) — has been found on a bookshelf in Milwaukee.

A rare recording of a musical by an 18-year-old Stephen Sondheim surfaces

6:02pm December 02, 2022

by Bob Mondello

Broadway-legend-in-training Stephen Sondheim was a college sophomore in 1948 when his musical Phinney's Rainbow was produced — and recorded — at Williams College in Massachusetts.

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Piedmont Opera presents 'Ragtime'

7:00am March 15, 2022

by David Ford

Ragtime, the multiple Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning musical with lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, music by Stephen Flaherty, a

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Broadway performers at the Tony Awards on Sunday.

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Highlights From The Tony Awards

12:38pm September 27, 2021

by Nell Clark

Moulin Rouge! The Musical took home 10 awards, including the night's biggest: Best musical. The Inheritance won for best play, and A Soldier's Play for best revival.

Singer and actor Leslie Grace stars as Nina Rosario (center), the beloved and brilliant neighborhood sweetheart in the film adaptation of the musical In the Heights.

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The Limitations Of 'Latinidad': How Colorism Haunts 'In The Heights'

7:46pm June 15, 2021

by Monica Castillo

Film critic Monica Castillo reflects on the glaring absence of Afro-Latino actors from the new screen adaptation of In the Heights and how colorism still affects Latino representation on screen.

Usnavi (Anthony Ramos) runs a corner bodega and dreams of returning to the Dominican Republic in In the Heights.

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'In The Heights' Star Anthony Ramos Says The Movie Sees 'Good In Every Hood'

2:59pm June 14, 2021

by Terry Gross

Ramos says Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway musical In the Heights filled him with hope. Now he's starring — and singing and dancing and rapping — in the film adaptation.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights has been adapted for the big screen, directed by Jon M. Chu. Filming on the street, they'd stop for passing emergency vehicles and their time was limited by the natural light.

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'In The Heights' Dances From The Stage, To The Streets, To The Screen

9:33am June 10, 2021

by Mandalit del Barco

Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony-winning musical is an ode to the neighborhood near where he grew up. Now a movie musical, the film's director, cinematographer and choreographer discuss the new adaptation.

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'The Movie Musical!' Is A Symphony In Praise Of The 'Razzmatazz' Of The Genre

11:12am November 10, 2019

by Jason Heller

Jeanine Basinger argues, authoritatively and passionately, that the musical has never really left us, that there's relevance and inspiration to be gleaned from the golden age of Hollywood musicals.

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The Name Behind This Year's Most Popular Album? P.T. Barnum

5:42pm July 04, 2018

by Ailsa Chang

The soundtrack to the movie The Greatest Showman is outselling Kanye West, Taylor Swift and Justin Timberlake this year. Critic Rob Harvilla reviewed the album for The Ringer and explains its success.