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The neon lights could soon be bright for Joe Biden on Broadway as Hillary Clinton teams up with actor and songwriter Lin-Manuel Miranda to raise money for the president in the city that never sleeps. Clinton and the Hamilton musical creator will present a 'special Broadway performance' of 'Suffs: the musical' on April 3 to raise money for the Biden Victory Fund, the president's joint fundraising committee, and the Women's Leadership Forum. Tickets to the Times Square performance cost between $500 and $5,000 a person, according to the event invite. This is just the latest fundraising effort by the failed...

It’s the Great Fright Way. Broadway musicians say they are being preyed upon by violent criminals at the stage door of the beloved “The Lion King” musical and other shows. Video obtained by The Post shows the moment a violinist with the Disney production was suddenly shoved to the ground in the breezeway of the Minkskoff Theater after exiting an Aug. 5 matinee via the stage door, breaking her wrist in 10 places and nearly ending her decades-long career.

A Broadway theater producer is the latest New Yorker to be caught on film brazenly tearing down fliers of civilians in Israel kidnapped by Hamas terrorists, The Post has learned. In a video shared online by neighborhood blog I Love the Upper West Side, James L. Simon, who co-produced the 2022 Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman,” is seen at West 62nd Street and Broadway using scissors to remove a poster featuring one of the roughly 200 hostages taken by Hamas during its Oct. 7 surprise attack on Israel. The stone-faced Simon then crumpled up the flier,...

The first ever all-Filipino cast on Broadway is set to debut its production, Here Lies Love, on July 20 at the Broadway Theatre. Starring Tony Award winner, Lea Salonga, the show marks its return to the stage since its running time at the Public Theater in 2013 and 2014, according to the New York Theatre Guide. The dance-pop musical follows Imelda Marcos, former First Lady of the Philippines, navigating her rise to political power alongside her husband, Ferdinand Marcos, former President of the Philippines. It details the loss of their power when the assassination of their political rival, Ninoy...

Lyricist Sheldon Harnick, who, with composer Jerry Bock, forged one of Broadway's most successful Broadway composing teams, responsible for such classics as Fiddler on the Roof and She Loves Me, has passed away. He was 99. The news was confirmed via Harnick's longtime publicist Sean Katz. If Mr. Harnick and Mr. Bock had done nothing else than musicalize the tales of Yiddish writer Sholom Alechim into the bittersweet tale of the joys and trials of family and tradition called Fiddler on the Roof, their place in musical theatre history would be secure. First on Broadway in 1964, it ran for...

The poor air quality in places like New York due to the ongoing Canadian wildfires has forced the cancelation of top Broadway musicals like Hamilton and the Hollywood writers strike. The haze and smog have created a thick blanket over the New York City area and caused several Broadway and Off Broadway productions to shut down just days before the Tony Awards. Both Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton and the Lincoln Center’s revival of Lerner & Loewe’s Camelot have both been canceled due to poor air quality.

Martha Graham was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania on May 11, 1894, into a strict Presbyterian family. Her artistic goal as: "to make dance an art form that was more grounded in the rawness of the human experience as opposed to just a mere form of entertainment." She said: "People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life." "I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be." "The body is...

Doris Eaton Travis made her Broadway debut at the age of 13 and one year later was the youngest ever cast member of the Ziegfeld follies. After her career in stage and screen ended, she was a dance instructor with Arthur Murray Dance Studios for three decades, rising through the ranks to own & manage nearly twenty dance schools. Travis retired from the dance studio business in 1968. She moved with her husband moved to Norman, Oklahoma, and established a ranch. Initially on 220 acres , which grew to 880 acres. Many of the quarter-horses bred and raised there were...

'I'm going to get in trouble,' LuPone said before her remarksActress Patti LuPone declared that she doesn't know the difference between "our Christian Right and the Taliban" during an appearance on "The View" on Tuesday. "I could cry… I don’t know why he’s doing this," an emotional LuPone said in response to a question from co-host Ana Navarro about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the LGBT community. "I don’t know, I mean I've said this before and I’m going to get in trouble. I’ve said this before, and it’s been in print. I don’t know what the difference between our...

The white sign-language interpreter booted from Broadway’s “Lion King” for his skin color quietly settled his federal discrimination case against the theatre company that fired him, The Post has learned. Keith Wann and the Theatre Development Fund — a nonprofit that provides ASL interpreters at Broadway shows — resolved the dispute outside of court just two weeks after Wann filed his lawsuit and The Post published a front-page report. “The matter between myself and TDF has been resolved and both parties are satisfied with the discussions that ensued,” Wann wrote in a social media post announcing the settlement. “I look...

Broadway is giving our founding fathers gender re-assignment surgery. The new Broadway revival of the classic musical 1776 features a cast comprised entirely of women, transgender, and “non-binary” actors. The woke staging, courtesy of the prestigious Roundabout Theatre Company and American Repertory Theater, officially opened Thursday at the American Airlines Theatre in New York, with a national tour expected to kick off next year. 1776 dramatizes the signing of the Declaration of Independence, following John Adams (played by actress Crystal Lucas-Perry) as he attempts to persuade members of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia to declare independence from Britain. Among the...

ORLANDO, Florida – It's being called Disney's "gayest kids movie yet," and it comes at a time when Americans are dumping the entertainment giant because of its support for LGBT causes and opposition to Florida's anti-grooming law giving parents a voice in the education of their children. "Better Nate Than Ever" is a musical comedy released this month by Disney+, and is aimed at the minds of pre-teenagers. It stars Rueby Wood as 13-year-old Nate, a boy who heads to New York City for a chance to win a role in a Broadway play after losing an audition for his...

Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of the beloved musical “West Side Story” finally began to screen for awards voters over the weekend ahead of its Christmas Day release. First reactions are pouring out as the film’s official premiere at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles gets underway. Early reactions are offering praise for Spielberg’s direction and high marks for Rachel Zegler as Maria in her film debut. The musical premiered mere days after the death of Stephen Sondheim (who wrote the lyrics for the original production, with a book by Arthur Laurents and score by Leonard Bernstein) at the age of...

George Orwell correctly predicted that, when the dystopia arrived, one of the hallmarks would be ‘double think’, the idea that you will be forced to hold two mutually-exclusive thoughts in your mind at the same time. We are watching that play out with the New World Order tellings us that the ‘vaccine will save us’, and then watch vaccinated people get COVID anyway that is somehow blamed on the unvaccinated. Vaccinated people are starting to wake up to the idea that the vaccine will not save them. “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”...

The Broadway musical “Aladdin” had been shut down for 18-months until this week when they triumphantly performed a show Tuesday. But the Wednesday night show had to be canceled because of an outbreak of Covid-19 breakthrough cases was detected.The cast and crew, fully vaccinated per New York City’s, Broadway’s, and Disney’s mandates, still fell to Covid-19. It’s a broken record story that inexplicably cannot be fathomed by the millions of vaccine nannies across the country. Despite unambiguous data showing the “vaccines” do not offer much protection, if any, from Covid-19, the incessant drumbeat of “get vaxxed” persists.According to the NY...

New York City Broadway theaters closed on March 12, 2020. The closure was supposed to be for just one month. Fourteen months later, the theaters are still closed. But now Governor Cuomo has announced New York’s theaters are cleared for reopening, starting September 14. No less than 23 plays are scheduled to open between September and November. Theaters will be allowed to open at “full capacity,” but with “social distancing,” with “capacity limitations are only governed by the ability of people to socially distance by six feet.” Maybe this makes sense to someone who is “woke,” but it does not...

NEW YORK—Many Broadway productions are scrambling to resume ticket sales in the coming days to welcome theater-goers this fall after city and state leaders have green-lit a reopening of the Great White Way at full capacity by mid-September. “We remain cautiously optimistic about Broadway’s ability to resume performances this fall and are happy that fans can start buying tickets again,” Charlotte St. Martin, president of the Broadway League, said in a statement Wednesday. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Broadway theaters can reopen Sept. 14 and will be allowed to decide their own entry requirements, like whether people must prove...

Broadway theaters can reopen at 100 percent capacity on Sept. 14, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday. Tickets for shows will go on sale beginning Thursday, the governor said during a press briefing in Manhattan. When asked whether vaccinations against the coronavirus will be required for theater lovers, state budget director Rob Mujica said, “It’s not finalized yet.”

JOSEPH Siravo, the actor best known for playing Tony Soprano's father in hit series The Sopranos, has died. The 64-year-old passed away on Sunday after a long battle with cancer. Siravo, who played Tony Soprano's father, died this weekend after a long battle with cancer 5 Siravo, who played Tony Soprano's father, died this weekend after a long battle with cancerCredit: Getty He starred in five episodes that played out the difficult relationship between Tony Soprano and his father 5 He starred in five episodes that played out the difficult relationship between Tony Soprano and his father The news was...

Tony Award-nominated actor Chad Kimball, among Broadway’s first wave of performers to contract the coronavirus last spring, is finding little support among his Broadway colleagues after he pledged to “respectfully disobey” Washington State COVID-19 guidelines limiting religious services and participation. Kimball, a Seattle native, star of the hit, now-suspended, Broadway musical Come From Away and Tony-nominated for his performance in 2011’s Memphis, tweeted his opposition to Washington Governor Jay Inslee’s newly announced wide-ranging anti-COVID restrictions that, among other measures, limit religious services to 25% indoor occupancy or no more than 200 people, with face coverings required at all times. Kimball,...