Lin-Manuel Miranda, Viola Davis, Cynthia Erivo, Sandra Oh And More Sign Open Letter Blasting Theater Industry’s Racism

Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado dropped on Monday, June 29, and you don’t need a crystal ball to see it’s going to be one wild ride.  Walter Mercado ’s glittering story will play out in the new Netflix documentary, which captures the iconic Peurto Rican astrologer’s rise to fame and final two years.

Major music companies including Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Group -- along with dozens of artists from Ariana Grande to Rihanna -- have signed a letter urging Congress to support the newly-introduced Justice in Policing Act. The legislation unveiled earlier this month, which the House of Representatives

Hamilton musical movie took place over three days with the “best-rehearsed cast in history”, according to Lin-Manuel Miranda.The singer/songwriter and actor, who will debut the film version of his Broadway smash hit later this month on streaming site Disney+, reveals the shoot came together seamlessly after a Sunday matinee.“We filmed a live performance with cameras in the audience… and then the audience left and we continued to film close-ups and dolly shots and crane shots all night Sunday.

Lin-Manuel Miranda feels he only has one choice when it comes to being an activist against oppression.

Hamilton: An American Musical makes its way to Disney+. The Broadway favorite was filmed with its original cast back in 2016 and was originally set to hit theaters later this year, but due to the coronavirus pandemic, the theatrical phenomenon will now debut on Disney+ on Friday, July 3. The trailer gives just a sneak peek of what fans and people anxious to see the musical that was sold out around the country can expect from the filmed spectacular.

Disney has shared a first look at the filmed version of the original Broadway production of Hamilton.

I May Destroy You‘s Michaela Coel, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Colin Firth are among more than 3,500 professionals in film and TV who have signed an open letter demanding an end to systemic racism in the industry.The new letter (via Deadline), which is adapted from one published in Hollywood last week by the Black Film Collective, calls for the industry’s “active engagement to tackle structural and systemic racism in our industry, in the UK and around the world”.It comes in the wake of Black Lives

American composer, actor, playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda has so many major accolades to his name: a Pulitzer Prize, three Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Kennedy Center Honor in 2018. And while his rise to fame started with “In The Heights,” it’s the Broadway musical “Hamilton” that really started it all for Miranda.

President Donald Trump's administrative decision to end DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals], the program that gives legal protection to undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children.The DACA program was created in 2012 by former President Barack Obama's administration.

The New York Times.The decision is a reversal of one of the Trump campaign's central promises to its conservative base, with Roberts writing, "We do not decide whether DACA or its rescission are sound policies. We address only whether the agency complied with the procedural requirement that it provide a reasoned explanation for its action."The decision was applauded by Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, who has long advocated on behalf of Dreamers.

Mackenzie Nichols Staff WriterHundreds of stars have banded together to sign an open letter calling out leaders in the theater industry for neglecting to acknowledge their own white privilege and lift up people of color.Actors, including Sterling K.

LOS ANGELES -- To entice a European TV executive shopping for programs, ABC offered up glossy fare including “Scandal” starring Kerry Washington and “How to Get Away with Murder” with Oscar-winner Viola Davis. “’This is great, but when are you going to start bringing us shows that don’t have black leads?’” the buyer asked in the 2015 meeting, as then-ABC executive Channing Dungey recounts.

Viola Davis, 54, took to social media to share some pics of her experience protesting with Octavia Spencer, 48, Yvette Nicole Brown, 48, and more at a protest to stop racial injustice in the wake of George Floyd‘s tragic death. The actress included a lengthy caption with her photos that described the passion she feels for standing up for black Americans as her and Octavia’s 2011 film The Help, in which they play black women serving white families, surges in views and gains criticism.

Just two days before it was to begin streaming, “We Are Freestyle Love Supreme,” a documentary about the hip-hop improv group with Lin-Manuel Miranda and friends, has postponed its release out of solidarity with protesters.

Lin-Manuel Miranda's is being postponed amid protests following the death of George Floyd. 

Just two days before it was to begin streaming, We Are Freestyle Love Supreme, a documentary about the hip-hop improv group with Lin-Manuel Miranda and friends, has postponed its release out of solidarity with protesters. The group announced the postponement Wednesday, citing that our "collective attention" is turned toward more pressing concerns.