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The Hadestown audience member with hearing loss who was reprimanded from the stage by Lillias White when the Broadway actress mistook a captioning device for a recording device is urging social media users to “please stop harassing” the Broadway star.

Singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco will make her Broadway debut as ‘Persephone’ in the hit musical Hadestown, performing the role she originated on the 2010 studio-concept album by composer Anaïs Mitchell.

The producers of Broadway’s Hadestown and Jujamcyn Theaters have apologized to an audience member with hearing loss whose use of a captioning device drew repeated onstage reprimands from one of the musical’s stars who mistakenly assumed the device was recording the performance.

two major musicals had performances for the first time since theaters were shut down way back in March 2020: “Waitress,” starring Sara Bareilles, and the 2019 Tony winner for Best Musical, “Hadestown.”In the latter show, which runs at the Walter Kerr Theatre, Tony Award winner André De Shields plays Hermes, the storyteller who guides the audience through the updated myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.The indomitable De Shields, 75, is excited, if cautious, about returning to the neighborhood where

Bruce Springsteen's White House performance led to his Broadway show. In an exclusive clip from «Amazing Grace: American Music,» the upcoming episode of Springsteen and Barack Obama's podcast, the men recall the music legend's performance at the White House when Obama was president.Before Obama left office and opened at the Walter Kerr Theatre, the 59-year-old politician requested the 71-year-old musician's presence at an event for his staff that had gone through the «really remarkable but