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Cynthia Erivo’s journey to Egot goes back to her performance as Celie in the most recent Broadway revival of “The Color Purple.” After winning the Tony for Best Actress (Musical) in 2016, she went on to take home the Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album as a principal soloist on the cast recording and an Emmy in the now retired category of Best On-Camera Musical Performance in a Daytime Program for when the cast performed on “The Today Show.” This year, she received two Oscar nominations for Kasi Lemmons’ biographical film, “Harriet” in two different categories: Best Actress and Best Song for co-writing “Stand Up” with Joshuah Brian Campbell. While Erivo’s likely not going to take down the current Best Actress frontrunner, Renee Zellweger (“Judy”), could her narrative of being a double nominee help complete her Egot in Best Song?

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I have spent a large portion of my adult life being angry about the disparity between men and women in the arts industry. That was until 2019. Because that’s when I won a Tony Award for producing “Hadestown.” Here’s what I can tell you: Awards are nice, checks are better. It was a lesson taught to me through the years by many important industry heavyweights, including Whoopi Goldberg, an Egot winner. In fairness, one might need to experience both to really understand the magnitude of that statement, but from my experience it’s true.

Obviously, there has been a fantastic leap in the number of female protagonists in the top 100 films — up from 31% in 2018 to 40% in 2019 — but women still only accounted for 10.6% of the directors of those top hits. Those statistics are magnified by the fact that only five women have ever been nominated for the Best Director Oscar...

Tony Award winners Linda Lavin and Stephanie J. Block are among the cast announced today for the world premiere production of Sarah Silverman’s Off Broadway musical The Bedwetter. Sami Bray, who appeared on Broadway in the 2017 production of 1984, and Zoe Glick (of Broadway’s Frozen) will share the role of Sarah, the 10-year-old title character inspired by Silverman.

The casting was announced by the Atlantic Theater Company.

Based on Silverman’s bestselling memoir, The Bedwetter begins performances on Saturday April 25 for a limited engagement at the Linda Gross Theater, with opening night set for Wednesday May 20. The musical will run through Sunday June 14.

Other cast announced today: Ashley Blanchet (Frozen), Rick Crom (HBO’s Divorce), Darren Goldstein (Continuity), Taylor Paige Henderson (Off-Broadway debut), Charlotte MacLeod (Off-Broadway debut), Ellyn Marie Marsh (The Rose Tattoo), Charlie Pollock (Pretty Woman The Musical) and Emily Zimmerman (Off-Broadway debut).

Additional casting will be announced at a later date.

Tony nominee Mary Bridget Davies, best known for her onstage work channeling the late rock icon Janis Joplin, will release an album of compellingly reimagined songs by the legendary songwriter and Grammy winning producer Jerry Ragovoy. The album is dedicated to Davies' sister who tragically took her own life. Broadway Records will release the studio album, digitally and in stores, on Friday, March 20, 2020. The album is currently available for pre-order at www.BroadwayRecords.com.

Emmy, Tony, and Golden Globe nominated artist Matthew Morrison has partnered with Disney Music to release a fresh contemporary take on some of his favorite iconic Disney songs. 'Disney Dreamin' with Matthew Morrison' will feature material from beloved Disney classics such as Aladdin, Toy Story, Pinocchio, Peter Pan, Tarzan and more. The full album will be released on March 6, but you can check out the first single, 'Go the Distance' from Hercules, in the music video below...

Women of Color on Broadway, a non-profit dedicated to supporting women of African, Latin, and Asian descent pursuing careers in musical theater, will present its Purple Crystal Honorary Awards in The Cooper Union's Great Hall on February 10, 2020. This year's honorees are Tony-award winners Lachanze and Melba Moore. The award celebrates the heroines of African, Latin, and Asian descent who paved the way for the next generation of women of color in theater.

Tony Award-winning actress Ali Stroker Oklahoma, Deaf West's Spring Awakening, The Glee Project narrates the audiobook of Just Ask Be Different, Be Brave, Be You Listening Library on sale January 21, 2020, written by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Sotomayor plays herself alongside Stroker, as well as narrates her introduction and author's note. In the book, Sotomayor uses her own experiences as a child to write about kids with all sorts of challenges, and the special powers those children have as well.

Slavery and the Civil War are pivots of American history, and over the years, Hollywood has covered both from nearly every conceivable angle. There’s been the slaveholder perspective (“Gone with the Wind”), the slave perspective (“12 Years a Slave”), the Union and Confederate soldier perspective, the Presidential perspective (“Lincoln”) and the Quentin Tarantino revenge-fantasy perspective (“Django Unchained”). After the Oscar haul of 2013’s definitive “12 Years a Slave,” the last thing we needed was yet another slave story.

But when it comes to black actors and Oscar nominations, the Academy seems to prefer black characters in chains or bursting out of them. Following a year brimming with a diverse slate of full-length features led by black actors, the only one to score an Oscar nomination was “Harriet,” a biopic featuring Cynthia Erivo as runaway slave-turned-iconic freedom fighter Harriet Tubman. It will compete in two categories on Feb. 9 (Best Original...

Beyonc&#233 may be hinting that she has provided vocals for the latest James Bond theme. We're only three months away from the No Time to Die release and we still have no announcement as to who is providing the theme. This has led to a lot of speculation, but Beyonc&#233 seems to be fueling the flames, thanks to a recent social media post. As usual, her rabid fan base is quite excited at the prospect of her doing something so big. Mainly because it means new music.

The speculation started to fire up after the Golden Globe Awards. Beyonc&#233 Knowles and her husband Jay-Z attended the event and the after party, where they brought their own Ace of Spades Champagne. The popstar shared a few pictures from the night, but there's one in particular that fans are examining further. In said image, Beyonc&#233 can be seen taking a sip from...

Alec Bojalad Jan 15, 2020

HBO Max has ordered a series based off the best-selling novel Americanah, with Lupita Nyong'o starring and Danai Gurira writing.

WarnerMedia has turned to some very famous, talented people to jumpstart its upcoming HBO Max streaming platform. But they may have outdone themselves with this latest news.

HBO Max announced that they have ordered a straight-to-series adaptation of the best-selling novel Americanah from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong'o will star in the series while actress Danai Gurira will write the pilot and serve as showrunner on the series. Gurira was nominated for a Tony award in the writing category for 2016's Eclipse.

"Americanah has sparked a cultural phenomenon and is revered by fans around the world. It has affected me deeply as one of the most moving, socially relevant and romantic stories of our time,” Sarah Aubrey, head of original content, HBO Max said in a statement.