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Both Lin-Manuel Miranda and Leslie Odom, Jr., of "Hamilton" will be eligible for the prize as best actor in a musical.
On Monday, Disney will start an online lottery offering tickets to "The Lion King" for $30.
Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole, will portray competing cosmetics industry executives in a new musical, "War Paint," scheduled to premiere in Chicago next summer.
The musical played nine performances, one of them a fund-raiser for the Democratic Party.
The play began previews on Oct. 21; it had been scheduled to open Nov. 19, but instead will now open Dec. 4, and "new material is going in this week," the lead producer said.
The award has roots in a settlement from The National Enquirer.
"Southern Comfort," based on the 2001 documentary of the same name, is scheduled to begin performances in February.
Among the exceptions in a tough box-office week: "Misery" and "China Doll," starring Bruce Willis and Al Pacino.
While more plays Off Broadway are being directed and written by women, the vast majority of those who are designers of sets, sound and lighting are men.
The Public Theater festival of experimental performance will run from Jan. 6-17.
The New York-based public relations and government affairs company has hired the theater publicist Rick Miramontez, and is set to hire about a dozen employees at the company he now heads.
A collaboration including the Rockefeller Foundation, the producers of "Hamilton" and a nonprofit American history institute are bringing students to the show.
Al Pacino, in a play by David Mamet, soared into Broadway box-office territory usually reserved for musicals.
The company in the East Village has long championed challenging but often also difficult new work.
The wrenching drama "Eclipsed," starring Lupita Nyong'o, will be staged on Broadway.
The play will be staged by New York Theater Workshop, a prestigious but small nonprofit that plans to present the work in a 199-seat theater for a limited run in the fall of 2016 .
The jukebox musical grossed $970,013 in its first seven performances.
The troupe will present three productions, including "A Kind of Alaska" in collaboration with the choreographer Mark Morris.
The actor plays a future king of Britain in "King Charles III," a stage hit in London opening soon on Broadway.
The end of the 33-year partnership was attributed to "different goals."
President Obama, who saw an early Broadway preview of "Hamilton" on July 18, is planning to see it again, on Nov. 2, for a Democratic Party fund-raiser.
A new production of "Spring Awakening" from Deaf West Theater prompted a burst of theatrical innovation.
Police take man to a hospital for a mental evaluation after he interrupts a performance of "Thérèse Raquin" on Broadway by shouting at the actress Keira Knightley.
Scouts for the annual awards show have begun visiting sites around New York.
John Doyle, who has won many awards, will succeed Brian Kulick as artistic director of the Classic Stage Company.
