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Alex Newell has been nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. Emilio Madrid/Shucked hide caption

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Tony Awards have gendered actor categories — where do non-binary people fit?

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Karoline performs as Katie and Tony Nam as Malcolm in Exclusion at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. Margot Schulman/Arena Stage hide caption

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In 'Exclusion,' Kenneth Lin draws on his roots as the son of Chinese immigrants

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Sara Bareilles plays the Baker's Wife in Into the Woods. She says the first thing she did after taking the role was give her character a real name: "I named her Rebecca." Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman/MurphyMade hide caption

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Sara Bareilles thought 'Into the Woods' would last 2 weeks — she ended up on Broadway

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The musical adaptation of Monsoon Wedding has opened at Brooklyn's St. Ann's Warehouse. Matthew Murphy hide caption

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You're invited to 'Monsoon Wedding' — a musical nearly 15 years in the making

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Writer Neil Gaiman (center) makes music with FourPlay (L-R: Peter Hollo, Shenton Gregory aka Shenzo Gregorio, Lara Goodridge and Tim Hollo) Chris Frape/Riot Act Media hide caption

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Writer Neil Gaiman debuts his first music album with an Australian string quartet

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Barry Humphries performs as Dame Edna for a farewell tour in London on Nov. 13, 2013. Tony Award-winning comedian Barry Humphries, internationally renowned for his garish stage persona Dame Edna Everage, died on Saturday in Sydney. Joel Ryan/Joel Ryan/Invision/AP hide caption

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Chita Rivera as Anita in the 1957 Broadway musical West Side Story. AP hide caption

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Broadway legend Chita Rivera dances through her life in a new memoir

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John Riddle as Raoul, Laird Mackintosh as the Phantom and Emilie Kouatchou as Christine, take a bow at the end of the final performance of the Phantom of the Opera at the Majestic Theater in New York City on April 16, 2023. Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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'Phantom of the Opera' takes a final Broadway bow after 13,981 performances

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Annaleigh Ashford and Josh Groban in the 2023 Broadway production of Sweeney Todd. Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman hide caption

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As 'Sweeney Todd' returns to Broadway, 4 Sweeneys dish about the difficult role

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Los Angeles artist Kristina Wong in Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord, a co-production with East West Players. Javier Vasquez hide caption

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Javier Vasquez

From elected official to 'Sweatshop Overlord,' this performer takes on unlikely roles

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Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan star in a rarely revived Lorraine Hansberry play. Catalina Kulczar/Brooklyn Academy of Music hide caption

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A rarely revived Lorraine Hansberry play is here — and it's messy but powerful

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A repurposed school bus from Control Group Productions' climate change-focused immersive theater experience, The End. Katie Weisberger/Control Group Productions hide caption

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Theater never recovered from COVID — and now change is no longer a choice

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Matt Butler performing at the Central Utah Correctional Facility. Liam Trouchard/Matt Butler hide caption

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Matt Butler has played concerts in more than 50 prisons and jails

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Playwright Paula Vogel speaks onstage during the 2017 Tony Awards. Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions hide caption

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Trade, created by Emma O'Halloran and Mark O'Halloran, will be featured at the PROTOTYPE festival this year. Maria Baranova/Unison Media hide caption

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Who says opera needs a grand stage? This festival is all about intimate productions

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A rare recording of Phinney's Rainbow — thought to be the first produced musical of Stephen Sondheim (shown here as a wizened showbiz veteran of 32, with three Broadway musicals under his belt) — has been found on a bookshelf in Milwaukee. Michael Hardy/Express/Getty Images hide caption

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A rare recording of a musical by an 18-year-old Stephen Sondheim surfaces

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