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Blake Roman, left, Steven Telsey, Zal Owen, Danny Kornfeld, Eric Peters and Sean Bell in Harmony. Julieta Cervantes/Harmony hide caption

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An early boy band was world famous — until the Nazis took over

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Costume designer William Ivey Long in New York City in 2016. Long is currently facing a civil lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault. Theo Wargo/Getty Images hide caption

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Playwright Larissa FastHorse is a 2020 MacArthur Fellow and co-founder of Indigenous Direction, a consulting firm for Indigenous arts and audiences. John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation hide caption

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Native American playwright Larissa FastHorse takes on the 'wild mess' of Thanksgiving

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'I've been trying to do this for over 30 years' — Billy Porter sings on his terms

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The award-winning young playwrights of Enough! take a bow at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., in November 2023. Jati Lindsay/The Kennedy Center hide caption

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Teens wrote plays about gun violence — now they are being staged around the U.S.

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Sondheim had the highest standards for himself, the director of Here We Are said. Emilio Madrid/Here We Are hide caption

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The task? Finish Stephen Sondheim's last musical. No pressure.

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John Malkovich says theater is like surfing. Actors might think they are the wave — but they're not: "The wave is created by the collision between the material and the public. You ride the wave or you don't." Malkovich is pictured above in The Music Critic. Julia Wesely/Aleksey Igudesman hide caption

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Even Beethoven got bad reviews. John Malkovich reads them aloud as 'The Music Critic'

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Stephanie Mills in The Wiz, and Hasan Minhaj on stage. Hulton Archive/Kevin Winter hide caption

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Actor Michael Gambon took over the role of Albus Dumbledore in The Prisoner of Azkaban. Carl Court/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Michael Gambon, who played Dumbledore in 'Harry Potter,' dies at 82

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Leslie Odom Jr., who won a Tony playing Aaron Burr in Hamilton, is now back on Broadway as Purlie. Marc J. Franklin/Purlie Victorious hide caption

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A Jim Crow satire returns to Broadway after 62 years — and it's a romp, not a relic

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Broadway tickets are expensive — add babysitting to that and the costs are often prohibitive. But a nonprofit is trying to bring free babysitting to theaters around the country. Kohei Hara/Getty Images hide caption

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Free babysitting on Broadway? This nonprofit helps parents get to the theater

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Franne Lee at the New York Public Library's Hal Prince exhibition in 2019. Lee designed the costumes for Prince's Sweeney Todd and Candide. Doug Reside/New York Public Library hide caption

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Franne Lee, who designed costumes for 'SNL' and 'Sweeney Todd,' dies at 81

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Tim Hatley's sketch shows the musical's DeLorean on stage. Tim Hatley/Back to the Future: The Musical hide caption

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How 'Back to the Future: The Musical' created a DeLorean that flies

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Arielle Jacobs and Jose Llana as Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos in Here Lives Love. Billy Bustamante, Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman hide caption

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You can immerse yourself — literally — in this Broadway show

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Recording artist Patti LuPone performs on stage the 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Christopher Polk/Getty Images for NARAS hide caption

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Patti LuPone talks quitting Broadway and palming cell phones

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Remembering Broadway legend and 'Fiddler on the Roof' lyricist Sheldon Harnick

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Broadway lyricist Sheldon Harnick at the Tony Awards in May 2016. Matthew Eisman/Getty Images hide caption

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Broadway lyricist Sheldon Harnick, who wrote 'Fiddler on the Roof,' dies at 99

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Actor Treat Williams attends the world premiere of Second Act in New York on Dec. 12, 2018. Evan Agostini/Evan Agostini/Invision/AP hide caption

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