News: PBS to Air Hamilton Documentary
PBS President and CEO Paula Kerger announced today at the Television Critics Association Press Tour that it will air HAMILTON’S AMERICA, a feature film documentary providing intimate access to Lin-Manuel Miranda and his colleagues during the two years leading up to the Broadway opening of the musical Hamilton. A contemporary perspective of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s revolutionary musical based on the life of United States Founding FatherAlexander Hamilton, HAMILTON’S AMERICA will come to GREAT PERFORMANCES in the fall 2016, and will be a highlight of PBS’s Arts programming. [More at Source]
Site Update: Happy Birthday Lin!
Lin (Manuel) Miranda Fan would like to wish him a happy birthday spent with family & friends, hoping for bigger and more successful years to come!
Following Lin’s wish, if you’d like to celebrate his birthday and give him something, please consider donating to http://mariposadrfoundation.org Or http://everytown.org Or http://broadwaycares.org.
News: Lin-Manuel Miranda Among Recipients of 2016 Dramatists Guild Awards
The Dramatists Guild of America has announced recipients of its annual awards, which will be presented Feb. 22 at The American Airlines Theatre Penthouse Lobby in New York.
Stephen Adly Guirgis will be the recipient of the Hull-Warriner Award for his play Between Riverside and Crazy; Lin-Manuel Miranda will get the Frederick Loewe Award for Dramatic Composition for his score to Hamilton; Dael Orlandersmith gets the Flora Roberts Award; Lauren Gunderson gets the Lanford Wilson Award; and Stephen Schwartz and Marsha Norman will be co-recipients of the inaugural Dramatists Guild Career Achievement Award.
The Dramatists Legal Defense Fund will present the second DLDF Defender Award to Edward J. Davis of the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine. The attorney recently successfully represented 3C author David Adjmi in a fair-use case. [more at source]