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Make your NYC morning commute a little brighter with choreographer Luam's new video. Check it out below!

According to the Connecticut Post, Tony Award-winner Frankie Michaels has died at age 60. He passed away on March 30th in his home in Chittenango, NY.

The School at Steps, a multidisciplinary dance center committed to inspiring the dancers of tomorrow through nurturing mentorship, will open it's doors to dancers of all ages and levels for The Injury Prevention Workshop, the final panel of its 2015-2016 Complete Dancer Series on Sunday, April 10, 2016. Led by health, wellness and medical professionals, this workshop will cover the importance of strength training, flexibility, injury prevention and recovery, and nutrition to enable a successful dance career.

Carolyn Dorfman Dance, whose bold and dramatic works connect life and movement, hosts its annual performance and gala benefit at New Jersey's premiere performing arts center (NJPAC), Friday, April 8, 2016, at 8:00 p.m. Ten of Dorfman's stunning dancers will present the world premiere of Traces-her newest work in collaboration with her stellar artistic team from her award winning, Interior Designs. Her riveting and explosive Echad and the sensuous duet Keystone will also be performed during this celebratory evening. The Jerry Vezza Quartet will entertain during the pre-show reception, beginning at 6:00 p.m. and at the dessert reception following the performance. Traces will have its New York premiere the following weekend on April 16th, 8:00 p.m., at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center (LPAC), Long Island City, Queens.

Young Vic has released a short film honoring legendary director Peter Brook with a star-studded cast, including Ian McKellen, Natalie Dormer, Jude Law, David Lan, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Rory Kinnear, Marcello Magni, Sinead Matthews, Hugh Skinner, Noma Dumezweni, and Peter Brook himself.

According to Mail Tribune, Camelot Theatre's artistic director Livia Genise has quit her post due to the theatre's board of directors cancelling the production of CHESS Genise had been planning for this September.

This past week, audiences of DISASTER! have been treated to surprise performances after the show by some of Broadway's best, including cast members Kerry Butler and Adam Pascal, Cheyenne Jackson, Laura Bell Bundy, Kathy Brier, and Jackie Hoffman. Seth Rudetsky, star and co-creator of DISASTER! took to Facebook to share what performances fans can expect to in the coming days!

The world premiere of RAIN opened last night at The Old Globe in San Diego, with a score by LaChiusa, a book by Sybille Pearson, and Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein's musical directorial debut. Check out highlights from the production below!

Jonathan Groff and Renee Elise Goldsberry ventured up to the roof of the Richard Rogers Theatre to sing 'Endless Love' for this week's Ham4Ham! Check out the video below!

WICKED alums Lindsay Mendez, Derek Klena, and Kara Lindsay will join together tonight at Connecticut's Ridgefield Playhouse for An Evening with Stephen Schwartz. Their performances will be interwoven throughout the evening, which will consist primarily of an interview between Michael Kerker and Stephen Schwartz himself.

After last night's performance of DISASTER!, Laura Bell Bundy, Jackie Hoffman, and Kathy Brier joined Kerry Butler to sing 'Mama I'm A Big Girl Now' to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Check out the video below!

Art Makes You, a Seattle-based non-profit organization, is having its fourth fundraiser to raise money for its summer art camps for under-privileged children in the U.S., Latvia and Ukraine. 

With her smoky yet sunny voice, bottomless well of musical creativity, and inexhaustible charm, Grace McLean makes her triumphant return to Lincoln Center. Known for her performances in Off-Broadway hits Brooklynite, Bedbugs!!!, and Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, the flame-haired star is also an acclaimed composer and solo performer who has been has been praised for her 'electrifying' presence (Huffington Post) and 'whip-smart' songwriting (New York Times). Grace McLean returns to American Songbook after her winning turn at last year's Invest in the Future of American Song powered by Prudential contest. Check out highlights of her performance below!

In an interview with The Stage, Tony Award winning lyricist and book writer Don Black revealed that STEPHEN WARD will be making a reappearance on the stage after being re-worked. The musical has music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics and book co-written by Black and Christopher Hampton. The show opened in 2013 in London and ran for almost four months.

Grammy winner Taylor Swift has officially proved she can do more than her signature country pop songs in a new ad for Apple Music. Check out Taylor's rapping skills below!

According to EW, Jessica Henwick will play Colleen Wing in Marvel's upcoming Netflix series IRON FIST. Her character is a martial arts expert who runs her own dojo. She will also be one of Iron Fist's (Finn Jones) key allies as he returns to New York.

A remarkable show and one of the great theatre successes of our time. This is a play-within-a-play, based on Cervantes' 'Don Quixote.' We have a poignant story of a dying old man whose impossible dream takes over his mind. It's All the Same, Dulcinea, I'm Only Thinking of Him, The Impossible Dream, I Really Like Him and Little Bird remain in your soul well after you see the show.                 

Kamau Kenyatta's band will be performing romantic music by Brazilian composers including Chico Buarque, Tito Madi, Radames Gnattali & Ivan Lins as part of North Coast Repertory Theatre's Monday Night Jazz Series on the intimate mainstage Monday, April 18, 2016 at 7:30 pm.

Tony Award-winning director Pam MacKinnon sat down with The Buffalo News for an interview earlier this year at the Metro Diner on the Upper West Side. The article describes the diner as somewhat similar to MacKinnon herself, saying, 'The Metro skips glitz, and so does Pam MacKinnon.'

Emmy Award winner Wayne Brady will end his run in KINKY BOOTS as Lola/Simon today. Brady took over the role in November from Billy Porter, who won a Tony in 2013 for his performance. The actor took to Twitter to post a video commemorating his final performance. Check it out below!