Wake Up With BWW 5/5: A STRANGE LOOP Wins the Pulitzer Prize For Drama, and More!

By: May. 05, 2020
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BroadwayWorld's Next On Stage has announced additional prizes including a Telsey + Company Casting Session, Voice Lesson with Matt Farnsworth, and more!

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Robin Hood and iHeartMedia will join together for an NYC virtual telethon on Monday, May 11 at 7 PM ET. Stars set to appear include Barbra Streisand, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Platt, Sutton Foster, Idina Menzel, and more!

It was announced yesterday by Pulitzer Prize Administrator Dana Canedy that Michael R. Jackson's A Strange Loop has officially won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama!

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Wake Up With BWW 5/5: A STRANGE LOOP Wins the Pulitzer Prize For Drama, and More!
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Wake Up With BWW 5/5: A STRANGE LOOP Wins the Pulitzer Prize For Drama, and More!
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Today's Call Sheet - Upcoming Online Events:

- Check back later today for our next Living Room Concerts video, featuring one of our favorite Broadway stars performing from their home!

- Today at 2pm and 8pm, Seth Rudetsky will continue his Stars in the House series, featuring new Broadway stars performing and answering questions! Watch live on YouTube here!

- The Met continues its Live in HD broadcast series with Thomas's Hamlet, tonight at 7:30pm. Watch here!

- Amy Hart will lead a Stagey Quiz for The Theatre Cafe. Check it out here!

- Jon Rua hosts a Cinco de Mayo Dance Party for Broadway Babysitters today at 3pm! Check it out here!

Awards: A STRANGE LOOP Wins the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

It was announced yesterday by Pulitzer Prize Administrator Dana Canedy that Michael R. Jackson's A Strange Loop has officially won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. This year's finalists included: Will Arbery's Heroes of the Fourth Turning and David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori's Soft Power.

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BroadwayWorld is excited to bring you the newest episode of our first self-produced podcast - Ben Rimalower's Broken Records, The Albums You Wouldn't Shut Up About. On each weekly episode Rimalower and co-host Daniel Nolen chat with guests about one album that they were obsessed with, how they discovered it, what it led them to, where they were in life when it impacted them and how it's stayed with them since.

What we're geeking out over: BroadwayWorld's NEXT ON STAGE Announces Additional Prizes: Telsey + Company Casting Session, Voice Lesson With Matt Farnsworth & More

BroadwayWorld announced additional prizes for the NEXT ON STAGE competition sponsored by Broadway Records! Inspired by your favorite network TV singing contests, the site is inviting high school and college aged students to submit videos of themselves performing a song from the musical theatre canon to enter the competition.

Social Butterfly: Kristin Chenoweth Sings WICKED, HAIRSPRAY, MAMMA MIA! and More for Instagram

Kristin Chenoweth decided to find out which Broadway show she is and created an Instagram jukebox musical in the process! Check out Cheno working her way through snippets of Wicked, Mamma Mia!, The Lion King, Oklahoma! and more.

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