Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton is a sung-through musical based on Ron Chernow's 2004 biography of Alexander Hamilton -- the orphaned immigrant from the Caribbean who talked his way into George Washington's ... Read more
Read more »Jimmy Eat World self-financed Bleed American after Capitol Records dropped them -- then the album's second single, "The Middle," hit No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became the ... Read more
UB40 started as a group of unemployed friends in a Birmingham, England welfare line in 1978 -- the band's name is literally the UK government's unemployment benefit form number, and ... Read more
One performer in 'Twas the Night Before spins by her hair roughly 100 times at top speed -- about seven rotations per second -- while another duo works a strap ... Read more
The Lightning are one of only nine franchises in NHL history to win back-to-back Stanley Cups, taking the 2020 and 2021 titles -- the 2021 win came with goalie Andrei ... Read more
Death Becomes Her is the Tony-winning stage musical based on the 1992 Robert Zemeckis film about two rival women -- played on screen by Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn -- ... Read more
This isn't a school recital. Next Generation Ballet is the Straz Center's resident pre-professional company, founded in 2010 and modeled on the New World Symphony's model in Miami -- pairing ... Read more
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