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Greatest Hits Deluxe Edition.A genre-spanning concept album, Greatest Hits is a collection of all-time greats by a fictional pop superstar with hits from the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s. Inspired by the sounds of Motown, doo-wop, gospel, disco, musical theatre, and the Great American Songbook, Duff channels his character’s evolution from crooner to pop-rocker on tongue-in-cheek tracks like “Forgotten How to F*ck” and “Hoe Is Life,” featuring The Life Tony winner Lillias White.“She really loved the lyrics of everything I do,” Duff says of Broadway powerhouse White, who also jumped on his 2021 single “High Heels” after hearing the song played over the phone.

The Roommate. With fellow stage and screen star Mia Farrow, the pair are trying to breathe fresh life into a play that has been kicking around the theater world since 2015. The result depends on your ability to overlook well-worn themes and dated humor that makes it feel more like a ’90s sitcom.“Wait a minute!” you might think to yourself.

Broadway star Patti LuPone has been tapped for a role on the WandaVision spin-off Agatha: Coven Of Chaos.Kathryn Hahn stars as the titular witch on the upcoming series, which is slated to arrive on Disney+ sometime next winter.Now insiders have informed Deadline that Patti, 73, a stage legend with three Tony Awards to her name, has hopped aboard the project. Looking ahead: Broadway star Patti LuPone has been tapped for a role on the upcoming WandaVision spin-off Agatha: Coven Of ChaosHer castmates include Aubrey Plaza, fresh off a buzzy turn on The White Lotus, and Saturday Night Live veteran Sasheer Zamata.Although she is principally known for her work in the theater, Patti is no stranger to TV, having been on two seasons of American Horror Story including Coven.

Patti LuPone has left the Actors’ Equity union and hinted an end to her Broadway career. The 73-year-old actress - who infamously stopped production of 'Gypsy' she was starring in in 2009 when an audience member was on their phone - has spent decades on the New York stage starring in acclaimed productions of musicals such as 'Les Miserables', 'Sunset Boulevard' and 'Sweeney Todd' but is "no longer part of that circus" just days after seeing her name "bandied about" in connection to a more recent incident, which saw an audience member at 'Hadestown' reprimanded for using a captioning device.

Patti LuPone signaled that her time on Broadway is coming to an end 'for a very long time' when she gave up her Actors' Equity card.The 73-year-old legendary stage star tweeted on Monday that she was giving up the card after she became a subject of criticism on social media in the past week.The card — and the membership in the Equity labor union that it represents — is required to act on Broadway stages and in many theaters across the country, meaning that LuPone likely won't be seen on stage as long as she is out of the union.  She's done (for now): Patti LuPone, 73, said she was giving up her Actors' Equity card in a tweet from Monday. She was mentioned on social media after a Hadestown actor mistakenly called out a deaf patron for using a captioning device; seen in May in NYCThe controversy surrounding LuPone began last week and involved a play she isn't even starring in. During a performance of Hadestown at the Walter Kerr Theater in Manhattan on Thursday, the actress Lillias White, 71, stopped the performance to call out a woman named Samantha Coleman for seemingly using her phone and possibly recording the show.But Coleman, who is partially deaf and blind, was using an electronic captioning device to help her follow the performance, which she posted about in an impassioned Instagram video that ended with her in tears.

Patti LuPone has revealed some more information about her decision to quit Broadway.

On Monday (October 17), Broadway legend Patti LuPone sent theater fans into a panic over a tweet she sent out.

Triple Tony winner and stage icon Patti LuPone says she’s given up her Actors’ Equity card, a move that could signal an end to her celebrated Broadway stage career.

The Hadestown audience member with hearing loss who was reprimanded from the stage by Lillias White when the Broadway actress mistook a captioning device for a recording device is urging social media users to “please stop harassing” the Broadway star.

The producers of Broadway’s Hadestown and Jujamcyn Theaters have apologized to an audience member with hearing loss whose use of a captioning device drew repeated onstage reprimands from one of the musical’s stars who mistakenly assumed the device was recording the performance.

Black Theatre United has announced the line-up for its inaugural gala next month, and it’s a stellar one: Vanessa Williams, Norm Lewis, Audra McDonald, LaChanze, Capathia Jenkins, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Darius de Haas, Natasha Yvette Williams and Lillias White, for starters.

HBO Max has revealed first look images and a new slate of guest stars set to appear in Search Party season four.