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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 is opening up about the true reason she chose to hand in her equity card from the Actors Equity Association.

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.

Ephraim Sykes, the Tony-nominated actor of Broadway’s Ain’t Too Proud and Hamilton, will join Brandon Victor Dixon, Lillias White and Walter Bobbie in the world premiere Off Broadway musical Black No More in January.

Tony Award-winning actor Lillias White will join Brandon Victor Dixon and The Roots’ Tariq Trotter this January in the Off Broadway world premiere of Trotter’s new musical Black No More.

Stars in the House, the popular YouTube series known for reuniting classic TV and Broadway casts, will be hosted every Tuesday in February by prominent members of the Black theatre community, kicking off tonight with a tribute to the late Cicely Tyson.

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

Michael Appler Theater is fleeting by nature, and as such, those who pioneer the way for inclusivity on stage — who give performances that chip away at inequity role by role — are sometimes forgotten. With performers like Lillias White and André De Shields, those roles are so numerous that sitting them down together, as the Broadway Advocacy Coalition did on Tuesday night in New York City, erects a living monument to Black Broadway. The Broadway Advocacy Coalition, an activist group leading conversations about dismantling structures of racial power in American theater, brought the two stage legends together as a part of their new virtual series, BroadwayVS.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticTimothy Graphenreed, a longtime musical and dance arranger who composed two numbers for the beloved Broadway musical The Wiz, died March 1 at New York’s Mt. Sinai Hospital.

Broadway producer & YouTuber Michael Korte is aiming to spread some much-needed hope amid the coronavirus crisis by launching the #YouWillBeFoundChallenge in the musical theater community.The challenge hopes to spread the message of the Dear Evan Hansen track by asking participants submit a video of themselves singing a portion of the song to social media using the #YouWillBeFoundChallenge.