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Andrew Garfield on honouring late mom with musical Tick, Tick... Boom!: I was able to continue her unfinished song

"We lost her just before COVID, just before we started shooting, after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. I think that’s part of the reason I didn’t want this movie to end, because I got to put my grief into art, into this creative act," says Andrew Garfield on Lin Manuel Miranda's Tick, Tick... Boom!.

In The Heights movie review: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical soars when it sings, dips when it dances

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical sings a feel-good but frivolous song

After In the Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda donates to immigrant rights groups to help marginalised communities

The actor is forever drawn to what he calls “the things that don’t leave you alone.” Immigration, he said, is both a passion and a foundational element of his work.

H.E.R, Lin-Manuel Miranda among artists featured in We the People, the Obamas' Netflix series on civics

Created by Chris Nee and produced by Barack and Michelle Obama, the 10-part series provides a range of civics lessons through three-minute music videos on topics that include the Bill of Rights, immigration, and the courts.

Artiste Anthony Ramos on his new album Love and Lies, colourism debate around In The Heights

Ramos, who got his break in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s smash musical Hamilton, is having a breakthrough year as an actor, also appearing opposite Uzo Aduba in the HBO reboot of In Treatment. His next projects include a sci-fi epic, Distant, as well as the next Transformers installment.

Special Tony Awards given to two high-profile shows, one advocacy nonprofit

The American Theatre Wing and the Broadway League said both shows “take theatre to the next level, delivering outside-of-the-box presentations."

Beyond Hollywood's big-budget In the Heights, colourism persists, and is rarely addressed

Colorism — or discrimination against darker-skinned people within their same ethnic group — lurks deep among pretty much all communities with varying levels of melanin. But it doesn’t get talked about, and that could be a setback for the racial justice efforts that intensified after the police killing of George Floyd last year.

As In the Heights faces colourism allegations, Hollywood's history of dealing with 'representation', explained

Even as Hollywood is focussing on diverse representation, racist casting continues as light-skinned actors are chosen more frequently than darker-skinned ones.

Rita Moreno retracts her defence against In the Heights colourism debate: 'Incredibly disappointed with myself'

Rita Moreno says she is "disappointed" in herself for being "dismissive" of the Black Latinx community while defending Lin-Manuel Miranda's In the Heights.

In the Heights actor-producer Lin-Manuel Miranda apologises for lack of Afro-Latino representation in film

In The Heights producer, Lin-Manuel Miranda stated that he was trying to portray ‘a mosaic of this community’ but fell short.