This September, Audra McDonald joins luminaries and patrons of the American arts as an honoree of the 2015 National Medal of Arts. Audra is recognized by the White House and National Endowment for the Arts for her singular achievements on the stage and screen. Fellow recipients of the distinguished honor include Mel Brooks, Sandra Cisneros, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Morgan Freeman, Philip Glass, Berry Gordy, Santiago Jiménez, Jr., Moises Kaufman, Ralph Lemon, Luis Valdez, and Jack Whitten.

Established by the US Congress in 1984, the National Medal of Arts has been awarded to writers, dancers, choreographers, actors, painters, musicians, and dedicated supporters of the arts for their contributions to the field of arts and humanities in America. President Barack Obama will present the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal to the 2015 recipients in the East Room of the White House on September 22. The event will be streamed live at www.whitehouse.gov/live.

View the full list of 2015 honorees.

As announced this morning, Audra McDonald has been nominated for an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for portraying Billie Holiday in HBO’s Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill.

Lady Dat at Emerson’s Bar & Grill was filmed before a live audience at Cafe Brasil in New Orleans, recreating the atmosphere of the Broadway production that earned Audra her record-breaking sixth Tony Award in 2014.

Watch Lady Day on HBO and tune in to the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards, airing September 18, 2016, on ABC.

Audra McDonald met with Zachary Quinto and Philip Galanes in the Stanford White Studio at the Lambs Club earlier this summer to talk acting beginnings and how their experiences brought them closer to the stage. Check out this Sunday’s New York Times and learn more about their personal and professional journeys and how it led to their involvement with Covenant House and The Trevor Project, two organizations dedicated to helping young people in need.

Read the full article here.

In response to the horrific shooting that took place at an Orlando nightclub, Broadway stars joined forces to honor the victims and their families with a recording of Hal David and Burt Bacharach’s “What the World Needs Now is Love.” Audra McDonald sings alongside friends and colleagues from the Broadway community including Carole King, Nathan Lane, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Bernadette Peters, Seth Rudetsky and Shuffle Along castmates Brian Stokes Mitchell and Billy Porter. Visit Playbill.com to watch an exclusive video from the recording studio.

Purchase the recording here on iTunes. All proceeds will benefit the GLBT Community Center of Central Florida.

This Sunday, Audra McDonald joins friends and colleagues at the Beacon Theater in New York to celebrate the outstanding work in Broadway theater at the 70th Tony Awards ceremony.

The ceremony includes performances by all nominees for Best Musical, including Audra’s own show, Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed.

If you don’t have a ticket to the Tony’s, tune in to CBS this Sunday at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT to watch it live!

Between performances of Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All that Followed, Audra visits James Corden for a session of his ever-popular Carpool Karaoke segment. Fellow performers Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Jane Krakowski and Lin-Manuel Miranda join the party for a singalong of Broadway’s greatest hits.

The Late Late Show airs Monday June 6 at 12:37 am on CBS.