Odds & Ends: NPH to Judge America's Got Talent, Watch Ben Platt Preview Dear Evan Hansen & More

Here's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today.

NPH to Judge Talent
Neil Patrick Harris will serve as one of the guest judges on the latest season of NBC’s America’s Got Talent. The Tony winner and infamous multihyphenate is set to help determine which 36 acts will move on to the live performance shows at Radio City Music Hall. The four week-long "Judge Cuts" will premiere on July 14 and lead into the live performance shows beginning August 11. Harris’ own series for the Peacock Network, Best Time Ever, is scheduled to bow this fall.

Jessie Mueller & James Monroe Iglehart Team Up
2014 Tony winners Jessie Mueller (Beautiful) and James Monroe Iglehart (Aladdin) will co-host the Tony's Creative Arts Awards. The trophies for the 14 categories will be awarded during the first hour of the Tony ceremony at Radio City Music Hall on June 7.

Sam Shepard Arrested for Drunk Driving
Actor and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard was arrested for aggravated drinking while intoxicated outside a restaurant in Santa Fe, N.M., on May 25. According to the AP, the restaurant called police worried about a patron who appeared to be too impaired to get behind the wheel; Shepard was previously arrested for drunken driving in January 2009. He will next be represented on Broadway by his 1982 play Fool for Love, which will make its Great White Way debut, starring Nina Arianda and Sam Rockwell, this fall.

Joanna Gleason & Richard Schiff Board The Affair
Tony winner Joanna Gleason and Broadway alum Richard Schiff have been tapped for the second season of Showtime’s The Affair, reports Variety and Deadline. The pair, both of whom are The West Wing vets, will play recurring roles in the show, which is headlined by 2015 Tony nominee Ruth Wilson and stage and screen star Dominic West.

Jimmy Smits Set for Baz Luhrmann's Netflix Musical
Emmy winner Jimmy Smits, who was last seen on Broadway in 2009’s God of Carnage, will lead Baz Luhrmann and Netflix’s previously reported new musical series The Get Down. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Smits will take on the role of Papa Fuerte AKA Francisco Cruz, a South Bronx political boss who provides services to his constituents that the city has failed to. The 13-episode show is set in 1970s New York and will premiere next year. We can't wait—it sounds like Empire crossed with West Side Story and Saturday Night Fever!

Watch Ben Platt Preview Dear Evan Hansen
Ben Platt begins performances in the world premiere of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul's Dear Evan Hansen in Washington, D.C. on July 10, and he recently gave an audience a sneak peek of the musical before a special screening of his latest film, Pitch Perfect 2. Check it out below!