Donald Webber Jr says playing Alexander Hamilton informs his Broadway Burr

Broadway’s current Aaron Burr, Donald Webber Jr, has set out how his experience across assignments in HAMILTON now shapes his approach to one of the musical’s central figures. In a first-person Q&A by Jonah de Forest, published by Broadway.com on 13 August 2026, the performer discusses the practical and personal experiences behind his current portrayal. The focus is his perspective as an actor who has also taken on Alexander Hamilton, not a fresh casting change at the Richard Rodgers Theatre.

The official HAMILTON New York cast page lists Webber as Burr. Playbill and the Internet Broadway Database record his current engagement as beginning on 3 March 2026. His move into the role had already been reported by Broadway.com on 2 April 2026. The August Q&A therefore develops an established Broadway chapter, with Webber’s reflections supplying the materially new element.

The record behind that premise is documented separately. IBDB and Playbill credit Webber with Broadway performances as both Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. His earlier HAMILTON credits include numerous cover and standby assignments on Broadway, as well as playing Burr in the And Peggy touring company. The databases place the beginning of his recorded Broadway HAMILTON work in late 2016, providing a clear chronology for the assignments discussed in the profile. The Broadway record establishes performances in both parts, while the touring credit shows that Burr was already part of his professional HAMILTON work before the current New York engagement.

In de Forest’s interview, Webber estimated that he had performed Alexander Hamilton approximately 100 times. That figure is his own recollection, not an independently documented performance total. The database credits nevertheless support the underlying premise that he has performed the role on Broadway, alongside his work as Burr. The distinction matters to this profile because Webber is describing experience accumulated in performance, while the precise number remains an attributed estimate.

Webber told Broadway.com that playing Hamilton informs his portrayal of Burr. His account treats the two assignments as connected parts of his interpretive process: experience carrying the title role now provides a point of reference for his work as the other participant in HAMILTON’s principal rivalry. That is the central insight of the new interview. It rests on Webber’s assessment of his own work, rather than an external critical judgement about the result on stage.

The discussion also identifies fatherhood as an influence on Webber’s changing relationship with familiar material. According to his account, becoming a father affected the way he interprets Dear Theodosia and the final duel. Those observations extend the profile beyond a comparison of two acting assignments. They show Webber revisiting the same material as both his role and his personal circumstances have changed.

The Q&A also returns to Webber’s HAMILTON performances in Puerto Rico with Lin-Manuel Miranda. His recollections form one strand of the discussion, alongside his relationship with Leslie Odom Jr, the original Burr. Those subjects broaden the profile’s account of the experiences surrounding HAMILTON, while keeping his current Broadway performance as its main focus.

Seen against that history, the present engagement brings together two strands of Webber’s recorded work: his Broadway experience as Hamilton and his previous professional experience as Burr on tour. That combination is the subject of the August Q&A, which moves beyond a recap of his credits to his first-person explanation of how they interact, more than five months after the current engagement began. The distinction keeps the new story centred on process, not appointment.

One further detail in the interview requires careful qualification. Webber said he was attending a workshop rehearsal for WARRIORS, a work by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis. Broadway.com noted that full announcements had not been made. The comment can therefore be reported only as Webber’s first-person account of attending that rehearsal. It does not confirm an announced production, establish plans for a future staging, or attach him to the work beyond the rehearsal activity he described.

For now, the confirmed public position is that Webber is playing Burr in the Broadway production of HAMILTON at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. The August interview adds his account of the craft behind that established engagement. His history in both roles is documented, while his explanation of how one part informs the other is the new first-person contribution.