2,657 stories by "JK"
BROADWAY GAMES:
How Well Do You Know
Your Playbill Covers?
Can you recognize these shows from their Playbill covers - just the banner and a little bit of the logo? Good luck!
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The Broadway Bookshelf:
Tony Voter FYC Books
So, I was dusting off my shelves the other day, and I came across my small, but inevitably growing, collection of For Your Consideration booklet…
This month's Broadway Who's Who is someone with relatively new, but impressive, resume which includes roles in some of this millennium's biggest titles. Like most performers, Mandy Gonzal…
This Week in Broadway History:
April 13 - 19
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April 13, 2000:Â Queenie was a blonde and her age stood still. Well for 68 performances, anyway. The Mic…
Over the past months, we've been in search of the very best in Broadway musical logos, going back 40 years. And now, here we are starting a new tournament, looking for the very best logo of …
Last week's game proved to be quite popular! Seems all you show tunes fans enjoy a challenge. So here are 5 more (no repeats from last week, either!). Oh! And the answers to last week's game…
This month's column is really a tale of two theaters, a before and after, if you will. One of my all-time favorite shows played at the "before," and several shows I was underwhelmed by playe…
As we all know, getting a new musical to Broadway is a long, arduous task, whether the show is a hit or a flop. Along the way, songs are written, re-written, moved around, and even cut altog…
This Week in Broadway History:
March 30 - April 5
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April 6, 2017: Titans of the cosmetics world faced off in the musical War Paint at the Ne…
Over the past months, we've been in search of the very best in Broadway musical logos, going back 40 years. And now, here we are starting a new tournament, looking for the very best logo of …
How well do you know your 21st century Broadway lyrics? Over the first 20+ years of the new millennium there have been dozens of new scores written, and this week's game will test your knowl…
At This Performance:
Andrew Call in American Idiot
When I started this new monthly column, several performances by terrific understudies leapt to mind right away. One of them I didn't even …
One That Got Away:
The 39 Steps (2008)
I have often said that one of the things I like best about theater is that it can do so many things that film just can't do, despite all of the tec…
This Week in Broadway History:
March 30 - April 5
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March 30, 1898: The Ibsen classic Hedda Gabler premiered on Broadway.
March 30, 2000:Â T…
Over the past months, we've been in search of the very best in Broadway musical logos, going back 40 years. And now, here we are starting a new tournament, looking for the very best logo of …
For every Kinky Boots and Waitress, there's The Last Ship and Taboo. Being a successful pop songwriter like Cyndi Lauper or Sara Bareilles doesn't automatically translate to being a hi…
The Glass Menagerie may just be my favorite play of all. That love has set a very high bar for what an excellent production of it would be to me. I've seen probably a dozen productions at al…
I really did enjoy Kinky Boots. It was spectacular, funny and touching. The performances across the board were excellent. A lot to appreciate and admire. And yet, I wasn't bowled over. Once …
This Week in Broadway History:
March 23 - 29
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March 23, 1995:Â The revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying! opened its 548 per…
Over the past months, we've been in search of the very best in Broadway musical logos, going back 40 years. And now, here we are starting a new tournament, looking for the very best logo of …
For most of the 80's, this billboard enticed theater-goers in Times Square to "come and meet those dancing feet" in the smash hit musical 42nd Street. It must have worked - the show ran an i…
I'm old enough to remember looking forward to getting theater magazines in the mail. It was always a thrill when my Playbill Magazine and TheaterWeek would show up in the post box. I'd run u…
Chances are you've seen his work, even if you don't recognize Paul Tazewell's name. With a Broadway career that began with 1996's Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk and continues through …
This Week in Broadway History:
March 16 - 22
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March 17, 2005:Â The Tony-winning Best Musical of 2005, Spamalot, opened at the Shubert Theatre, w…
Over the past months, we've been in search of the very best in Broadway musical logos, going back 40 years. And now, here we are starting a new tournament, looking for the very best logo of …
