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 Editors' Choice, Part Two
Yesterday, we presented the first part of our 2025 JKTS Awards honoring those theater people - new faces and familiar faces - that made the 2024-2025 Bro…
Editors' Choice, Part One
Last week, you had your say with The 2025 JKTS Readers' Choice Awards (HERE). Now it is our turn! Today, we offer up our more serious awards, honoring those theate…
It's been a few hours. The dust has almost settled, and I've gotten my thoughts together. The good, the bad...the baffling.
Some Thoughts on the 2025 Tony Awards
The Show
The Tony Awards…
The 2025 Tony Awards:Â
Our Predictions
At last the Super Bowl of theater is upon us! As usual, Mike and I have given thought to all of the shows we've seen this season - including 2 new …
Review of the Sunday, June 1, 2025 matinee performance at John Golden Theater in New York City. Starring David Cumming, Claire-Marie Hall, Natasha Hodgson, Jak Malone and Zoe Roberts. …
Review of the Saturday, May 31, 2025 evening performance at the Booth Theatre in New York City. Starring Sadie Sink, with Nihar Duvurri, Gabriel Ebert, Molly Griggs, Maggie Kuntz, Hagan Oliv…
Review of the Saturday, May 31, 2025 matinee performance at the James Earl Jones Theatre. Starring Tatianna Cordoba, Justina Machado, Florencia Cuenca, Mauricio Mendoza, Mason Reeves, Ariana…
Review of the Friday, May 30, 2025 performance at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre in New York City. Starring Natalie Venetia Belcon, Julio Monge, Mel Seme, Jainardo Batista Sterling, Isa Anton…
Readers' Choice Winners!
Even with a record-setting number of votes cast this year, several of the award categories were extremely close. And, interestingly, every nominee in every category…
Soon enough, we'll be trading in light jackets for shorts and tees, and turning up the A.C. Where did spring go? The last couple of summers were busy, theater-wise, but this year it feels mu…
Review of the Sunday, May 18, 2025 preview performance at Center Stage in Baltimore, Maryland. Starring Ben Ahlers, Jordan Boatman, Sam Huntsman, Ked Merwin, Adrienne C. Moore and Robbie Tan…
Vote for your favorites forÂ
The 2025 JKTS Readers' Choice Awards!
Cast your ballot HERE
With the Tonys just weeks away, and with a new Best Musical soon to be crowned, let's play a l…
Well, readers, your nominations have been tabulated! Thank you for your participation.Â
Now it's the most important part of the process - TIME TO VOTE! Now is the time to show your favor…
Last chance!Â
Nominate your favorites for The 2025 JKTS Readers' Choice Awards!
Ballot closes Sunday! HERE
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Yesterday brought the sad news that Broadway composer Charles Strouse pa…
Review of the PBS Great Performances presentation which aired on Friday, May 9, 2025. Filmed at Wyndham's Theatre in September 2024. Originally produced by Donmar Warehouse. Starring Caissie…
Faithful readers and loyal Broadway fans, it is that time of year once again! The 2024 - 2025 Broadway Season is in the record books. And what a season it was!
Today, the nominations for ou…
The 2025 Tony Award Nominations are in, and we've had a week to contemplate the shoo-ins, the surprises and the crazy omissions. That's what this week's quiz is all about! Good luck!
Broadw…
Review of the evening performance on Saturday, April 26, 2025 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre in New York City. Starring Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga, with Jacob Dickey, Kevin Earley,…
Review of the Sunday, April 27, 2025 matinee performance at the Nederlander Theatre in New York City. Starring Idina Menzel, with De'Adre Aziza, Michael Park, Zachary Noah Piser and Khaila W…
With so many great musicals, plays and revivals this season, there is simply no way that every deserving person and production could make the cut. I am glad I'm not on the nominating committ…
The 2025 Tony Awards:Â
If We Were Nominators
This year, Mike and I still have several Tony-eligible shows to see before the nominations are announced tomorrow. So, instead of our typical…
Review of the Saturday, April 26, 2025 matinee performance at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City. Starring Jeremy Jordan, with Jason Gotay, Sean Allan Krill, Kevi…
Review of the Friday, April 25, 2025 preview performance at the Longacre Theatre in New York City. Starring Andrew Durand, with Jeb Brown, Eddie Cooper, Dashiell Eaves, Julia Knitel, Ken Mar…
It's been a BIG season for musicals this season - 14 new musicals and 6 musical revivals to be exact. Some have come and gone; still others are just now arriving. And now, logo lovers, it is…
We end this season of show art with the logo for the last show to open: Dead Outlaw. An acclaimed off-Broadway transfer, this musical tells the true story of a man who was more famous after …
