Monday, October 2, 2023

40 Years of Broadway: Creative Influencers: The Designers by JK

40 Years of Broadway: Creative Influencers: The Designers I've been so fortunate to see some of the greatest stage designs of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Many of the master in…

SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 06:55AM
Tuesday, August 29, 2023

40 Years of Broadway: 1983-1993: Favorite Songs and Scores by JK

40 Years of Broadway: 1983-1993: Favorite Songs & Scores Still looking at that first decade (August 20, 1983 - August 19, 1993), I've been thinking of my favorite songs and scores from…

SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:37AM
Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Vanessa Williams Joins Producing Team of A Wonderful World Musical; Full Cast Announced for Pre-Broadway Run by Caitlin Hornik

Ahead of its New Orleans and Chicago runs set for October, A Wonderful World, A New Musical About the Life and Loves of Louis Armstrong has announced its full cast, plus the addition of Vane…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:55PM
Saturday, July 1, 2023

Theater Books for Summer Reading 2023 by Jan Simpson

Happy Fourth of July Weekend!  Time has been so slippery over these past three pandemic years and global warming is now playing such havoc with the weather that on some days just breathing …

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:13AM
Thursday, June 8, 2023

Review: New York, New York by JK

Review of the matinee performance on Sunday, June 4, 2023 at the St. James Theatre in New York City. Starring Colton Ryan, Anna Uzele, Clyde Alves, John Clay III, Janet Decal, Ben Davis, Oli…

SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:13PM
Friday, May 12, 2023

PBS’S “GREAT PERFORMANCES” GREAT EVENING OF BROADWAY by Ron Fassler

Sutton Foster (center) hosts PBS’s “Great Performances: Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway’s Best.”May 12, 2023: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler Premiering tonight on PBS …

SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 09:27AM
Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Video: Patrick Pacheco Opens Up About Putting Pen to Paper with Chita Rivera

She was born Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero—until the entertainment world renamed her. But Dolores—the irreverent side of the sensual, dark and ferocious Chita—was always present…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:18AM
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Exclusive: Broadway Legend Chita Rivera Unpacks Her Life in the Theatre

She was born Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero—until the entertainment world renamed her. But Dolores—the irreverent side of the sensual, dark and ferocious Chita—was always present…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:24PM
Tuesday, April 11, 2023

“Kiss of the Spider Woman” at A Noise Within – reviewed by Terry Morgan

The reasons that a piece of art works in one format but not so well in another are many and varied. In a time in which seemingly everything is being turned into a musical, and every animated…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:36PM
Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Kiss of the Spider Woman by Steven Morris

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SOURCE: stageraw.com at 03:00AM
Thursday, March 23, 2023

Alex Brightman, James Monroe Iglehart, and More to Star in Spamalot at the Kennedy Center

Monty Python's Spamalot replaces Kiss of the Spider Woman in the Kennedy Center's Broadway Center Stage series.

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM
Saturday, March 18, 2023

HAPPY 96TH, JOHN KANDER by Ron Fassler

John Kander, born on this date March 18, 1927.March 18, 2023: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler Today is the 96th birthday of the legendary composer John Kander, who is still doi…

SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 11:58AM
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Looking Forward to Spring: March - May 2023 by JK

Alright, so winter doesn't officially start for three more weeks, but we're going to go ahead and call it early. Just like it always does, Broadway is beginning to fill its empty theaters w…

SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 06:30AM
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Kennedy Center replaces ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ with ‘Spamalot’ by Peter Marks

Citing a rights issue, the Kennedy Center cancels a revival of "Kiss of the Spider Woman." Instead, it will offer "Monty Python's Spamalot."

SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:30AM
Friday, February 24, 2023

Kennedy Center Cancels Broadway Center Stage Production of Kiss of the Spider Woman by Andrew Gans

Performances of the John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Terrence McNally musical were scheduled to begin in May.

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:12AM
Monday, July 13, 2015

Kiss of the Spider Woman by Michael Portantiere

Original Toronto/London/Broadway Cast, 1992 (First Night) Surely one of the most original and haunting musicals of the ’90s, Kiss of the Spider Woman is also one of the strangest and most …

SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:18AM

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