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Review of the Sunday, March 29, 2026 matinee performance at New York City Center - Main Stage. Starring Jasmine Amy Rogers, Jordan Donica, Adrienne Warren, Tonya Pinkins, Jelani Alladin, Wes…
Broadway Musical Logos:
2025-2026 Season:Â
Beaches
Sometimes, a show's logo hits all the right notes and still somehow missed the mark. Such is the case with the logo for Beaches.Â
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Male Performances
to Look Forward to This Spring
The wonderful things about this list is that I didn't have to really stretch to pick 5. In fact, I narrowed the list down from 15! The 5 I s…
The JKTS Fan Playlist 22-23 Season:
Round 4:Â KPOP, A Beautiful Noise
and Some Like It Hot
Each week, we'll create a survey of all the songs from 3 or 4 shows, and you'll select your 3 f…
Broadway Musical Logos:
2025-2026 Season:Â
TitanÃque
I always love it when a show's key art really reflects what the show is about and has a matching tone to the piece itself. As adve…
This season's final shows are gearing up to start performances in the coming weeks. When all is said and done, there will be 12 musicals that have opened during the 2025-2026 season, 6 new m…
The JKTS Fan Playlist 22-23 Season:
Round 3:Â Almost Famous,
Kimberly Akimbo, & Juliet
Each week, we'll create a survey of all the songs from 3 or 4 shows, and you'll select your 3 f…
Broadway Musical Logos:
2025-2026 Season:Â
Cats: The Jellicle Ball
It surprises me, pleasantly, that the logo for Cats: The Jellicle Ball is my favorite so far this season. That sur…
Review of the Friday, March 13, 2026 performance at the M&T Bank Exchange at the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center in Baltimore, Maryland. An Iron Crow Theatre production. Starring A…
The JKTS Fan Playlist 22-23 Season:
Round 2: Dancin', Sweeney Todd, Camelot
Each week, we'll create a survey of all the songs from 3 or 4 shows, and you'll select your 3 favorites from …
Daylight is lasting longer. Temperatures are climbing. And the Broadway openings calendar is crowded. That can only mean one thing: spring is here!
Looking Forward to Spring:
March - May 20…
Broadway Quiz:
Pop Goes to Broadway!
You might call this a "Pop Quiz!"Â
DIRECTIONS: Answer these questions about pop stars appearing on Broadway or Broadway stars appearing as pop star…
We haven't done a fun survey in a long time! This series is based on frequent questions we get about our favorite songs each Broadway season. Well, we will tell you ours after you tell us yo…
  At This Theatre:
The St. James: 2012-2025
Opening 99 years ago as Erlanger's Theatre, the house played host to the George M. Cohan show, The Merry Malones, and then played host…
Favorite Joshua Henry Performances
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American Idiot (Favorite Son - 2010)
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Carousel (Billy Bigelow - 2018)
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Ragtime (Coalhouse Walker, Jr. - 2025)
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Th…
Broadway Musicals Without
Broadway or Musicals
DIRECTIONS: Name the musicals below that don't include "Broadway." The remaining letters are in order.Blanks represent whole words that are m…
 At This Theatre:
The St. James: 1987-2011
Through the years, I've seen more different productions at the St. James Theatre than at any other Broadway house - 21! So, in order to gi…
 Broadway Games:
Another Mash-Up!
This is what happens when two theater icons collide. Figure out each word based on the given clues, then rearrange the "orange" letters to win …
Fathers and Sons II
This all started when I read over the complete cast list for the upcoming Broadway musical, Beaches, and realized that Ben Jacoby is Mark Jacoby's son and they will …
Fathers and Sons I
When I read over the complete cast list for the upcoming Broadway musical, Beaches, a name stuck out to me, and I had to look up this actor. Was he related to another fam…
(Off) Broadway Quiz:
The Denizens of Skid Row
With the recent announcement of new casting for the long-running (and utterly fantastic) off-Broadway revival of Little Shop of Horrors, it o…
If you follow this site regularly, you know that like most avid theater fans, I have, over the years, lamented missing certain shows. You can catch all of those I've discussed HERE. But it i…
As I mentioned last week, I've been asked a lot this season, "why haven't you been reviewing show logos this year, Jeff?" Well, to be honest, it's because I am pretty disappointed in them so…
Broadway Games:
Openers or Closers...or Both?
Often, a Broadway musical's initial impression or closing moments are what stay with audiences. Right out of the gate, first timers at A Chorus…
Recently, we started a series of Broadway 3-peats, celebrating artists who we think had three great successes in a row. We will be continuing that series, but today we are starting a simi…
