Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Our Best of the Decade series continues this week with a look ten theater professionals who made their mark and established a full Broadway career during the 2010's. These are actors, design…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 08:12PMTuesday, July 28, 2020
July's Mr. Broadway is the epitome of a career working actor. So, he's not a household name (yet), but real Broadway fans know the name Bradley Dean. In his twelve Broadway credits, he's don…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 11:12AMMonday, July 27, 2020
We are obsessed with show logos and window cards! We just LOVE them. So we thought it'd be fun to have a show logo tournament, you know, like March Madness. We poured over the archives and d…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:48AMFriday, July 24, 2020
Growing up, playing games with family and friends was a beloved way to pass the time together. (Funny what isolation makes you miss!) One of our favorites was Trivial Pursuit. I always dread…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 08:36AMThursday, July 23, 2020
With the good comes the bad. And there were some really bad shows over the past ten seasons. (Turns out 2015 was lousy with lousy shows!) What is interesting in looking back at these shows …
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 08:36AMWednesday, July 22, 2020
A couple of weeks ago, I talked about the musical Nine, one that got away from me (HERE), brought to mind when I rediscovered my copy of the OBCR in my vinyl collection. Well, I cranked up m…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 03:18PMTuesday, July 21, 2020
Last week, we presented our list of the 30 Greatest Broadway Performances of the past decade, and you were probably scratching your head wondering, "how could they have missed...?" That's be…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 01:06PMMonday, July 20, 2020
We are obsessed with show logos and window cards! We just LOVE them. So we thought it'd be fun to have a show logo tournament, you know, like March Madness. We poured over the archives and d…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:32AMFriday, July 17, 2020
Seems you all liked the last time we played this game, so here's another. You may need to use scratch paper to play this week's Broadway Game. This week's game asks you to use letters from t…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 08:24AMThursday, July 16, 2020
All this week, we've been celebrating some truly amazing performances from the past ten Broadway seasons. These are thirty of the greatest star turns, each one iconic for a different reason.…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 11:24AMWednesday, July 15, 2020
As we said yesterday, over the past ten seasons, we have been witnesses to some truly amazing performances. These are thirty of the greatest star turns, each one iconic for a different reaso…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 12:24PMTuesday, July 14, 2020
Over the past ten seasons, we have been witnesses to some truly amazing performances. These are thirty of the greatest star turns, each one iconic for a different reason. Some are from favor…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 01:24PMMonday, July 13, 2020
If you follow our site with any regularity, you know we are obsessed with show logos and window cards! We just LOVE them. Anyway, while we are all in "pause" mode, we thought it'd be fun to …
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:36AMFriday, July 10, 2020
Today's game is all about location, location, location! Do you know where some of your favorite shows take place? Well here are ten shows and ten flags. Match the show with the flag of the c…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:48AMThursday, July 9, 2020
Today, we finish up our Best of the Decade round-up of theatrical design elements. It's all about the amazing costumes created for each production. Sometimes they are elaborate, visually stu…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:42AMWednesday, July 8, 2020
This month's Standing @ Zero hero, is relatively new to Broadway, but he's been all over the country in two national tours, been seen in off-Broadway and regional productions, and has alread…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 01:03PMTuesday, July 7, 2020
When it is done correctly, you don't know it is happening. All you know is that it helps create mood, place and focus. I'm talking about lighting design, a beautiful art all by itself, and j…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 08:32AMMonday, July 6, 2020
None of us expected the 2019-2020 season to end up the way it did, of course. But as they say, the show must go on. With that in mind, we wanted to celebrate what we did have instead of wall…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 09:42AMFriday, July 3, 2020
You may need to use scratch paper to play this week's Broadway Game. This week's game asks you to use letters from the answers to each clue to figure out a "Blended Broadway Marquee!"
Bro…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 09:06AMThursday, July 2, 2020
Earlier this week, we named (what we thought, anyway) the Best of the Decade's projection design. That technical element is the newest in theatrical design. This week, we name our favorites …
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 09:54AMWednesday, July 1, 2020
This time around, the One That Got Away came about by accident. Like many of you, I've been cleaning, de-cluttering, and reorganizing. I finally got around to dusting off my vinyl collectio…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:32AMTuesday, June 30, 2020
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SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 09:42AMMonday, June 29, 2020
This is IT! After a crazy cut short season and hundreds of nominations over the past several weeks, we crunched the numbers, read all of your thoughtful messages championing your favorite sh…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 08:24AMSaturday, June 27, 2020
Before we tell you about who made the final ballot, we'd like to thank each and every one of you for taking the time over the past few weeks to nominate the best of the best from the 2019-20…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 12:24AMFriday, June 26, 2020
Can you figure out how these shows connect to each other in order? Are they connected by an actor? A director? The theater they played in? Or something else altogether? Remember, you are fig…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:06AMThursday, June 25, 2020
This is a first for us - a mother/daughter pair - being honored as Ms. Broadway. But, given that they both won the first ever Antonyo Award for Best Actor in a Musical off-Broadway (LaChanze…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:06AMWednesday, June 24, 2020
Well, this is it! Over the past few weeks we've been counting down our 40 favorite songs from new Broadway musicals from the past decade! In case you missed it: #40-31 HERE, #30-21 HERE, and…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 09:06AMTuesday, June 23, 2020
His best friend is another Mr. Broadway, and he dates one of our favorite actresses. But that's not why Etai Benson is Mr. Broadway June 2020. In his young career on the stage, he's been in…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 09:03AMMonday, June 22, 2020
Last week, you nominated your favorite performances from last season for our 2020 (Might Have Been) Tony Awards. This week, you'll be nominating your favorite creative elements in all the …
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 08:54AMWednesday, June 17, 2020
As Casey Kasem used to say, "On with the countdown!" This week our list of the 40 best new songs from the past decade of Broadway shows continues with numbers 20-11. In case you missed any o…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 08:42AMTuesday, June 16, 2020
Of course, most of us would love see original musicals taking over Broadway. But let's be honest. Jukebox musicals (and their sub-genre, the bio-musical) can be excellent shows. Like all mus…
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