Broadway Magazines...

[Up In Lost]

Posted: 5/26/05 at 8:38pm

Are there any Broadway Magazines you read, or have a subsription to? Which ones, and what are they like...Uh, yeah.

[krisjoseph]

Posted: 5/26/05 at 8:58pm

Show People is really the only one I know of. It's quite good but it only gets published quarterly.
Show People

[Thenardier]

Posted: 5/26/05 at 8:59pm

What is playbill?

[Aigoo]

Posted: 5/26/05 at 9:00pm

BWW has a newsletter.

[Up In Lost]

Posted: 5/26/05 at 9:00pm

Thank you. Mr. Trebek!

[Greekmusicalfan]

Posted: 5/26/05 at 9:45pm

I hate Show People magazine. Well, not the magazine itself, but the people who run it. It was my first time being screwed over the net. I paid for a year's subscription (4 issues) and I only received ONE !!! I didn't even bother to complain, I was so dissapointed !

[chinkie azn jai]

Posted: 5/26/05 at 10:09pm

There's:
Show People-Which is pretty interesting, but I wish it wasn't quarterly because all the news in it is already old by the time it comes out.

Playbill-It's the same articles that are in the playbills you get when you go to the theatre. So if you go to the theatre often, it's not worth it.

Sondheim Review- I can't comment on this because I havn't read a whole issue. But it looks VERY interesting.

[Michael Strathmore]

Posted: 5/26/05 at 11:54pm

I've also not received my full subscription to Show People. And I DID complain. Three months later, still no issue replacement to speak of.

Bastards...

--M--

[alterego]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 1:08am

I subscribed to The Sondheim Review for a couple of years but when they started to publish interviews with dressers from his shows (who'd comment on who they liked or didn't like)I thought they'd lost the plot and didn't bother to renew.

[buffyactsing]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 3:53am

I've only read one issue of the Sondheim Review (the current one) but I LOVE IT.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 9:56am

American Theatre is quite good especially for plays and regional productions. Sometimes they publish full scripts inside the magazine. Great stuff.
American Theatre Magazine

[Ourtime992]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 11:37am

American Theatre is a great magazine. The Sondheim Review is usually quite good, but Sondheim is hardly churning out a lot of new material and his older stuff has been pretty well examined by now, so it's hit or miss from issue to issue. Show People is ok, but like others have said (and is the case with Playbill) by the time it comes out the news is already stale.

I think that the advent of theater websites has made it hard to magazines to compete. They cost a lot to produce, and many of their readers are getting the same stories online much earlier.

One that I enjoy seeing is Entertainment Design. It is a very technical publication, and all the ads are geared at lighting and sound designers, but just about each issue talks about a current Broadway show or tour, and there are usually some great pictures.






Entertainment Design Magzine

[Corine2]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 11:44am

Theatermania has a free magazine distributed all over the City.

[ChrisLovesShows]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 11:50am

If you're interested in London's West End theatre scene, you might like Musical Stages.

The now-defunct Show Music magazine, published by Goodspeed musicals, was just the best. You might dig up some old issues for a good historical read. OH, how I miss it!


Musical Stages

[justme2]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 1:36pm

I miss "InTheater" and "TheaterWeek", both magazines of which I have 5 years or so of back issues taking up space in the closet. I think InTheater started after TheaterWeek shut down.

I also enjoyed ShowMusic magazine; they had great in depth interviews.

I subscribe to ShowPeople, but haven't been impressed with their issues yet. It's got a People Magazine flavor to it. I remember an issue that claimed to have a "spread" about some actor's apartment, and it had something like two photos of the place and they were tiny photos that didn't show anything!