Alan Portner is a Regional Editor at Broadway World – Kansas City. With over 40 years of experience in journalism, he focuses on the arts and entertainment sector, covering topics such as plays and musicals, celebrities, comedy, and entertainment news. Portner's work has been featured in BroadwayWorld.com and KC Studio.
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Alan's coverage is heavily focused on theater reviews and interviews within the Kansas City area. He seems to have a keen interest in local productions, particularly musicals and Broadway shows. Therefore, if you're involved in local theater productions or events in Kansas City, especially those related to musicals or Broadway shows, Alan would likely be interested in hearing from you.
Given his focus on entertainment news and reviews of theatrical performances, reaching out with press releases about upcoming shows, behind-the-scenes insights into production processes for popular plays or musicals could also pique his interest. Additionally, individuals involved in the creative aspects of these productions may find success reaching out for potential features or interviews.
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The year is 1905. The place is New York City. The play is Lynn Nottage’s intimate and surprisingly affective comedy/drama “Intimate Apparel.” “Intimate Apparel” tells a tale drawn from Nottage’s own passed down ancestry stories and perhaps a little imagined history. The inspiration is a sepia toned photo of a seamstress from the turn of the twentieth-century. The lights come up on Esther Mills (Chioma Anyanwu), a thirty-six-year-old gifted seamstress, who has carved out a niche business for herself designing and creating intimate apparel for a widely diverse customer base. Esther’s customers represent both the upper crust of New York’s society, the 400, and others who populate the raunchy Tenderloin district and whose less public clientele are the bored husbands of society’s 400.
Musical theater reviewers infrequently and pleasantly rediscover an old friend. “Wicked,” just opened at the venerable, 2400 seat Kansas City Music Hall with a recently refreshed cast, is an entertaining example.
Kansas City Repertory Theater’s new production of “Come From Away” is top notch in every possible way. “Come From Away” is about how one remote Canadian…
Disney’s Newsies does not merely seize the day. It dances on it, vaults over it and occasionally executes a backflip before the day knows what struck it…
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If laughter is truly the best medicine, the women of Eden Falls, Georgia, have opened exactly the right kind of health spa. “The Hallelujah Girls,” is a…
By: Alan Portner
Beetlejuice the Musical will be the final 2026 summer touring performance of the 2026 Broadway series at Starlight Threatre. As a special treat, Broadway…
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A Metaphor Wrapped In A Metaphor Inside An Irony Most Popular Get all the top news & discounts for Kansas City & beyond. No password required.
