Alan Portner is a regional editor at Broadway World – Kansas City. With over 40 years of experience in journalism, he focuses on arts and entertainment, particularly theater, and covers topics such as reviews and local events in Missouri and Kansas City. Portner's work has been featured in BroadwayWorld.com.
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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.
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By: Alan Portner
Kansas City audiences do not often get the opportunity to see World Premiere productions of plays by Tony Award-winning playwrights.
By: Alan Portner
Imagine a very funny stage comedy hidden behind a locked door, puzzler of a 1940s mystery movie and you've got AN OLD-FASHIONED FAMILY MURDER now playing at New Theatre and Restaurant.
Meredith Willson’s THE MUSIC MAN opened this week at The White Theatre to an almost full house standing ovation. THE MUSIC MAN is a tribute to small town America around the turn of the twentieth century. The location is River City, Iowa on the Iowa/Illinois border in 1912.
A reimagined ‘Twas the Night Before’ brings the beloved poem to life with clowns, acrobats and aerialists.
By: Alan Portner
Cirque du Soleil 's excellent new Christmas Show, TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE… opens at the Kansas City Music Hall for eight performances beginning THE NIGHT BEFORE…Thanksgiving Day and continues through Sunday, December 1.
One of the fun parts of reviewing shows in Kansas City is the occasional opportunity to meet and interview some of the talented touring performers who come through with road productions of Broadway shows.
Heating up the boards at New Theatre Restaurant now through February 2, 2025 is a new production of a reliable Off-Broadway Musical Review called NUNSENSE featuring a very funny quintet of comedy Sisters from the “Little Sisters of Olathe.”
FUNNY GIRL is one of the crown gems of the American Musical Theater. Kansas City audiences will be treated to a first-class production of a show that many theater buffs know about but have never seen.
Chicago, the Musical, now playing at the Kauffman Center for Performing Arts, is a super evening out for you and your significant other.
The touring company of PARADE, now playing at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, recounts the sad, but true tale of Leo Frank and Mary Phagan.
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