Missing Broadway.com’s Long-form Media Coverage

I’ve recently been ruminating about how much I miss some of the longer interviews, backstage videos, and conversations from Broadway.com. It feels like with the creation of the Broadway Show and the organizational changes, they’ve started creating much shorter bite-sized content generally. Now I know people have complex feelings about their coverage in general, but Broadway.com’s interviews is a huge part of what made me fall in love with the theater and learn more about those who make it.

And while their bend of presentation has always been more accessible and obviously in coordination with the website’s ticket-selling goals, I think there is something beautiful about Wontorek’s goal to treat theater artists as stars!!! I think it granted a level of interest and legitimacy to performers who are usually given the short-shift by other media.

I feel like you can see this trend elsewhere with more high-brow offerings as well. I so miss Downstage center and the working in the theater panels from the American Theater wing as well. Obviously the media landscape is evolving and content is too, but I think is genuine importance in substantive and varied coverage of this precarious industry.

Updated On: 3/29/23 at 04:22 PM

I was just thinking this the other day. I really enjoyed the 8 wk vlogs they used to do. It seems like the last one was Six which was before Covid. You really got a good look behind the scenes. For me those vlogs got me interested in shows and actors I wouldn’t have normally known about. Here’s hoping they come back.

BwayinVan said: "I was just thinking this the other day. I really enjoyed the 8 wk vlogs they used to do. It seems like the last one was Six which was before Covid. You really got a good look behind the scenes. For me those vlogs got me interested in shows and actors I wouldn’t have normally known about. Here’s hoping they come back."

I was gonna say the same thing. Those vlogs cheered me up every week pre-pandemic! I hope someone on here is able to tell Paul Wonterek that we want those show vlogs back! I can already picture Bonnie Mulligan doing one for Kimberly Akimbo!!!

That Jackie Hoffman blog series was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen on that site. Sherie Rene Scott’s Ursula interview comes close second.

I hope they eventually get back into the long form videos because they really were fascinating and fun. Great marketing strategy and way to keep people engaged.

Honorable mention to the late, great Carole Shelley saying in a Wicked backstage tour from ‘05, “if you look in the mirror there you can see the boys changing, that’s what I like to do…”

Wasn’t it through Jackie Hoffman’s vlog that it was revealed Jerry Zaks was actually the director of the show?

The vlogs are such fun historical references too. The fact they had Carolee Carmello do one for Scandalous that was supposed to be 8 weeks long but ended after 6 weeks because the show closed was always so funny to me, but it is kinda neat to have that first person perspective on film for one of the more recent legendary flops.

I miss side by side. It was such great content. And Jackie Hoffmans Addams family vlog or Kyle Dean Masseys clogs

Another is ShowPeople which i would love to see this season with Lea Michele or Carolee Carmelo, Sweeney Todd or Parade. Or even just catch-ups with Bernadette Peters. Aaron Tveit. Cheyenne Jackson. Or Gavin Creel.


I miss a less polished content. Because I agree the Broadway show is so boring

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "And it's not just the lack of Broadway.com, it's the lack of Theater Talk too. And, on certain days, Riedel's column."

You took the words right out of my mouth. I miss Theatre Talk so much. The Tony predictions, Tony after shows, and season previews with Michael Musto, Jesse Green, and Patrick Pacheco can still make me laugh all these years later.

I enjoyed the character studies

Oh God! I forgot about the chase lounge!!