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John Kander


January 2024

  • Chita Rivera arrives at the 72nd annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York, 2018.

    Chita Rivera, illustrious Broadway star, dies aged 91

    The actor, dancer and singer starred in musicals including West Side Story and Chicago

August 2023

  • Jake Shears and Rebecca Lucy Taylor AKA Self Esteem.

    ‘Raring to take on this challenge’: musicians Jake Shears and Self Esteem to star in Cabaret

    The Scissor Sisters singer will play the Emcee while Self Esteem will make her theatrical debut as Sally Bowles in Rebecca Frecknall’s Olivier-winning musical

December 2021

  • CABARET. Eddie Redmayne 'The Emcee' and Jessie Buckley 'Sally Bowles'. Photo Marc Brenner

    Cabaret review – Eddie Redmayne is electric in this blinder of a show

    Redmayne and Jessie Buckley ‘Willkommen’ us into this Weimar-era Berlin nightclub for an evening of flamboyance, menace and magnetism

November 2021

  • Publicity shots for the new production of Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club at the Playhouse theatre.

    ‘We were a little naive’: staging Cabaret, in the 60s and now

    As a new staging of Cabaret starring Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley opens in London, director Rebecca Frecknall and 94-year-old original composer John Kander swap stories

May 2021

  • Eddie Redmayne

    Eddie Redmayne to return to London theatre in Cabaret with Jessie Buckley

    The actor’s first West End role in 10 years will be directed by Rebecca Frecknall in a bespoke recreated Kit Kat Club

September 2020

  • LENNIE JAMES, CECILIA NOBLE AND KANANU KIRIMI IN “RAISIN IN THE SUN” @ YOUNG VIC (OPENING 4-6-01) TRISTRAM KENTON 6/01 (3 RAVELEY STREET LONDON NW5 2HX TEL: 020 7267 5550 MOBILE 07973 617 355)

    Joy, radicalism and bare bottoms: the Young Vic turns 50

  • Shaq Taylor as Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar

    Parks, pubs and pitches: where to watch UK theatre in September

June 2020

  • Anna Deavere Smith in Notes from the Field.

    Black Lives Matter: four plays that resonate amid the protests

    Roy Williams, Rachel De-lahay, Justin Audibert and Charlene James select dramas that speak to our current moment

December 2019

  • Jason Manford and Leah Barbara West, centre, in Curtains.

    Curtains review – the arresting case of Kander and Ebb's musical whodunnit

    Jason Manford is a charming, showtune-obsessed homicide cop in this fun companion to Chicago and Cabaret

July 2019

  • Hal Prince in his office on 30 July 2015 in New York City.

    Hal Prince, Broadway legend and 21-time Tony winner, dies aged 91

    Prince oversaw such landmark musicals as Cabaret, Company, Follies, Sweeney Todd, Evita and The Phantom of the Opera

March 2018

  • Ute Lemper plays Velma in the West End production in 1997.

    Razzle dazzle 'em! Chicago's creators on how to make a billion-dollar musical

    As the murderous, magical musical high-kicks into the West End, its composer John Kander and Ann Reinking – aka the ‘jazz killer’ Roxie Hart – reveal the dark secrets of its success

January 2018

  • Oscar winner, Cuba Gooding Jr will be making his British stage debut and his musical debut as smooth-talking lawyer Billy Flynn in the multi award-winning CHICAGO at the Phoenix Theatre in London’s West End

    Cuba Gooding Jr to make British stage debut in Chicago revival

    The Oscar-winning actor will play smooth lawyer Billy Flynn as the prohibition-era musical returns to the West End in March

June 2017

  • Chelsea Clinton, now a lecturer at the University of Columbia.

    On my radar
    On my radar: Chelsea Clinton’s cultural highlights

    The writer and lecturer on American ballet, the wisdom of Reader’s Digest and running about in the Guggenheim

February 2017

  • Brandon Flynn and Karen Ziemba in Kid Victory.

    Kid Victory review – John Kander's melodies haunt dark abuse musical

    The Broadway legend’s lovely music-box refrains and mournful orchestrations give emotional weight to the melancholy story of a teenager who was kept chained in a basement for a year

June 2015

  • British actress Helen Mirren accepts the award for Best Performance By An Actress In A Leading Role In A Play for "The Audience" during the American Theatre Wing's 69th Annual Tony Awards at the Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan, New York June 7, 2015. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

    Tony awards 2015: winners list in full

    The 69th annual Tony awards have wrapped at Radio City Music Hall. Here’s a list of the recipients in full – click through for Guardian reviews of the shows

April 2015

  • The National Theatre production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, currently performing on Broadway.

    Britain's strong showing at the Tony awards is about more than just talent

    The UK has become an experimental studio for risk-averse Broadway – but that shouldn’t detract from the great British talent nominated for this year’s Tonys

November 2014

  • Emma Stone in Cabaret

    Emma Stone in Cabaret review – a fragile Sally Bowles

    While occasionally tentative, in her Broadway debut Stone delivers where it counts in a classic production of the Weimar-era musical

October 2014

  • Judi Dench in the 1968 London production

    How we made
    Judi Dench and John Kander: how we made Cabaret

    Judi Dench and musicals legend John Kander on how paper eyelashes, unsingable songs and a flop called Flora created a classic

May 2014

  • Miss Saigon

    Mark Lawson's theatre studies
    Back in town: Miss Saigon and the art of musical revivals

    Critical acclaim has greeted Boublil and Schönberg's show second time around, but repeat success is not guaranteed when a hit returns to the stage, writes Mark Lawson

April 2014

  • The Scottsboro Boys

    Minstrel musical comedy The Scottsboro Boys to open in West End

    The comedy about nine black youths falsely accused of rape in 1931 has been at hit at London's Young Vic theatre

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