robertviagas

Robert Viagas, founding Editor in Chief of Encore Monthly magazine, is an author, journalist, lecturer, podcaster and professor with more than thirty-five years’ experience, much of it working on Broadway with Playbill Inc., the iconic theatre program company. The founding editor of Playbill.com, Playbill’s theatre news website, Viagas served as editor of the "Playbill Broadway Yearbook" annual for ten years. Among his 19 books on the performing arts, he was chosen by the original cast of A Chorus Line to tell their story in “On the Line: The Creation of A Chorus Line,” and by the creators of the original The Fantasticks to tell their story in “The Amazing Story of The Fantasticks.” Viagas served a term as a nominator for Broadway’s annual Tony Awards. He frequently appears at libraries and universities performing one of his three lively, entertaining talks, “The Ten Secrets of Broadway,” “The Haunted Theatres of Broadway,” and “Inside the Tony Awards With a Tony Awards Insider.” https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertviagas/ https://encoremonthly.com/ Playbill.com https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-us/books/robert-viagas/playbill-broadway-yearbook