MEET KATHY:

Kathy Henderson is Broadway.com’s Senior Editor and has written about the arts since her first editorial job at After Dark magazine in 1980. For its (too brief) two-year life span (1997-99), she was Editor-in-Chief of InTheater, a weekly national theater magazine. Her eclectic career as a magazine editor includes stints at Seventeen, Barney (the dinosaur!) magazine for preschoolers, Soap Opera Digest (covering the incomparable All My Children) and six years as Lifestyle Director (coveringdecorating, entertaining and travel) at Child.

As a freelance writer, Kathy has contributed articles to Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, US and just about every women’s magazine in existence. For several years in the 1990s, she wrote a monthly column, “A Theatergoer’s Notebook,” for Playbill. Her most recent labor of love was the book A Proud Heritage, a pictorial history of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, written in honor of its 200th anniversary.

Kathy was born in LaFayette, Alabama (where the movie Mississippi Burning was filmed — and it still looks exactly like that), and is a proud graduate of Auburn University. She moved to New York City with her darling husband just before the Summer of Sam and earned an M.A. in journalism at N.Y.U. in a college newsroom filled with manual typewriters.

Her theater obsession was born at the TKTS booth in ungentrified Times Square and, in typically obsessive Virgo fashion, she has permanently bound her 1,500 Playbills in matching black leatherette volumes. (Yes, they’re worthless because they’re bound, and her two adorable children can feel free to bag and toss them upon her demise.) Her favorite playwrights have nothing in common except talent and heart: Jon Robin Baitz, Christopher Durang, Horton Foote, and Tennessee Williams.

Although excessive theatergoing greatly curtails every other aspect of her life (in a good way), Kathy enjoys typical middle-aged pastimes such as listening to Michael Buble, watching Dancing with the Stars, and reading Vanity Fair in a beach chair. She makes the best margaritas, and has a sombrero she won in a blind-tasting contest to prove it.