Tuesday, June 13, 2023
By Alix Cohen . . . Bronx-born Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller (1904 "1943), jazz pianist, organist, composer and vocalist copyrighted over 400 songs, most co-written with Andy Razaf who describ…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:55PM[SHARE]By Carol Rocamora . . . "Two people stranded at sea . . . Two stranded people are we . . ." So goes the leitmotif of Days of Wine and Roses, a heartrending new musical now filling the Atlant…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:56AM[SHARE]Monday, June 12, 2023
By Marcina Zaccaria . . . Ropes with pulleys flying through the air are a visual sign of the intense muscularity of dock work, lauded in The Hook. Brave New World Repertory Theatre chall…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 7, 2023
By Adam Cohen . . . Abe Burrows, Jo Swerling, and Frank Loesser's 1950 musical comedy, Guys and Dolls, is one of my favorite shows. When the opportunity came to travel to London, seeing …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:58PM[SHARE]By Brian Scott Lipton . . . More than once during her Monday night performance of California Dreamin': Jessica Vosk Sings the Songs of Laurel Canyon, the singer joked that she was treati…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 6, 2023
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . I'm sure most people would agree that, even if they have no idea of what Wet Brain Syndrome is, it makes a more intriguing play title than Wernicke-Korsakoff [o…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:30PM[SHARE]The original Off Broadway cast recording of "Other Lives: The Story Songs of Michael Colby" (Jay Records), a cycle of story songs by lyricist Michael Colby (Charlotte Sweet, Ludlow Ladd), wi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:10AM[SHARE]Monday, June 5, 2023
By Ron Fassler . . . In the years since the AIDS crisis first loomed in the 1980s, there have been many plays on the subject. Is there such a thing as too many? Has everything that needs…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:05PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 4, 2023
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . The key figure in Tori Sampson's (If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must be a Muhfucka) promising, well-acted, but less than satisfying play, This Land Was Made, at Off-Broa…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 25, 2023
By Carol Rocamora . . . Meet Bert. He's the best friend a fellow could ever have"at least according to Kenneth. He's warm, funny, supportive, and always there when Kenneth needs him"espe…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 23, 2023
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Bernarda's Daughters, by Diane Exavier, is a title guaranteed to trigger thoughts of The House of Bernarda Alba, the distinguished play by Federico GarcÃa Lo…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 20, 2023
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . The Manhattan Theatre Club is having a friendship moment. Over at its Broadway venue, the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, David Auburn's Summer, 1976 follows the on…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:09PM[SHARE]By Ron Fassler . . . When I was eighteen years old, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) played my local cinema. My brother and I went to see it and were among the few in the theater t…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:15AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 18, 2023
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Like courtroom dramas, plays about people involved with branches of psychotherapy have a built-in theatrical premise. One or more characters gradually expose tr…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 16, 2023
By Stuart Miller . . . When my son and I saw Molière in the Park's staged reading of Tartuffe in Prospect Park two years ago, we laughed frequently and marveled at the relevance of Moli…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:50AM[SHARE]By Myra Chanin . . . In 2009, when Disenchanted was getting ready to hold its first workshop (at Pearl Studios in New York City), over 700 women auditioned for the 11 roles for a one-nig…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:29AM[SHARE]Monday, May 15, 2023
By Myra Chanin . . . Zap! Pow! Wowie! I don't believe I have ever watched a more fulsome, luxuriant, talent-flooded extravaganza than Lynn University's 2023 Celebration of the Arts. The …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:27AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 9, 2023
National Asian Artists Project (Baayork Lee, Executive Artistic Director), whose mission of "showcasing the work of Asian-American theatre artists through performance, outreach and education…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:10PM[SHARE]By Ron Fassler . . . In Richard Ploetz's The Country Play, now at the Theater for the New City, the author wants desperately for us to make a connection with what he has written"the way Anto…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:03AM[SHARE]By Samuel L. Leiter . . . In his Foreword to the 1965 publication of Lorraine Hansberry's 1964 play, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, John Braine takes issue with the critics who, more …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 2, 2023
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . It may not literally be true that Barry Manilow has written the songs the whole world sings. Still, I would bet my bank account that most of the more than 2,000 p…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:22PM[SHARE]By Carol Rocamora . . . In a boisterous Broadway season bursting with blockbusters, big casts, and flashy dance ensembles, a small, gentle play can still make a sound of its own. A deep,…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:23AM[SHARE]Monday, May 1, 2023
By Matt Smith . . . Living legend, multi-award winner and newly-minted memoirist Chita Rivera popped into the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Cultural Center on Monday night, her first of many sto…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:46AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 5, 2023
By JK Clarke . . . Great Expectations is one of those great novels most of us encountered in a sturdy high school English curriculum. Riveting and multi-layered with a multitude of confl…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:28AM[SHARE]Monday, January 2, 2023
By Walter Murphy . . . Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore debuted in 1878 during England's Victorian era. One could choose to study the decline of the empire since that d…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:07PM[SHARE]Monday, November 21, 2022
By Walter Murphy . . . Imagine a teenage playwright beginning his career by addressing the sacrifices an accomplished woman must make when she weds a less-talented partner. Add societal …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 20, 2022
By Carole Di Tosti . . . Life is about second chances. So believes Juliet Capulet, the once tragic female protagonist of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, who steps out of 14th cen…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:27PM[SHARE]By Marilyn Lester . . . Every so often all the parts of a show might just come together in a beautifully optimal way. Such was the case with Judi Mark's Merely Marvelous"The Songs Of Gwe…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:15PM[SHARE]Friday, November 18, 2022
By Ron Fassler . . . The first rule of musical theater is that in creating a show one must have a story that keeps an audience's attention. With that said, it's sad to report that even w…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 17, 2022
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . The quirkily charming new Broadway musical Kimberly Akimbo, at the Booth Theatre, brings to mind a small number of similarly inclined, small-bore, bighearted sh…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 16, 2022
By Ron Fassler . . . If the title of Will Arbery's new comedy-drama from the New Group sounds confusing, just put the emphasis on "climbing" and say it aloud as if it were a newspaper he…
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