Tuesday, May 17, 2022
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . "What we've got here is a failure to communicate." This now-classic line from the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke could be projected above the stage for the entirety…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:59PM[SHARE]Monday, May 16, 2022
By Adam Cohen . . . While we all strive to obtain and surpass our aspirations, few of us are afforded the opportunity . . . even if it's a terrible goal. Success, failure. Living or dyin…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 15, 2022
By Adam Cohen . . . Jason Robert Brown, composer, Tony winner, held an amazing court on Friday, May 13 at Feinstein's/54 Below. Backed by a scintillatingly tight band, he offered the aud…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:45AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 14, 2022
By Carol Rocamora . . . "F***ing business!" Who better than David Mamet can sum up the essence of American society and its values in only two words and make them sound so eloquent!? As a…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:30AM[SHARE]By Carole di Tosti . . . The power of The Vagrant Trilogy, Mona Mansour's incredible work, currently at the Public Theater until May 15, lies in the questions it raises. These concern th…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:27AM[SHARE]Monday, May 9, 2022
By Marilyn Lester . . . Ken Page is easy to love. And loved he is"very much, judging by a sold-out Feinstein's/54 Below on May 4. The room was packed by friends and fans, including a you…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:49AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 7, 2022
By Andrew Poretz . . . The Canadian-born Peter Calo is one of those super-talented musicians who, while he's had a successful career both as a solo artist and as a collaborator with the …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:30AM[SHARE]The Theatre World Awards Board of Directors, Dale Badway, President, has announced the 2022 Honorees for the Theatre World Award for an Outstanding Debut Performance in a Broadway or Off-Bro…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:57AM[SHARE]Friday, May 6, 2022
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . The rock music blasts, the curtain rises, and the race (I mean show) is on at Broadway's Shubert Theatre. We're watching Selina Fillinger's political farce, POT…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:30AM[SHARE]By Carol Rocamora . . . What's the first thing you think of when you hear the name "Cyrano?" You beat me to it! I heard you say it before I could write it. The NOSE, of course. That legendar…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:00AM[SHARE]By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Doctors who become playwrights are not quite as rare a phenomenon as you might think. Famous examples are Anton Chekhov, Friedrich Schiller, Arthur Schnitzler, …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 4, 2022
By JK Clarke . . . Does Sam Gold hate Shakespeare? I found myself wondering that as I watched his latest deconstructed, minimalist hatchet job as director of one of the Bard's most belov…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:45AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 3, 2022
By Carole di Tosti . . . Thorton Wilder's Pulitizer Prize-winning The Skin of Our Teeth"currently in revival at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater"presents the fate of the human ra…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:25AM[SHARE]By Marilyn Lester . . . What does it mean to be an American?"that's a question we've been grappling with since 1776. It's also the question the new musical, ¡Americano!, a true story, tri…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 1, 2022
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . A Strange Loop, the raucously profane, satirical, Pulitzer Prize-winning musical comedy, which premiered Off Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in 2019, is now jubila…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 27, 2022
By JK Clarke . . . Twenty five years ago (1997) Paula Vogel's critically acclaimed and Pulitzer Prize-winning How I Learned to Drive took on the very complicated subject of intra-family …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 21, 2022
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . When it comes to sucking you into the vortex of a funny, violence-steeped dramatic world, few playwrights can do it with quite the mesmerizing theatrical panache of…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:28PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2022
By Carole di Tosti . . . For an uplifting journey into the realms of fantasy and delight, see the titular Broadway production of The Little Prince, based on the classic 1943 novella by A…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:28AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 16, 2022
By Ron Fassler . . . The memory play is a fairly common staple of American drama, especially ones with a grown narrator stepping in and out as they participate in their own past (Tenness…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:03AM[SHARE]Friday, April 15, 2022
By Andrew Poretz . . . Allan Harris, one of the coolest cool cat performers you'll ever see, played two sets at Dizzy's Club on Columbus Circle after a road tour with eight other musicia…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:35AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 13, 2022
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Berlin, the late 1920s, the Jazz Age, the rise of the Nazis, and the world of entertainers and cabarets, old friends. Such is the background of"sorry, no, not t…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:00PM[SHARE]Monday, April 11, 2022
By Marilyn Lester . . . In 1925, playwright Barry Connor wrote a fractious drawing-room comedy in The Patsy, whose Broadway success led to a 1928 film (a huge hit and now a classic) starring…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 7, 2022
By Ron Fassler . . . With its origins in Greek epic poetry, the clever new musical Penelope: Or How the Odyssey Was Really Written, is using the advertising slogan: "Greece is the Word."…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:15PM[SHARE]By Andrew Poretz . . . Lorna Luft is a survivor. She survived losing her mother, Judy Garland, as a teenager (never mind the burdens of being an iconic celebrity's daughter) and eventual…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:16PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 6, 2022
By Ron Fassler . . . When last we tuned in, Seth Rudetsky's Broadway was scheduled for April 19, 2019. Canceled for reasons we know all too well, his special guest for an intimate evenin…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:30AM[SHARE]Monday, April 4, 2022
Sunday night, April 3, fans and first-nighters flocked to the Barrymore Theatre for the opening night of Paradise Square on Broadway, the hot new Broadway musical set in mid-19th century New…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:59PM[SHARE]Friday, April 1, 2022
by Carol di Tosti . . . When money and wealth become more important than the lives of others, that is the time to write a play with powerful, sonorous music. Oh, not to uplift the CEOs w…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 30, 2022
By JK Clarke . . . The ability to express emotion through song is one of the things that makes us"humans"such a remarkable species. We often, in the fog of commercialism, forget that at the …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:27PM[SHARE]By JK Clarke . . . Long-form standup comedy is often compelling because it allows us to get to know the comic better, more intimately than short form and one-liner standup sets. And as is th…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:26PM[SHARE]By Bart Greenberg . . . The fabulous Tina Burner returned to New York City as part of her national tour celebrating the release of her new recording, "Mix Queen: A Relationship Mixtape," wit…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:23PM[SHARE]By Tania Fisher . . . Award winning playwright, Joseph Krawczyk provides yet another beguiling piece of theater in this real-life-events-inspired alluring play. Krawczyk's leads the way …
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