Tuesday, February 4, 2020
      By Brian Scott Lipton  The tiny mini-dresses, the tight-tight pants and the paisley shirts. The velour sofas. The talk of key parties and "The Institute" an…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 30, 2020
     By Samuel L. Leiter  A Soldier's Play, Charles Fuller's vigorous, Pulitzer Prize-winning examination of racial tension among African-American soldiers in a U.S. …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:15AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 23, 2020
     By JK Clarke  It takes an extraordinarily special talent to take Shakespeare's more problematic"or "less compelling""plays and make them not only interesting, bu…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:51PM[SHARE]     By JK Clarke  Upon introducing their evening of songs Tuesday night at Pangea, Barbara Bleier and Austin Pendleton explained they called the performance"which pl…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:52AM[SHARE]Monday, January 20, 2020
   By Samuel L. Leiter  Emojis! Those ubiquitous computer images we attach to our emails offering shortcut messages showing feelings, foods, celebrations, machines, weather, …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:11AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 15, 2020
   by Samuel L. Leiter  You know those CNN documentaries that cover an entire decade in an hour? "The Sixties"? "The Seventies"? "The Eighties," etc.? Film and video clip…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:15PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 29, 2019
     By JK Clarke  As a society, here in the US of A, it's fair to say we hardly spend much time thinking about Idaho. Sure, there's the odd joke or two about potatoe…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:11AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 9, 2019
    By JK Clarke  Edmond de Rostand's 1897 play, Cyrano de Bergerac is a story that lends itself to reinterpretation and modernization. With a simple, straightforward the…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:19PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 17, 2019
    By Samuel L. Leiter  I admit it. I'm guilty. I sat through Linda Vista, by actor-playwright Tracy Letts (August: Osage County), at Second Stage's Helen Hayes Theatre,…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:44AM[SHARE]Monday, October 14, 2019
     By JK Clarke  Fans of both Andrus Nichols and Kate Hamill were recently thrilled by the news that the two had formed a new theater company, The Coop. Nichols' co…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:59AM[SHARE]Friday, October 11, 2019
     By JK Clarke  Tennessee Williams' very accomodating production notes in The Glass Menagerie"a play for which he coined the term "memory play""encourages a freedo…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:37PM[SHARE]Friday, September 20, 2019
    By JK Clarke  I've always contended"as have many others who care about such things"that while editing or abridging Shakespeare's plays for the purpose of a production…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 6, 2019
       By JK Clarke  Coriolanus is one of many Shakespeare plays that can be played for its uncanny prescience in modern times, though it doesn't always have …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:24PM[SHARE]Monday, August 5, 2019
      By JK Clarke  Fish-out-of-water incarceration stories are nothing new. From the wrongfully imprisoned (Hugo's Les Misérables) to the belatedly, unexpectedl…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 18, 2019
    By Samuel L. Leiter  Gordon Dahlquist's [Veil Widow Conspiracy] is a dramatically veiled construct embedding three stories, one within the other, like a play-within-a…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:04PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 9, 2019
  NEW YORK. June 9, 2019. The 73rd Annual Tony Awards are taking place right now at Radio City Music Hall, broadcast on CBS, hosted by James Corden. Leading the nominations was …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 29, 2019
   By JK Clarke  As the preeminent American playwright of the late-20th century, Sam Shepard drew on life experiences to create his best plays, works of realism that portraye…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 30, 2019
    The 2019 Actor's Fund Gala took place Monday evening at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square, honoring The Actors Fund will celebrate Tony Award-winning playwright and ac…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:59PM[SHARE]Photos: Shoshana Medney  NEW YORK. APRIL 30, 2019. The 2019 Tony Award Nominations were announced this morning at the New York Public Library for Performing Arts at Lincoln Center by Beb…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:14PM[SHARE]    By JK Clarke  If you've seen the latest Cohen Brothers film, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Netflix), you'd hardly expect that the actor playing the title character, T…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:49AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 17, 2019
     By Samuel L. Leiter  The official diplomatic phrase for the events behind this play are the "1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda."  One of modern histor…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:36PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 13, 2019
     by Samuel L. Leiter  This week, I watched the great Broadway librettist and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II get hammered twice. The first was Daniel Fish's radical…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:16AM[SHARE]Friday, April 12, 2019
     By Matt Smith  "I've been so many places in my life and time / I've sung a lot of songs and I've made some bad rhymes / I've acted out my life on stages / With t…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:47PM[SHARE]     By Ron Fassler  According to the program notes, The Mad Ones are "a New York City-based company that creates ensemble-driven work through the ongoing collaborati…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:06PM[SHARE]     By Brian Scott Lipton  If you're a theatergoer who truly subscribes to the philosophy of "if it's not on the page, it's not on the stage" or "the play's the thin…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:39PM[SHARE]     by Carol Rocamora  It's a play with an outrageous premise"and Suzan-Lori Parks wants it that way. As a playwright who has been writing about race and American hi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 11, 2019
     By Tania Fisher  Now playing at The Theater for the New City, Shareholder Value is set against the backdrop of the fiscal crisis of 2008, and is loosely based on…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:35PM[SHARE]     by Carol Di Tosti  Happiness is a sleight of mind. When it is founded on lies, duplicities and secrets, it will never last, even though one may desperately cling…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:40PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 6, 2019
      by Samuel L. Leiter  A few months ago, I asked my friend Richard, house manager of Second Stage's Helen Hayes Theater, what was next on the venue's agenda. …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 4, 2019
    by Carol Rocamora  Everything about Peaches is shocking"from the pink color of her big hair to her shiny pink alligator suit to the stream of profanities that spew fr…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 3, 2019
     By Joseph Pisano  Despite an initial Broadway run that was, to say the least, severely abridged, few theatrical works have as culturally schismatic a performance…
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