Saturday, December 10, 2016
by JK Clarke The timing couldn't be better for the powers that be to release the musical version of the story of life growing up in the 1960s…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 8, 2016
by JK Clarke Shakespeare must have been getting sentimental in his declining years. His last few plays are generally lumped into a new category that schola…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:20PM[SHARE]Monday, December 5, 2016
by Steve Nardoni The Big Uncut Flick (now playing at the Studio Theatre on Theatre Row) is a droll scramble into the look of early television and film noir…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:14AM[SHARE] Sunday evening, December 4, the New York Stage & Film held it’s annual Winter Gala at the Plaza Hotel, honoring two titans of the entertainment industry…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:32AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 3, 2016
by Sophia Romma August Strindberg Rep is currently presenting a performance of the folkloric tale of Abu Casem's Slippers at The Gene Frankel Theater"a piece that…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:11AM[SHARE]Friday, December 2, 2016
Thursday, December 1, 2016, MCC Theater celebrated the opening night of Ride the Cyclone (reviewed here), a new musical with book, music and lyrics by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwel…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Monday evening, November 21 saw the Broadway Dreams' annual "Night of Dreams" Gala which celebrated Tony Award®-winning lyricist and composer Lynn Ahrens and Stephen …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:49AM[SHARE]Monday, November 21, 2016
by JK Clarke A handful of Shakespeare plays are routinely subjected to radical re-interpretations"Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet"and for a variety of reasons, whether it b…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:18AM[SHARE]Friday, November 18, 2016
The Power and the Passion: A Tale of Two Coriolani by JK Clarke In the New York theater world, it should come as no great surprise that in this, the unprec…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:09AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Monday evening, November 14, Dear Evan Hansen, last season’s off-Broadway sleeper sensation, began previews at the Music Box Theatre on Broadway, commemorating the…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:19AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Monday evening, November 7, The Drama League presented its 33rd Annual Musical Celebration of Broadway honoring Tony® and Emmy® Award-winner David Hyde Pierce The Plaza  …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:29PM[SHARE]Friday, November 4, 2016
by JK Clarke It's remarkable how things can change in a short amount of time. Including the way we perceive the same character in a story. Case in point is the Vicomte de Valoi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:14AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 29, 2016
by JK Clarke There is no Shakespeare company in New York (and likely few elsewhere) as dedicated to plumbing the depths and exploring every dimension of the works…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:17AM[SHARE]Friday, October 28, 2016
by Monica Charline Brown Kate Baldwin is a KNOCKOUT in her new show Extraordinary Machine"or as Kate calls it near the end of her concert, "Kate Bal…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 27, 2016
Tuesday evening, October 25 saw the opening night, screening and party for Sam, the first film by Nicholas Brooks together with his father, executive producer M…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:43AM[SHARE] by Jordan Cohen I don’t think I'm making any news when I announce that Ana Gasteyer is funny. Seriously funny. For more than two decades, she …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 25, 2016
"Corruption is our only hope."Â Â Â " Bertolt Brecht by Monica Charline Brown Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company has brought O…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:08AM[SHARE] by Alix Cohen I see a lot of concerts/club shows. This one blew me away. Having interviewed British collaborators Dominic Ferris and Martin Milnes f…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:16AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 23, 2016
by Carole Di Tosti The New York Film Festival 2016 screened 20th Century Womn directed by Mike Mills, starring Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup and Lucas Jade …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:47AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 22, 2016
by JK Clarke One of the saddest aspects of human social history is the regularity with which singular women"whether uncharacteristically intelligent, power…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:11AM[SHARE]Friday, October 21, 2016
Thursday night, October 20 saw the opening of the revival of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's classic 1928 comedy The Front Page on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre. The all…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:34AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 18, 2016
On Monday, October 17, The Workshop Theater Company honored Sheldon Harnick with the Jewel Box Award at their 3rd annual unGala at The Lindeman in Hell’s Kitchen (…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:55PM[SHARE]Monday, October 17, 2016
by Beatrice Williams-Rude This Public Enemy"now playing at the Pearl Theatre"is not Scarface or John Dillinger; rather, it's David Harrower's taut, …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:38PM[SHARE] by Susan Hasho Monk with lyrics you ask? Johnny Mercer in the company of Monk you wonder? Peter Cherches is capable of many musical surprises…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:05AM[SHARE]Friday, October 14, 2016
by Marcina Zaccaria Three performers explore the quiet thoughts that exist when almost no one is watching in Inner Voices at The TBG Theatre. The ev…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:43PM[SHARE] by JK Clarke Covering a Tammy Faye Starlite performance is pretty much a breeze. There's never a question of entertainment quality or whether…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:53AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 11, 2016
by Monica Charline Brown Surely you have noticed we are living in a world where shock value dominates our culture. Personal lives coalesce wi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:53AM[SHARE]Friday, October 7, 2016
by JK Clarke Anyone who lived in New York over twenty years ago remembers keenly (and often fondly) the Times Square of old: a squalorous drag peopled with hustle…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:49AM[SHARE] by Steve Nardoni Many of us have a hard time looking back 30 years, and in particular to the 1980s where memories from back then were blurred…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 4, 2016
by Marilyn Lester Let it be said first and foremost that in this production of The Producers, the Tony-winning Paper Mill Playhouse has a big…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:50AM[SHARE] by Martha Wade Steketee Repossession, privileged history, origin story, or folderol? An audience member at The Black Mask: An Original, Magical, and Specta…
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