Tuesday, October 4, 2016
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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by Beatrice Williams-Rude A most interesting theatrical experiment is taking place at The Lion Theatre on Theatre Row. The Trial of an American Pres…
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Wednesday night, September 28, saw the opening night celebration of Neil LaBute’s All the Ways to Say I Love You, starring the iconic Judith Ligh…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:22AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Monday evening, September 26, the American Theatre Wing honored legend of film and stage, Cicely Tyson at the Plaza Hotel at its Annual Gala. Celebrating its 99th Annive…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:59AM[SHARE]Monday, September 26, 2016
by JK Clarke I've seen a lot of Hamlets. Just this year I count at least four. The productions have ranged from big budget and professional to small…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:20AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 25, 2016
by MR Anderson In the wake of national tragedy and political unrest, a group of artists responds the only way they know how. Appropriately set in the gymnasium-es…
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by Samuel L. Leiter It's been a long time since I saw an audience enjoy itself at a show as much as the one at the first press preview for I Like…
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 by Brian Scott Lipton Most singers celebrating their golden anniversary in show business would be eligible for Medicare and have possibly lost …
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by JK Clarke More often than not, a powerful work of art that speaks to, or enlivens, a generation, tends to lose a good deal of its luster as time …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:41PM[SHARE]Monday, September 19, 2016
Previews open tonight for That Golden Girls Show: A Puppet Parody at the DR2 Theatre in Union Square (103 East 15th Street at Union Square East). Set inÂ…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:45AM[SHARE] The Golden Girls are back! But this time as four sassy puppets. Previews start tonight for That Golden Girls Show: A Puppet Parody at the DR2 Theatre in Un…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:43AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 18, 2016
By Joel Benjamin Scott Siegel, the new Diaghilev of Broadway, has presented many programs, both at Feinstein's/54 Below and the Town Hall, that feature one wonderful song after another with …
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 by JK Clarke It seems in recent years that even the most progressive theater groups are reluctant to produce what have come to be called Shakespeare's "proble…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:44AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 15, 2016
by Alix Cohen  Tennessee Williams is a difficult subject. To simplify his life is a challenge in specificity and selection, to romanticize it a misnomer. This show's creators appear to s…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:55PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Stars gathered at the Al Hirschfield Theatre Monday night to raise awareness about the plight of kids in foster care, particularly those aged 13-21, an age range many consider …
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Wednesday, August 24, 2016
by MR Anderson Jess's brother died. A victim of this sudden and tragic loss, she attempts to move on. She moves to NYC to pursue her dreams, she talks to h…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:04PM[SHARE] by MR Anderson But, hear me out, it works. Yes, it's an eye-catching title. I've heard it called "unacceptable," "a trigger," and "rude," but after partaki…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:21AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 23, 2016
By JK Clarke Plays that tackle broad philosophical conundrums don't usually tell you they are doing so as explicitly as Mrs. Schrodinger's Cat, a piecewrit…
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by MR Anderson Yes, the expletive draws your attention. Yes, the show is actually about fucking. Yes, it is a dramatic success. The Fucking Problem …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:34AM[SHARE]Friday, August 19, 2016
by MR Anderson The WOW Café is packed to the brim with excited energy. The traditionally malfunctioning air conditioners contribute to the communal…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:01AM[SHARE] John Epperson performs The Artist Principally Known As Lypsinka at Joe’s Pub by JK Clarke To refer to the John Epperson shows earlier this …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:44AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 14, 2016
Part III of MR Anderson's Amazing Stupendous 2016 NYMF Review PART 3 Ludo's Broken Bride Nickel Mines and Camp Rolling Hills by MR Anderson The New York Mu…
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MR Anderson's Amazing Stupendous 2016 NYMF Review (Part II) PART 2 A Scythe of Time Ultimate Man! and Single by MR Anderson The…
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by JK Clarke Judging by the last couple of seasons of the free Shakespeare in the Park productions at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, it seem…
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by MR Anderson The Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew stands imposingly against the Upper West Side. Inside waits the spirit of Dostoevsky as the Rus…
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MR Anderson's Amazing Stupendous 2016 NYMF Review PART 1 Tink! Normativity and The First Church of Mary, the Repentant Prostitute's FIFTH ANNUAL!!! …
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by Steve Nardoni The other night I kinda had a Midnight in Paris experience. Unlike in the Woody Allen film, I was not whisked away in a 1920s four-cylinder Peuge…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:21AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 4, 2016
Old Friends: Late Nights in Smoky Bars by JK Clarke Watching the Barbara Bleier/Austin Pendleton performance, Late Nights in Smoky Bars"playing periodically this …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:22AM[SHARE] by MR Anderson No pomp, all circumstance: these are the ingredients of a David Yazbek kind of night. In his two-night stand at Feinstein’s/54Below la…
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Sunday night, July 31, CATS returned to Broadway. The erstwhile longest running musical on Broadway (it ran from 1982 until 2000, making it presently the fourth longest run in Broadwa…
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