Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Molly Sweeney, by the great Irish playwright Brian Friel, is a sensitively crafted, verbally rich, but dramatically challenged and overlong (two ho…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:51PM[SHARE]Theater Review by Jeffrey Bruce . . . . "Everybody Loves Somebody," (Irving Taylor/Ken Lane) sung by Dean Martin, plays as the lights dim on Theatrical Outfit's magnificent production of Edw…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:19AM[SHARE]Review by Ron Fassler . . . . In what was meant to be a 100th birthday party for Broadway lyricist Sheldon Harnick this past weekend at the 92nd Street Y, what took place instead was somethi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:31AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 1, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Mary S. Ryzuk. The Circle Repertory Company: The First F…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:04PM[SHARE]Theater Review by By Ron Fassler . . . . As someone who can quickly and fondly call up memories of the Broadway production of Once, the Tony Award-winning Best Musical of 2012, a tinge o…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:13AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 25, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Marshall W. Mason, The Transcendent Years: Circle Repert…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:00PM[SHARE]Friday, May 24, 2024
Theater Review by Yani Perez . . . . Dungeons and Dragons: The Twenty-Sided Tavern is a high-energy, interactive show brimming with fun for both fans of the game and newcomers alike. …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:57AM[SHARE]Monday, May 20, 2024
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Perhaps the most admired fairytale musical ever, Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods, might hesitate before calling itself perfect, so you must take …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:24AM[SHARE]Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . A picture is worth a thousand words"so goes the saying It can also change our way of looking at history . . . and ourselves. Such is the powe…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:13AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 19, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Bryan Cranston, A Life in Parts (New York: Scribner's, 2…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:46PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 16, 2024
Florida Theater Review by Myra Chanin . . . . The last three performances of ArtBuzz's seriously amusing, amazingly witty, agonizingly poignant, heartbreakingly real staging of William Finn'…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:17AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Theater Review by Michael Dale . . . . Being one of the early arrivals, the first thing that happened during my visit to Sam Myers and Dan Kuan Peeples' appropriately discomforting immersive…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 12, 2024
Theater Review by Myra Chanin . . . . The Lost Virginity Tour at the Delray Beach Playhouse is a curious mishmash. I initially found the initial frame"four superficial women who meet periodi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:07AM[SHARE]Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Martin Bauml Duberman, Paul Robeson (New York: Knopf, 19…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . The idea behind Ronnie Larsen's sentimental farce, The Actors"now playing at Theatre Row"is, for all its seeming improbability, so comedically prom…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:27PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 5, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Stephen Cole. MARY & ETHEL . . . and Mikey Who? (New…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:36AM[SHARE]Friday, May 3, 2024
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . As the 2023-2024 Broadway season hurtled through its overstuffed last week before the annual awards deadline, two plays about motherhood"one more a…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:25AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 2, 2024
By Ron Fassler . . . . The Acting Company is the brainchild of the co-founders of Juilliard's drama division, John Houseman, the legendary producer and director, and Margot Harley, who serve…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:35PM[SHARE]Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . In charge of adapting Sufjan Stevens' 2005 concept album Illinois for the stage, Jackie Sibblies Drury (playwright) and Justin Peck (director and choreo…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:45AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 30, 2024
By Walter Murphy I arrived at the An Beal Bocht Cafe ready to review Eileen Byrne Richards' one-woman performance of Running with Coffee only to realize I was attending a family reunion"shoc…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:29AM[SHARE]Monday, April 29, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Barry Singer. Ever After: Forty Years of Musical Theatre…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:00AM[SHARE]Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . Anton Chekhov, the Russian-born author, dramatist, and medical physician, died at age forty-four 120 years ago. In his short lifetime, he wrote four…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:01AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 27, 2024
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . "What good is sitting alone in your room?" Good question! And the answer lies in the succeeding line: "Come hear the music play!" It's a lyric from a…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:31AM[SHARE]Friday, April 26, 2024
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . Every time Suzan-Lori Parks writes a play, she creates a new dramatic form. In the case of Sally and Tom, now playing at the Public, let me try to de…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:20AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 25, 2024
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . Copyrights have expired for all published works produced prior to 1926. Now considered public domain, permissions are no longer necessary, nor royalties…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:00PM[SHARE]Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . I suspect that, if the category for Final Jeopardy were "Russian Oligarchs" and the clue was, "Mathematical prodigy who claimed responsibility for …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:13AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Theater Review By Myra Chanin . . . . America's Sexiest Couple, currently being presented by Boca Stage, might just as easily be entitled "America's Formerly Sexiest Couple." It has a cast o…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:21AM[SHARE]Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . Nine actors enter the performance space of St Ann's Warehouse. Surrounded by the audience on all sides, it is stark and empty save for a dozen boxes.…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:28AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Theater Review by Carole Di Tosti . . . . Being a caretaker of a chronically ill child is a difficult task for the most dedicated of parents of means. However, when a single mother is left w…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:30PM[SHARE]Theater Review by Michael Dale . . . . "The heart of rock and roll is still beating," announced Huey Lewis and The News back in 1983. I'm no expert in such matters, so I'll take their word f…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:08PM[SHARE]Theater Review by Walter Murphy . . . . In Last Call for Babe Reilly playwright Marianne Driscoll imagines what it takes to make it into heaven: To be kind. Pretty good advice in these fract…
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