Friday, May 13, 2016
Thursday afternoon, May 12, the playwright development laboratory, New Dramatists, honored Broadway sensation Audra McDonald at its 67th Annual Spring Luncheon at the Marriott …
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by Brian Scott Lipton Like a number of City Center Encores! productions, Evan Cabnet's staging of Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laure…
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Monday, May 9 esteemed director and playwright George C. Wolfe was honored with the 16th Annual Monte Cristo Award by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Festivities took place a…
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by Beatrice Williams-Rude A beautifully mounted, skillfully directed and brilliantly acted production of Simon Stephens' play Harper Regan (produced by T. …
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by JK Clarke Perhaps Tennessee Williams had Jean Paul Sartre in mind when he wrote Orpheus Descending (now playing through May 14 at St. John's Luth…
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by Joe Regan Jr. After her sold out cabaret appearance at Birdland last October, the Welsh-born Iris Williams returned in triumph May 2 in a show entitled …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:51AM[SHARE] Surprise! Tony Award winners, Kelli O'Hara and Victoria Clark sing opera. by Joel Benjamin The highly respected Collegiate Chorale has morphe…
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by JK Clarke Eugene O'Neill didn't really want the play many consider his magnum opus, Long Day's Journey Into Night, to see the light of day . . . not for…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:50PM[SHARE] The 31st Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Achievement Off-Broadway took place Sunday night, May 1 at NYU’s Skirball Center. Awards were presented to recipients in 18 cate…
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by JK Clarke The act of taking one of William Shakespeare's most notoriously sexist plays and turning it on its head by casting a woman in every rol…
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This is the fourth and final  in a series of four reviews of Shakespeare's Great Cycle of Kings, now playing at The Brooklyn Academy of Music and presen…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:45PM[SHARE] Monday night, April 25, The Actors Fund held it’s annual Gala. This year’s honorees were Michael Douglas, Emilio and Gloria Estefan, Robert Greenblatt, Cynthia Greg…
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Sunday evening, April 24, Waitress the Musical opened on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. Already nominated for four 2016 Outer Critics Awards, Waitress i…
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This is the third in a series of four reviews of Shakespeare's Great Cycle of Kings, now playing at The Brooklyn Academy of Music and presented by the Roya…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:00PM[SHARE]Friday, April 22, 2016
Thursday, April 21 saw the opening night festivities for American Psycho, The Musical at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre where Theater Pizzazz’ JK Clarke was on the scene f…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:43PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 21, 2016
by JK Clarke This is the second in a series of four reviews of Shakespeare's Great Cycle of Kings, now playing at The Brooklyn Academy of Music and present…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:22AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Note: This is the first in a series of four reviews of Shakespeare's Great Cycle of Kings, now playing at The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and presented by the…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Tuesday, April 16, 2016. The 2015-16 nominees for the 66th Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards were announced this morning by Broadway’s Brian d’Arcy James (S…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:26PM[SHARE]Monday, April 18, 2016
by JK Clarke An incredible thing is happening this month at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). In conjunction with Ohio State University, BAM is presenting the Royal S…
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by JK Clarke Shakespeare's timelessness is proved time and again through its myriad interpretations. A great play we know all too well can be presented in a manne…
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by Monica Charline Brown It is a rare night in the theatre when every single performance knocks an audience off its feet. The eleventh concert in th…
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by Samuel L. Leiter In Ike Holter's entertainingly relevant Exit Strategy, set in Chicago's rundown Tmbldn (sic) High School, a volatile African-American s…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:01PM[SHARE] The New 42nd Street held it’s 25th Anniversary Gala honoring Douglas Durst, Bruce C. Ratner, Daniel R. Tishman, Mortimer B. Zuckerman presenting them with the Marian Heiskell…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:26PM[SHARE] Monday, April 11, 2016 at the Pierre Hotel saw Theatre Forward‘s 2016 Chairman’s Awards Gala, honoring Jesse Tyler Ferguson and John R. Dutt. The event, host…
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by JK Clarke If you want a surreal, confusing theatrical journey, then usually anything by Luigi Pirandello ((1867-1936) should satisfy your needs. Pirandello's w…
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by JK Clarke AÂ prevailing sentiment one feels while watching the Anne Washburn's Antlia Pneumatica"now playing at Playwrights Horizons and directed by K…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:36PM[SHARE] by Joe Regan Jr. On April 5, Mary Deady, an Irish-American lass, with a classically trained lyric soprano appeared in a cabaret show at the Laurie Beechman…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 6, 2016
A Farce of Gender-Bending Cultural Expectations by Carole Di Tosti Happily After Ever by Laura Zlatos, directed by Sherri Eden Barber, turns stereotypic no…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:15PM[SHARE] by Monica Charline Brown and JK Clarke One of the intriguing aspects of even the most basic study of Shakespeare is the debate surrounding the authorship o…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:56PM[SHARE] by Joe Regan Jr. On April 1 Vivian Reed exploded on to the stage of the Metropolitan Room with a jazz medley of "Just One Of Those Things," Almost Like Being In L…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:38AM[SHARE]Monday, April 4, 2016
by Jordan Cohen Marti Gould Cummings, well known in the New York drag scene as a singing comedy queen, presented a one night only rock concert, dire…
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