Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Review by Ron Fassler . . . It is with only a fleeting awareness of her media persona that I attended The Least Problematic Woman in the World, Dylan Mulvaney's solo autobiographical p…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:50AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Review by Ron Fassler . . . When the lights go up on Preston Max Allen's new play Caroline, which opened tonight at off-Broadway's MCC Theater, we see a 28-year-old mother (Chloë Grace…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:53PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 21, 2025
Review by Ron Fassler . . . The one time I attended Scotland's Edinburgh Fringe Festival was forty years ago. I saw play after play and was charmed by much of the theatre, though a bit surpr…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:04PM[SHARE]Friday, September 19, 2025
Review by Alex Eichholz . . . Whether you're in the front pew every Sunday or you've never set foot in a chapel, you must let the dazzling company of the new musical Saturday Church, which o…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:56PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 18, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . New York has a number of institutions part of whose function is to introduce the artistic expressions of a particular national culture. I don't know of any that, ov…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:56PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Robert Redford (1936"2025).September 16, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.
Robert Redford died early this morning at age eighty-nine. A major film actor, his star never d…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 11:43AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 14, 2025
Review by Ron Fassler . . . The last time I attended a production of Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck, was at the Brooklyn Academy of Music forty-eight years ago. The second time, in a full c…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 13, 2025
Review by Stuart Miller . . . The Brothers Size is a transportive meditation on siblings, the way they can (and can't) protect or hurt each other and on how if you live with your head in the…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:26PM[SHARE]Friday, September 12, 2025
By Ron Fassler . . . Although Avery Sommers is coming to town doesn't quite scan the same as Santa Claus is coming to town, the talented singer/actress will undoubtedly be spreadin…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 11, 2025
LONDON REPORT: "THE PRODUCERS" IS BACK " JUST FOR THE FUN OF IT!
Andy Nyman and Marc Antolin as Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom in "The Producers" (2025).September 11, 2025: Thea…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 03:14PM[SHARE]Friday, September 5, 2025
By Ron Fassler . . . "Hirschfeld drew from life. He was drawing from personal experience. He was going to the theatre and making sketches there and then coming back to his studio and putting…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:56AM[SHARE]Monday, August 25, 2025
Jerry Adler (1929"2025).August 25, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.
A dozen years ago, I had the pleasure of sitting across the table from the recently departed Jerry Ad…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 12:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Review by Ron Fassler . . . Ben Jones has already proven that he's a singer who is unafraid to charter new waters. Capable of singing in many different styles, he uses his extensive range…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:04PM[SHARE]Monday, August 18, 2025
Review by Ron Fassler . . . Comedian Jeff Ross is often referred to as "The Roastmaster General" for his X-rated celebrity roasts which have been a fixture on cable TV for thirty years…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 14, 2025
Review by Ron Fassler . . . Headlining a review containing the word grief might not be the best way to get someone to go to Bubba Weiler's excellent new play Well, I'll Let You Go. But go…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:49PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 13, 2025
John Wood, Marian Seldes and Victor Garber in "Deathtrap" (1978).August 13, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.
On this date forty-four years ago, Ira Levin's Deathtrap pla…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 11:57AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 7, 2025
Review by Ron Fassler . . . Whenever Isacc Mizrahi comes up with a new edition of his cabaret shows, no matter how he might advertise them with clever titles like "Movie Stars & Su…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:20PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 24, 2025
By Ron Fassler . . . Last October, 2nd Avenue's Orpheum Theatre hosted The Big Gay Jamboree, a crazy spoof of Broadway musicals which I thought was a hoot and a half. Now, to challenge…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:27PM[SHARE]Friday, July 11, 2025
Review by Ron Fassler . . . When the film Heathers opened nationwide in March of 1989, George H. W. Bush had recently begun what would be his single term as President, Madonna's "Like …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 10, 2025
By Ron Fassler . . . Having worked in the theatre for the past 50 years, Frank Verlizzo is one of the highest-ranking members of an elite circle. As the designer of more than 300 posters, hi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 8, 2025
By Ron Fassler . . . For those in the know, eighteen-year-old Charles Kirsch has been producing podcasts devoted to Broadway since the age of twelve. His "Backstage Babble," named for …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:12PM[SHARE]Friday, July 4, 2025
The 1969 marquee for "1776" in its original production at the 46th Street Theatre (now the Richard Rodgers).July 4, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.
This is a re-working…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 02:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 3, 2025
By Ron Fassler . . . When Laurence Luckinbill made his Broadway debut in 1963 as a replacement in Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons he was twenty-nine years old and had already…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:41PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 29, 2025
Frank Loesser (1910"1969).June 29, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
One hundred fifteen years ago today, composer-lyricist Frank Loesser was born on the Upper West Side o…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 26, 2025
Review by Alex Eichholz . . . With Emmanuelle Mattana's new play Trophy Boys, Danya Taymor once again cements herself as a whisperer for the Gen Z voice in theatre. Fresh off the direc…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Advertisement for the one-night only "Hello, Dolly" in Concert at Carnegie Hall.June 24, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.
Last night at Carnegie Hall, those in attend…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 06:47PM[SHARE]Friday, June 20, 2025
By Ron Fassler . . . Actor-Director Brandon J. Dirden has made something of a home for himself at Red Bank's Two River Theatre over the past decade or so. A New Jersey resident himself, he h…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 19, 2025
Review by Ron Fassler . . . The first glimpse that this was going to be a special night at 54 Below honoring the 50th anniversary of the original production of Chicago was that everyon…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Review by Ron Fassler . . . "I'm booked and blessed," shouted Stephanie Pope in a joyous moment during her autobiographical show at 54 Below Tuesday night. Having taken a self-im…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Review by Alex Eichholz . . . With no background reading on its subject matter or any expectations, Jordan Tannahill's new play Prince Faggot, which opened tonight at Playwrights Horizons…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:06PM[SHARE]Friday, June 13, 2025
Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . No, Jean Smart, the star of Call Me Izzy, now at Broadway's Studio 54, does not portray a Borough Park yeshivah boy in this one-woman play. The Izzy she p…
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