Thursday, November 25, 2021
By Andrew Poretz… Ken Peplowski has been on the New York jazz scene since 1981. Arguably one of the best tenor sax and clarinet players in the world, he is nearly as funny as he is bri…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 24, 2021
WISHING YOU AND YOURS A FABULOUS THANKSGIVING! LET THE GOBBLE BEGIN. . . HERE'S SOME FUN FOR THE TURKEY SEASON. FROM ALL OF US HERE AT THEATER PIZZAZZ
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SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:44PM[SHARE]National and International Theater, Dance, Music performances return to NYU Skirball's first post-Covid season opening on Wednesday, February 2, 2022, with a world premiere from the aw…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:30AM[SHARE]Joel Grey along with restauranteur Shelly Fireman and Bianca Marroquin (star of Broadway's Chicago) will celebrate the renaming of the restaurant's famous Matzo Ball soup honoring Grey. Born…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:30AM[SHARE]By Marilyn Lester . . . For anyone wanting a shot of "feel-good," the place to go is anywhere Jackie Draper is performing. Her show Spreadin' Rhythm Around, at the newly reopened Laurie Beec…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:30AM[SHARE]Monday, November 1, 2021
The 92Y School of Music announces new guests for their popular interview series, Cabaret Conversations, now in its second year. Previous speakers in the BroadwayWorld Cabaret…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:04AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 30, 2021
CD Release Show at Birdland Theater . . . by Andrew Poretz. . . Watching and knowing the teenage Anais Reno for the past few years has been like observing a blue morpho butterfly form in slo…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:28AM[SHARE]Friday, October 29, 2021
The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) announces new dates for Jamie Lloyd's bold, Olivier-winning revival of Cyrano de Bergerac"written by Edmond Rostand and freely adapted by Martin Crimp"…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:55PM[SHARE]The Congress for Jewish Culture has been commissioned to present director Moshe Yassur's critically acclaimed 2013 Off-Broadway Yiddish language staging of WAITING FOR GODOT at the pre…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:54AM[SHARE]By Marilyn Lester . . . Opening The 32nd New York Cabaret Convention of the Mabel Mercer Foundation (MMF), the incomparable vocalist, Sandy Stewart, reminded the sold-out audience that it wa…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:18AM[SHARE]CULLUD WATTAH gives a snapshot of the lives of three generations of Black women in November 2016 where they haven't had clean water for 936 days. Written by Erika Dickerson-Despenz…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:13AM[SHARE]Legendary lyricist Sammy Cahn, singer-songwriter Melissa Manchester and composer-arranger Billy Strayhorn will be honored in an upcoming online event as the 2021 inductees to the Great Ameri…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:55AM[SHARE]Friday, October 22, 2021
Triple threat Mr. Show Biz, Mark Nadler, brings back his ever popular Hootenanny (the one you remember from Sardi's) with guests galore at The Friar's Club on East 55th Street in a two-hour …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:19PM[SHARE]By Brian Scott Lipton . . . While I had never gotten to see Seth Sikes before, his reputation of loving standards, especially those belonging to the late, great Judy Garland, gave me some hi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:16PM[SHARE]A Turtle on a Fence Post is a new musical comedy, coming to the newly renamed Theater 555 (555 W. 42nd Street) with performances beginning October 26, and opening on November 14.…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:05PM[SHARE]Ladies of 90's Soul TONIGHT WITH EMILIE SURTEES, Dozen Divas, Liberace & Peggy Lee Return, Halloween Burlesque, Pam Ann at Midnight
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SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:36AM[SHARE]Review By Ron Fassler . . . Call me old fashioned, but let's make it another old fashioned, please. I couldn't get that phrase out of my head (along with its allusion to Ethel Merman singing…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:14AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 21, 2021
Photo: TheaterPizzazz Feb. 20, 2020 Meet & Greet (Jenn Gambatese, Jake Ryan Flynn, Jerry Zaks, Avery Sell, Analise Scarpaci, Rob McClure) . . . Mrs. Doubtfire, the new musical produced b…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:22AM[SHARE]Review by Sandi Durell . . . Technically this is a solo show and it's Ruben Santiago-Hudson (writer, star, director) accompanied on guitar by Junior Mack (playing great blues of Bill Sims Jr…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:31AM[SHARE]Trouble in Mind will offer 300 discounted tickets for each of its preview performances, in partnership with R&B radio station 107.5 WBLS-FM. The Roundabout Theatre production will offer …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:20AM[SHARE]Rob Richardson (Broadway: Jekyll & Hyde, Tale of Two Cities) and Haley Swindal (Broadway: Chicago, Jekyll & Hyde) to head the industry presentations of Roy O'Neil's Save The Palace o…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:13AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Review by Andrew Poretz . . . A great send-off! Remember those old Contadina Tomato Paste commercials? "Eight great tomatoes in every jar!" How can such enormous talent be crammed in…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:06PM[SHARE]Review by Andrew Poretz . . . French-Canadian chanteuse Myriam Phiro returned to Birdland Theater on October 17 for a post-pandemic iteration of her show honoring the legendary French singer…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:20AM[SHARE]Friday, October 8, 2021
FREESTYLE LOVE SUPREMEÂ returned to the Booth Theatre last night on Broadway for a limited run to January 2, 2022. It was created by Thomas Kail, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Anthony Veneziale a…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:11AM[SHARE]By Brian Scott Lipton . . . For over three decades, Carolee Carmello has proven to be the consummate musical theater actress, tackling everything from 1776 to Mamma, Mia! to Hello, Dolly! an…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 7, 2021
By Ron Fassler . . . Playwright Joshua Allen is bringing a bit of his native Chicago to Westchester this weekend, when his new play The October Storm opens at the Hudson Stage Company. Known…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:50PM[SHARE]by Carol Rocamora . . . "Divorced, beheaded, died (ba-dum-dum) Divorced, beheaded, survived (bah-dum-dum)" You recognize that couplet " of course you do. You learned it long ago in your …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:19AM[SHARE]Ramin Karimloo and Jane Lynch will star in the Broadway revival of "Funny Girl" alongside Beanie Feldstein. Karimloo, who has previously appeared in "Les Misérables" and "Anastasia" on …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 6, 2021
By Brian Scott Lipton and Sandi Durell . . . Is there some kind of state-of-the-art device hidden somewhere on Laura Benanti's body? Or maybe she's fooled us for the past 25 years by simply …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:51PM[SHARE]spit&vigor is thrilled to announce the world premiere of HIT YOUR MARK, DIE BEAUTIFUL, written by Peter Oliver and directed by Sara Fellini (2018 Planet Award Outstanding Direction nomin…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:12PM[SHARE]Atlantic Theater Company's world premiere musical Kimberly Akimbo features book and lyrics by Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lindsay-Abaire, music by Tony Award-winner Jeanine Te…
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