Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Theater Review by Marcina Zaccaria . . . . With statistics tracked on a large screen overhead, aerobic kicks are measured and calculated when Kevin becomes a beta tester for a new workout sy…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:05AMMonday, April 15, 2024
By Barbara & Scott Siegel . . . Let’s Hear It For Broadway’s Senior Stars! Just before the run-up to the bumper car finale of the 2023-24 theater season, we wanted to pause to ma…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:07PMSaturday, April 13, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Eila Mell. The Tony Awards: A Celebration of Excellence in…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:18PMThursday, April 11, 2024
Theater Review by Carole Di Tosti . . . . Making a Broadway musical adaptation from S.E. Hinton’s popular classic novel, The Outsiders, and Francis Ford Coppola’s titular film, seems no …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:51PMWednesday, April 10, 2024
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . . It was with a gleam in her eye and a kick in her step that song stylist Margaret Curry bounded onto the stage of the Laurie Beechman Theatre last Saturd…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:01PMTuesday, April 9, 2024
Theater Review by Jeffrey Bruce . . . . Luckily, I was able to catch the final performance of Clyde’s presented by one of Atlanta’s premier theater groups, Theatrical Outfit. The scene i…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:41PMTheater Review by Marcina Zaccaria . . . . One clown guides the beginning and end of our journey. Another beautifully designed figure expresses contentment through its mask. In Admiral Grey�…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:29PMCabaret Review by Brian Scott Lipton . . . . At almost age 75, Patti LuPone has absolutely nothing to prove to anyone—not her (adoring) audiences or even, I suspect, herself. Still, her ne…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:10PMTheater Review by Walter Murphy . . . . I’ve always felt that Monty Python owes a debt of gratitude to Gilbert and Sullivan (G&S). Their sketches gleefully offer a skewed view of Bri…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:22AMMonday, April 8, 2024
Theater/Dance Review by Ron Fassler . . . . Even with the very un-springlike weather we’ve been experiencing this week, you can always tell it’s spring when international dance companies…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:25AMSunday, April 7, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . 4th edition This edition of Leiter Looks at Books looks a…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:16AMFriday, April 5, 2024
Theater Review by JK Clarke . . . . Fans of the rock opera Tommy, whether it’s the album, the 1975 film, or the original Broadway production are no longer just Boomers. Classic rock radi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:45PMCabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . . Dancers Over 40, the thirty-year-old charitable organization founded as “a community of support for all dancers entering—or continuing their creativ…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:04PMWednesday, April 3, 2024
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . It’s too bad that James Wilson wasn’t able to include a discussion of Kia Corthron’s Fish—an initially appetizing but ultimately overstuffe…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:14AMTuesday, April 2, 2024
Theater Review by Walter Murphy . . . . The O’Leary Pub has stood facing the Galway harbor for decades. It and the family that owns it need intervention. The ancient pub’s pipes—damage…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:01AMMonday, April 1, 2024
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . As a fan of Anton Chekhov, I can’t tell you the number of times my heart is broken when I attend a production of one of his plays. Delicate masterwork…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:40PMTheater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . The internationally renowned magician duo of Brynolf & Ljung claim the following on the website for their new show, Stalker: “In today’s society…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:00PMFlorida Cabaret Review by Myra Chanin . . . . For the last month, I’ve been thinking about British playwright/ composer/ lyricist Leslie Bricusse, who reminds me of Oscar Hammerstein III. …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:47AMSunday, March 31, 2024
Friends Talking About Friends with New Friends A Conversation Series Review by Walter Murphy . . . . Friends talking about friends who have stayed friends for decades could easily become off…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:31AMCasual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . 3rd edition: Carole King, A Natural Woman: A Memoir (New …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:40AMFriday, March 29, 2024
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . When was the last time you shed tears of joy upon seeing an elephant? It happened to me at last Wednesday’s matinee when a life-sized one named R…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:34PMTheater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . You might call it the Peter Principle. (No, not that one!) Teeth, the grisly new musical by Anna K. Jacobs and Michael R. Jackson at Playwrights Ho…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:07PMAnd with More Passion in Delray Beach than It Did on Broadway Theater Review by Myra Chanin . . . . Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along (hereinafter MWRA), is the story of the friends…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:13AMWednesday, March 27, 2024
Theater Review by Michael Dale . . . . As an actor, director, playwright, and teacher, Austin Pendleton’s sextet of decades as a mainstay of American theater, film, and television can cert…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:31AMTheater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . The Notebook, a supremely sentimental new musical now on Broadway, might very well be upstaged this high-flying season by powerhouse productions li…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:18AMMonday, March 25, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . 2nd edition: The Age and Stage of George L. Fox 1825-18…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:14PMTheater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . “Our town is sick . . . diseased . . . All our spiritual sources of life are poisoned, and our society is built on a heap of lies.” Sounds like…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:02AMSunday, March 24, 2024
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Like many reviewers, I’m always being asked what shows I’ve liked lately. Normally, my octogenarian brain is too crammed with recent shows to…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:02PMFriday, March 22, 2024
Music Review by Ron Fassler . . . . For more than a half-century, the husband and wife singing team of Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé performed live the world over—producing best-selling …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:19PMThursday, March 21, 2024
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Laurence Fishburne has been a TV, film, and TV presence for just about 50 of his vigorous 62 years. During that half-century of thespian activity, …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:00PMCabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . . Confession: I’ve been a fan of Leslie Uggams for more than sixty years, going back to when I first saw her on television as a small child. Of course, …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:19PM 
