By Alix Cohen Nothing comes close to the rollicking madness of a Joe Iconis & Family production. Holidays are an excuse to take these even further. The Laurie Beechman stage is gleefully…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:29PMBy Alix Cohen The Big Band Era spanned roughly from the early 1930s to the late 1940s. It was the golden age of large jazz orchestras lead by icons. Evolving from New Orleans style dance and…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:28PMBy Alix Cohen Hannah Senesh – an anglicized Hannah Szenes, (1921-1944) is revered by Jewish people as a symbol of courage, resistance, and Zionist idealism—an enduring heroine of World W…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:39AMThe New York Cabaret Convention Third NightHost K.T. Sullivan, Artistic Director -The Mabel Mercer Foundation By Alix Cohen Opening tonight’s show, Mardie Millit and Michael Garin ebullien…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:39AMThe New York Cabaret Convention – Second NightHosts Klea Blackhurst and Billy Stritch By Alix Cohen Jule Styne (Julius Kerwin Stein 1905-1994) was a British American songwriter who contrib…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:49PMOPENING NIGHT- The 36th New York Cabaret Convention By Alix Cohen Weeeeeeere back! Under the aegis of the venerable Mabel Mercer Foundation, the cabaret community gathered once again to supp…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:45AMBy Alix Cohen Friends Klea Blackhurst and Billy Stritch go back a looong time. At the urging of uber-fan, the late Barry Day, they developed a Hoagy Carmichael show, repeatedly performing, t…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:29PMBy Alix Cohen If work by Talking Band has escaped your radar, Triplicity is an opportunity to rectify its notable absence. The genre-defying collaboration, “in the place where speech and m…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:04AMBy Alix Cohen In 1935, New York Times reviewer Brooks Atkinson found Awake and Sing! a story of “noisy, lunging humanity” he felt was weighted by character development, but promising. Se…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:30PMBy Alix Cohen “We’re not selling objects—we’re selling ideas, emotions, and the aura of cultural relevance.” Larry Gagosian (Gagosian Gallery) Serge (Neil Patrick Harris), a succes…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:33AMBy Alix Cohen Chaconne (1942- José Limón) is inspired by a dance originating in Mexico during the Spanish occupation. On stage are dancers from the current company, older alumni, La Guardi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:07AMBy Alix Cohen With Let’s Love! Ethan Coen gives us a contemporary La Ronde, the French anthology film directed by Max Ophüls. Seemingly disparate chapters on sex/love/attachment unexpecte…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:06AMBy Alix Cohen American Sunset is a concept album written between Election Day November 5, 2024, and Inauguration Day, January 20, 2025. Liquor and drug consumption increased, sleep became el…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:08PMBy Alix Cohen Inspired by the illustrations of Edward Gorey, Victorian reverie, ill-fated romance, calamitous croquet, and the dangers of windy cliffs. “The world is full of people who are…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:11PMThe American Songbook Gala Celebrating Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty By Alix Cohen Lynn Ahrens was working as a copywriter when invited to write a song for children’s television. A bu…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:49PMA Contemporary Feminist Look at Pride and Prejudice By Alix Cohen “Oh my God, everyone here sucks!” exclaims Kitty Bennet, bored at a Ball. (Violeta Picayo) ‘Decidedly not the familiar…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:12PMA Panacea for the Floundering By Alix Cohen The near? future. Population growth is bleeding earth’s resources. With AI rampant, employment is an issue. People haven’t been coping well fo…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:08PMA Study of Self Realization By Alix Cohen Bullfighting in Mexico, corrida de toros, was introduced during the colonial era by Spanish settlers and evolved into a national tradition. For cent…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:38AMBy Alix Cohen Belfast today: American oral historian Emily (Molly Ranson) is interviewing middle-aged Dave (Michael Hayden) about the assassination of a friend and fellow soldier that occurr…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:21PMBy Alix Cohen Every play does not have to be life changing. A One-Act with limited production budget can offer as much value as theater with publicity and stars. Lost and Found is a small, t…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:59AMBy Alix Cohen Reasoning and logic are the backbone of clear thinking and decision-making. Drawing conclusions from evidence and deductive reasoning have all but been jettisoned in the curren…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:53AMBy Alix Cohen Jacob (Will Harrison) is growing up in what Americans would call the projects- a British estate of low income housing. His attentive, single mother (an excellent Lucy Taylor) s…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:05AMA Roller Coaster Ride through the Life of Rupert Murdoch By Alix Cohen In 1996, Primary Colors was published with authorship credited to Anonymous-later revealed to be journalist Joe Klein. …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:07AMIdentical triplets in formidable harmony By Alix Cohen Identical triplets from Nairobi, Kenya, Mary, Magda and Marta Moipei, were appointed UNICEF ambassadors at age twelve championing girl …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:33AMGreat authentic folk music and a timely, touching play By Alix Cohen Mira (Tora Nogami Alexander), a biracial, Korean American, classical violinist, and her boyfriend Beckett (Morgan Morse) …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:14PMSongs by James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, and Clint Holmes performed with brio By Alix Cohen There are entertainers and there are entertainers. We north-easterners think of Las Vegas performers …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:33AMA confirmed Francophile lyrically shares her love of The City of Light By Alix Cohen Karen Akers may be a reincarnated French woman. Her love of Paris runs beyond personal experience to a ki…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:37PMA Preview of The Metropolitan Opera’s Imaginative, Upcoming Production By Alix Cohen Tonight’s glimpse into The Metropolitan Opera’s upcoming production of The Amazing Adventures of Ka…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:19AMFrance’s welcome to American jazz – Edifying and Entertaining By Alix Cohen After World War I, American jazz musicians—many of them Black expatriates—found a welcoming audience in Pa…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:11PMOne more performance at 54 Below – September 14, 2025 By Alix Cohen Billy Stritch and Nicolas King swing like the rest of us breathe- naturally, as if informed by DNA. Clearly a mutual adm…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:33PMBy Alix Cohen A well researched, little known, true Civil War story featuring three formidable women, each dedicated to her own divisive patriotism. 1861- 1865. The Richmond, Virginia home o…
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