Sunday, December 31, 2023
Cabaret Review By Andrew Poretz . . . . There’s this weird week between Christmas and New Year’s when everyone’s done with “the holidays” and await the New Year. Every possible hol…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:19AMFriday, December 15, 2023
You could call Bryce Edwards, a rising star of 1923 – make that 2023 – a throwback performer, but Bryce more accurately, and magically, stepped through time a hundred years ago. His vaud…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:53PMWednesday, December 13, 2023
Music Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Peter and Will Anderson, twin brothers who hail from Maryland, are strapping, clean-cut young men whose musical sensibilities hail from another time. Th…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:46PMTuesday, December 5, 2023
Cabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Tony-award-winning actress, singer and songwriter Alice Ripley is best known for her big voice as a Broadway star in musicals like The Who’s Tommy, …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:55PMMonday, November 27, 2023
Cabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . This writer reviewed Karen Akers’ well-received Water Under the Bridge cabaret show at Birdland Jazz in September 2022 (read it HERE). Ms. Akers bro…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:27AMThursday, November 16, 2023
Cabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . When composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim died in 2021, a seemingly endless stream of stories about personal encounters with the legend appeared on …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:46PMMonday, November 13, 2023
Music Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Bucky Pizzarelli was one of the greatest and most recorded jazz guitarists of all time and one of only a handful of acclaimed seven-string guitarists. (…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:00AMFriday, November 10, 2023
Cabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . A Los Angeles cabaret party came to The Green Room 42 with the New York debut of LA’s The Right to Cabaret on November 4, hosted by Hillary Rollins,…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:24AMTuesday, November 7, 2023
By Andrew Poretz . . . Grammy and Oscar winner Howard Ashman wrote lyrics for many of the best songs of the modern Disney catalog for films like The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:01AMMonday, October 30, 2023
By Andrew Poretz . . . Producer and performer Jamie deRoy packed Birdland for another of her highly entertaining and philanthropic “Jamie deRoy and Friends” shows. The show benefitted En…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:40AMWednesday, October 25, 2023
By Andrew Poretz … The delightful cabaret star Maude Maggart made a rare New York headliner appearance with “Here Come the Dreamers,” her Birdland debut. She sold out the large room up…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:30AMMonday, October 23, 2023
By Andrew Poretz … Following two nights of sometimes heavy material – the first honoring the music of Kurt Weill, followed by a tribute to the music and somewhat tragic life of Doris Day…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:33AMFriday, October 20, 2023
By Andrew Poretz … Ava Nicole Francis made her New York cabaret solo debut at 54 Below on October 10. The young singer, not quite out of her teens, is a San Francisco transplant, and has a…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:05AMSunday, October 15, 2023
By Andrew Poretz . . . We last wrote about the tremendously entertaining Bryce Edwards in January, when he had his impressive solo debut with a sold-out show at Don’t Tell Mama (read HERE)…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:49AMSunday, October 8, 2023
By Andrew Poretz … Writer, dramatist and concert/revue creator Deborah Grace Winer continued her popular Songbook Sundays series at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club with more than…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:30AMMonday, September 25, 2023
By Andrew Poretz … Singer Kieran Brown, a very young, “up and coming” jazz and R&B singer with a strong proclivity for material from the Great American Songbook, took the stage at …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:24PMFriday, September 22, 2023
By Andrew Poretz … Amanda McBroom, a singer-songwriter as well as a fine actress, sold out Birdland Jazz with an audience filled with bold-face names from the cabaret scene, including Mari…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:54AMWednesday, September 6, 2023
By Andrew Poretz . . . There are few singers of jazz and cabaret today more compelling than the wonderfully talented Nicolas King. The star performed a rare set of pure jazz at The Green Ro…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:27AMTuesday, September 5, 2023
Rene Pfister is a Boston-based singer/songwriter. A newcomer to the New York cabaret scene, Pfister will make his New York debut with What I Learned from All My Ex-Boyfriends … If Anythi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:15AMMonday, September 4, 2023
The York Theatre Company continues its fall 2023 “Musicals in Mufti” series with The Lieutenant, with book, music and lyrics by Chuck Strand, Eugene Curty and Nitra Mcauliffe. Performanc…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:52AMFriday, September 1, 2023
A new theatrical, Dreams of Dracula: An Immersive Masquerade Experience,will feature two floors and six rooms across 25,000 square feet, a choose-your-own adventure journey through history�…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:15AMThursday, August 31, 2023
Tony Award nominee Peter Friedman (Ragtime, “Succession,” Single White Female) and Sydney Lemmon (TÁR, “Succession,” “Helstrom”) are currently in rehearsal for the world premier…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:02PMRed Bull Theater will present the fourth installment of Red Bull’s acclaimed Hispanic Golden Age Classics, this year examining Don Quixote in English and Spanish versions, which will k…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:53PMSharon Katz & the Peace Train are celebrating the release of their new album, “For You,” at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater, on September 5, at 7:00 PM. Take everything you love ab…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:46PMWednesday, August 30, 2023
The nonprofit Help Is On The Way, (http://www.helpisonthewaytoday.org) was founded 20 years ago, after cabaret producer Joseph Macchia founded it after meeting a little boy named David who w…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:25AMMonday, August 28, 2023
By Andrew Poretz … Pop met Pops at Forest Hills Stadium on August 17 when pop singer/songwriter and guitarist Jason Mraz closed out his Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride (the name…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:01AMFriday, August 25, 2023
Experience the spellbinding stories and colorful characters of the late children’s book author and illustrator Eric Carle in a whole new way, with The Eric Carle Story Show, currently play…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:12PMTuesday, August 15, 2023
By Andrew Poretz … It’s impossible not to notice the performer Marnie Klar the moment she walks into any room. Ms. Klar looks like a high-fashion model (her bio unsurprisingly bears this…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:46AMFriday, August 4, 2023
By Andrew Poretz … Quintin Harris is more than just a pretty face. As the “Dean Martin” to Bryce Edwards’ “Jerry Lewis” in their popular “Mr. Harris and Mr. Edwards” musica…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:17PMWednesday, August 2, 2023
By Andrew Poretz . . . Marieann Meringolo’s performances consistently make one wonder why on earth she isn’t a much bigger name in cabaret and beyond. This terrific, award-winning perfor…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:39AMSaturday, July 22, 2023
By Andrew Poretz . . . Move over Michael Bublé, there’s a new Canadian heartthrob, eh, and that is one David Marino. The Montreal native made his rather auspicious New York cabaret debut …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:31AM 
