Monday, April 22, 2024
When a character in the new musical “The Heart of Rock and Roll” tries to convince his ex to leave her job at a factory that makes shipping materials, he is stunned: “Oh, my god. It’…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:35PMIn Peter Morgan’s tantalizing but disappointing new play “Patriots,” Boris Berezovsky is presented as a larger-than-life oligarch in a post-Soviet Russia who transforms Vladimir Putin …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:57PMSaturday, April 20, 2024
To the list of larger-than-life, survivalist women in musical theater, add Tamara de Lempicka — but with an asterisk.
The name of the Polish-born portraitist who died in 1980 might not be …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:55AMThere’s a moment in David Adjmi’s play “Stereophonic” when a discordant, mid-’70s band-on-the rise hears one of its songs played back to them in the recording studio for the first …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:25AMThursday, April 18, 2024
A musical that captures the sweep of history in all its complexities without sacrifice of character or credibility is no easy feat.
But “Suffs,” which tells the story of the final pus…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:50PMSunday, March 31, 2024
It was an awkward moment for Jose Llana when he told his family that he would be starring in the new stage musical "Here Lies Love."
But Llana would not be playing heroic Philippine politici…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:56AMWhen Jelani Alladin (pictured left) read the description of his character in the Showtime/Paramount + series “Fellow Travelers,” the romantic leading man of the stage musicals “Frozen�…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:37AMWednesday, March 27, 2024
Justin Scott of Newtown is a writer of more than 30 historic adventure thrillers, including the “The Shipkiller," the Ben Abbott mystery series, and 10 best sellers co-authored with Clive …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 09:22AMSunday, March 24, 2024
The show: “Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch” played Broadway’s Music Box Theatre this fall and early winter and will now be seen on PBS’s American…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 01:57PMThursday, March 21, 2024
Ever feel like running away from home to join a musical? Then “Water for Elephants” would be the show of choice that offers escapism, enchantment and heart — and thrills, too.
Based o…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:17PMThe show: “Ilinoise” through March 26 at the Park Avenue Armory. The show will have a limited Broadway run at the St. James Theatre, beginning performances on its official opening date …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 04:59PMFriday, March 15, 2024
Musical theater can be a sucker for a romantic tale, whether it’s about obsessive devotion, idealized passion, or lost loves. “The Notebook,” based on Nicholas Sparks‘ bestselling, 1…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:20AMSaturday, March 2, 2024
All photos by Emilio Madrid
The show: ‘On Set With Theda Bara’ by Joey Merlo at the Brick Theatre in the Williamsburg se…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 04:20PMWednesday, February 28, 2024
The show: “The Connector” at off-Broadway’s MCC Theatre in New York City
What makes it special?: The latest musical by composer Jason Robert Brown, one of the leading musical lights in…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 03:03PMFriday, December 29, 2023
The show: “Here We Are” at The Shed at Hudson Yards in New York City
When it was announced nearly 10 years ago that Stephen Sondheim would be collaborating with playwright David Ives on …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 05:53PMThursday, December 28, 2023
The show: “Walk on Through: Confessions of a Museum Novice” at Manhattan Class Company.
What makes it special?: Tony Award-winner Gavin Creel (“Hello, Dolly!” “Thoroughly Modern M…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 03:22PMSunday, December 10, 2023
RGoing (or not going) to the big dance has been an irresistible storyline for musicals from “Oklahoma!” to “The Prom.” The set-up inherently inspires social stress, romantic anxiety,…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:42PMWednesday, December 6, 2023
It’s been a busy month or so with much of my attention in New York doing interviews there and catching shows such as “Purlie Victorious” (one of the best productions I’ve seen on st…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 06:53PMSad news about the death of the great Norman Lear at 101, a New Haven native who never forgot his roots. I first interviewed him in the mid-'70s and here's a piece I wrote the last time we t…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:01AMTuesday, December 5, 2023
Long before the utopian rom-com "Fire Island," there was a movie that told a far darker and disturbing story, set principally on that LGBTQ+ sunny enclave at a perilous time: the 1989 landma…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 03:52PMMark Lamos and husband Jerry Jones sit on the stone wall in the backyard of their colonial home on a rolling green lawn off a winding countryside road in Litchfield County. Bella, their En…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 03:34PMHoliday shows have traditionally provided a major financial boost to Connecticut theaters, but this year — with audiences still not returning to pre-pandemic levels — industry executives…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 03:13PMMonday, October 23, 2023
By FRANK RIZZO
“There is intense interest in art, architecture and their colonial histories in India right now,” says Tim Barringer, the Paul Mellon Professor in the History of Art Depar…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 06:54PMSunday, October 22, 2023
Yogi Berra said the future ain’t what it used to be. We know how he feels.
The Broadway arrival of the West End hit “Back to the Future” continues the march of Hollywood brand extensio…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 04:02PMAs backers’ auditions go, “Gutenberg! The Musical!” — a wildly delusional conceit so full of itself that it boasts two exclamation points — doesn’t stand a chance of making it to…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 03:44PMWednesday, August 16, 2023
All photos by Billy Bustamante, Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman
The show: “Here Lies Love” at the Broadway Theatre in N…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 05:39PMTuesday, August 8, 2023
The show: “The Cottage” at the Hayes Theatre (formerly the Helen Hayes Theatre) on Broadway
What makes it special?: It’s a new comedy and that’s been a too-rare occurance on Broadwa…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 01:46PMMonday, August 7, 2023
Post-pandemic audiences are returning in various degrees to Connecticut’s largest presenting houses — The Bushnell in Hartford, Palace Theater in Waterbury and Shubert Theatre in New Hav…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 07:14PMSaturday, August 5, 2023
The show: “Here You Come Again” at the Goodspeed Musicals’ Norma Terris Theatre in Chester, CT.
What makes it special?: It’s a presentation of a show that’s played a few times arou…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 06:01PMThursday, August 3, 2023
Yogi Berra said the future ain’t what it used to be. We know how he feels.
The Broadway arrival of the West End hit “Back to the Future” continues the march of Hollywood brand extensio…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:13PMThursday, July 27, 2023
The show: “Summer Stock” at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Ct.
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SOURCE: ShowRiz at 02:40PM 
