Thursday, August 15, 2024
The show: “Once Upon a Mattress” at the Hudson Theatre.
What makes it special:? Another transfer from the New York City Center’s Encores! series to Broadway. Sutton Foster and Michael…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 03:55PMTuesday, July 30, 2024
It’s no spoiler to say “JOB”, Max Wolf Friedlich’s electrifying synapse of play, features a highly stressed young woman pointing a gun at a therapist in his office. That’s how the …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:28PMSunday, July 21, 2024
The site of the former Long Wharf Theatre
By FRANK RIZZO
It's Saturday night at the New Haven Food Terminal complex. The park…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:41AMThursday, July 18, 2024
Making life-altering decisions is no small matter, especially for the characters in “Choice,” Winnie Holzman’s provocative but imperfect play, which just completed a run at Princeton�…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:46AMSaturday, July 13, 2024
Sad news about the death of Dr. Ruth Westheimer at the age of 96. I remember fondly spending an afternoon with her in her Washington Heights apartment in NYCm in 2013 to advance a production…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 01:13PMFirst "Mystic Pizza" was a hit film which launched Julia Roberts’ career, now it's a musical which will run at the Ivoryton Playhouse in Essex, just a 20 minute drive from the film’s nam…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:50AMA scene from “13” at the Norma Terris Theatre.
Tucked away in the cozy Connecticut town of Chester, sits the Terris Theatr…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:13AMAn innovative production of Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge at Long Wharf Theatre and a high-spirited, buoyant production of Summer Stock at Goodspeed Musicals took top honors at th…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:20AMWednesday, July 10, 2024
The show: “South Pacific” at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, CT. , through Aug. 11.
What is it?: A Rodgers & Hammerstein musical based on James A. Michener’s Pulitzer Prize-w…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:17PMFriday, May 24, 2024
Tony Kushner, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright of “Angels in America” and Steven Spielberg’s go-to screenwriter over the last 20 years, is never short of opinions t…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:40PMMonday, May 13, 2024
Randy Beach is a character witness.
For more than 40 years the veteran journalist has chronicled some of Connecticut’s most colorful, passionate, and often unsung people, in his columns f…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 03:04PMMonday, 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
The show: “Corruption” by J.T. Rogers at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre
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SOURCE: ShowRiz at 03:03PMIt 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…
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