Tuesday, December 5, 2023
Theater Review by Walter Murphy . . , . Ruth Stage’s production of James McLure’s Lone Star—currently playing at Theatre Row through December 23—is a great example of how a seasoned …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:08AMTheater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . “This girl is on fire” . . . and so is her show. Hell’s Kitchen, Alicia Keys’s vibrant new bio-musical now playing at the Public Theater, is …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:31AMThursday, November 30, 2023
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . Paging a play doctor. The Jerusalem Syndrome needs some tender loving care—STAT! A company of some very talented actors are doing their best to breath…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:00PMFriday, November 24, 2023
Review by Myra Chanin . . . . I spent Saturday afternoon sampling the fruits of the spectacular interaction between a quartet of indefatigable theatrical somebodies. Let’s start with three…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:17PMTuesday, November 21, 2023
Theater Review by Walter Murphy . . . . Music Halls have traditionally presented a variety of acts with a sing-along quality—popular entertainment for the people. This year’s Christmas S…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:18PMMusic Review by Ron Fassler . . . . Hard to believe it was for only one night because the show that Sutton Foster and Kelli O’Hara put together with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall th…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:40AMMusic Review by Brian Scott Lipton . . . Given the extreme amount of audience participation Joshua Henry demanded of his audience at the 92NY on Saturday night at his “Get Up Stand Up”…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:18AMTheater Review by Carole Di Tosti . . . . The versatile Qui Nguyen, Co-Founder of the acclaimed theater company Vampire Cowboys, notable for its productions of She Kills Monsters, Revenge So…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:45AMMonday, November 20, 2023
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . It’s a pleasure to report that, with Amid Falling Walls (Tsvishn Falndike Vent), the venerable National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene yet again demo…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:06PMSunday, November 19, 2023
Theater Review by Walter Murphy . . . . Mischief Production has staked its claim as the king of collegial parodies. It asks audiences to suspend an expectation of professionalism with an app…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:00PMSaturday, November 18, 2023
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett’s two-act, existential tragicomedy, was first performed, in French, as En attendant Godot, in 1953, and in Engl…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:09PMThursday, November 16, 2023
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . The audience eats it up like spam. A lot. Spamalot has returned to Broadway offering more laughs than ever at the St. James Theatre. The 2005 musical ba…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:00PMWednesday, November 15, 2023
Theater Review by Adam Cohen . . . . Diane Wiest returns to the stage in Vineyard Theatre’s production of John J. Caswell’s play Scene Partners. Set in 1985, the play features Wiest as a…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:45PMTheater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Rider McDowell’s stingless Ode to the Wasp Woman, Off-Broadway at the Actors Temple Theatre, dramatizes the sad, tawdry fates of four Hollywood …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:07PMTheater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . “I have been acting all of my life! It’s about time I get paid for it!” So says Meryl Kowalski, the protagonist of John J. Caswell’s world-pre…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:09PMTheater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . Being read to at night is basic to a child’s needs once tucked in and ready for bed. If one is lucky, their parents are adept at storytelling. The bes…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:25PMSunday, November 12, 2023
Theater Review by JK Clarke . . . . Considering the dearth of intellectually challenging plays on New York City’s vaunted stages in recent years, the staging of one of the most intelligent…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:26PMSaturday, November 11, 2023
Theater Review by Marcina Zaccaria . . . . In honor of Veteran’s Day, the stage was set at Carnegie Hall for November 1918: The Great War and The Great Gatsby. Katie Couric announced this …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:22PMWednesday, November 8, 2023
By Ron Fassler . . . When I first saw the musical Ragtime in Los Angeles, prior to Broadway twenty-six years ago, I had chills up and down my spine at the opening number and tears streamin…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:21PMMonday, November 6, 2023
By Ron Fassler . . . One of the true oddities in the long and versatile career of Stephen Sondheim, The Frogs is like no other show in the canon. In 1974, he created a few songs at the req…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:05AMSunday, November 5, 2023
Irving Berlin’s Musical Soundtrack to Everything Wonderful in Many/Most/All 20th Century American Lives – By Myra Chanin . . . At least three cheers, once again, for Marilyn Wick, the e…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:46AMSaturday, November 4, 2023
By Carole Di Tosti . . . Playwright David Adjmi (The Evildoers, Stunning and Other Plays), has struck platinum with his astounding Stereophonic, a hybrid comedy/drama/musical, currently ru…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:20PMFriday, November 3, 2023
By Carole Di Tosti . . . Material possessions can interfere with healthy family relationships. This is especially so for Sam (Danny DeVito), a “quasi-hoarder” with a purpose, and daugh…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:50PMBy Carol Rocamora . . . A crosscurrent of compelling themes run fast and deep in the turbulent, terrific revival of I Can Get It For You Wholesale. Directed with ingenuity and flair by Tri…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:18PMBy Brian Scott Lipton . . . There are two questions on the lips of almost every patron entering New York City Center this week for its “revisal” of the 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical Pa…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:55PMThursday, November 2, 2023
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Philip Roth, the prolific novelist who died in 2018 at 85, saw eight of his books adapted for movies and TV, but very few for the stage. However, John Turturro ha…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:30PMWednesday, November 1, 2023
By Myra Chanin . . . I moved to Florida during the plague and, for a short while, felt like a Manhattan snob that left paradise for a cultural desert . . . until I attended my first Boca S…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:15AMTuesday, October 31, 2023
By Carole Di Tosti . . . In his play, Translations, Brian Friel uses language to underscore a thematic message about power, control and domination. As the first play in the three-play seri…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:30AMMonday, October 30, 2023
By Ron Fassler . . . Christin Milioti has achieved a solid reputation in her more than twenty-year career as an actress. She’s given terrific performances in everything from romantic com…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:54AMSaturday, October 28, 2023
By Stuart Miller . . . Eric Anthamatten seems to have been an amazing guy: a sixth-degree black belt who taught martial arts, a musician, a Ph.D. in philosophy, a professor, a writer about…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:00PMThursday, October 26, 2023
By Walter Murphy . . . A play about war. Really? Bombarded, of late, with news blasts about Russia/Ukraine and most recently Israel/Hamas, I wondered what insights about war George Bernard…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:00PM 
