Friday, March 29, 2024
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . When was the last time you shed tears of joy upon seeing an elephant? It happened to me at last Wednesday’s matinee when a life-sized one named R…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:34PMTheater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . You might call it the Peter Principle. (No, not that one!) Teeth, the grisly new musical by Anna K. Jacobs and Michael R. Jackson at Playwrights Ho…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:07PMAnd with More Passion in Delray Beach than It Did on Broadway Theater Review by Myra Chanin . . . . Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along (hereinafter MWRA), is the story of the friends…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:13AMWednesday, March 27, 2024
Theater Review by Michael Dale . . . . As an actor, director, playwright, and teacher, Austin Pendleton’s sextet of decades as a mainstay of American theater, film, and television can cert…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:31AMTheater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . The Notebook, a supremely sentimental new musical now on Broadway, might very well be upstaged this high-flying season by powerhouse productions li…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:18AMMonday, March 25, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . 2nd edition: The Age and Stage of George L. Fox 1825-18…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:14PMTheater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . “Our town is sick . . . diseased . . . All our spiritual sources of life are poisoned, and our society is built on a heap of lies.” Sounds like…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:02AMSunday, March 24, 2024
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Like many reviewers, I’m always being asked what shows I’ve liked lately. Normally, my octogenarian brain is too crammed with recent shows to…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:02PMFriday, March 22, 2024
Music Review by Ron Fassler . . . . For more than a half-century, the husband and wife singing team of Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé performed live the world over—producing best-selling …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:19PMThursday, March 21, 2024
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Laurence Fishburne has been a TV, film, and TV presence for just about 50 of his vigorous 62 years. During that half-century of thespian activity, …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:00PMCabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . . Confession: I’ve been a fan of Leslie Uggams for more than sixty years, going back to when I first saw her on television as a small child. Of course, …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:19PMWednesday, March 20, 2024
Music Review by Marilyn Lester . . . . This year, 2024, marks the 125th birthday of one of America’s finest composers and musicians: pianist and band leader, Edward Kennedy (Duke) Ellingto…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:03AMCasual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Michael Meyer, Not Prince Hamlet: Literary and Theatrical…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:37AMTheater Review by Michael Dale . . . . A 333-year-old woman and a pregnant robot walk into a studio apartment in Williamsburg . . . While the initial premise behind playwright/director M…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:09AMMonday, March 18, 2024
Theater Review by JK Clarke . . . . It seems oddly disconcerting this year that there are two significant Off-Broadway productions that confront eroding global standards of journalism. But t…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:45PMTheater Review by Jeffrey Bruce . . . . Atlanta’s leading LGBTQIA+ theater, Out Front, is presenting the premier of Audrey Cefaly’s The Gulf directed by K. Parker. The two-character play…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:40PMSaturday, March 16, 2024
Pigs Do Fly Brings a Second Course of Canadian-based Laughter to Fort Lauderdale’s Empire Stage Theater Review by Myra Chanin . . . . Ever heard of the playwright Norm Foster? If you lik…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:14AMThursday, March 14, 2024
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . It’s always a pleasure to anticipate whatever popular playwright-drag artist-actor Charles Busch is cooking up for his next comedic endeavor. O…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:00PMTheater Review by Brian Scott Lipton . . . . We’ve all heard that love is a drug. But can a drug cause love? That’s the big practical question being posed—alongside a host of philosoph…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:07PMTuesday, March 12, 2024
Theater Review by Michael Dale . . . . There are two main reasons I accepted the invitation to review Joyce Griffen’s The Script In The Closet: A) My desire to spend my latter years as a…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:30AMTheater Review by Myra Chanin . . . . Marilyn Wick is simply amazing. She produces one wonderful entertainment after another on her perpetually twirling Wick Theater stage. Her latest? An en…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:39AMMonday, March 11, 2024
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . It’s hard to believe that it’s been fifty-three years since A Little Night Music first opened on Broadway. Though a teenager at the time and with a …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:45PMSunday, March 10, 2024
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . Amongst his thirty-eight plays, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, is something of a redheaded stepchild in Shakespeare’s canon. Its authorship is not entirely…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:28AMFriday, March 8, 2024
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . In 1973, Len Cariou created the role of Fredrik Egerman in Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s A Little Night Music. Playing a man described in the …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:28PMThursday, March 7, 2024
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . In 2005, I sat in the sixth row of the orchestra at the Walter Kerr Theatre and luxuriated in the tall talents of Cherry Jones, Brían F. O’Byrne, Hea…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:00PMTheater Review by Carole Di Tosti . . . . In Brooklyn Laundry, John Patrick Shanley elucidates profound themes about family, love, loss, responsibility, and the healing power of truth. The 8…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:13AMCabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . . I’m of an age when radio was the means by which people became familiar with popular songs. In my teenage years, a portable transistor was responsibl…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:45AMTuesday, March 5, 2024
Theater Review by Stuart Miller . . . . Five years ago I saw Cayenne Douglass’ one-act play, Oh My, Goodness, about suicide and survival, at the Ensemble Studio Theater and was moved by he…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:00PMTheater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . Context. That is what struck me as the value of Sunset Baby, Dominique Morisseau’s gem of a play, now being given a mighty revival at the Signature…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:16AMTuesday, February 27, 2024
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . Since when can theater of ideas be as exciting and as powerful as, let’s say, a Beethoven symphony? When you emerge from a performance with the the…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:00PMCabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . . While living in Los Angeles thirty-five years ago, I came to New York City for a wedding weekend and had the chance to see only one Broadway show. With …
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