Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . I met Jordan Seavey, playwright of The Seven Year Disappear, the New Group’s current production at the Pershing Square Signature Center, only onc…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:30PMCabaret Review by Marilyn Lester . . . . No matter the vehicle, actor-singer-producer André De Shields can be depended upon for ultra-high energy entertainment coupled with intelligence, re…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:55PMTheater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . For cheesy New York cheesecake, few can top Junior’s. For cheesy New York theater, I recommend Deadly Stages—which opened today at Theatre Row�…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:00PMTheater Review by Myra Chanin . . . . Bribe Whomever You Can for a Last Minute Ticket to The Cancellation of Lauren Fein’s final extension at the Palm Beach Dramaworks!!! If anyone wants t…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:32AMTheater Review by Carole Di Tosti . . . . In the sardonic, brilliant Russian Troll Farm, Sarah Gancher takes an imagined deep dive into the operations of one of the Russian Internet Research…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:11PMTheater Review by Michael Dale . . . . “This is not a brothel! This is an erotic resort!” demands the proprietor of the business that gives Colombian-American playwright Camilo Almonacid…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:00AMTheater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . It takes a lot of nerve to turn one of the most horrific genocides in American history Into a satirical romp. And that’s what the intrepid theater …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:53AMTheater Review by Brian Scott Lipton . . . . For decades, musical theater has asked us to sympathize or identify with—and perhaps even forgive—some very deeply flawed men, from Gaylord…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:44PMWith the launch of the Presidential election year, Five Musical LLC is thrilled to announce the world premiere of FIVE: The Parody Musical. Look out SIX, here comes FIVE: The Parody Musical.…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:22AMTheater Review by Jeffrey Bruce . . . . One of our most esteemed twentieth-century playwrights, August Wilson, won a Pulitzer Prize and many other accolades for his play The Piano Lesson, an…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:30AMTheater Review by Marcina Zaccaria . . . . A memorable invocation began the show and, like a rocket, The Poet of the Moon is propelled into the Cosmos in a production by Apollo’s Troupe ca…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:22AMTheater Review by Stuart Miller . . . . When I first interviewed Dael Orlandersmith about Yellowman, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, more than twenty years ago, we went to a record store together…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:00AMTheater Review by Jeffrey Bruce . . . “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” —George Santayana Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski has been brought to…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:50PMBy Ron Fassler . . . . Waterwell, a charity whose mission statement is “using storytelling to create a more just and humane society,” held a party in Brooklyn Monday night in celebration…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:25PMTheater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . Second Stage has taken a leap into the unknown in presenting Kate Douglas’s new play The Apiary at the Tony Kiser Theater, where it will be running …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:00PMTheater Review by Brian Scott Lipton . . . . “Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear,” we were told over 50 years ago in the Motown classic “I Heard It Through the Grap…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:46PMTheater Review by Marilyn Lester . . . . Over the course of Shakespearean theater, Hamlet has been a plum part for an actor, a test of thespian skill and ability. Sir Laurence Olivier, Mark …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:53PMTheater Review by Jeffrey Bruce . . . . After a sold-out run, Atlanta’s Horizon Theatre has, wisely, returned the Dave Molloy musical for an extended run through March 3rd. While the Broad…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:22PMTheater Review by Elise Nussbaum . . . . Pre-show house music of Guns n’ Roses, the Ramones, and Nirvana promised a “rock and roll” King Lear, but Frog & Peach Theatre Company’s …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:30PMMusic Review by Ron Fassler . . . . When someone is referred to as an icon or a legend during their lifetime it can often be a burden. Who can live up to that? It was Nathan Lane who once sa…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:55PMTheater Review by Michael Dale . . . . It was around this time last year when I first took in a performance by The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre, a New York-based company that has…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:21PMTheater Review by Alix Cohen . . . . I reviewed this terrific play with its original star, Wade McCollum, and have returned to see the burgeoning interpretation by Darius Rose (drag alter-eg…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:38PMTheater Review by Marilyn Lester . . . . Props to the Paper Mill Playhouse for bringing back After Midnight. It’s a theatrical revue that sings, swings, taps and lets loose with a whole lo…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:41AMTheater Review by Marcina Zaccaria . . . . For almost 15 years, I lived on Greenwich Street, a long road that extends north from downtown Manhattan, past the World Trade Center site, all the…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:02AMTheater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . I can’t recall the last time I attended something when, as the lights came up at its conclusion, most of the audience were in twos and threes huddled …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:30PMTheater Review by Carole Di Tosti . . . . In its iconic exploration of alcohol’s seductive toxicity, Days of Wine and Roses (the Musical), directed by Michael Greif, is even more searing a…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:20PMTheater Review by Myra Chanin . . . . In the recent past, going off into the wild blue yonder on Boeing’s iron birds has been a flight against fear . . . and rightly so. What a history! Th…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:59AMTheater Review by Yani Perez . . . . The 15th Annual The Fire This Time Festival – Ten-Minute Plays showcased six emerging playwrights at the Wild Project this past weekend in collaboratio…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:31AMTheater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Plays running three hours or longer generally tend to deal with big issues, often spread out over large swathes of time. Think, for example, of Ang…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:40PMTheater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . The current theater season in London is generating enough excitement and heat to warm the worst of this winter weather. Two glorious productions show…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:01PMCabaret Review by Myra Chanin . . . . I’ve reviewed restaurants and entertainment in New York and Long Island for over 20 years for various publications, so you’d better believe that t…
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