Thursday, September 21, 2023
By Marcina Zaccaria . . . Can piano music save the soul? This is the question I kept asking myself as I watched the courageous performance in 20 Seconds, written and performed by Thomas Sw…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:36PMWednesday, September 20, 2023
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . In a number of ways, Swing State, Rebecca Gilman’s (Spinning Into Butter) often compelling, well-acted drama being presented by Audible at the Minetta Lane, res…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:50PMBy Brian Scott Lipton . . . One won’t spot an “Audrey II” among the neatly ordered plants inside the store that lends Theresa Rebeck’s involving new play, Dig its name. But even if…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:17PMMonday, September 18, 2023
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . Walk into any Target or CVS and you’ll see shelf upon shelf stacked with Halloween decorations. But big-box stores aren’t the only ones getting a head start…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:58PMBy Samuel L. Leiter . . . Job, a two-hander by Max Wolf Friedrich at the SoHo Playhouse, begins like a thriller, with a young woman pointing a pistol across the small stage at a much older m…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:53PMBy Samuel L. Leiter . . . Tripping on Life is a one-woman play now running at Theatre Row, written by and starring Lin Shaye. I admit to not knowing who this septuagenarian character actre…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:30PMFriday, September 15, 2023
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Psychic Self Defense—created, written, designed, and directed by Normandy Sherwood—is a throwback to the kind of cleverly cheesy experimental theater work of …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:30PMBy Tania Fisher . . . Don’t let its title mislead you. Sure, Sex Work / Sex Play (now playing at the TADA 28th Street Theater through October 29) is a play about a college student’s si…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:54AMBy Ron Fassler . . . Stand back, world! Rachel Bloom has arrived in Greenwich Village with a show sprung from the deep well of her startlingly creative imagination . . . and Christopher St…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:03AMWednesday, September 13, 2023
By Alix Cohen . . . If you can untangle this one, you likely both understand Spanish language and Mexican myth, though that may not be sufficient. In Christine Stoddard’s Mi Abuela, Qu…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:32AMTuesday, September 12, 2023
By Carol Rocamora . . . “Who are the normal, happy people?” asks Sofi, a character in Annie Baker’s tantalizing new play Infinite Life that just opened at the Atlantic Theatre Compan…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:29PMBy Ron Fassler . . . The York Theatre’s “Musicals in Mufti” series is truly the place to see minimally staged, maximal entertainments. Case in point, their latest offering: the 1975 …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:11AMTuesday, August 29, 2023
By Walter Murphy . . . At the risk of diminishing the importance and insights of Michael Tucker’s new comedy, may I open with an illustrative joke? Two fellows—one a tailor, the other a …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:18AMBy Ron Fassler . . . All hail the return, after four long years, of the York Theatre Company’s Musicals in Mufti series. For those who don’t know what is meant by mufti, it’s always …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:26AMBy Ron Fassler . . . The smile, the sheer enthusiasm and the musicianship of Jaime Lozano & The Familia made for a delightful evening of original songs, part of Lincoln Center’s Summ…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:54AMMonday, August 28, 2023
By Carole Di Tosti . . . In the off-Broadway world premiere Pay the Writer, Tawni O’Dell (author of Back Roads), presents a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist through the viewpoint of his s…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:11AMBy Ron Fassler . . . It’s hard to believe that the first off-Broadway edition of Forbidden Broadway was forty-one years ago. I remember it all too well as I saw it at the old Palsson’s…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:46AMFriday, August 11, 2023
By Ron Fassler . . . Credit where credit is due: someone figured out how to put on stage the drama and comedy that came with the delays a trio of actors endured while filming Jaws in the sum…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:30PMThursday, August 10, 2023
By Ron Fassler . . . When a show dedicates itself to Vanna White as the source of its inspiration, you know things are bound to be a bit bent. Remember, this is the same Vanna White who once…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:56PMBy Alix Cohen . . . Yes, you have to have seen the film Jaws. It’s not, however, necessary to remember the publicized adversity suffered by its production. Having paid $175,000 for the rig…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:00PMBy Stuart Miller . . . Amie Enriquez’s one-woman show, Lightweight, is difficult to review. In part because it feels cruel to criticize someone who bares their deepest trauma—in her ca…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:41PMTuesday, August 8, 2023
By Ron Fassler . . . Liz Kingsman is onto something. She pretends she doesn’t know what she’s doing, but folks, it’s all an act. Her seventy-minute show at the Greenwich House Theate…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:53PMBy Ron Fassler . . . He’s back, darlings! It’s been almost exactly a year since I last saw Isaac Mizrahi perform on the 54 Below stage. A cabaret entertainer, sure, but Mizrahi is cert…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:17AMBy Myra Chanin . . . I’ve seen many versions of A Chorus Line, but the recent FAU Festival Rep 2023 production was the most diverse, touching, passionate and compassionate. On a bare stage…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:53AMMonday, August 7, 2023
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Already in this young season, three plays have dribbled with the game of basketball, King James, Flex, and Inua Ellams’s The Half-God of Rainfall, now at the Ne…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:18AMSaturday, August 5, 2023
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Judging by the explosive opening night reaction at the Winter Garden to the new Broadway musical based on Back to the Future, the popular 1985 sci-fi movie about …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:19PMTuesday, August 1, 2023
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . There’s an incredibly famous saying in the entertainment world: “Never work with children or animals.” Now, on the basis of Second Stage Uptown’s produc…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:00PMIndustry Reading . . . MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL the 1994 iconic blockbuster book by John Berendt, which still holds a New York Times bestseller list record, is being developed…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:31AMBy Marcina Zaccaria . . . An evening of bliss becomes a morality tale as we follow a 67-year-old woman who encounters the truths of an unseemly past in The Saviour. Marie Mullen (Tony Awar…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:57AMMonday, July 31, 2023
By Ron Fassler . . . Walking into the theater for A Musical About “Star Wars,” you expect it will be funny and satiric (especially when the usher swipes your ticket and tells you to �…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:01AMBy Alix Cohen . . . The McKittrick Hotel Club Car is very dark. A very long, candlelit table is set attractively for dinner. Visual resembles Hogwarts. Scottish illusionist Scott Silven …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:51AM 
