Thursday, October 6, 2022
By Carole di Tosti . . . A whimsical, picaresque adventure told through the viewpoint of a donkey, Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO is a stunning film, visually haunting and poetic. The legendary Po…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:24PMWednesday, October 5, 2022
By Ron Fassler . . . Upon entering the Linda Gross Theater for the Atlantic Theater’s production of Grace Garner’s new play, I’m Revolting, you are met by a strikingly realistic set …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:00PMTuesday, October 4, 2022
Initial casting for this 34th Annual FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS includes Liana Sta. Ana (Broadway: Miss Saigon), Will Blum (Broadway: Beetlejuice), Benai Alicia Boyd (LA: Bronco Billy), Kai An…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:47AMMonday, October 3, 2022
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Cost of Living, Martyna Majok’s (Sanctuary City) sometimes touching and funny dramedy, which premiered in 2017 at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, was produc…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:58PMSunday, October 2, 2022
By Carole di Tosti . . . For her thrilling, erotic and clever Stars at Noon, renowned filmmaker Claire Denis was jointly awarded the Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival 2022. The romantic spy…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:47PMBy Carole di Tosti . . . Directors Huang Ji and Otsuka Ryuji, a husband-and-wife team from Beijing, China, are known for creating films about families who must give up unity and togetherness…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:05PMSaturday, October 1, 2022
Review by Alix Cohen . . . Some things are a given. Tomorrow the sun will come up. Wheels are round. Apples crunch. And Catherine Russell delivers. Once again the vocalist and her fine ban…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:22PMFriday, September 30, 2022
By Carole di Tosti . . . In Aftersun, writer/director Charlotte Wells infuses her debut feature with cinematic beauty and fragility. It is a tone poem of layered memory as daughter Sophie …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:00PMBy Carole di Tosti . . . French documentarian Alice Diop applies her well-honed skills to reconfigure the true story of an infanticide by spinning it into her debut fictional narrative Sai…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:34AMThursday, September 29, 2022
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . No one can accuse Victor I. Cazares of having nothing to say. In american (tele)visions, now premiering at New York Theater Workshop in a co-production with Theat…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:00PMBy Carole di Tosti . . . Once again, the New York Film Festival has an incredible slate of films created by global filmmakers who have been selected to present their work during the two-we…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:35AMBy Marilyn Lester . . . What hasn’t Tony Danza done? He’s been a prize fighter; an actor on stage, film and television; a high school teacher; a talk show host; an author; a recording …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:21AMWednesday, September 28, 2022
By Ron Fassler . . . Phillip Officer, a performer with strong ties to New York City’s cabaret world, returned last night—after a long absence—to a warm and inviting crowd at Birdland…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:12AMWednesday, September 21, 2022
By Carole di Tosti . . . The truth is not easy knowing. Indeed, human beings have infinite capacity to ignore things that are not convenient. The words are from the New York premiere of Re…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:07PMBy Ron Fassler . . . In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, it is the verbose Polonius who offers the immortal advice that “brevity is the soul of wit.” It gets a laugh in any good production of t…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:03AMBy Marcina Zaccaria . . . In a ritual-based world where theater is a healing practice, Four Saints in Three Acts might be considered a whirly, spiritual pathway, dense with repetition. A…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:42AMThursday, September 15, 2022
By Ron Fassler . . . Jane Krakowski joined Seth Rudetsky on the stage of The Town Hall Monday evening for the latest in his series of informal 90-minute talks with Broadway show folk. Krak…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:30AMWednesday, September 14, 2022
By Carole di Tosti . . . Raising children is an act of love, sacrifice and emotional expiation. How much more so is this when a child is born with a physical condition that requires 24/7 c…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:30PMSunday, September 4, 2022
By JK Clarke . . . At the end of the summer of 2017, the Public Theater chose to close out a high-voltage summer with a civic-minded celebration of community and culture with a musical int…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:53AMTuesday, August 30, 2022
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Theater returned to town last year after its extended postponement stemming from the pandemic, but that doesn’t mean things were back to normal. Except for a ti…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:29AMMonday, August 29, 2022
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Have you heard the one about the two old Jews sitting around kvetching about life, death, and the hereafter? The one where one of them, sitting in the desert duri…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:41PMTuesday, August 9, 2022
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Musical theater is usually thought of as lighthearted and escapist, but the genre can also point to darker, even horrific themes, including madness and murder. Sh…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:35PMFriday, August 5, 2022
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Aeschylus’ The Oresteia, the only extant ancient Greek tragic trilogy, first produced in 458 BC, has been radically adapted by British director Robert Icke into…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:47AMSaturday, July 30, 2022
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . In 2013, a magnificently cheesy show called Disaster! had ‘em peeing in the aisles when it opened at a dinky Off-Broadway venue. A jukebox musical parody of 197…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:00AMTuesday, July 26, 2022
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . The publication in 2003 of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, a hugely successful novel dealing with contemporary Afghanistan and the rise of the Taliban, couldn�…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:29AMWednesday, July 20, 2022
By Myra Chanin . . . time stops—the title should be in all-caps followed by a queue of !!!s—which recently premiered at the Kravis Center’s Rinker Playhouse would have filled Marshall …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:13AMFriday, July 15, 2022
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . There’s something odd going on at the St. James Theatre, where the newest revival of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine 1987 fairytale musical, Into the Woods op…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:24AMTuesday, July 12, 2022
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . How’s this for a dramatic premise? A depressed, retiring young woman falls in love with a dashing, fictional character who reciprocates by stepping out of his s…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:07AMMonday, July 11, 2022
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . A classic night at Shakespeare in Central Park. Warm, slightly muggy weather? Check. A helicopter or two overhead? Check. A raccoon making an unexpected entrance?…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:58AMSaturday, July 2, 2022
Producers Richard Bell, N’Kenge, Park Row Equity Partners, Tegan Summer, Sam Williams, Michael Loeb and Derow Enterprises, in association with Coalition for African Americans in the Perfor…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:49AMWednesday, June 29, 2022
by Carole di Tosti . . . Three generations of gay, Black men living together provide the grist in the conflict of Mansa Ra’s lightly comedic drama, …what the end will be, presented at …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:22PM 
