Wednesday, 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 03:22PMMonday, June 27, 2022
By JK Clarke . . . Let’s go back to the beginning and remind ourselves that Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard is fundamentally about social change. Almost cataclysmic social change in…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:58AMSaturday, June 25, 2022
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Since 1995, the mission of Off-Broadway’s Mint Theater has been to revive worthy but forgotten plays, mainly British and American. Some have proved gems, some i…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:45AMFriday, June 24, 2022
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . Dinners and dinner parties, the automatic catalyst for awkward, revealing and often life-changing interactions, have fascinated such writers as Thornton Wilder, A…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:18PMBy Carole Di Tosti . . . Presented by the Voyage Theater Company in their World Premiere, Don’t Look Back, by Adam Kraar, highlights current issues and profound themes in his reimagining…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:09AMWednesday, June 22, 2022
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . “There’s a part of me that really wants this program note to say ‘Corsicana is a small city in Texas. This play is about four people who live there. Thank…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:59PMBy Andrew Poretz . . . Way back in 1938, George Abbott, with the help of a couple of New York songwriters you might have heard of—Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart—adapted William Shakes…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:27AMBy Marilyn Lester . . . When percussionist, composer, educator and multi-Grammy Award nominee Bobby Sanabria appears on a bandstand, what’s guaranteed is a bona fide happening—an exper…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:13AMTuesday, June 21, 2022
by Adam Cohen . . . My 16-year-old has been going to theater for almost ten years. The show that most resonated with her was The Prom—a musical ostensibly about bullying . . . and finding …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:10AMSaturday, June 18, 2022
Barbara Bleier and Austin Pendleton are back by popular demand to Sing Steve and Oscar on June 26 and July 10 @ 7 pm at Don’t Tell Mama with Christopher Denny, Music Direction, the show di…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:48AMFriday, June 17, 2022
By Ron Fassler . . . The title of this review alone offers three reasons that should send anyone rushing to see dance of the highest order: 1) American Ballet Theatre (ABT) being one of th…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:40PMBy Andrew Poretz . . . PERFORMANCE PHOTOS – COCKTAIL EVENT PHOTOS On Sunday June 12, the stars converged at the Cutting Room to honor the great Lee Roy Reams with a Lifetime Achievement …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:13AMWednesday, June 15, 2022
By Andrew Poretz . . . Robin Lyon was a not-quite-major Broadway performer in the 1980s and early 1990s. A talented singer, dancer and actress, she had multiple credits in such shows as A Ch…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:45AMBy Ron Fassler . . . I’ve always imagined what it must have been like to attend a dinner party at Ira Gershwin’s house in Beverly Hills back in the day when, late in the evening, his f…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:33AMTuesday, June 14, 2022
By Marilyn Lester . . . Sometime during the Yuan Dynasty, playwright Guan Hanqing (1241-1320) wrote Gan Tian Dong Di Dou E Yuan—translated as: The Injustice to Dou E that Touched Heaven an…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:44PMBy Yani Perez . . . Eva Luna, written by Caridad Svich with direction by Estefanía Fadul, is based on Isabel Allende’s novel by the same title. This production, presented by Repertorio…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:30PMMonday, June 13, 2022
And Complete List of Tony Nominees and Winners – – – By Ron Fassler – our man at the Tonys . . . Last evening the 75th Annual Tony Awards were handed out at Radio City Music Hall, an…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:31PMSaturday, June 11, 2022
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Don’t get me wrong. I love Sarah Silverman, the comedian. She’s the very model of a modern Mrs. Maisel, using potty-mouthed wit to shoot darts at contemporary…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:31PMWednesday, June 8, 2022
By Andrew Poretz . . . “Dying is easy.Comedy is hard”— so go the supposed last words of Edmund Kean. In Out of the Eclipse, Canadian-born performer Joanna Gleason speaks and sings of f…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:30AMBy Marcina Zaccaria . . . In an effort to build bigger business, West Africans battle with Chinese fighter pilots in Sky of Darkness. With convincing and upsetting spoken text and a series…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:54AMTuesday, June 7, 2022
By Yani Perez . . . Quince—written and co-created by Camilo Quiroz-Vázquez; directed and co-created by Ellpetha Tsivicos—is a lively, interactive birthday party, a feel-good show that…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:15AMMonday, June 6, 2022
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . I have a bone to pick, but first the play: Mr. Parker, originally produced by Island City Stage, Fort Lauderdale, in 2018. Michael McKeever (Daniel’s Husband) has…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:00PMThursday, June 2, 2022
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . What does it mean to be a gay black male in America today? It’s a question that’s been pondered on many New York stages this past season, in shows ranging f…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:30PMFriday, May 27, 2022
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Barbra Streisand was a relatively unknown 21-year-old singer in 1964 when she exploded into Broadway superstardom as Manhattan-born vaudeville comedienne Fania Bo…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:48AMThursday, May 26, 2022
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Before this year, there were only two plays that won a Pulitzer Prize before being produced in New York, The Kentucky Cycle in 1992 and Anna in the Tropics in 200…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:45PMMonday, May 23, 2022
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . Faith and hope can often be in short supply these days, whether in Twin Falls, Idaho, the setting of Samuel D. Hunter’s delicate, beautifully acted two-hander…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:30AMSaturday, May 21, 2022
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . In 1992, comedian Billy Crystal made his movie directing debut with Mr. Saturday Night, which he co-wrote and in which he also starred as Buddy Young, Jr., a wash…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:00PMThursday, May 19, 2022
Following its big opening night May 1 and continuing critical acclaim, ¡Americano! the Musical has been drawing boldface names from the show business community as well as government offici…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:47AMTuesday, May 17, 2022
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.” This now-classic line from the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke could be projected above the stage for the enti…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:59PMMonday, May 16, 2022
By Adam Cohen . . . While we all strive to obtain and surpass our aspirations, few of us are afforded the opportunity . . . even if it’s a terrible goal. Success, failure. Living or dyin…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:30AMSunday, May 15, 2022
By Adam Cohen . . . Jason Robert Brown, composer, Tony winner, held an amazing court on Friday, May 13 at Feinstein’s/54 Below. Backed by a scintillatingly tight band, he offered the aud…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:45AM 
