Sunday, 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 08:45AMSaturday, May 14, 2022
By Carol Rocamora . . . “F***ing business!” Who better than David Mamet can sum up the essence of American society and its values in only two words and make them sound so eloquent!? As…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:30AMBy Carole di Tosti . . . The power of The Vagrant Trilogy, Mona Mansour’s incredible work, currently at the Public Theater until May 15, lies in the questions it raises. These concern th…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:27AMMonday, May 9, 2022
By Marilyn Lester . . . Ken Page is easy to love. And loved he is—very much, judging by a sold-out Feinstein’s/54 Below on May 4. The room was packed by friends and fans, including a y…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:49AMSaturday, May 7, 2022
By Andrew Poretz . . . The Canadian-born Peter Calo is one of those super-talented musicians who, while he’s had a successful career both as a solo artist and as a collaborator with the …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:30AMThe Theatre World Awards Board of Directors, Dale Badway, President, has announced the 2022 Honorees for the Theatre World Award for an Outstanding Debut Performance in a Broadway or Off-Bro…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:57AMFriday, May 6, 2022
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . The rock music blasts, the curtain rises, and the race (I mean show) is on at Broadway’s Shubert Theatre. We’re watching Selina Fillinger’s political farce,…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:30AMBy Carol Rocamora . . . What’s the first thing you think of when you hear the name “Cyrano?” You beat me to it! I heard you say it before I could write it. The NOSE, of course. That le…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:00AMBy Samuel L. Leiter . . . Doctors who become playwrights are not quite as rare a phenomenon as you might think. Famous examples are Anton Chekhov, Friedrich Schiller, Arthur Schnitzler, an…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:12AMWednesday, May 4, 2022
By JK Clarke . . . Does Sam Gold hate Shakespeare? I found myself wondering that as I watched his latest deconstructed, minimalist hatchet job as director of one of the Bard’s most belov…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:45AMTuesday, May 3, 2022
By Carole di Tosti . . . Thorton Wilder’s Pulitizer Prize-winning The Skin of Our Teeth—currently in revival at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater—presents the fate of the hu…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:25AMBy Marilyn Lester . . . What does it mean to be an American?—that’s a question we’ve been grappling with since 1776. It’s also the question the new musical, ¡Americano!, a true stor…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:36AMSunday, May 1, 2022
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . A Strange Loop, the raucously profane, satirical, Pulitzer Prize-winning musical comedy, which premiered Off Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in 2019, is now jubila…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:20PMWednesday, April 27, 2022
By JK Clarke . . . Twenty five years ago (1997) Paula Vogel’s critically acclaimed and Pulitzer Prize-winning How I Learned to Drive took on the very complicated subject of intra-family …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:42AMThursday, April 21, 2022
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . When it comes to sucking you into the vortex of a funny, violence-steeped dramatic world, few playwrights can do it with quite the mesmerizing theatrical panache of…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:28PMWednesday, April 20, 2022
By Carole di Tosti . . . For an uplifting journey into the realms of fantasy and delight, see the titular Broadway production of The Little Prince, based on the classic 1943 novella by Ant…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:28AMSaturday, April 16, 2022
By Ron Fassler . . . The memory play is a fairly common staple of American drama, especially ones with a grown narrator stepping in and out as they participate in their own past (Tennessee…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:03AMFriday, April 15, 2022
By Andrew Poretz . . . Allan Harris, one of the coolest cool cat performers you’ll ever see, played two sets at Dizzy’s Club on Columbus Circle after a road tour with eight other music…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:35AMWednesday, April 13, 2022
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Berlin, the late 1920s, the Jazz Age, the rise of the Nazis, and the world of entertainers and cabarets, old friends. Such is the background of—sorry, no, not t…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:00PMMonday, April 11, 2022
By Marilyn Lester . . . In 1925, playwright Barry Connor wrote a fractious drawing-room comedy in The Patsy, whose Broadway success led to a 1928 film (a huge hit and now a classic) starring…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:54AMThursday, April 7, 2022
By Ron Fassler . . . With its origins in Greek epic poetry, the clever new musical Penelope: Or How the Odyssey Was Really Written, is using the advertising slogan: “Greece is the Word.�…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:15PMBy Andrew Poretz . . . Lorna Luft is a survivor. She survived losing her mother, Judy Garland, as a teenager (never mind the burdens of being an iconic celebrity’s daughter) and eventual…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:16PMWednesday, April 6, 2022
By Ron Fassler . . . When last we tuned in, Seth Rudetsky’s Broadway was scheduled for April 19, 2019. Canceled for reasons we know all too well, his special guest for an intimate evenin…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:30AMMonday, April 4, 2022
Sunday night, April 3, fans and first-nighters flocked to the Barrymore Theatre for the opening night of Paradise Square on Broadway, the hot new Broadway musical set in mid-19th century New…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:59PMFriday, April 1, 2022
by Carol di Tosti . . . When money and wealth become more important than the lives of others, that is the time to write a play with powerful, sonorous music. Oh, not to uplift the CEOs who…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:36AMWednesday, March 30, 2022
By JK Clarke . . . The ability to express emotion through song is one of the things that makes us—humans—such a remarkable species. We often, in the fog of commercialism, forget that at …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:27PMBy JK Clarke . . . Long-form standup comedy is often compelling because it allows us to get to know the comic better, more intimately than short form and one-liner standup sets. And as is th…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:26PMBy Bart Greenberg . . . The fabulous Tina Burner returned to New York City as part of her national tour celebrating the release of her new recording, “Mix Queen: A Relationship Mixtape,”…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:23PMBy Tania Fisher . . . Award winning playwright, Joseph Krawczyk provides yet another beguiling piece of theater in this real-life-events-inspired alluring play. Krawczyk’s leads the way …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:30PMBy Andrew Poretz . . . “When we study the past, we prevent history from repeating itself. What are the ghosts of Weimar past warning us of?” That’s the thesis presented in Ghosts of …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:26AMTuesday, March 29, 2022
By Marcina Zaccaria . . . In I Agree to the Terms, we travel back to the exhilarating computer explosion of the 1980s. Gurus love this era, before email and before the Internet, when we co…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:46AM 
