Tuesday, 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 08:46AMMonday, March 28, 2022
By Adam Cohen . . . Mile Square Theatre is a jewel tucked into a corner of Hoboken, NJ—just a short ferry or bus ride from midtown. They present compelling, thoughtful, well-executed pro…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:06AMBy Carol Rocamora . . . “If you don’t think this play is funny, you are missing a lot of my play.” So writes playwright Dominique Morisseau in the program notes of Confederates, her …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:42AMThursday, March 24, 2022
By Bart Greenberg . . . A Touch of the Poet is one of Eugene O’Neill’s problematic plays. Written in the 1940s, but not produced until 1958, after his death. It was planned to be the fir…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:36PMBy Ron Fassler . . . If a play is plotless and devoid of characters, is it a play? It’s a question you might ponder while watching Claudia Rankine’s Help, now in a limited engagement at …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:10PMTuesday, March 22, 2022
By Ron Fassler . . . This past Sunday afternoon was the closing performance of the brief, limited run of Huang Ruo and Basil Twist’s Book of Mountains & Seas. Both puppet theater and c…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:26PMBy Barton Greenberg . . . Celebrating their 60th season, the historic La Mama Experimental Theater Club, in association with Spiderwoman Theater, in partnership with Aanmitaagzi and Loose Ch…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:31PMMonday, March 21, 2022
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . A playwright needs to have a lot of confidence if he’s going to give his play a name like Garbageman, the title of Emmy-nominated Keith Huff’s (A Steady Rain) n…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:04PMBy Melissa Griegel . . . At the beginning of the pandemic, Ian McQueen, Tori Vitucci, Hannah Hall, and Elizabeth Fahsbender wanted a way to showcase diverse artists that were now quarantined…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:06AMThursday, March 17, 2022
By Brian Scott Lipton In a recent interview explaining his decision to significantly rework the 1997 musical The Life for its current presentation at New York City Center Encores, the multi-…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:47PMTuesday, March 15, 2022
By Carole di Tosti The delightful musical by Stephen Schwartz (music and lyrics) and Joseph Stein (book), The Baker’s Wife, has never been produced on Broadway. Based on the titular 1938 F…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:29AMBy Melissa Griegel . . . The popular supper club 54 Below is celebrating ten years of it becoming Feinstein’s/54 Below with a series of anniversary concerts. On March 6, for both the 7 PM …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:10AMMonday, March 14, 2022
By Brian Scott Lipton “It was a moment. A marvelous moment,” two characters sing at the end of Anyone Can Whistle, and that sentiment perfectly summed up the feeling many of the 2,500 pe…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:45AMBy Marcina Zaccaria Touring the New York City waterways can make one feel elated. Viewing the stunning footage of large expanses of waterways and maps, it’s impossible not to be impressed …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:26AMBy Marcina Zaccaria Andy Warhol believed that anyone could be famous for 15 minutes or more. It’s that jarring truth that introduces a point of inquiry in The Trial of Andy Warhol. Is Warh…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:25AMThursday, March 10, 2022
By Brian Scott Lipton It seems impossible that each and every person watching the poignant musical revue Notes from Now, currently being presented by the Prospect Theater Company at 59E59 Th…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:20PMWednesday, February 23, 2022
By JK Clarke Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA) has taken a bold step in its new production of William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. But not for the expected reason (casting a blac…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:59PMMonday, February 21, 2022
By JK Clarke . . . The small-town America of The Music Man is the one people refer to when talking about “the good old days,” when everyone knew everyone, life was cheery and people lef…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:17PMTuesday, February 8, 2022
By JK Clarke One of the more intriguing components of Eugene O’Neill’s masterpiece Long Day’s Journey Into Night is its deliberate length—crafted to make the audience viscerally ex…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:58AMSaturday, February 5, 2022
By Cooper Lawrence . . . At first glance, it’s perplexing why Lynn Nottage (Book) and Christopher Wheeldon (Director/Choreographer) would want to celebrate a deeply flawed icon like Michae…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:43PMSunday, September 19, 2021
Theater Pizzazz had the privilege of attending the new opening night of American Utopia, the David Byrne musical on Friday night, September 17. JK Clarke was on hand at the St. James Theatre…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:02AMFriday, April 30, 2021
by JK Clarke . . . . Edward Medina, a beloved member of the New York theater critics community and a cherished colleague here at Theater Pizzazz, died Wednesday evening following complicatio…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:03AMThursday, September 10, 2020
For today’s installment of “Leiter Looks Back,” we’ll skip the ten best and take a look at five of the six Mantle liked but overlooked.
The post Leiter Looks Back: Five Plays of 1923…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:18AMTuesday, September 1, 2020
By Samuel L. Leiter To date, the seasons covered by this series have not been especially thrilling with regard to revivals, especially Shakespearean ones. Much of the Shakespeare…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:20AMMonday, March 9, 2020
By Brian Scott Lipton What is, what was and what might have been. These everyday yet profound questions envelop the minds of both the main characters and the audience of Unknown Sol…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:31PMSaturday, February 29, 2020
By Samuel L. Leiter It’s too soon to suggest a trend but All the Natalie Portmans, the MCC’s production of C.A. Johnson’s bumpily engaging, African-American, coming-o…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:47AMTuesday, February 25, 2020
By Brian Scott Lipton “There are only two sure things in life, death and taxes,” Benjamin Franklin famously told the public, and playwright Young Jean Lee certainly …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:55PMMonday, February 24, 2020
By JK Clarke For many of us, the most preferable way to understand an historical event or era is through historical fiction with dramatized narratives. Obviously, works of his…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:20PMTuesday, February 4, 2020
By Brian Scott Lipton The tiny mini-dresses, the tight-tight pants and the paisley shirts. The velour sofas. The talk of key parties and “The Institute” and the copy…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:00PMThursday, January 30, 2020
By Samuel L. Leiter A Soldier’s Play, Charles Fuller’s vigorous, Pulitzer Prize-winning examination of racial tension among African-American soldiers in a U.S. Army cam…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:15AMThursday, January 23, 2020
By JK Clarke It takes an extraordinarily special talent to take Shakespeare’s more problematic—or “less compelling”—plays and make them not only interesting, but …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:51PM 
