Sunday, March 31, 2019
By Ron Fassler Sondheim: Wordplay at the Kaufmann Concert Hall on Saturday night was genuine truth in advertising. For surely there has been no Broadway lyricist who has pl…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:23PM by JK Clarke It can be argued that William Shakespeare’s much loved Roman Republic play Julius Caesar is actually two plays in one: the first half being a tragedy very much …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:36PMFriday, March 29, 2019
By Myra Chanin The abundant twists and turns in most narrative arcs ultimately boil down to a series of themes. For example, there’s “boy meets girl,” as in Cinderella; …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:32PM It’s a massive epic, and what masterful stagecraft is marshaled to tell it! by Carol Rocamora The Lehman Trilogy, the astonishing new play at the Park Avenue Armory, c…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:09AMWednesday, March 27, 2019
By Myra Chanin I am enraged, infuriated, maddened by the use of phrases like “The Holocaust” or “The Shoah”—politically correct, less disturbing words which attem…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:57AMTuesday, March 26, 2019
By Ron Fassler Those swinging, singing sisters, Liz and Ann, in their new concert show, Broadway with the Callaways (at the Sony Concert Hall), brought screams of cheers to the t…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:50PM by Samuel L. Leiter I’ve been to the Soho Playhouse many times but never have I seen such a crowd of well-dressed, excitedly buzzing theatergoers standing outside on Vandam …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:55AM by JK Clarke The 1620 voyage by members of the Separatists (a Puritan sect) on the Mayflower to what is now New England was one of the most daring ventures ever. The tra…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:35AMWednesday, March 20, 2019
by Sheila Watko With the talent of a seasoned Broadway composer and the optimistic charm of an artist making it in New York City, Toronto-based composer and lyricist Daniel…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:00PMWednesday, March 13, 2019
by Samuel L. Leiter There are a lot of Jewish jokes in A Jewish Joke, Marni Freedman and Phil Johnson’s not-up-to-expectations solo play, in which Johnson portrays a come…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:54PMMonday, March 11, 2019
Sunday, March 10 saw the Opening Night of the Broadway Musical Be More Chill at The Lyceum Theatre, followed by a grand after party at Gotham Hall. The story of teens coping with po…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:59PMSaturday, March 9, 2019
by Carol Rocamora It’s a wild ride, so fasten your seat belts. Marys Seacole, now playing at Lincoln Center’s tiny Claire Tow Theater, will alternately shock you, bewilder…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:07PMFriday, March 8, 2019
In Space, everyone can hear Molly scream. by JK Clarke Society’s fascination with outer space is well documented, and has been since long before the first rocket ship …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:03PMThursday, March 7, 2019
by JK Clarke Since its Broadway debut in 1964, Fiddler on the Roof has remained largely unchanged, and maintained its status as an emotive and poignant musical that touches…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:11AMWednesday, March 6, 2019
By Samuel L. Leiter Audiences investing time and money in seeing New Light Theater Project’s production of Imagining Madoff, Obie-winning Deb Margolin’s (Turquoise) brainy…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:50PMThursday, February 28, 2019
by Sheila Watko What happens when you cross Bring It On with Scream, add an incredible girl power cast and throw in some Broadway-pop music for good measure? You get We Are…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:49PMTuesday, February 26, 2019
by Brian Scott Lipton Lewis Carroll’s Victorian-era masterpiece Alice in Wonderland has sparked the theatrical imagination of such diverse talents as Eva Le Gallienne, El…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:30PMFriday, February 15, 2019
by Sheila Watko Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre has been home to over thirty shows since it opened its doors almost a century ago, including favorites…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:08AMThursday, February 14, 2019
by Hazen Cuyler To document your mother’s suffering as she dies from cancer requires courage. To expose a family’s feelings and desires throughout that trauma…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:21AMWednesday, February 13, 2019
By Sheila Watko The year is 1963.; Martin Luther King, Jr. will soon lead one of the country’s largest civil rights demonstrations, the Walk to Fr…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:14AMFriday, February 1, 2019
by JK Clarke In his first book, War on Peace, published last summer, New Yorker investigative journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner (for his exposé …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:39PMWednesday, January 30, 2019
by Samuel L. Leiter In a script note for his stumbling satire on our racist history, The American Tradition, Ray Yamanouchi asks directors to “uti…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:00PMTuesday, January 29, 2019
by Ron Fassler In the spring of 1979, Carmelina, a new musical by the formidable talents of Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane, opened on Broadw…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:26AMMonday, January 28, 2019
by Matt Smith Dianna Agron knows a thing or two about curveballs. Throughout her six-season stint on popular musical dramedy series Glee, her character, spiteful …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:01AMThursday, January 24, 2019
by Samuel L. Leiter Given the sturm and drang of what goes on there, it’s a wonder anyone would want to return to the medieval convent that forms …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:47PMWednesday, January 23, 2019
By Samuel L. Leiter When’s the last time you saw 15 talented actors doing a nonmusical show on a tiny Off-Broadway stage? For me, it was last night at Th…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:38AMFriday, January 18, 2019
By Samuel L. Leiter Since 2016, the St. Louis Actors’ Studio has been presenting an annual program of one-acts locally under the rubric LaBute New Theater Festi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:53AMMonday, January 14, 2019
By Ron Fassler With School of Rock closing January 20th after an impressive run of three years and just over 1,300 performances, I was happily invit…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:28PMMonday, December 24, 2018
By JK Clarke I find it hard to understand why William Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well is so seldom performed. When done as elegantly as …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:34PMThursday, December 20, 2018
By JK Clarke It can be argued that Macbeth is Shakespeare’s best and most beloved play. It’s an assertion that would certainly spark vigo…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:07PMFriday, December 14, 2018
By Samuel L. Leiter Tis the season to be silly, and the York Theatre Company, no stranger to quirky, musical silliness (see Marry Harry and A…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:06AM 
