Friday, 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 05:06AMThursday, December 13, 2018
by JK Clarke One always imagines the Groundlings—the “common people” in the cheap seats, or standing in front of the stage during Shakespeare’s first prod…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:12PMSunday, December 9, 2018
by Brian Scott Lipton It’s hardly a secret that in the Antebellum south, white owners often took sexual advantage of their African-American slaves. But i…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:00PMThursday, December 6, 2018
by JK Clarke It’s been a good autumn for playwright Theresa Rebeck. Her thoughtful examination of famed turn-of-the-century actor Sarah Bernhardt’s gro…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:44PMWednesday, December 5, 2018
by Adam Cohen One man’s ambition is comfortable, while to another it is anathema. This is the simplest way to convey the central theme of Irving Berlin’s Holi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:29PMFriday, November 30, 2018
by JK Clarke Nothing Comes of Nothing. In every art form there comes a moment, or several moments, when the masters of that art tear it apart and br…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:55PMSunday, November 18, 2018
By Steve Nardoni My circle is tired of hearing me whine, “I don’t remember the ‘80s!” So it was that I took this assignment with trepidation…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:31AMWednesday, November 14, 2018
By Samuel L. Leiter Despite its title, Scott Aiello’s Bernie and Mikey’s Trip to the Moon is anything but a slacker/stoner play in the vein of the Bill…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:00PMTuesday, November 13, 2018
by Sheila Watko Even before Joe Iconis (Larson Award winner; Drama Desk nominee; creator of Be More Chill, Broadway Bounty Hunter, The Black Suits) and Geo…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:11AMThursday, November 8, 2018
by Carol Rocamora “I know how it is in America.” We’re hearing that line a lot on our stages this season. It’s coming from a multiplicity of voices…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:15AMWednesday, November 7, 2018
by JK Clarke No matter the plaudits already heaped on the Public Theater’s Mobile Unit, it is time that the group be acknowledged by one or all of the ma…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:10PMSaturday, October 27, 2018
by JK Clarke Every so often there is a comic actor who takes command of a stage in a way that either delights or chagrins audience members, and often other actors…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:03AMTuesday, October 23, 2018
by JK Clarke A new production of John Patrick Shanley’s mainstay of acting classes everywhere, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, opened last week at Theatre U…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:05PMMonday, October 22, 2018
by JK Clarke The more risky elements a director inserts into a stage play, the greater the chance that something will go wrong. But acclaimed director of s…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:35AMThursday, October 18, 2018
by Hazen Cuyler Emma and Max—now playing at the Flea Theater—is a trap set to deceive us all. Written and directed by Todd Solondz, an experienced inde…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:19AMWednesday, October 17, 2018
by JK Clarke Fans of Alfred Hitchcock will tell you that the most terrifying of his thrillers are also the funniest. There’s something about mixing myste…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:27PMTuesday, October 16, 2018
By Brian Scott Lipton As Joni Mitchell once famously sang, “you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.” Within mere seconds of her first appearanc…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:01PM by JK Clarke Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was a masterful novelist, known primarily for the satirical, cynical vein that ran through his crisp, entertaining novels. …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:37PMMonday, October 15, 2018
by Michael Bracken Lovely and lyrical, Donja R. Love’s Fireflies, at the Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater, is disarmingly powerful. Don�…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:14PMThursday, October 11, 2018
by JK Clarke If you strip away the jaw dropping, “holy cow” moments from the new production of Oklahoma! at St. Ann’s Warehouse (now through November 11), w…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:52AMTuesday, October 2, 2018
by JK Clarke One doesn’t expect an off-off-Broadway, independent theater solo show to be a high tech affair, so the video, lighting and sound of Hope—playing …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:39PMMonday, October 1, 2018
by Alix Cohen Behind the Music with Louis Rosen: Stephen Sondheim, American Modernist Beginnings: West Side Story, Gypsy and Forum (or Broadway Experiments…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:33PMSaturday, September 29, 2018
by JK Clarke The experience of growing of black in an all, or mostly-white community in the United States is one that very few white Americans understand. Even am…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:36PMTuesday, September 25, 2018
by JK Clarke Bedlam Theater Company, for reasons that do not become apparent during the play (or after, in contemplation), has combined Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya with …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:00PM Last night, Monday, September 24, The American Theater Wing celebrated newly minted EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar Tony) winner, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber at Cipriani on 42nd Street. …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:23AMWednesday, September 12, 2018
by JK Clarke Note: If you are the sort of person who is offended by candid discussions of female genitalia and sex in general, and by the rampant use of th…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:51PMThursday, August 30, 2018
by Samuel L. Leiter Scraps is an angry play. Not that it doesn’t have plenty to be angry about. However, the solution it takes to dealing with its issues sugges…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:10PMFriday, August 24, 2018
by JK Clarke The three plays that make up Henry VI are among William Shakespeare’s earliest works. Presumably written in the early 1590s and said by some…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:52PMTuesday, August 21, 2018
by Samuel L. Leiter R.R.R.E.D., one of the most annoying show titles for anyone who has to type it out, refers to the Redheaded Revolutionary Evolutionary …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:17PMSaturday, August 18, 2018
by Martha Wade Steketee The first show empties out, and a rapt audience of cabaret enthusiasts files into 54 Below for a late-night show featuring Eric Yve…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:30PM by Grace Treston Whitney Houston is a tricky star to emulate. The late performer is often paid tribute by professional and aspiring singers alike—perhaps so oft…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:00AM 
