Thursday, April 26, 2018
Wednesday evening, April 25, saw the opening night festivities of the Broadway revival of Saint Joan, the George Bernard Shaw telling of the life of Joan of Arc at the S…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:59PMWednesday, April 25, 2018
by JK Clarke James Joyce, Vladimir Lenin and Tristan Tzara (one of the founders of Dadaism) are hanging out in Zurich . . . sounds like the setup to one of those …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:49PMMonday, April 23, 2018
Harry Potter goes Broadway! Picking up where the seventh book in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series left off, with Harry and his magical friends as adults, the two-play H…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:20PM Sunday afternoon, April 22, the long awaited American debut of the Harry Potter play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2, opened at the Lyric Theatre on Broadway. Thea…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:25AMThursday, April 19, 2018
by JK Clarke One of the drawbacks of theater or literature that deals with contemporaneously specific issues is that they run the risk of losing their rele…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:20AMSunday, April 15, 2018
by JK Clarke While there’s nothing wrong with the trend of altering classical theater with a modern or minimalist slant, the downside is the infrequency with wh…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:44PMFriday, March 30, 2018
by JK Clarke If Hello, Dolly! were edited down to a mere 10 or 15 minute version of the glorious set piece featuring the title song, it would stand up on i…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:21AMTuesday, March 27, 2018
by JK Clarke The madness of Leontes, King of Sicilia is puzzling. Erupting from seemingly nowhere it ruins his life in short order; and it just as q…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:42PMSaturday, March 17, 2018
Thursday, March 15 Jimmy Buffett’s new musical, Escape to Margaritaville celebrated its opening on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre. The story of people and life on an i…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:43PMThursday, March 15, 2018
by JK Clarke You’d be hard pressed to find someone not intimately familiar with the Jimmy Buffett 1977 soft-rock hit, “Margaritaville,” a catchy reve…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:58PMWednesday, March 7, 2018
by JK Clarke What do you do after winning four World Series titles, playing five All-Star games, winning four Gold Gloves and being voted league MVP (among…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:26PMFriday, March 2, 2018
by JK Clarke Theater, as we know, exists in all kinds of different forms.There are few varieties that have yet to be seen, from the conventional to the inventive:…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:48AMWednesday, February 28, 2018
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Thursday night, February 22, Hello, Dolly! re-opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre with Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters at the helm as Dolly Gallagher Levi, taking over from …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:40AMFriday, February 16, 2018
by Steve Nardoni This past Wednesday at Feinstein’s/54 Below saw a Valentine-themed celebration of Broadway, romance, and relationships, delightfully represented by co…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:01AMWednesday, January 17, 2018
by Marilyn Lester The Tara Finney anniversary production of Disco Pigs is a completely stunning piece of theater. In 75 minutes of nonstop action, Evanna L…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:58AMSaturday, December 23, 2017
by JK Clarke At this point it’s fair to call Kate Hamill a one-woman cottage industry of theatrical interpretations of 19th century English Literature cl…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:57AMTuesday, December 19, 2017
The evening of Sunday, December 17 saw the Broadway opening of Claire Van Kampen’s new play, Farinelli and the King, starring three-time Tony Award and Oscar-winni…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:20AMMonday, December 18, 2017
by JK Clarke Much is known of the life of British literary icon C.S. Lewis, but he was a man who meant different things to different groups of people, such that h…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:41AMFriday, December 15, 2017
by JK Clarke Even among those who eschew Shakespeare plays, whatever their reason—language, content, repetition—the much beloved, comic masterpi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:54PMMonday, December 11, 2017
by Michael Bracken When’s the last time you attended “an immersive guerrilla folk opera”? At the risk of sounding like I’ve led a sheltered life, I have to adm…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:16AMTuesday, December 5, 2017
by JK Clarke At some point in a long list of accolades, the Public Theater’s Mobile Unit should be singled out for consistently turning out first rate, a…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:07AMFriday, December 1, 2017
Thursday, November 30, Beau Willimon’s The Parisian Woman opened on at the Hudson Theatre, ushering in with it Uma Thurman’s Broadway debut. Directed by Pam MacKinn…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:39AMThursday, November 30, 2017
Wednesday, November 29 saw the Broadway opening of Steve Martin’s Meteor Shower at the historic Booth Theatre. The comedy starring Amy Schumer, Keegan Michael Key, Tony winner L…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:18AMThursday, November 23, 2017
By JK Clarke Anyone walking in to see the new production of Peter Pan at the Duke on 42nd Street is in for a shock if they’re not familiar with its produ…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:35AMWednesday, November 8, 2017
Monday, November 6, the Drama League celebrated its 34th Annual Musical Celebration of Broadway at the Plaza Hotel by honoring Mark Twain award winning humorist, Kennedy Center…
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By Samuel L. Leiter If you love physical comedy in the manner of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin or, to cite more recent exemplars, Bill Irwin and…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:31AMThursday, October 26, 2017
by JK Clarke There is no greater sign of a rock and roll cover band’s devotion to an artist than playing one of its albums in its entirety. Tangentially,…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:09AMTuesday, October 24, 2017
Monday, October 23, Abingdon Theatre Company celebrated its 25th Anniversary Gala at the Edison Ballroom in Times Square, NYC. This year’s Gala honored the legendary Tony…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:57AMSunday, October 22, 2017
By Eric J. Grimm Sara Fellini and her company, spit&vigor, put on the most daring work I have seen in New York theater. Her plays are substantial and often monumenta…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:49AMMonday, October 16, 2017
Friday, October 13 was full of good auspices at Cipriani on 42nd Street as the Irish Arts Center celebrated with its Spirit of Ireland Gala. This year’s event honored: Emmy, Gra…
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