Monday, 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…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:56AMFriday, September 29, 2017
by JK Clarke To label Classic Stage Company’s new production of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It “Marxist” might be at first off-putting…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:12AMTuesday, September 19, 2017
Monday, September 18, The American Theatre Wing celebrated 100 years of service to the musical theater industry with its Annual Gala at Cipriani’s on 42nd Street. …
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Fashion icons RuPaul and Marc Jacobs kicked off fall fashion week September 7 at the McKittrick Hotel with the “Fashion Does Drag Ball, benefiting Planned Parenthood. The…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:06AMSaturday, September 9, 2017
by JK Clarke William Shakespeare’s plays are far too often slandered as snooty intellectual fare, despite their being, from the beginning, theater for th…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:01PMSaturday, August 12, 2017
With red, white and blue-clad drummers and much fanfare, Michael Moore’s Broadway debut, The Terms of My Surrender, opened at the Belasco Theatre Thursday, August 10. …
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Beloved Broadway and Cabaret legend Barbara Cook died Tuesday August 8 at her home in Manhattan. She was 89. Recipient of a Kennedy Center honor in 2011, the legendary Soprano …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:40PMFriday, August 4, 2017
Thursday evening, August 3, saw the opening of the new musical comedy Curvy Widow at the Westside Theatre. With Book by Bobby Goldman, Music & Lyrics by Drew Brody and directed …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:51AMThursday, August 3, 2017
by Samuel L. Leiter Judging by the piece about Curvy Widow in the current issue of Playbill, which notes that it “has been on the express track, taking j…
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by JK Clarke William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a fan favorite. It’s one of those plays that survives a heavy editing process and always see…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:28AMMonday, July 31, 2017
by Cooper Lawrence Sam Shepard, Pulitzer Prize winning, and Oscar nominated playwright, actor and director has died at the age of 73. To many of us …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:50PM by Marilyn Lester Who couldn’t love a Cole Porter song? Certainly there must be very few, as Jazz in July Artistic Director and host Bill Charlap explained,…
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by Martha Wade Steketee July 25, 2017 really is the 87th birthday of Annie Ross and marks the 11th year of regular appearances at the venue by this …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:20AM by Martha Wade Steketee Linda Lavin is a New York City girl who holds audiences rapt by comedic and dramatic performances on television, film, and stage. W…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:06AM by Martha Wade Steketee The scene at Birdland this steamy July evening skews young—tables of college-aged pals, a large group of teens from Britain. The …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:53AMSaturday, July 29, 2017
by Alix Cohen Fanfare. Four business-suited men in an elevator erupt with staccato impressions of ongoing commerce as if finishing each other’s sentences …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:04AMThursday, July 27, 2017
A gleeful revival of a musical that still manages to keep audiences laughing. by Joel Benjamin It’s impossible to imagine a more tal…
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by JK Clarke Wouldn’t it be delightfully ironic if gangs of high school girls protested Pocket Universe’s new all-female production of Julius Caesar, in which…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:40PM by Samuel L. Leiter Ovo, which means “egg” in Portuguese, is about the cycle of life, or at least that’s the loose theme around which this typically …
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by JK Clarke To effectively convey a message about morals and ethics in a theatrical production, it’s probably best to use a contemporary setting. Charac…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:10PMMonday, June 26, 2017
Three-time Tony Award-winner Glenn Close takes her final bow as “Norma Desmond” in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony Award-winning masterpiece, Sunset Boulevard.�…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:30PMSaturday, June 24, 2017
by JK Clarke One doesn’t expect much from free outdoor summer Shakespeare productions (aside from The Public’s professional Shakespeare in the Park, of…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:24AMThursday, June 22, 2017
by Samuel L. Leiter Horton Foote, the admired Texas playwright who died at 92 in 2009, wrote so many worthy plays it’s rare for a season to pass w…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:15PM The Off Broadway Alliance Announces 2017 Award Winners! Ernest Shackleton Loves Me is Best New Musical Indecent is Best New Play The Off Broadway Al…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:14PM The unique and celebrated stage actor and stand-up comic Mario Cantone makes his Café Carlyle debut June 20-23. by Linda Amiel Burns …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:38AM by Carole Di Tosti What happens when you leave your seven-year-old child alone for three minutes in a locked car with the specific instructions not to open…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:55AM by Martha Wade Steketee We make our way to the second floor Buttenwieser Hall at the 92nd Street Y on a sultry June evening without benefit of functioning elevato…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:23AMWednesday, June 21, 2017
by Myra Chanin I am rarely at a loss for words, but the opening night of Marilyn Maye By Request at the Metropolitan Room rendered me speechless, so I’m letting…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:28PM by Steve Nardoni Several rows of fixed folding chairs on either side of the stage face sterile and appropriate scenery: merely six wooden benches. As we en…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:17AMTuesday, June 20, 2017
by Carole Di Tosti Terezin, a tragedy written and directed by Nicholas Tolkien is in a World Premiere at The Peter Jay Sharp Theater, New York City.…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:51PM One Hundred Years Remembered – 1917-2017: Tychyna, Zhadan & the Dogs by Marcina Zaccaria One hundred years is a long time. W…
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