Wednesday, May 3, 2017
by JK Clarke European history is dotted with notable miscarriages of “justice” as, by extension, is its literature. France, in particular, gave …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:34AM by JK Clarke There’s a pervasive sense of dread hanging over Chrissy’s world in David Rabe’s In the Boom Boom Room, the story of a young woman who se…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:18AMMonday, May 1, 2017
by JK Clarke Let me come right out and say it: The Public Theater’s Mobile Unit production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is not only one of the best versions of tha…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:37AMTuesday, April 25, 2017
by JK Clarke Time-worn maxims have a funny way of being both cliché and, at times, totally a propos. Take for instance the old saw, “the more things cha…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:22AMThursday, April 20, 2017
Tuesday night, April 18 saw the Broadway opening night festivities of Paula Vogel’s Indecent at the Cort Theatre. The story of the making of, and subsequent censorship and obsce…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:03AM by JK Clarke In an allusion, perhaps, to the story of Exodus and the 40 years that Moses led his people through the desert to freedom, Pulitzer Priz…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:35AMTuesday, April 11, 2017
by JK Clarke Most of us have work anxiety dreams: showing up to a sales meeting completely unprepared, having thousands of customers in a restaurant…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:56AMSaturday, April 8, 2017
by Steve Nardoni Toward the end A Life Behind Bars, a compelling, comedic, but chilling one-man autobiographical show (directed by Tanya Moberly), playing every o…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:33PMWednesday, April 5, 2017
by JK Clarke If you’re one of those policy wonks who just can’t get enough of political discussions that to others can be frustrating and depressing, t…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:57AM Daniel’s Husband opened last night at the Cherry Lane Theatre followed by an after party at Sushi Samba where cast members and guests celebrated. Theater Pizzazz’…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:41AMSunday, April 2, 2017
by JK Clarke Anyone who’s ever walked the halls of a nursing home has seen numerous rooms in which sat a forlorn looking elderly person, lost in a haze o…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:21AMFriday, March 31, 2017
by Steve Nardoni Seven years ago Phil Geoffrey Bond had a brilliant idea: start a monthly series featuring Stephen Sondheim’s music with si…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:43AMTuesday, March 28, 2017
by JK Clarke There might be better ways to time-travel back to the 1950s than watching a double header of William Inge plays, Picnic and Come Back, Little …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:39PMSaturday, March 25, 2017
by JK Clarke It’s difficult to fathom, in the current sociopolitical atmosphere, why the renowned and supremely talented David Byrne, at th…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:49AMFriday, March 24, 2017
by Brian Scott Lipton Not since Henry Higgins turned cockney flower-girl Eliza Doolittle into a proper Englishwoman has so much attention be …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:42AMSunday, March 19, 2017
by Samuel L. Leiter Stephan Wolfert’s Cry Havoc! is a deeply impressive one-person play about the horrors of war. It isn’t, however, so much an …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:15PM by JK Clarke Let’s say it’s late on a Sunday night, you don’t want the weekend to end and are hankering for a few laughs. A new show in cabaret venue…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:29AMThursday, March 16, 2017
by JK Clarke One of the more exciting developments in the cabaret scene in recent years has been the expansion and evolution of the type of performe…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:17PMTuesday, March 14, 2017
Sunday evening, March 12, New York City welcomed the citizens of Gander, Canada, to the Broadway premiere of Come From Away, the touching tale of a small community that …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:22AM Monday night, March 13 the Vineyard Theatre held its 2017 Gala at the Edison Ballroom in Times Square, this year honoring the 10th anniversary of [t…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:42AMMonday, March 13, 2017
by Samuel L. Leiter Long, quiet, moody stretches are punctured by pockets of laughter in the Playwrights Realm’s production of The Moors, emerging playwr…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:52PM by JK Clarke Ask any New Yorker what they think about an uplifting 9/11-themed musical and you’ll almost certainly get an angry glare. Many lost someone …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:57AMFriday, March 10, 2017
by JK Clarke I have to admit that I was at first deeply ambivalent about Sam Gold’s new staging of the classic Tennessee Williams play, The Glass Menager…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:23AMWednesday, March 8, 2017
by Stephen Hanks During a time in American history when it appears the struggle for civil rights and voting rights is being engaged anew, it seemed …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:04PM by Marilyn Lester Billed as a “jazzical,” Louis-and-Ella!, a celebration of show biz icons Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, has much …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:54PM by Steve Nardoni At first glance, I was under the impression that a showcase performance at Feinstein’s/54Below by the cast of Natasha, Pierre and…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:44AM by Brian Scott Lipton Both a celebration of her newest CD and a glorious retrospective of 30-plus year performing career in cabaret, Karen Mason’s It’s…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:07AMTuesday, March 7, 2017
Monday, March 6, Off-Broadway’s The New Group honored Sutton Foster and Robert J. Rosenberg (recipients of the 2017 Michael Mendelson Award for Outstanding Commitm…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:32AMSaturday, March 4, 2017
by JK Clarke Humankind has been plagued with apocalyptic visions and foreboding since the dawn of civilization. Earliest organized groups of humans created…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:03AMFriday, March 3, 2017
Thursday night, March 2, at the Booth Theatre, saw the Broadway opening of the critically acclaimed Significant Other, which premiered in 2012 at the Roundabout UndergroundR…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:24AMThursday, March 2, 2017
Wednesday, March 1 (the 38th anniversary of the original Broadway opening) saw the opening night of The Tooting Arts Club production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Flee…
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