Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Theater Review by Jeffrey Bruce . . . . One of our most esteemed twentieth-century playwrights, August Wilson, won a Pulitzer Prize and many other accolades for his play The Piano Lesson, an…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:30AMTuesday, February 20, 2024
Theater Review by Marcina Zaccaria . . . . A memorable invocation began the show and, like a rocket, The Poet of the Moon is propelled into the Cosmos in a production by Apollo’s Troupe ca…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:22AMFriday, February 16, 2024
Theater Review by Stuart Miller . . . . When I first interviewed Dael Orlandersmith about Yellowman, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, more than twenty years ago, we went to a record store together…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:00AMThursday, February 15, 2024
Theater Review by Jeffrey Bruce . . . “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” —George Santayana Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski has been brought to…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:50PMBy Ron Fassler . . . . Waterwell, a charity whose mission statement is “using storytelling to create a more just and humane society,” held a party in Brooklyn Monday night in celebration…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:25PMTuesday, February 13, 2024
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . Second Stage has taken a leap into the unknown in presenting Kate Douglas’s new play The Apiary at the Tony Kiser Theater, where it will be running …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:00PMSunday, February 11, 2024
Theater Review by Brian Scott Lipton . . . . “Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear,” we were told over 50 years ago in the Motown classic “I Heard It Through the Grap…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:46PMTheater Review by Marilyn Lester . . . . Over the course of Shakespearean theater, Hamlet has been a plum part for an actor, a test of thespian skill and ability. Sir Laurence Olivier, Mark …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:53PMTheater Review by Jeffrey Bruce . . . . After a sold-out run, Atlanta’s Horizon Theatre has, wisely, returned the Dave Molloy musical for an extended run through March 3rd. While the Broad…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:22PMSaturday, February 10, 2024
Theater Review by Elise Nussbaum . . . . Pre-show house music of Guns n’ Roses, the Ramones, and Nirvana promised a “rock and roll” King Lear, but Frog & Peach Theatre Company’s …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:30PMMusic Review by Ron Fassler . . . . When someone is referred to as an icon or a legend during their lifetime it can often be a burden. Who can live up to that? It was Nathan Lane who once sa…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:55PMFriday, February 9, 2024
Theater Review by Michael Dale . . . . It was around this time last year when I first took in a performance by The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre, a New York-based company that has…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:21PMTuesday, February 6, 2024
Theater Review by Alix Cohen . . . . I reviewed this terrific play with its original star, Wade McCollum, and have returned to see the burgeoning interpretation by Darius Rose (drag alter-eg…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:38PMTheater Review by Marilyn Lester . . . . Props to the Paper Mill Playhouse for bringing back After Midnight. It’s a theatrical revue that sings, swings, taps and lets loose with a whole lo…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:41AMTheater Review by Marcina Zaccaria . . . . For almost 15 years, I lived on Greenwich Street, a long road that extends north from downtown Manhattan, past the World Trade Center site, all the…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:02AMThursday, February 1, 2024
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . I can’t recall the last time I attended something when, as the lights came up at its conclusion, most of the audience were in twos and threes huddled …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:30PMSunday, January 28, 2024
Theater Review by Carole Di Tosti . . . . In its iconic exploration of alcohol’s seductive toxicity, Days of Wine and Roses (the Musical), directed by Michael Greif, is even more searing a…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:20PMFriday, January 26, 2024
Theater Review by Myra Chanin . . . . In the recent past, going off into the wild blue yonder on Boeing’s iron birds has been a flight against fear . . . and rightly so. What a history! Th…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:59AMTheater Review by Yani Perez . . . . The 15th Annual The Fire This Time Festival – Ten-Minute Plays showcased six emerging playwrights at the Wild Project this past weekend in collaboratio…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:31AMThursday, January 25, 2024
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Plays running three hours or longer generally tend to deal with big issues, often spread out over large swathes of time. Think, for example, of Ang…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:40PMWednesday, January 24, 2024
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . The current theater season in London is generating enough excitement and heat to warm the worst of this winter weather. Two glorious productions show…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:01PMTuesday, January 23, 2024
Cabaret Review by Myra Chanin . . . . I’ve reviewed restaurants and entertainment in New York and Long Island for over 20 years for various publications, so you’d better believe that t…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:08AMMonday, January 22, 2024
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . . On a freezing cold January evening last night, the Songbook Sundays series, part of Jazz at Lincoln Center, paid tribute to composer and lyricist Fran…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:31PMTheater Review by Myra Chanin . . . . I really wanted to write a special review about The Wick Theater’s production of Fiddler on the Roof, because I found the performance so compelling. I…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:00AMThursday, January 18, 2024
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . Ten actors take their seats in a semi-circle onstage at BAM Fisher’s Fishman Space, script in hand, as if ready for a reading of a play. But as the…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:21PMMonday, January 15, 2024
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . Watching The Search Party last night at Lincoln Center’s Clark Studio Theater, I thought to myself: this is why we go to the Under the Radar Festiv…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:35AMTheater Review by Michael Dale . . . . It all begins rather innocently enough. Before entering BRIC for Krymov Lab NYC’s return mounting of author/director Dmitry Krymov’s Pushkin “Eug…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:49AMThursday, January 11, 2024
Music Review by Myra Chanin . . . . Tovah Feldshuh is not just a superb performing artist. She’s an unbelievably versatile theatrical life force. The internet claims she’s 75, but she lo…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:33AMTuesday, January 9, 2024
Theater Review by Stuart Miller . . . . Joshua Harmon clearly understands the delicate magic of theater. Prayer For the French Republic opens in 2016 with a Jewish family in Paris plunge…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:00PMFriday, January 5, 2024
Theater Review by Stuart Miller . . . . Half a block from The Hayes Theater we could see Sarah Paulson’s hostile glare radiating anger from the marquee. “I would not want to end up on he…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:43PMWednesday, December 20, 2023
Cabaret Review by JK Clarke . . . . Wednesday, December 6, saw Urban Stages come alive for the first of two nights of music centered around the famed Algonquin Hotel, as part of Urban Stages…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:52AM 
