Tuesday, November 26, 2019
By Ron Fassler Antonio Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” is one of the most famous and expressive compositions in the classical repertoire. First written and performed around 1716-1717, …
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 10:57AM By Myra Chanin Renee Katz is a buoyant, optimistic Cabaret star whose powerful, rapturous, playful soprano reminds many of her fans of Barbara Cook because, like Cook, Renee Katz sing…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 06:35AMMonday, November 25, 2019
By Samuel L. Leiter American playwright Matthew Lopez’s (The Legend of Georgia McBride) marathon play, The Inheritance, directed by Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliott), comes to Broadway…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 09:24PM By Argenis Ovalles Step right up to a world of child-like wonder in Kit Goldstein Grant’s musical masterpiece, The Giant Hoax. Be ready to meet The Cardiff Giant (Daniel Moser). H…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 08:30PM By Sandi Durell The cast and creative team of “Anything Can Happen in the Theater: The Musical World of Maury Yeston” met with the press at the York Theater today to prese…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 08:09PMSunday, November 24, 2019
By Sandi Durell The Green Room 42 was packed to the rafters with fans, friends and celebrities as the one and only host/impressario Daniel Dunlow welcomed the audience and Mark William…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 11:13AM by Edward Medina At a time of great political uncertainty, in the shadow of an unprecedented presidential impeachment inquiry, in the wake of a two-party system wrenching the electo…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 07:00AMSaturday, November 23, 2019
By Brian Scott Lipton There can be no argument that Maury Yeston belongs in the pantheon of great musical theater composers. The 74-year-old New Jersey native has won Tony Awards fo…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 10:01AMFriday, November 22, 2019
by Sandi Durell Theater Pizzazz is always interested in getting to know about young theater companies and artistic directors on the rise not only in New York City, where so many blosso…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 09:27AMThursday, November 21, 2019
By Brian Scott Lipton The fluidity of identity – the reality that both how we define ourselves and how others define us can change multiple times in our journey from cradle to tomb …
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 10:00PM By Sandi Durell What happens when you put two belters on a stage together . . . one a little older, the other a little younger? It’s the battle of the broads! The claws and feathe…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 04:22PMWednesday, November 20, 2019
By Meredith Ganzman Bring napkins and tissues to the new Broadway musical, A Christmas Carol. The first because the cast members, who are not playing holiday music before the show begi…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 10:00PM by Marcina Zaccaria The debate floor is appropriately aged, with the orange curtains and the enormous IBM Selectric typewriters are set for Confidence (and The Speech), a play about…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 09:30PMMonday, November 18, 2019
CAAD Partners LLC & The Cutting Room Present “CHRISTMAS AIN’T A DRAG – A BIG BAND CABARET MUSICAL” in its NYC DEBUT on Saturday December 7th, at The Cutting Room. 44 East 3…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 03:07PMSunday, November 17, 2019
By Brian Scott Lipton “Solea! Solea! Solea!” I would not have been surprised if those words had been shouted in unison as Solea Pfeiffer took her bows after turning in her absol…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 08:48PMSaturday, November 16, 2019
An Amusement Column by Harry Haun CAN’T SEE FORSTER FOR THE TREES: He arrived in movies on a horse bareback—bare everything, in fact–an object of festering obsession for…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 09:33PM by Carol Rocamora If you’re desperate for political theatre to illuminate our turbulent times, you never have to look further than Shakespeare. Watching the Druid Company’s mesm…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 05:36PM By Marcina Zaccaria Angela Lansbury spoke at Lincoln Center’s Library for the Performing Arts, as part of the League of Professional Theatre Women’s Oral History Project. The ho…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 04:32PMFriday, November 15, 2019
by Alix Cohen Betty Comden (1917-2006) and Adolph Green (1914-2002) collaborated for six immensely fertile decades resulting in 18 musicals, 9 screenplays and their own high spirite…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 11:16PMSunday, November 10, 2019
An Amusement Column by Harry Haun MONDAY BLOODY MONDAY: With all the galas and benefits going on these days, you’d think somebody would come up with some kind of Calendar of Event…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 11:57AMSaturday, November 9, 2019
By JK Clarke Edmond de Rostand’s 1897 play, Cyrano de Bergerac is a story that lends itself to reinterpretation and modernization. With a simple, straightforward theme about…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 08:19PM By Sandi Durell Having watched Mark William since he debuted his first show “Come Croon With Me” at The Green Room 42 last year, and subsequent revivals, there’s no doubt t…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 02:30PM By Sandi Durell “I’m a Wizard everyday . . .” that about describes the incomparable Tony Winner Brian Stokes Mitchell (Kiss Me, Kate, Ragtime, Man of La Mancha) about to retur…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 08:50AMFriday, November 8, 2019
by Alix Cohen “Willkommen,” nods maestro Steve Ross from the piano, launching into Cole Porter’s lilting “Wunderbar” and Gus Kahn/Walter Jurman/Bronislau Kaper’s jaunty “…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 04:06PM By Marilyn Lester Some events in life seem absolutely cosmic. Imagine being a kid growing up, listening raptly to the music of Michel Legrand being played at home by a concert piani…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 03:29PMTuesday, October 22, 2019
A little celebration was in order at Joe Allen’s for Marianne Elliott’s Company as it keeps growing and growing as more stars join the gender-blind revival of Stephen Sondheim and …
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 11:57PM On October 22, during rehearsals for the 2019 Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes, all 80 Rockettes rehearsed choreography from the stunning finale scene, “Christm…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 11:34PM by Matt Smith “It is impossible to describe Marin Mazzie’s ability to make a song that you know well, sound like you’ve never heard it before…. every time she sings.” Quite a…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 10:55PM By Marilyn Lester It’s not often that the usually stellar Irish Repertory Theatre misses the mark on one of its productions, but with this mounting of Conor McPherson’s Dublin C…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 04:20PM Nancy McGraw celebrated Johnny Mercer with Mark Nadler at the piano – a perfect collaboration! by Linda Amiel Burns On October 20, 2019 at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, Nancy McG…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 09:12AMMonday, October 21, 2019
By Marilyn Lester For nearly 40 years, Gerard Alessandrini’s capacity to pump out high-quality musical satire with wit and jollity has been seemingly unstoppable. His various iter…
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