Saturday, September 15, 2018
The hit musical comedy Desperate Measures, currently ensconced at New World Stages, celebrated its 100th Performance on Thursday September 13. Maryann Lopinto was there to cap…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 07:39AMFriday, September 14, 2018
An exciting reprise of a beloved musical. By Joel Benjamin Ain’t Misbehavin’ was the little engine that could in the 1977-78 New York theatrical season. How w…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 01:12PMThursday, September 13, 2018
Marin Mazzie was a three time Tony Award nominee and it’s painful to write that this lovely, talented and brave lady has passed away from ovarian cancer at the young age of 57. …
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 04:59PM By Marilyn Lester In The Naturalists, the Pond Theatre Company has tackled an ambitious play by Irish playwright Jaki McCarrick, featuring an interesting premise and strong act…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 04:34PM By Sandi Durell If you’re a millennial, this will probably have some meaningful impact. Generation Y or Z can readily relate to and understand the temporary hoo…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 03:31PMWednesday, September 12, 2018
by JK Clarke Note: If you are the sort of person who is offended by candid discussions of female genitalia and sex in general, and by the rampant use of th…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 08:51PM Review by Brian Scott Lipton Put two women who have made TV audiences laugh out loud for years on a stage together and you can expect hilarity. Add in the fact that both…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 12:04PMTuesday, September 11, 2018
Review by Brian Scott Lipton The cabaret world is chock full of great artists, but few measure up to Amanda McBroom. A California-based singer-songwriter whose compositi…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 10:17AMMonday, September 10, 2018
Review by Beatrice Williams-Rude As Joe Papp was to Shakespeare, Jose Quintero to Eugene O’Neill, David Staller is to George Bernard Shaw. David Staller is the best thing …
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 06:47PMSunday, September 9, 2018
by Michael Bracken Basketball is the prism through which segregation is viewed in Separate and Equal at 59E59 Theaters. Presented by the University of Alabama, Seth Pani…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 02:55PM By Myra Chanin Jennifer Blackmer, the author of Unraveled, won the 2015 Pen/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for Emerging American Playwrights as w…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 02:06PMSaturday, September 8, 2018
By Myra Chanin Like many of the folks at Feinstein’s/54Below on Tuesday night September 4, I remembered the musical Ballroom very fondly. How fondly? Fondly enough that as s…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 11:09AM The Songs of Kander & Ebb – They Just Move On! By Sandi Durell Happily Jana Robbins & Haley Swindal’s Songs of Kander & Ebb are already scheduled …
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 10:32AM by Brian Scott Lipton Blonde, beautiful and both possessed of stunning voices that soar to the heavens, Rebecca Luker and Sally Wilfert are almost a modern-day, grown-up…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 10:20AMFriday, September 7, 2018
Marilyn Maye Will Receive an ASA Lifetime Achievement Award Presented by Bob Mackie! By Sandi Durell Cabaret keeps growing because there are enough people …
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 04:50PM The press was invited for a sneak peek to see what’s up with the new comedy beginning performances shortly at the Davenport Theatre and featuring the directorial debut of two ti…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 02:22PMThursday, September 6, 2018
by Brian Scott Lipton There are few more daunting theatrical challenges than making the familiar seem fresh, which is why one must salute solo performer Shane O�…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 10:38PM A Great 21st Century Jazz Singer Honors Immortal 20th Century Songbirds and the Songs They Made Famous by: Myra Chanin Actress/Jazz Singer Linda Purl cer…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 10:21PMWednesday, September 5, 2018
“The Greatest Songwriter that has ever lived.” (George Gershwin) “Irving Berlin has no place in American music – he is American music.” (Jerome Kern) …
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 10:27PM Emmy and Golden Globe nominated star of ER, Raising the Bar and Mr. Robot, Gloria Reuben is getting ready to present an intimate evening of song – The Men I Love at Fei…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 09:45AM The Box Office is Open, tickets are on sale in person, by phone or online for the upcoming Mabel Mercer Cabaret Convention at Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center October 9 …
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 08:12AMMonday, September 3, 2018
By Marcina Zaccaria The Scottish play is always a bloody, vengeful riot, fit to topple any pre-existing play structure that might rival it. Fans of this Shakespea…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 03:47PMSaturday, September 1, 2018
by Alix Cohen Looking like a page out of Vogue magazine, Kat Gang approaches her music with as much style as she does her appearance. Understated charisma and subtle voc…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 08:20AMThursday, August 30, 2018
by Samuel L. Leiter Scraps is an angry play. Not that it doesn’t have plenty to be angry about. However, the solution it takes to dealing with its issues sugges…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 10:10PMAnn Hampton Callaway Returns to Feinstein’s/54 Below with The Linda Ronstadt Songbook Award winning singer, pianist, songwriter and actress Ann Hampton Callaway, a…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 08:42AMWednesday, August 29, 2018
Not only is David Friedman one of the top composers of our time, he also happens to be the composer of the hit new musical Desperate Measures (with book and lyrics by Peter Kellogg) c…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 02:25PM By Sandi Durell The interesting background on this show gives it more panache than one would realize . . . it’s a little bit of this n’ that . .…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 01:45PM by Carole Di Tosti Will and Peter Anderson, virtuoso jazz musicians have been presenting their glorious American Songbook Summit at Symphony Space for the entire month o…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 09:36AMTuesday, August 28, 2018
by Alix Cohen Maria Alejandra Rodriguez emigrated to The United States in 2010 and has been in New York just a year. A successful entertainer in her native Venezuela, she’…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 10:20PM By Brian Scott Lipton For five decades, British pop icon David Bowie was one of the most prolific –and chameleonic – singers on the planet, changing his music…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 09:41PM By Marilyn Lester It was difficult to know who was having the most fun – performer Maurice Hines or the audience who came out to see his show. Hines, who by his…
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