Saturday, December 16, 2023
Theater Review by Carole Di Tosti . . . . Based on Alexandra Shiva’s titular documentary film, the trailblazing musical How to Dance in Ohio is uplifting and endearing with vital thematic …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:27AMWednesday, December 13, 2023
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . There are musicals that entertain, and then there are musicals that transport us, elevating us to a higher ground. Buena Vista Social Club, the uniqu…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:00PMInterview by Chris Carver . . . . Recently, I had the pleasure of seeing Ruth Stage’s newly reimagined production of James McClure’s play Lone Star, currently running Off-Broadway at T…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:39AMTuesday, December 12, 2023
Theater Review by Adam Cohen . . . . Mazel Tov to the artistic staff at Paper Mill Playhouse for their prescient presentation of the classic musical Fiddler on the Roof. The show is the exac…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:23AMTheater Review by Stuart Miller . . . . Listening to Mike Lemme’s talkback after the performance of his new show, Before the Drugs Kick In gave me an appreciation of what he was striving…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:39AMSunday, December 10, 2023
Cabaret Review by Melissa Griegel . . . . Cast members from Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street took to the 54 Below stage on Sunday, December 3 to sing their favorite songs for a…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:54AMFlorida Theater Review by Myra Chanin . . . . Let’s not beat around the bush. Moon over Buffalo (now playing at Lynn University in Florida) by Ken Ludwig is a first-class hilarious classic…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:30AMCabaret Review by Myra Chanin . . . . I am overwhelmed with the endless talent displayed by the always more or less disheveled Austin Pendleton. The man’s a dynamo. I try to see every show…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:31AMSaturday, December 9, 2023
Theater Review by Stuart Miller . . . . Greed, for lack of a better word, is the American way. And it always has been, even before there was an America, as Mary Kathryn Nagle posits in the f…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:42AMThursday, December 7, 2023
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . A garden. What an ideal metaphor for an artistic life . . . It’s a place where creativity blossoms, where memories grow, where others are buried.…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:49AMTuesday, December 5, 2023
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . For the past several years visitors to a number of New York theater lobbies will likely have noticed a respectful sign posted on a wall acknowledgi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:00PMTheater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee published The Life and Times of Michael K in 1983. It won the Booker Prize and is considered an important work by the So…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:30PMTheater Review by Walter Murphy . . , . Ruth Stage’s production of James McLure’s Lone Star—currently playing at Theatre Row through December 23—is a great example of how a seasoned …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:08AMTheater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . “This girl is on fire” . . . and so is her show. Hell’s Kitchen, Alicia Keys’s vibrant new bio-musical now playing at the Public Theater, is …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:31AMThursday, November 30, 2023
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . Paging a play doctor. The Jerusalem Syndrome needs some tender loving care—STAT! A company of some very talented actors are doing their best to breath…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:00PMFriday, November 24, 2023
Review by Myra Chanin . . . . I spent Saturday afternoon sampling the fruits of the spectacular interaction between a quartet of indefatigable theatrical somebodies. Let’s start with three…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:17PMTuesday, November 21, 2023
Theater Review by Walter Murphy . . . . Music Halls have traditionally presented a variety of acts with a sing-along quality—popular entertainment for the people. This year’s Christmas S…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:18PMMusic Review by Ron Fassler . . . . Hard to believe it was for only one night because the show that Sutton Foster and Kelli O’Hara put together with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall th…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:40AMMusic Review by Brian Scott Lipton . . . Given the extreme amount of audience participation Joshua Henry demanded of his audience at the 92NY on Saturday night at his “Get Up Stand Up”…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:18AMTheater Review by Carole Di Tosti . . . . The versatile Qui Nguyen, Co-Founder of the acclaimed theater company Vampire Cowboys, notable for its productions of She Kills Monsters, Revenge So…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:45AMMonday, November 20, 2023
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . It’s a pleasure to report that, with Amid Falling Walls (Tsvishn Falndike Vent), the venerable National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene yet again demo…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:06PMSunday, November 19, 2023
Theater Review by Walter Murphy . . . . Mischief Production has staked its claim as the king of collegial parodies. It asks audiences to suspend an expectation of professionalism with an app…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:00PMSaturday, November 18, 2023
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett’s two-act, existential tragicomedy, was first performed, in French, as En attendant Godot, in 1953, and in Engl…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:09PMThursday, November 16, 2023
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . The audience eats it up like spam. A lot. Spamalot has returned to Broadway offering more laughs than ever at the St. James Theatre. The 2005 musical ba…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:00PMWednesday, November 15, 2023
Theater Review by Adam Cohen . . . . Diane Wiest returns to the stage in Vineyard Theatre’s production of John J. Caswell’s play Scene Partners. Set in 1985, the play features Wiest as a…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:45PMTheater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Rider McDowell’s stingless Ode to the Wasp Woman, Off-Broadway at the Actors Temple Theatre, dramatizes the sad, tawdry fates of four Hollywood …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:07PMTheater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . “I have been acting all of my life! It’s about time I get paid for it!” So says Meryl Kowalski, the protagonist of John J. Caswell’s world-pre…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:09PMTheater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . Being read to at night is basic to a child’s needs once tucked in and ready for bed. If one is lucky, their parents are adept at storytelling. The bes…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:25PMSunday, November 12, 2023
Theater Review by JK Clarke . . . . Considering the dearth of intellectually challenging plays on New York City’s vaunted stages in recent years, the staging of one of the most intelligent…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:26PMSaturday, November 11, 2023
Theater Review by Marcina Zaccaria . . . . In honor of Veteran’s Day, the stage was set at Carnegie Hall for November 1918: The Great War and The Great Gatsby. Katie Couric announced this …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:22PMWednesday, November 8, 2023
By Ron Fassler . . . When I first saw the musical Ragtime in Los Angeles, prior to Broadway twenty-six years ago, I had chills up and down my spine at the opening number and tears streamin…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:21PM 
