Friday, 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 09:52AMSunday, December 17, 2023
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Tennessee Williams’s greatest plays were produced over the better part of two decades, between 1944 and 1961, when The Night of the Iguana premie…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:00PMSaturday, 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 07:17PM 
