Thursday, 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 breathe …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:00PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 t…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:17PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 Spect…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:18PM[SHARE]Music 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 05:40AM[SHARE]Music 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" c…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:18AM[SHARE]Theater 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 03:45AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 demons…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 09:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 Englis…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 10:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 wom…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:45PM[SHARE]Theater 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 10:07PM[SHARE]Theater 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-premiere …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:09PM[SHARE]Theater 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 best …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:25PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 11:26PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 ex…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:22PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 stream…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:21PM[SHARE]Monday, November 6, 2023
By Ron Fassler . . . One of the true oddities in the long and versatile career of Stephen Sondheim, The Frogs is like no other show in the canon. In 1974, he created a few songs at the r…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:05AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 5, 2023
Irving Berlin's Musical Soundtrack to Everything Wonderful in Many/Most/All 20th Century American Lives " By Myra Chanin . . . At least three cheers, once again, for Marilyn Wick, the exe…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:46AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 4, 2023
By Carole Di Tosti . . . Playwright David Adjmi (The Evildoers, Stunning and Other Plays), has struck platinum with his astounding Stereophonic, a hybrid comedy/drama/musical, currently …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:20PM[SHARE]Friday, November 3, 2023
By Carole Di Tosti . . . Material possessions can interfere with healthy family relationships. This is especially so for Sam (Danny DeVito), a "quasi-hoarder" with a purpose, and daughte…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:50PM[SHARE]By Carol Rocamora . . . A crosscurrent of compelling themes run fast and deep in the turbulent, terrific revival of I Can Get It For You Wholesale. Directed with ingenuity and flair by T…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:18PM[SHARE]By Brian Scott Lipton . . . There are two questions on the lips of almost every patron entering New York City Center this week for its "revisal" of the 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical Pal …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:55PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 2, 2023
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Philip Roth, the prolific novelist who died in 2018 at 85, saw eight of his books adapted for movies and TV, but very few for the stage. However, John Turturro …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 1, 2023
By Myra Chanin . . . I moved to Florida during the plague and, for a short while, felt like a Manhattan snob that left paradise for a cultural desert . . . until I attended my first Boca…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 31, 2023
By Carole Di Tosti . . . In his play, Translations, Brian Friel uses language to underscore a thematic message about power, control and domination. As the first play in the three-play se…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:30AM[SHARE]Monday, October 30, 2023
By Ron Fassler . . . Christin Milioti has achieved a solid reputation in her more than twenty-year career as an actress. She's given terrific performances in everything from romantic com…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:54AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 28, 2023
By Stuart Miller . . . Eric Anthamatten seems to have been an amazing guy: a sixth-degree black belt who taught martial arts, a musician, a Ph.D. in philosophy, a professor, a writer abo…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 26, 2023
By Walter Murphy . . . A play about war. Really? Bombarded, of late, with news blasts about Russia/Ukraine and most recently Israel/Hamas, I wondered what insights about war George Berna…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:00PM[SHARE]By Yani Perez . . . Telling Tales Out of School, written by Wesley Brown, with Direction by Woodie King Jr., is an elegantly written play about an afternoon meeting between Nella Larsen, Jes…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:23PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 25, 2023
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Patrick Olson may not be a preacher and the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre may not be a church, but it's hard to deny that Emergence, the high-powered, occasionall…
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