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…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:05PM[SHARE]By Ron Fassler . . . In March of 2011, The Book of Mormon arrived on Broadway and has been entertaining audiences and taking up real estate on West 49th Street ever since. It made stars out …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:00PM[SHARE]By Stuart Miller . . . At first glance, Patrick Olson may remind you of Dean Pelton from "Community": the bald pate, the black glasses and the overly enthusiastic hand gestures and body …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:59PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 24, 2023
By Adam Cohen . . . For 85 years, Paper Mill Playhouse has presented musicals and plays with loving flair. The house is saturated in history"near financial ruin, fire, and a devotion to thea…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:11PM[SHARE]Monday, October 23, 2023
By Myra Chanin . . . The warm, convivial audience who welcomed the introductory remarks by William Hayes, the Producing Artistic Director of the Palm Beach Dramaworks, on the opening nig…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 22, 2023
By Carol Rocamora . . . Theater history was made this week when a new Stephen Sondheim musical opened at The Shed, New York's exciting new cultural center. It's a cause for celebrati…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:00PM[SHARE]Friday, October 20, 2023
By Myra Chanin . . . Girl Crazy, the birth mother of Crazy for You, opened on Broadway in 1930 with spectacular songs by George and Ira Gershwin, and two unknown young performers who bec…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 19, 2023
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . The Mint Theatre is widely lauded for reviving modern plays that, while long forgotten, appear to be worthy of another look. Often, the revivals uncover shiny t…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 18, 2023
By JK Clarke . . . There's been something of a drought in New York when it comes to Shakespeare plays over the past several years. Sure, there are the requisite Shakespeare in the Park p…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:35PM[SHARE]By Carol Rocamora . . . Theater has always reflected the "zeitgeist""at least that's been my experience. It's the most admirable mission of our art form"the "holding of the mirror up to natu…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:52PM[SHARE]Monday, October 16, 2023
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . If there were a Central Casting list of American classical actors, Patrick Page would be near or at the top. At 61, the popular Broadway star possesses all the …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:05PM[SHARE]Friday, October 13, 2023
By Ron Fassler . . . Now you've listened to my storyHere's the point that I have madeChicks were born to give you feverBe it Fahrenheit or CentigradeThey give you fever. The song "Fever"…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:40PM[SHARE]By Ron Fassler . . . It's not enough to write dialogue that sounds like real people talking performed by actors with the talent to make it seem effortless. These accomplishments have to …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 12, 2023
By Marcina Zaccaria . . . Esther Williamson and Bill Bowers find themselves cycling through life as players with the Victoria Canada Bicycle Theatre Company in The Making of a Great Mome…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 11, 2023
By Carol Rocamora . . . "You wanna be able to dream big, right?" So said playwright Nathan Alan Davis in a recent interview regarding The Refuge Plays, his prodigious, powerful new work …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:00AM[SHARE]By Marilyn Lester . . . In the music business, legacy is mainly about family"generally the descendants of a songwriter or musician of note, tasked with making sure the work is protected …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 10, 2023
By Ron Fassler . . . When his country invaded Ukraine, Dmitry Krymov, a theater director of international reputation, was getting ready to come to the United States and direct Anton Chek…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:31AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 8, 2023
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Stage and film writers often find inspiration in familiar locales where a broad assortment of people congregate, among them bars, hotels, schoolrooms, and barbersho…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:52AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 7, 2023
By Myra Chanin . . . I usually arrive at the theater with varying amounts of trepidation, greater when an unfamiliar drama by a world-renowned playwright is being performed by a comparativel…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:53AM[SHARE]By Melissa Griegel . . . Watching Josh Rhodes' version of Cabaret is like drinking a full-bodied glass of red wine, aged to perfection, rich, and filled with subtle notes of complex arom…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:19AM[SHARE]By Carole Di Tosti . . . Jamie Bernstein, daughter of Leonard Bernstein, who appeared at the Q&A after the press screening at Lincoln Center, highlighted a key point about the making…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:16AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 5, 2023
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Despite its title, don't expect Bite Me, Eliana Pipes's new Off-Broadway play at the WP Theater, to be about vampires (although there actually is a 2019 vampire mov…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:28PM[SHARE]Broadway Sings Queen " join Broadway talents including Christine Dwyer (Wicked, Waitress), Tony Nominee Constantine Maroulis (Rock of Ages), and Keri René Fuller (Six, Jagged Little Pill) t…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:25AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 4, 2023
On October 9th at Sony Hall at the Paramount Hotel, Broadway Inspirational Voices (BIV), is hosting the "Hope In Harmony: Award Ceremony & Fundraiser Cocktail Party." The evening's guest…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:56PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 3, 2023
By Adam Cohen . . . George Street Playhouse presents the world premiere of The Pianist, a play with music, based on the memoir by Wladyslaw Szpilman and directed and adapted for the stag…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:30AM[SHARE]Monday, October 2, 2023
By Carole Di Tosti . . . In his most brilliant, inventively surrealistic film to date, award-winning Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor Things displays the artistic genius of the fant…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:30PM[SHARE]By Ron Fassler . . . When Golden Rainbow opened in early 1968, this eleven-year-old future critic had only recently seen his first Broadway show, I Do! I Do!, which was playing two blocks aw…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:45AM[SHARE]By Carole Di Tosti . . . In his latest film, May December, director Todd Haynes (Safe, Carol) constructs a thought-provoking, uniquely American story that highlights the culture's fascin…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:09AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 30, 2023
By Myra Chanin . . . Marcie Gorman, the philanthropic co-founder, Executive Producer and Artistic Director of the MNM Theatre Company, formerly toiled in the corporate sector as the long…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:29AM[SHARE]Friday, September 29, 2023
By Ron Fassler . . . "Is it so hard to satisfy your senses?" are the first words we hear in the opening song from the iconic Melissa Etheridge in her biographical musical play, Melissa E…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:16PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 28, 2023
By Ron Fassler . . . Before getting to the question of how a sixty-two-year-old comedy like Ossie Davis's Purlie Victorious can remain current in its social concerns without changing a l…
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