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…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:58PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 23, 2023
By Marilyn Lester . . . When a playwright chooses a topic to write about, the roots of that choice can be intriguing indeed. In this case, T.J. Elliott was fascinated by the tale of Sain…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 21, 2023
By Marcina Zaccaria . . . Can piano music save the soul? This is the question I kept asking myself as I watched the courageous performance in 20 Seconds, written and performed by Thomas …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 20, 2023
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . In a number of ways, Swing State, Rebecca Gilman's (Spinning Into Butter) often compelling, well-acted drama being presented by Audible at the Minetta Lane, res…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:50PM[SHARE]By Brian Scott Lipton . . . One won't spot an "Audrey II" among the neatly ordered plants inside the store that lends Theresa Rebeck's involving new play, Dig its name. But even if the w…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:17PM[SHARE]Monday, September 18, 2023
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . Walk into any Target or CVS and you'll see shelf upon shelf stacked with Halloween decorations. But big-box stores aren't the only ones getting a head start o…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:58PM[SHARE]By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Job, a two-hander by Max Wolf Friedrich at the SoHo Playhouse, begins like a thriller, with a young woman pointing a pistol across the small stage at a much older m…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:53PM[SHARE]By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Tripping on Life is a one-woman play now running at Theatre Row, written by and starring Lin Shaye. I admit to not knowing who this septuagenarian character act…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:30PM[SHARE]Friday, September 15, 2023
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Psychic Self Defense"created, written, designed, and directed by Normandy Sherwood"is a throwback to the kind of cleverly cheesy experimental theater work of ha…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:30PM[SHARE]By Tania Fisher . . . Don't let its title mislead you. Sure, Sex Work / Sex Play (now playing at the TADA 28th Street Theater through October 29) is a play about a college student's side…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:54AM[SHARE]By Ron Fassler . . . Stand back, world! Rachel Bloom has arrived in Greenwich Village with a show sprung from the deep well of her startlingly creative imagination . . . and Christopher …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 13, 2023
By Alix Cohen . . . If you can untangle this one, you likely both understand Spanish language and Mexican myth, though that may not be sufficient. In Christine Stoddard's Mi Abuela, …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 12, 2023
By Carol Rocamora . . . "Who are the normal, happy people?" asks Sofi, a character in Annie Baker's tantalizing new play Infinite Life that just opened at the Atlantic Theatre Company's …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:29PM[SHARE]By Ron Fassler . . . The York Theatre's "Musicals in Mufti" series is truly the place to see minimally staged, maximal entertainments. Case in point, their latest offering: the 1975 musi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:11AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 29, 2023
By Walter Murphy . . . At the risk of diminishing the importance and insights of Michael Tucker's new comedy, may I open with an illustrative joke? Two fellows"one a tailor, the other a writ…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:18AM[SHARE]By Ron Fassler . . . All hail the return, after four long years, of the York Theatre Company's Musicals in Mufti series. For those who don't know what is meant by mufti, it's always defi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:26AM[SHARE]By Ron Fassler . . . The smile, the sheer enthusiasm and the musicianship of Jaime Lozano & The Familia made for a delightful evening of original songs, part of Lincoln Center's Summ…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:54AM[SHARE]Monday, August 28, 2023
By Carole Di Tosti . . . In the off-Broadway world premiere Pay the Writer, Tawni O'Dell (author of Back Roads), presents a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist through the viewpoint of his s…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:11AM[SHARE]By Ron Fassler . . . It's hard to believe that the first off-Broadway edition of Forbidden Broadway was forty-one years ago. I remember it all too well as I saw it at the old Palsson's S…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:46AM[SHARE]Friday, August 11, 2023
By Ron Fassler . . . Credit where credit is due: someone figured out how to put on stage the drama and comedy that came with the delays a trio of actors endured while filming Jaws in the sum…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 10, 2023
By Ron Fassler . . . When a show dedicates itself to Vanna White as the source of its inspiration, you know things are bound to be a bit bent. Remember, this is the same Vanna White who once…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:56PM[SHARE]By Alix Cohen . . . Yes, you have to have seen the film Jaws. It's not, however, necessary to remember the publicized adversity suffered by its production. Having paid $175,000 for the right…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:00PM[SHARE]By Stuart Miller . . . Amie Enriquez's one-woman show, Lightweight, is difficult to review. In part because it feels cruel to criticize someone who bares their deepest trauma"in her case…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:41PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 8, 2023
By Ron Fassler . . . Liz Kingsman is onto something. She pretends she doesn't know what she's doing, but folks, it's all an act. Her seventy-minute show at the Greenwich House Theater fi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:53PM[SHARE]By Ron Fassler . . . He's back, darlings! It's been almost exactly a year since I last saw Isaac Mizrahi perform on the 54 Below stage. A cabaret entertainer, sure, but Mizrahi is certai…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:17AM[SHARE]By Myra Chanin . . . I've seen many versions of A Chorus Line, but the recent FAU Festival Rep 2023 production was the most diverse, touching, passionate and compassionate. On a bare stage o…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:53AM[SHARE]Monday, August 7, 2023
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Already in this young season, three plays have dribbled with the game of basketball, King James, Flex, and Inua Ellams's The Half-God of Rainfall, now at the Ne…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:18AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 5, 2023
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Judging by the explosive opening night reaction at the Winter Garden to the new Broadway musical based on Back to the Future, the popular 1985 sci-fi movie abou…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 1, 2023
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . There's an incredibly famous saying in the entertainment world: "Never work with children or animals." Now, on the basis of Second Stage Uptown's production o…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:00PM[SHARE]Industry Reading . . . MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL the 1994 iconic blockbuster book by John Berendt, which still holds a New York Times bestseller list record, is being developed…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:31AM[SHARE]By Marcina Zaccaria . . . An evening of bliss becomes a morality tale as we follow a 67-year-old woman who encounters the truths of an unseemly past in The Saviour. Marie Mullen (Tony Aw…
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