Friday, March 8, 2024
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . In 1973, Len Cariou created the role of Fredrik Egerman in Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s A Little Night Music. Playing a man described in the …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:28PMThursday, March 7, 2024
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . In 2005, I sat in the sixth row of the orchestra at the Walter Kerr Theatre and luxuriated in the tall talents of Cherry Jones, Brían F. O’Byrne, Hea…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:00PMTheater Review by Carole Di Tosti . . . . In Brooklyn Laundry, John Patrick Shanley elucidates profound themes about family, love, loss, responsibility, and the healing power of truth. The 8…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:13AMCabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . . I’m of an age when radio was the means by which people became familiar with popular songs. In my teenage years, a portable transistor was responsibl…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:45AMTuesday, March 5, 2024
Theater Review by Stuart Miller . . . . Five years ago I saw Cayenne Douglass’ one-act play, Oh My, Goodness, about suicide and survival, at the Ensemble Studio Theater and was moved by he…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:00PMTheater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . Context. That is what struck me as the value of Sunset Baby, Dominique Morisseau’s gem of a play, now being given a mighty revival at the Signature…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:16AMTuesday, February 27, 2024
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . Since when can theater of ideas be as exciting and as powerful as, let’s say, a Beethoven symphony? When you emerge from a performance with the the…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:00PMCabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . . While living in Los Angeles thirty-five years ago, I came to New York City for a wedding weekend and had the chance to see only one Broadway show. With …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:58PMCabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . . On February 22nd, last week, some three months prior to the next Mother’s Day, Tony Award winner Stephanie J. Block performed a solo show titled The M…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:53AMTheater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . Brace yourselves. Rupert Goold’s riveting production of The Hunt, now playing at St Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, will have you hanging onto your …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:38AMMonday, February 26, 2024
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . I met Jordan Seavey, playwright of The Seven Year Disappear, the New Group’s current production at the Pershing Square Signature Center, only onc…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:30PMSunday, February 25, 2024
Cabaret Review by Marilyn Lester . . . . No matter the vehicle, actor-singer-producer André De Shields can be depended upon for ultra-high energy entertainment coupled with intelligence, re…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:55PMTheater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . For cheesy New York cheesecake, few can top Junior’s. For cheesy New York theater, I recommend Deadly Stages—which opened today at Theatre Row�…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:00PMTheater Review by Myra Chanin . . . . Bribe Whomever You Can for a Last Minute Ticket to The Cancellation of Lauren Fein’s final extension at the Palm Beach Dramaworks!!! If anyone wants t…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:32AMSaturday, February 24, 2024
Theater Review by Carole Di Tosti . . . . In the sardonic, brilliant Russian Troll Farm, Sarah Gancher takes an imagined deep dive into the operations of one of the Russian Internet Research…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:11PMFriday, February 23, 2024
Theater Review by Michael Dale . . . . “This is not a brothel! This is an erotic resort!” demands the proprietor of the business that gives Colombian-American playwright Camilo Almonacid…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:00AMTheater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . It takes a lot of nerve to turn one of the most horrific genocides in American history Into a satirical romp. And that’s what the intrepid theater …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:53AMThursday, February 22, 2024
Theater Review by Brian Scott Lipton . . . . For decades, musical theater has asked us to sympathize or identify with—and perhaps even forgive—some very deeply flawed men, from Gaylord…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:44PMWednesday, February 21, 2024
With the launch of the Presidential election year, Five Musical LLC is thrilled to announce the world premiere of FIVE: The Parody Musical. Look out SIX, here comes FIVE: The Parody Musical.…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:22AMTheater Review by Jeffrey Bruce . . . . One of our most esteemed twentieth-century playwrights, August Wilson, won a Pulitzer Prize and many other accolades for his play The Piano Lesson, an…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:30AMTuesday, February 20, 2024
Theater Review by Marcina Zaccaria . . . . A memorable invocation began the show and, like a rocket, The Poet of the Moon is propelled into the Cosmos in a production by Apollo’s Troupe ca…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:22AMFriday, February 16, 2024
Theater Review by Stuart Miller . . . . When I first interviewed Dael Orlandersmith about Yellowman, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, more than twenty years ago, we went to a record store together…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:00AMThursday, February 15, 2024
Theater Review by Jeffrey Bruce . . . “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” —George Santayana Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski has been brought to…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:50PMBy Ron Fassler . . . . Waterwell, a charity whose mission statement is “using storytelling to create a more just and humane society,” held a party in Brooklyn Monday night in celebration…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:25PMTuesday, February 13, 2024
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . Second Stage has taken a leap into the unknown in presenting Kate Douglas’s new play The Apiary at the Tony Kiser Theater, where it will be running …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:00PMSunday, February 11, 2024
Theater Review by Brian Scott Lipton . . . . “Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear,” we were told over 50 years ago in the Motown classic “I Heard It Through the Grap…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:46PMTheater Review by Marilyn Lester . . . . Over the course of Shakespearean theater, Hamlet has been a plum part for an actor, a test of thespian skill and ability. Sir Laurence Olivier, Mark …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:53PMTheater Review by Jeffrey Bruce . . . . After a sold-out run, Atlanta’s Horizon Theatre has, wisely, returned the Dave Molloy musical for an extended run through March 3rd. While the Broad…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:22PMSaturday, February 10, 2024
Theater Review by Elise Nussbaum . . . . Pre-show house music of Guns n’ Roses, the Ramones, and Nirvana promised a “rock and roll” King Lear, but Frog & Peach Theatre Company’s …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:30PMMusic Review by Ron Fassler . . . . When someone is referred to as an icon or a legend during their lifetime it can often be a burden. Who can live up to that? It was Nathan Lane who once sa…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:55PMFriday, February 9, 2024
Theater Review by Michael Dale . . . . It was around this time last year when I first took in a performance by The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre, a New York-based company that has…
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