Monday, December 1, 2025
Matt Kurzyniec outside the Palace Theatre where he recently made his Broadway debut in “Beetlejuice.”December 1, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
It doesn’t get much …
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 09:19AMSunday, November 30, 2025
Review by Ron Fassler . . . Friends who have been performing together in tandem for almost twenty-two years, Christine Ebersole, a two-time Tony Award winning actress and Billy Stritch, a …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:29PMTuesday, November 25, 2025
Raul Esparza as J.J. Hunsecker in MasterVoices’ “Sweet Smell of Success.”November 25, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.
Most people have never heard of the musical Sw…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 08:20AMFriday, November 21, 2025
“TWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK)”: AN UNWIELDY TITLE FOR AN UNUSUALLY WONDERFUL NEW MUSICAL
Sam Tutty and Christiani Pitts in “Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 11:27AMWednesday, November 19, 2025
Book review by Samuel L. Leiter Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. David Armstrong. Broadway Nation: How Immigrants, Jewish, Queer…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:56PMMonday, November 17, 2025
Icke, Strong, and Manville update Sophocles for a modern political tragedy. In 1959, Elmer Rice wrote Cue for Passion, a Broadway play that adapted Shakespeare’s Hamlet into contemporar…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:45PMReview by Ron Fassler . . . Sometimes a play begins and within minutes you can tell that you’re in the hands of a playwright, director and cast that are not only on the same page but have …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:24PMThursday, November 13, 2025
Laurie Metcalf as Sarah and Micah Stock as Ethan in “Little Bear Ridge Road” (photo by Julia Cervantes).November 13, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.
In 1984, I attend…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 03:02PMMonday, November 10, 2025
Review by Ron Fassler . . . Now in its 55th year, the 92NY Lyrics & Lyricists Series is as essential to New York City as such other venerable institutions as Shakespeare in the Park and …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:34PMFriday, November 7, 2025
Mike Nichols and Neil Simon in an empty theatre in the 1960s, eyes forward towards the stage.November 7, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.
Mike Nichols, born ninety-four y…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 10:43AMWednesday, November 5, 2025
Review by Ron Fassler . . . While sitting through Kyoto, which opened this week at the Mitzi Newhouse Theatre, I couldn’t help being reminded of several other recent plays best described …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:14PMSunday, November 2, 2025
Review by Ron Fassler . . . When George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion first premiered in London in 1914, it boasted two of the greatest stars of the British Theatre as its leads: Herbert Beer…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:49PMFriday, October 31, 2025
By Ron Fassler . . . I recently had the pleasure of chatting with Linda Purl, an actress and singer with decades in the business. Her resume includes starring in over 45 made-for-TV movies …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:54PMThursday, October 30, 2025
Review by Ron Fassler . . . “This is a play about my mother. For my mother. Who recently . . . who’s not here anymore. And so, it’s about her, and her friends, her beautiful friends—…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:36PMTuesday, October 28, 2025
Review by Ron Fassler . . . Oscar Hammerstein II’s words to Jerome Kern’s melody “The Song is You,” could have been written to perfectly describe the songstress Marilyn Maye: Beautif…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:53PMWednesday, October 22, 2025
Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Art of Leaving is the unpropitious title of an amateurish new domestic comedy by Anne Marilyn Lucas, whose cardboard dialogue and plywood acting had me pond…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:56PMSunday, October 19, 2025
Review by Ron Fassler . . . The 34-year-old Ari’el Stachel is blessed with charm for days. Anyone who saw his Tony Award-winning performance in The Band’s Visit were enchanted by his i…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:07PMThursday, October 16, 2025
Review by Ron Fassler . . . Eleven months ago, the City Center Annual Gala Presentation of Ragtime, minimally staged by director Lear DeBessonet, received excellent reviews (mine among t…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:59PMTuesday, October 14, 2025
By Alex Eichholz . . . For a show that opens with the line “Prepare to be GOOPED!”, I was neither gooped nor gagged by Gwyneth Goes Skiing, which opened tonight at SoHo Playhous…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:10PMMonday, October 13, 2025
Sam Robards, Victoria Clarke, Camila Canó-Flaviá, and Will Harrison in “Punch” (photo by Matthew Murphy).October 13, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
If you’ve nev…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 10:44AMWednesday, October 8, 2025
Review by Ron Fassler . . . It is with only a fleeting awareness of her media persona that I attended The Least Problematic Woman in the World, Dylan Mulvaney’s solo autobiographical pla…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:50AMTuesday, September 30, 2025
Review by Ron Fassler . . . When the lights go up on Preston Max Allen’s new play Caroline, which opened tonight at off-Broadway’s MCC Theater, we see a 28-year-old mother (Chloë Grace…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:53PMSunday, September 21, 2025
Review by Ron Fassler . . . The one time I attended Scotland’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival was forty years ago. I saw play after play and was charmed by much of the theatre, though a bit sur…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:04PMFriday, September 19, 2025
Review by Alex Eichholz . . . Whether you’re in the front pew every Sunday or you’ve never set foot in a chapel, you must let the dazzling company of the new musical Saturday Church, whi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:56PMThursday, September 18, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . New York has a number of institutions part of whose function is to introduce the artistic expressions of a particular national culture. I don’t know of any that, …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:56PMTuesday, September 16, 2025
Robert Redford (1936–2025).September 16, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.
Robert Redford died early this morning at age eighty-nine. A major film actor, his star never d…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 11:43AMSunday, September 14, 2025
Review by Ron Fassler . . . The last time I attended a production of Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck, was at the Brooklyn Academy of Music forty-eight years ago. The second time, in a full c…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:06PMSaturday, September 13, 2025
Review by Stuart Miller . . . The Brothers Size is a transportive meditation on siblings, the way they can (and can’t) protect or hurt each other and on how if you live with your head in t…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:26PMFriday, September 12, 2025
By Ron Fassler . . . Although Avery Sommers is coming to town doesn’t quite scan the same as Santa Claus is coming to town, the talented singer/actress will undoubtedly be spreading he…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:28PMThursday, September 11, 2025
LONDON REPORT: “THE PRODUCERS” IS BACK — JUST FOR THE FUN OF IT!
Andy Nyman and Marc Antolin as Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom in “The Producers” (2025).September 11, 2025: Thea…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 03:14PMFriday, September 5, 2025
By Ron Fassler . . . “Hirschfeld drew from life. He was drawing from personal experience. He was going to the theatre and making sketches there and then coming back to his studio and putti…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:56AM 
