Sunday, February 22, 2026
By Alix Cohen Playwright Eugene O’Neill had a strong personal connection to the sea from his time as a sailor and an interest in New England’s whaling culture. Though he never went whali…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:21PMSaturday, February 21, 2026
By Alix Cohen Do NOT be put off by title or fight images. There’s nothing gratuitously violent in playwright Ngozi Anyanw’s chronicle of sibling trauma, abandonment and reconciliation. B…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:00PMFriday, February 20, 2026
By Alix Cohen Parched opens with the recording of an actual public service announcement about conserving water and the song “Waiting on the Rain. ” Lighting (Tyler Kieffer) and Scenic De…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:34PMBy Alix Cohen It’s the 1950s. We meet Charlie, a regular guy with a penchant for swing music, draped across an old (full sized) radio console. A fedora covers his face. One day he spots Ru…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:17AMThursday, February 19, 2026
By Alix Cohen Thirty five year ago, Laurie Krauz and MD, Daryl Kojak had a regular gig at Danny’s Skylight on West 46th Street. In an effort to recreate those “casual” appearances, the…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:58AMMonday, February 16, 2026
By Alix Cohen Playwright Brian Dykstra has a habit of sneaking up on one with narratives so topically incisive they startle. His work is a prime example of the aphorism “language holds pow…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:48PMThursday, February 12, 2026
By Alix Cohen There’s little rhyme or reason to Ann Kittredge’s choice of songs this evening except nostalgia with starting her career at Don’t Tell Mama’s and gratitude to the venue…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:08PMMonday, February 9, 2026
Piano player, composer, arranger, musical director, orchestrator, conductor, and uber-fan Marc Shaiman By Alix Cohen At age seven, Marc Shaiman parroted his sister’s piano lesson by ear. A…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:07PMThursday, February 5, 2026
By Alix Cohen “CO＿LAB Theater Group is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing Creative Opportunities without Limits And Boundaries. The organization offers individuals with dev…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:05PMMonday, February 2, 2026
By Alix Cohen When Frenchwoman Margot Sergent appeared at the doors of Berklee School of Music 12 years ago, she had a classical harp background. When she left, the vocalist was a jazz baby.…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:12AMSunday, February 1, 2026
By Alix Cohen “No one could have predicted this is an ironic moment for traditional patriotism…I worry about the direction of the country,” Leon Botstein notes beginning his brief pre-…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:31PMFriday, January 30, 2026
By Alix Cohen “First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” F. Scott Fitzgerald They meet in a church basement outside an AA Meeting. “She” is cle…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:06PMThursday, January 29, 2026
By Alix Cohen Peter Calo has worked with such diverse artists as Dionne Warwick, Queen Latifah, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Leonard Bernstein, Lesley Gore, and The Platters. He spent …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:50PMBy Alix Cohen While fearful about AI’s ability to create fake information, its replacing humans at the workplace, or its thinking for itself, most people don’t consider insidious impact …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:43AMMonday, January 26, 2026
By Alix Cohen Christopher Domig was an increasingly self-produced actor when asked to become artistic director of The Firebone Theater Company in Manhattan. He’d fostered no such ambitions…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:25AMSunday, January 25, 2026
By Alix Cohen Protest songs proliferated in the 1960s. Writer/adapters like Pete Seeger made way for original songwriters. Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Buffy St. Marie and Nina Simone were some of …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:48AMFriday, January 16, 2026
By Alix Cohen January 2017: Fifty-something Carey (Janet Zaresh) has always had unerring instinct for what someone should read. There’s a kind of justice to her owning a bookstore after a …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:40PMThursday, January 15, 2026
By Alix Cohen Oklahoma! redefined the American musical by fully integrating songs, dances, and story into a unified dramatic whole. Richard Rodgers first collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:52PMTuesday, January 13, 2026
By Alix Cohen Composer Burt Bacharach’s harmonically adventurous pop songs reshaped popular music from the late 1950s onward. Working most famously with lyricist Hal David, he wrote dozens…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:16AMSunday, January 11, 2026
By Alix Cohen Genre-defying Happenstance Theater offers an arsenal influences, inventiveness, and subtlety. Collectively devised, the company landscapes a stage with fine-spun virtuosity. Ju…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:30AMFriday, January 9, 2026
By Alix Cohen 40ish Agnes White (Carrie Coon) lives in a low end motel room on an interstate highway in Oklahoma. A bar waitress, she seems to spend the rest of her time high. Today, ex-husb…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:13AMThursday, January 8, 2026
By Alix Cohen When Jordan Harrison wrote Marjorie Prime, (a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize), the play emerged among a succession of dramatic pieces concerning analog vs. digital. A.I.,…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:36AMMonday, January 5, 2026
By Alix Cohen On winter vacation from Harvard, Charles Kirsch returns to 54Below with 15 Broadway notables, most interviewed on his inimitable podcast. Once again, selections are wide, many …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:34PMFriday, January 2, 2026
A New Play with Old Music- Returning to Urban Stages January 25- February 22, 2026 By Alix Cohen Mira (Tora Nogami Alexander), a biracial, Korean American, classical violinist, and her boyfr…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:41AMWednesday, December 31, 2025
“Nonsense wakes up the brain cells…If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.” Dr. Seuss By Alix Cohen Tom Lehrer (1928–2025) was a New York–b…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:19AMMonday, December 22, 2025
A Vaudeville By Alix Cohen Imagination, theatrical skill and physical puppet craft has had a home at HERE Arts Center’s Dream Music Puppetry program since 1999. Endowed by his grandmother …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:26AM“If music be the food of love play on.” Orsino, Twelfth Night By Alix Cohen In August 1956, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn were performing in Canada when they crossed paths with the …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:35AMSunday, December 21, 2025
By Alix Cohen Moses Pendleton’s 2022 Alice, aka this Alice in Wonderland-ish dance/theater piece, is a visual feast: wildly imaginative, impressionistic and allusive, rather than depicting…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:45PMTuesday, December 16, 2025
A pick me up for the weary soul. By Alix Cohen For those of you sadly unfamiliar, throwback Bryce Edwards plays and sings 1920s/30s songs as they would’ve been performed at the time, often…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:16PMMonday, December 15, 2025
Buckle your seat belts! By Alix Cohen The Hellzapoppin’ holiday spectacle Pied Piper Joe Iconis annually engineers is wry, raunchy, subversive, sprawling, shamelessly exuberant fun. Though…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:25PMTuesday, December 9, 2025
By Alix Cohen Paul Williams (1940) is an American songwriter, composer, singer, and actor whose career spans six decades. Known for penning enduring hits such as “We’ve Only Just Begun�…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:56PM 
