Sunday, November 16, 2025
By Alix Cohen Unequivocally star of the production, Kristin Chenoweth was the moving force behind this glossy, twelve million dollar disappointment. Having originated Glinda in Stephen Schwa…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:12PMThursday, November 13, 2025
By Alix Cohen Part I: Downton Abby era London. Harry Sims (Bryan Fenkart) is about to achieve the culmination of years of single minded social and business climbing with a knighthood. He obs…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:19PMBy Alix Cohen Sixty five years in, the Paul Taylor Company continues to reflect and innovate. Speaking in Tongues 1988Choreography- Paul TaylorMusic- Matthew Patton“The title refers to cer…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:40AMBy Alix Cohen Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated on June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo, Bosnia by Gavrilo Princip, a 19-year-old member of the nationalist group Black Hand, which sought indep…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:15AMTuesday, November 11, 2025
By Alix Cohen Between Acts I and II of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice the production is shut down by protesters. Saul Rubinek, as a version of himself playing Shylock, refuses to go …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:06PMSunday, November 9, 2025
By Alix Cohen This is, or will be, the third revue in a trilogy of Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire’s songs. Starting Here, Starting Now (1976) focused on young adulthood, romantic begi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:18AMFriday, November 7, 2025
By Alix Cohen Though Queens takes place from 2001 to 2017, the phenomenon of immigrant women sharing overcrowded apartments as part of survival strategy more than likely exists today. Econom…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:46AMThursday, November 6, 2025
By Alix Cohen Over twenty-five years in, Michael Feinstein’s Standard Time continues to be the occasion to hear American Songbook as it was intended. The artist’s respect for material, h…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:39PMWednesday, November 5, 2025
By Alix Cohen “Blow the bugle/Sound the cymbal/All my troubles fill a thimble/I’m as happy as it’s legal to be/Come on, kids, let’s hear it for me!” Mason Prickett sings from the b…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:33AMTuesday, November 4, 2025
A Woman Silenced and Maddened By Alix Cohen Written in 1892, The Yellow Wallpaper was published as a series of diary entries by an unnamed woman suffering from postpartum depression. Her phy…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:08AMFriday, October 31, 2025
By Alix Cohen Nothing comes close to the rollicking madness of a Joe Iconis & Family production. Holidays are an excuse to take these even further. The Laurie Beechman stage is gleefully…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:29PMThursday, October 30, 2025
By Alix Cohen The Big Band Era spanned roughly from the early 1930s to the late 1940s. It was the golden age of large jazz orchestras lead by icons. Evolving from New Orleans style dance and…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:28PMBy Alix Cohen Hannah Senesh – an anglicized Hannah Szenes, (1921-1944) is revered by Jewish people as a symbol of courage, resistance, and Zionist idealism—an enduring heroine of World W…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:39AMSaturday, October 25, 2025
The New York Cabaret Convention Third NightHost K.T. Sullivan, Artistic Director -The Mabel Mercer Foundation By Alix Cohen Opening tonight’s show, Mardie Millit and Michael Garin ebullien…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:39AMFriday, October 24, 2025
The New York Cabaret Convention – Second NightHosts Klea Blackhurst and Billy Stritch By Alix Cohen Jule Styne (Julius Kerwin Stein 1905-1994) was a British American songwriter who contrib…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:49PMOPENING NIGHT- The 36th New York Cabaret Convention By Alix Cohen Weeeeeeere back! Under the aegis of the venerable Mabel Mercer Foundation, the cabaret community gathered once again to supp…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:45AMMonday, October 20, 2025
By Alix Cohen Friends Klea Blackhurst and Billy Stritch go back a looong time. At the urging of uber-fan, the late Barry Day, they developed a Hoagy Carmichael show, repeatedly performing, t…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:29PMBy Alix Cohen If work by Talking Band has escaped your radar, Triplicity is an opportunity to rectify its notable absence. The genre-defying collaboration, “in the place where speech and m…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:04AMSunday, October 19, 2025
By Alix Cohen In 1935, New York Times reviewer Brooks Atkinson found Awake and Sing! a story of “noisy, lunging humanity” he felt was weighted by character development, but promising. Se…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:30PMSaturday, October 18, 2025
By Alix Cohen “We’re not selling objects—we’re selling ideas, emotions, and the aura of cultural relevance.” Larry Gagosian (Gagosian Gallery) Serge (Neil Patrick Harris), a succes…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:33AMThursday, October 16, 2025
By Alix Cohen Chaconne (1942- José Limón) is inspired by a dance originating in Mexico during the Spanish occupation. On stage are dancers from the current company, older alumni, La Guardi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:07AMWednesday, October 15, 2025
By Alix Cohen With Let’s Love! Ethan Coen gives us a contemporary La Ronde, the French anthology film directed by Max Ophüls. Seemingly disparate chapters on sex/love/attachment unexpecte…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:06AMTuesday, October 14, 2025
By Alix Cohen American Sunset is a concept album written between Election Day November 5, 2024, and Inauguration Day, January 20, 2025. Liquor and drug consumption increased, sleep became el…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:08PMSunday, October 12, 2025
By Alix Cohen Inspired by the illustrations of Edward Gorey, Victorian reverie, ill-fated romance, calamitous croquet, and the dangers of windy cliffs. “The world is full of people who are…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:11PMFriday, October 10, 2025
The American Songbook Gala Celebrating Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty By Alix Cohen Lynn Ahrens was working as a copywriter when invited to write a song for children’s television. A bu…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:49PMA Contemporary Feminist Look at Pride and Prejudice By Alix Cohen “Oh my God, everyone here sucks!” exclaims Kitty Bennet, bored at a Ball. (Violeta Picayo) ‘Decidedly not the familiar…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:12PMSunday, October 5, 2025
A Panacea for the Floundering By Alix Cohen The near? future. Population growth is bleeding earth’s resources. With AI rampant, employment is an issue. People haven’t been coping well fo…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:08PMA Study of Self Realization By Alix Cohen Bullfighting in Mexico, corrida de toros, was introduced during the colonial era by Spanish settlers and evolved into a national tradition. For cent…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:38AMFriday, October 3, 2025
By Alix Cohen Belfast today: American oral historian Emily (Molly Ranson) is interviewing middle-aged Dave (Michael Hayden) about the assassination of a friend and fellow soldier that occurr…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:21PMBy Alix Cohen Every play does not have to be life changing. A One-Act with limited production budget can offer as much value as theater with publicity and stars. Lost and Found is a small, t…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:59AMThursday, October 2, 2025
By Alix Cohen Reasoning and logic are the backbone of clear thinking and decision-making. Drawing conclusions from evidence and deductive reasoning have all but been jettisoned in the curren…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:53AM 
