Thursday, September 25, 2025
Identical triplets in formidable harmony By Alix Cohen Identical triplets from Nairobi, Kenya, Mary, Magda and Marta Moipei, were appointed UNICEF ambassadors at age twelve championing girl …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:33AMFriday, September 19, 2025
Great authentic folk music and a timely, touching play By Alix Cohen Mira (Tora Nogami Alexander), a biracial, Korean American, classical violinist, and her boyfriend Beckett (Morgan Morse) …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:14PMSongs by James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, and Clint Holmes performed with brio By Alix Cohen There are entertainers and there are entertainers. We north-easterners think of Las Vegas performers …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:33AMWednesday, September 17, 2025
A confirmed Francophile lyrically shares her love of The City of Light By Alix Cohen Karen Akers may be a reincarnated French woman. Her love of Paris runs beyond personal experience to a ki…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:37PMA Preview of The Metropolitan Opera’s Imaginative, Upcoming Production By Alix Cohen Tonight’s glimpse into The Metropolitan Opera’s upcoming production of The Amazing Adventures of Ka…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:19AMMonday, September 15, 2025
France’s welcome to American jazz – Edifying and Entertaining By Alix Cohen After World War I, American jazz musicians—many of them Black expatriates—found a welcoming audience in Pa…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:11PMSaturday, September 13, 2025
One more performance at 54 Below – September 14, 2025 By Alix Cohen Billy Stritch and Nicolas King swing like the rest of us breathe- naturally, as if informed by DNA. Clearly a mutual adm…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:33PMFriday, September 12, 2025
By Alix Cohen A well researched, little known, true Civil War story featuring three formidable women, each dedicated to her own divisive patriotism. 1861- 1865. The Richmond, Virginia home o…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:01AMWednesday, September 10, 2025
By Alix Cohen “Give me time and I’ll give you a revolution.” Alexander McQueen (1969-2010) Though set in the world of fashion (marvelous costume and accessory design by Kaye Voyce), th…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:59AMMonday, September 8, 2025
By Alix Cohen Without other similarity to the character Baby June from Gypsy, Rachel Matz Hunter might be called “a five foot two bundle of dynamite.” Diminutive only in stature, the tal…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:01PMSunday, September 7, 2025
By Alix Cohen Lisa Viggiano puts her whole self into a song. You can practically see the music coursing through her body. She has control, range, and offers distinctive phrasing. Wells Hanle…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:22AMThursday, September 4, 2025
By Alix Cohen “Dotty had a mind like a steel trap- and a tongue to match.” Robert Benchley Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) was a poet, short story writer, screenwriter, critic, and satirist k…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:17PMWednesday, September 3, 2025
By Alix Cohen It’s the bees’ knees! * An instrumental “After You’ve Gone” (Turner Layton/Henry Creamer) sashays in. Trombone surges, cornet and clarinet shimmy, sax kicks up. Tonig…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:52AMThursday, August 28, 2025
By Alix Cohen “We were looking for artists who bring something new to the table, not just the songs.” Alexa Spiegel Broadway’s Supper Club, 54 Below, is vested in helping artists. Many…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:53AMWednesday, August 27, 2025
By Alix Cohen “We were looking for artists who bring something new to the table, not just the songs.” (Alexa Siegel) Broadway’s Supper Club, 54 Below, is vested in helping artists. Man…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:04AMTuesday, August 26, 2025
Review by Alix Cohen With this 11” x 17” book, you too can put a Hirschfeld on your wall or gift an uber-fan. There are 58 pages, 50 drawings and 25 glossy, thick, ready to frame posters…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:30AMMonday, August 25, 2025
By Alix Cohen “My goal is to capture the evanescent quality of existence.” Tennessee Williams Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier Williams III 1911- 1983) was one of the most influential A…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:10PMSunday, August 24, 2025
By Alix Cohen The Chinese legend The Butterfly Lovers (梁山伯与祝英台, or Liang Zhu) traces its origins to the Eastern Jin Dynasty (317–420 AD), a time marked by rigid social hierar…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:07PMFriday, August 22, 2025
By Alix Cohen Disguise, mistaken identity, role reversal, breached social boundaries, servants mocking masters, fools speaking truth, status quo suspended…Written in 1602 for Twelfth Night…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:42PMTuesday, August 12, 2025
By Alix Cohen The Legacy of a Master Composer Henry Mancini (1924–1994) was an influential and versatile American composer. He began as a pianist and arranger for the Glenn Miller Orchestr…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:11PMSunday, August 10, 2025
Nostalgic Music of Teenage Summer By Alix Cohen “It’s summertime summertime sum sum summertime…” (Tom Jameson) Christopher Denny and Tom Hubbard sing. Later, the two add “bad a-da …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:59PMSaturday, August 9, 2025
By Alix Cohen The 19th Annual United Solo Festival launches October 14 and continues through November 23. Its roster of one person pieces written predominantly by each show’s performer, fe…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:34AMFriday, August 8, 2025
By Alix Cohen “I was never an actress—none of us kids at MGM were. We were just good to look at.” Ava – The Secret Conversations was based on candid interviews conducted by ghost wri…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:23AMWednesday, July 30, 2025
A Three-Night Celebration of Song, Style, and the Spirit of Cabaret By Alix Cohen “Grab your coat and grab your hat/Leave your worries on the doorstep…” The 36th Annual New York Cabare…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:38AMMonday, July 28, 2025
The loving, challenging romance of Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner By Alix Cohen Comic actors/writers Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner met in 1980 on set of the forgettable caper film Hanky Panky. …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:59AMSaturday, July 26, 2025
The 2000 year-old rivalry of two fatally seductive, bloodsucking actresses in a cult classic by the inimitable Charles Busch By Alix Cohen Onto the 54 Below stage file very old friends, but …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:33AMThursday, July 24, 2025
What seems like beneficence turns out to be strategic trivializing of American culture By Alix Cohen While 53% of Americans believe Shakespeare is one of the greatest playwrights of all time…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:24AMTuesday, July 22, 2025
A selection of songs from Charles Strouse musicals that never made it to Broadway and stories from those who had the pleasure of working with him. By Alix Cohen The 8th iteration of Broadway…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:19AMSunday, July 20, 2025
Mark Morris Dance Group Choreographer Mark Morris uses diverse music to explore. By Alix Cohen The forty-fifth anniversary of Mark Morris Dance Group finds its founder and company at The Joy…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:15PMFriday, July 18, 2025
By Alix Cohen... Composer/lyricist Joe Iconis is as well known for his crossover professional/ personal Family of artists as he is for his iconoclastic musicals.
The post The Phenomenon of J…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:27PMBy Alix Cohen... Composer/lyricist Joe Iconis is as well known for his crossover professional/personal Family of artists as he is for iconoclastic musicals.
The post The Phenomenon of Joe Ic…
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