Thursday, 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 known…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:17PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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. Tonight's band …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:52AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 music…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:53AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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. Many musi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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. Al…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:30AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 Ameri…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:10PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 24, 2025
By Alix Cohen The Chinese legend The Butterfly Lovers (æ¢å±±ä¼¯ä¸Žç¥è‹±å°, or Liang Zhu) traces its origins to the Eastern Jin Dynasty (317"420 AD), a time marked by…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:07PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 02:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 Orchestra …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:11PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 da-da da…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:59PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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, feat…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:34AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 writer, jou…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:23AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 Cabaret Co…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:38AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 06:59AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 09:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 07:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 08:19AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 12:15PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 06:27PM[SHARE]By 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…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:26PM[SHARE]By Alix Cohen... A bickering married couple and an unlikely murder suspect comprise two one acts by the deft Lanford Wilson.
The post "Who We Become" " One Act Plays by Lanford Wilson appea…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 16, 2025
By Alix Cohen… Heads Up, Theater Writers! Founded in 1962 by former president of The Dramatists Guild, lyricist Alan Jay Lerner, the Dramatists Guild Foundation offers financial aid, rehea…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 15, 2025
By Alix Cohen... Shared stories of lifelong friends induce a new neighbor to reveal hidden sorrow
The post "The Weir"- Camaraderie, Alcohol, and Ghost Stories appeared first on Theater Pizza…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:41PM[SHARE]Monday, December 30, 2024
Monday, March 1, 2021
Both Haley and Andrea Burns are appealing and sympathetic. Burns is charming. It seems as if the actress is recalling events on the spot. She's practically never still, whirling around the r…
SOURCE: Woman Around Town at 03:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 7, 2016
14-year-old Bronwyn Chochinov always loved to draw. As a 4th and 5th grader, she contributed ongoing comic strips in her school's High School newspaper How to Survive 4th Grade, and How to S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 16, 2015
Despite making her debut at The Player's Club in 1993 and four years spent in prison for murdering a competing actress " "I wrapped the jump rope around her fat neck and pushed her over the…
SOURCE: Woman Around Town at 02:02PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Impressive technology, imaginative visuals, and thumping, electronic music keep stage energy high. Encouraged to do so, the mostly youthful audience raucously voices enthusiasm provoking a s…
SOURCE: Woman Around Town at 12:17PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 9, 2012
You are cordially invited to a 1937 weekend at Ten Chimneys, the beautiful, Wisconsin summer home of Alfred Lunt (Byron Jennings) and Lynn Fontanne (Carolyn McCormick). Deemed the "celestial…
SOURCE: Woman Around Town at 11:16AM[SHARE]Monday, July 2, 2012
Heads up! There are singing, dancing, dinosaurs on Vandam Street, they know where we are, and they've discovered the truth! Decidedly NOT a children's musical, Triassic Parq is a completely …
SOURCE: Woman Around Town at 11:48AM[SHARE]Monday, June 25, 2012
7th MONARCH is first rate: fresh, riveting, and meticulously constructed. The theater fades. Time passes with such concentrated energy, intermission is a surprise. Protagonists are compellin…
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