Monday, 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 12:34PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 11:41AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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"born song…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:19AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 an…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:26AM[SHARE]"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 Stra…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:35AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 A…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 o…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:16PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 f…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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" for …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:56PM[SHARE]Monday, December 8, 2025
By Alix Cohen Love and Lunacy; Erroneous Conclusion, Blackmail, and Marriage or Not By Alix Cohen The thing begins when Bertie Wooster's chum, Gussie Fink-Nottle begs him to come to Totleigh…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:16PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 6, 2025
By Alix Cohen Under the leadership of Artistic Director Alicia Graf Mack, an Ailey dancer and Judith Jamison mentee 2005 " 2014, the company begins a chapter with fresh energy. "This monumen…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:14PM[SHARE]Friday, December 5, 2025
By Alix Cohen Among dozens of holiday shows, Ann Kittredge's holiday album release proved particularly warm and original. Gathering talented friends, presenting lesser known, sometimes quirk…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:45AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 25, 2025
By Alix Cohen Actor, singer, dancer, choreographer, director, and risqué Scheherazade, Lee Roy Reams is the Zelig of musical theater. He seems to have befriended everyone, laughed with most…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 18, 2025
By Alix Cohen Taylor Mac is a groundbreaking playwright, songwriter, and performer whose work radically reimagines queer celebration, political critique, and communal transformation. "Really…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:17AM[SHARE]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 12:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 01:19PM[SHARE]By 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 certa…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:40AM[SHARE]By 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 07:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 ge…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 beginn…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:18AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 07:46AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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, his s…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:39PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 bar. Playfu…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 11:08AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 03:29PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 01:28PM[SHARE]By 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 War I…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:39AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 ebullientl…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:39AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 contribut…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:49PM[SHARE]OPENING 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 10:45AM[SHARE]Monday, 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…
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