Friday, July 26, 2024
The Green Room 42 will present the Broadway star Anthony Wayne, best known for the hit Mighty Real: A Fabulous Sylvester Musical, in his concert “…Just Me. Anthony Wayne: Live.” His sh…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:13AMWednesday, July 24, 2024
Tony Award winner Matt Doyle (Company) and Max Clayton (Chicago, The Music Man, Moulin Rouge) will headline the annual New York Pops Underground cabaret performance on Monday, October 7, 202…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:12AMAfter its sold-out run at Brooklyn Academy of Music in winter 2024, the off-Broadway production Our Class, by Polish playwright Tadeusz Slobodzianek, will transfer to Classic Stage Company�…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:03AMMonday, July 22, 2024
Previews of Maybe Happy Ending now begin on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, with an opening night set for Tuesday, November 12, 2024, at the Belasco Theatre (111 West 44th Street). The date cha…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:25AMSaturday, July 20, 2024
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Executive Director Tom Viola announced that he’ll retire from the nonprofit at the end of 2024, ending a 36-year tenure that saw the organization persever…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:34AMFriday, July 19, 2024
Producers O’Henry Productions, The Cohn Sisters, Jessica Chase, Taylor Williams, David Blum, Jesse Eisenberg and Charlie Kaufman announced that Pre-Existing Condition by Tony Award® nomin…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:12AMWednesday, July 17, 2024
Previews began July 17 for Someone Spectacular, the world premiere of a new play by Doménica Feraud (Rinse, Repeat – NY Times Critics’ Pick), directed by Tatiana Pandiani. The productio…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:22PMTuesday, July 16, 2024
Back by popular demand, Isaac Mizrahi returns to 54 Below with his band in Isaac Mizrahi: A Brief History, August 28-31. With music ranging from Billie Eilish to Cole Porter, Isaac will leav…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:06AMSunday, July 14, 2024
The New Group proudly announces its 2024-2025 Season, celebrating the company’s 30th Anniversary. The season launches with the New York premiere of Babe by Jessica Goldberg, follo…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:19AMMonday, June 24, 2024
Concert Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . The young jazz singer Samara Joy, only a few years out of SUNY Purchase, continued her fast-rising star journey with a sold-out, two-night stand at th…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:16AMSunday, May 26, 2024
Cabaret Review By Andrew Poretz . . . . Award-winning singer and songwriter Carolyn Montgomery had been away from the performing side of cabaret for some years, spending much of her time as …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:44PMMonday, May 13, 2024
Cabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Chanteuse Artemisia LeFay is a unique throwback performer, best known for embodying the type of Weimar Republic cabaret star of a century ago, as port…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:17AMTuesday, April 23, 2024
Music review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Quintin Harris is one talented fellow. The young pianist and singer has become a favorite of this reviewer since his days as the crooner/”straight man…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:52AMWednesday, April 3, 2024
Concert Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . The world-renowned entertainer and music historian Michael Feinstein graced Zankel Hall (Carnegie Hall’s underground concert space) with Because of …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:25PMMonday, April 1, 2024
Cabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Broadway star Karen Mason has long been a beloved fixture on the New York cabaret stages since she was the first performer at Don’t Tell Mama back i…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:31AMSaturday, March 23, 2024
Music review by Andrew Poretz . . . . When is the last time you saw an entire audience clapping, singing along and dancing to a 78-piece orchestra? The New York Pops orchestra has had some o…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:15AMMonday, March 11, 2024
Cabaret review by Andrew Poretz . . . . When last we saw young French Canadian crooner David Marino, in July 2023, he was making his New York cabaret debut downtown (read HERE). He was quite…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:29AMFriday, March 8, 2024
Cabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . At Pangea last month, Barbara Bleier, Austin Pendleton, Gretchen Cryer and Richard Malby, Jr. converged on this intimate venue to reprise their popular …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:50AMWednesday, March 6, 2024
CD Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Margot Sergent is a marvelous French performer I’ve caught a couple of times, including her Edith Piaf show at Birdland (reviewed HERE). As a jazz harpis…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:18PMThursday, February 22, 2024
Cabaret Review By Andrew Poretz . . . . Those cabaret fans who’ve experienced the joy of a Lianne Marie Dobbs show have been anxiously awaiting a new one. This reviewer caught three iterat…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:42AMMonday, February 19, 2024
Caberet Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . The always glorious Broadway and cabaret star, Melissa Errico, whom this writer has reviewed often (including HERE and HERE in 2023), unveiled her exq…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:25AMTuesday, February 6, 2024
Cabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . When beginning this article, a line describing the heart and soul of cabaret star Ari Axelrod felt awfully familiar. That’s because the words matche…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:30AMFriday, February 2, 2024
Cabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Marissa Mulder has been making her mark on the cabaret scene for more than a decade. The Syracuse native is known for her girlish voice that evokes Bl…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:14PMSaturday, January 27, 2024
Music Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Some of the greatest acts in show business history have been family acts, going back to the days of vaudeville. Some of these were musical acts, some we…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:48AMSunday, December 31, 2023
Cabaret Review By Andrew Poretz . . . . There’s this weird week between Christmas and New Year’s when everyone’s done with “the holidays” and await the New Year. Every possible hol…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:19AMFriday, December 15, 2023
You could call Bryce Edwards, a rising star of 1923 – make that 2023 – a throwback performer, but Bryce more accurately, and magically, stepped through time a hundred years ago. His vaud…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:53PMWednesday, December 13, 2023
Music Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Peter and Will Anderson, twin brothers who hail from Maryland, are strapping, clean-cut young men whose musical sensibilities hail from another time. Th…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:46PMTuesday, December 5, 2023
Cabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Tony-award-winning actress, singer and songwriter Alice Ripley is best known for her big voice as a Broadway star in musicals like The Who’s Tommy, …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:55PMMonday, November 27, 2023
Cabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . This writer reviewed Karen Akers’ well-received Water Under the Bridge cabaret show at Birdland Jazz in September 2022 (read it HERE). Ms. Akers bro…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:27AMThursday, November 16, 2023
Cabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . When composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim died in 2021, a seemingly endless stream of stories about personal encounters with the legend appeared on …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:46PMMonday, November 13, 2023
Music Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Bucky Pizzarelli was one of the greatest and most recorded jazz guitarists of all time and one of only a handful of acclaimed seven-string guitarists. (…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:00AM 
