Wednesday, March 25, 2020
For the first time in its 86-year history, the Apollo Theater’s Amateur Night auditions will be conducted exclusively through online submissions, as the nonprofit looks to continue its mis…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:50PMMonday, March 2, 2020
By Ron Fassler In the course of the past seven days— completely random, too— I happened to see Mack & Mabel, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, and No Strings, three shows not often perf…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:30PMFriday, February 28, 2020
By Susan Hasho Jane Monheit opened at Birdland having just completed her Ella Fitzgerald tour and promoting the new album The Songbook Sessions: Ella Fitzgerald. She was very glad to be b…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:47AMTuesday, February 25, 2020
By Ron Fassler Lucas Hnath is a playwright who with each new effort continues to surprise his audiences with an imaginative flexibility. His previous efforts include the well-received Off…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:00PMBy Linda Amiel Burns Since Jerry Herman passed away on December 26, 2019, I have attended many wonderful tributes for this legendary man of music who is considered one of Broadway’s gre…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:05PMTuesday, February 11, 2020
By Tania Fisher Jean Dobie Giebel’s Chasing the River is a wonderful example of why people love going to Off-Off-Broadway Theater. This beautifully crafted play is deserving of all its acc…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:35PMMonday, February 10, 2020
By Marcina Zaccaria Nicov (Alexander Sokovikov) considers his easel with three brushes, wet with paint, in The Artist, the first story adapted for the stage in Chekhov/Tolstoy: Love Stories.…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:03PMThursday, January 30, 2020
By Carol Rocamora Astonishing. Absolutely astonishing. Those are the words that best describes Simon Stone’s mind-blowing, jaw-dropping, 80-minute adaptation of Medea, the 431 BC classi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:30PMBy Carol Rocamora “I think I would like a divorce.” (Beat) “All right.” (End of Scene.) If you’ve heard funnier opening lines on a New York stage this year, please let me know. As…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:07PMFriday, January 24, 2020
By Ron Fassler If 20 years is the arbitrary cut-off when a couple begins to feel the test of time in their marriage, then Orfeh and Andy Karl only have another year to go before all hell bre…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:49PMSunday, January 19, 2020
By Ron Fassler It’s hard to believe that the musical revue Forbidden Broadway began in 1982 at a tiny supper club on West 72nd Street on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. In the intervening 3…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:57PMSaturday, January 18, 2020
By Michael Tingley Before me, a tire, laying on mossy turf. A couch, tilted backward, slashed underneath. A bathtub. And, most strikingly, a pond— or a puddle more exactly. Something like …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:47AMFriday, January 17, 2020
By Ron Fassler The Green Room 42 in New York City played host to Ann Hampton Callaway channeling the song stylist and composer Peggy Lee. It was almost too perfect— in that one great si…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:15AMThursday, January 16, 2020
By Ron Fassler This new 90-minute play by Talene Monahon is not a how-to for those interested in learning the retro skill of loading a musket. But it does (as you might surmise) concern i…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:40PMWednesday, January 15, 2020
By Fay Simpson Occasionally one encounters, while sitting in the audience, a performer who is so fearless and unselfconscious that one can truly relax and let the messages being expressed on…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:21PMBy Tania Fisher The devotees of one of this century’s greatest comic talents flocked to fill Feinstein’s/54 Below as they celebrated the great Mel Brooks. The rollicking, joyous evening …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:14PMMonday, January 13, 2020
by: Carole Di Tosti As the Founder and Producing Artistic Director of the International WOW Company, Josh Fox has written/directed/produced three award-nominated and award-winning fil…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:05PM 
