Thursday, November 14, 2024
It takes more than a holy spirit and revivalist verve to make “Tammy Faye” divinely suited for musical theater.
It would take a creative team knowing what their show wants to be: a campy…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:40PMSunday, November 10, 2024
Sad news: Actor Tony Todd who had roots — and performed — in Connecticut has died at the age of 69 in California.
I wrote several profiles on him — and saw his magnificent performance…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 07:56AMSunday, November 3, 2024
The show: “The Counter” by Meghan Kennedy at off-Broadway’s at the Laura Pels Theater in New York City.
What makes it special?: I’d run to see whatever David Cromer directs. It also…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 12:26PMThursday, October 24, 2024
The show: “Hold On to Me Darling” by Kenneth Lonergan at Off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theatre.
What makes it special?: It stars Adam Driver, one of the hottest screen, stage and tele…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:24AMSunday, October 20, 2024
The show: “McNeal by Ayad Akhtar at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theatre.
What makes it special?: It’s a new play by the Pulitzer Prize winner of “Disgraced,” as well as the Br…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 07:12PMFriday, October 18, 2024
The show: ”Our Town” by Thornton Wilder at Broadway’s Barrymore Theatre.
What makes it special?: The production stars Jim Parsons, best known for his TV role in the popular “The Bi…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 02:09PMFriday, October 11, 2024
With theaters nationwide still staggering from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Hartford Stage announced today it is nearly halfway through the largest non-capital fundraising campaign …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:28PMMonday, September 30, 2024
For David Sedaris, everything is fodder for his slightly twisty and sardonic view of life, whether it’s those annoying post-purchase surveys that flood our emails, the condescending nature…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:41PMSunday, September 29, 2024
All production photos by Joan Marcus
Jez Butterworth’s ambitious, captivating and richly rewarding domestic drama “The Hil…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:51PMFriday, September 27, 2024
Sad news about the death of Maggie Smith. Her pre-Broadway performance in "Private Lives" in Boston in 1975 (which I saw nearly 50 years ago -- and wrote a show-off review for a suburban Mas…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:53AMSaturday, September 14, 2024
The show: “Table 17” at Manhattan Class Company in New York City.
What is it?: A new play by Douglas Lyons, who last wrote Broadway’s “Chicken and Biscuits”
What makes it special?:…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:04PMThursday, August 15, 2024
The show: “Once Upon a Mattress” at the Hudson Theatre.
What makes it special:? Another transfer from the New York City Center’s Encores! series to Broadway. Sutton Foster and Michael…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 03:55PMTuesday, July 30, 2024
It’s no spoiler to say “JOB”, Max Wolf Friedlich’s electrifying synapse of play, features a highly stressed young woman pointing a gun at a therapist in his office. That’s how the …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:28PMSunday, July 21, 2024
The site of the former Long Wharf Theatre
By FRANK RIZZO
It's Saturday night at the New Haven Food Terminal complex. The park…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:41AMThursday, July 18, 2024
Making life-altering decisions is no small matter, especially for the characters in “Choice,” Winnie Holzman’s provocative but imperfect play, which just completed a run at Princeton�…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:46AMSaturday, July 13, 2024
Sad news about the death of Dr. Ruth Westheimer at the age of 96. I remember fondly spending an afternoon with her in her Washington Heights apartment in NYCm in 2013 to advance a production…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 01:13PMFirst "Mystic Pizza" was a hit film which launched Julia Roberts’ career, now it's a musical which will run at the Ivoryton Playhouse in Essex, just a 20 minute drive from the film’s nam…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:50AMA scene from “13” at the Norma Terris Theatre.
Tucked away in the cozy Connecticut town of Chester, sits the Terris Theatr…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:13AMAn innovative production of Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge at Long Wharf Theatre and a high-spirited, buoyant production of Summer Stock at Goodspeed Musicals took top honors at th…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:20AMWednesday, July 10, 2024
The show: “South Pacific” at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, CT. , through Aug. 11.
What is it?: A Rodgers & Hammerstein musical based on James A. Michener’s Pulitzer Prize-w…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:17PMFriday, May 24, 2024
Tony Kushner, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright of “Angels in America” and Steven Spielberg’s go-to screenwriter over the last 20 years, is never short of opinions t…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:40PMMonday, May 13, 2024
Randy Beach is a character witness.
For more than 40 years the veteran journalist has chronicled some of Connecticut’s most colorful, passionate, and often unsung people, in his columns f…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 03:04PMMonday, April 22, 2024
When a character in the new musical “The Heart of Rock and Roll” tries to convince his ex to leave her job at a factory that makes shipping materials, he is stunned: “Oh, my god. It’…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:35PMIn Peter Morgan’s tantalizing but disappointing new play “Patriots,” Boris Berezovsky is presented as a larger-than-life oligarch in a post-Soviet Russia who transforms Vladimir Putin …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:57PMSaturday, April 20, 2024
To the list of larger-than-life, survivalist women in musical theater, add Tamara de Lempicka — but with an asterisk.
The name of the Polish-born portraitist who died in 1980 might not be …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:55AMThere’s a moment in David Adjmi’s play “Stereophonic” when a discordant, mid-’70s band-on-the rise hears one of its songs played back to them in the recording studio for the first …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:25AMThursday, April 18, 2024
A musical that captures the sweep of history in all its complexities without sacrifice of character or credibility is no easy feat.
But “Suffs,” which tells the story of the final pus…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:50PMSunday, March 31, 2024
The show: “Corruption” by J.T. Rogers at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre
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SOURCE: ShowRiz at 03:03PMIt was an awkward moment for Jose Llana when he told his family that he would be starring in the new stage musical "Here Lies Love."
But Llana would not be playing heroic Philippine politici…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:56AMWhen Jelani Alladin (pictured left) read the description of his character in the Showtime/Paramount + series “Fellow Travelers,” the romantic leading man of the stage musicals “Frozen�…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:37AMWednesday, March 27, 2024
Justin Scott of Newtown is a writer of more than 30 historic adventure thrillers, including the “The Shipkiller," the Ben Abbott mystery series, and 10 best sellers co-authored with Clive …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 09:22AM 
