Theater Review by Walter Murphy . . . When an audience explodes in a spontaneous standing ovation at the end of a show, it’s a pretty good indication that the show is a hit. That’s exa…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 03:33PMCasual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . 38th Edition. Ken Bloom. Show & Tell: The New Book of …
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 02:53PMCasual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . 37th Edition. Richard Nelson. A Diary of War & Theatre…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 05:38AMIn The Blood Quilt, he stitching women of past generations remind us of the vital importance of ritual and tradition The post The Blood Quilt – A Dramatic Patchwork of Compelling Themes ap…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 10:00PMCasual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . 36th Edition. Andrew Norlen (editor) and Matthew Murphy (p…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 12:00PMTheater Review by Walter Murphy . . . Although based on true stories, I wondered whether audiences would be able to identify the principals of Orson’s Shadow, like Orson Wells, Lawrence Ol…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 05:57AMTheater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . Tammy Faye, the newest musical arrival on Broadway, has a lot to offer today’s audience. It’s a moving rise and fall story of a high-profile public…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 11:30PMTheater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . Is there any actor alive who is as passionate about Shakespeare, and as invested in his work, as Kenneth Branagh? He’s performed in and/or directed…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 09:00PMTheater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . A little background first: Ako is a vastly experienced Japanese actress, born and raised in Tokyo, deeply trained in traditional Japanese dance a…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 07:00PMTheater Review by Walter Murphy . . . Oh Jesus, what has happened to this woman? Well, she did go to Catholic school.. So there’s that. Written and performed by Kelly McCaughan, Catholic…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 03:32AMTheater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . A great American actor brings the story of a great American musician to vibrant life. You can hear it a block away, as far as Ninth Avenue: the glo…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 09:00PMTheater Review by Walter Murphy . . . Café Utopia, produced by the Notch Theater Company and now playing at the Hudson Guild through November 23, is a comedy about how the perceptions of …
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 03:43AMCasual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Reviews by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Cindy Rosenthal. Ellen Stewart Presents: Fifty Years of L…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 05:09PMCasual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Kevin Winkler. On Bette Midler: An Opinionated Guide. New …
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 04:22AMTheater Review by JK Clarke . . . Sam Gold’s apparent vendetta against William Shakespeare continues. Over the past ten or so years, the Tony Award-winning and often quite effective (las…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 10:21PMTheater Review by Walter Murphy . . . The Irish play HOTHOUSE, produced by Malaprop Theatre and currently playing at the Irish Arts Center is both sad and silly, while visually entertaining.…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 05:32AMTheater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . I was bar mitzvah age in 1953 when the news exploded across the world that a former GI from the Bronx, a photographer named Christine Jorgensen (n�…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 11:22PMTheater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Fifty-four years ago movie audiences wept uncontrollably at Love Story, based on a novel by Erich Segal, in which glowingly golden college students…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 09:57PMCasual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Scotty Bowers, with Lionel Friedberg. Full Service: My Adv…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 11:55PMTheater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . It’s rare, if indeed it ever occurs, that you’d encounter a sympathetic Nazi in any context —not in a historical record, and certainly not on…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 06:14PMCasual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Reviews by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Michael Coveney. Maggie Smith: A Biography. London: Weide…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 05:54PMTheater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . “It’s better in this country sometimes to mind your own business. It’s safer.” What an understatement! Judging from the title of the play whe…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 09:00PMTheater Review by Elise Nussbaum . . . The endless elasticity of Shakespeare can be stretched to fit any variety of settings: a pre-gentrification West Side, an animated African savannah, …
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 01:54AMTheater Review by Walter Murphy . . . Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night has been around for a bit, since 1604, so there is little more to be said about the text that hasn’t been picked over …
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 06:08PMCasual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Katie Gee Salisbury. Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shi…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 05:31AMCasual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Reviews by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Richard E. Grant. A Pocketful of Happiness: A Memoir. (Ne…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 11:01AMTheater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . Ghosts can be scary. Ghosts can be troublemakers. Ghosts can be destructive. Witness the ones in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, or Ibsen’s Ghosts, or Bren…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 09:15PMTheater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . Jacob McNeal, celebrated American novelist and playwright, has a problem. He’s trying to kill himself. Wait a minute, you say to yourself at the on…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 11:00PMCasual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Reviews by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Alan Rickman. Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman …
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 05:47AMTheater Review by Walter Murphy . . . George Tabori’s The Goldberg-Variations shifts swiftly between light and dark, serious and comical, while diffusing tension and disappointment with …
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 08:15PMTheater Review by Walter Murphy with Catherine Kemm . . . Every time I see a show I learn something. After seeing A Fairly Odd Musical! at the Jerry Orbach Theater I learned that there are…
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