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Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Motherstruck! Opening Night by Jk Clarke

  Staceyann Chin, the well-known spoken-word poet, performer and LGBT activist, opened her new autobiographical solo show, Motherstruck!, Monday night, December 14 at the Lynn Redgrave …

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Monday, December 14, 2015

Opening Night – Once Upon a Mattress by Jk Clarke

  Sunday night, December 13  saw the opening night of Transport Group’s revival of Once Upon a Mattress at the Abrons Arts Center on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Once Upon …

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Monday, December 7, 2015

School of Rock Opens on Broadway by Jk Clarke

  Andrew Lloyd Webber’s newest musical, School of Rock opened Sunday night at The Winter Garden theater. It’s the story of a sad sack, wannabe rocker, substitute teacher who…

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Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Uncommon Core: Undefined Fraction by Jk Clarke

  by JK Clarke   Sunday evening, November 29 saw the conclusion of La Mama Experimental Theatre Club’s La Mama Puppet Series with a performance of Undefined Fraction by Loco7 Dan…

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Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Wresting and Roaming: New York Animals by Jk Clarke

    by JK Clarke     Perhaps the most poignant moment in Bedlam Theatre’s latest production, New York Animals—a new play by Steven Sater with songs by Burt Bacharach …

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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

A Cherished Doll – Nora by Jk Clarke

          Ingmar Bergman’s Nora, an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic drama A Doll’s House, makes its English-language New York debut at Cherry Lane The…

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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

York Theatre Celebrates Angela Lansbury! by Jk Clarke

The York Theatre Company honored fêted theater legend Angela Lansbury on her 90th Birthday awarding her the 2015 Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theater at Guast…

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Ricky Ritzel on Broadway Returns! by Jk Clarke

      by Myra Chanin The latest Ricky Ritzel on Broadway returns to Don’t Tell Mama on November 19th.   If a picture is worth a thousand words, what’s a video worth? …

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Kenneth Branagh Theatre Opens in London by Jk Clarke

by Carol Rocamora   Theater history is being made this month, with the founding of the new Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company on London’s West End. The company’s highly anticipated ina…

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Monday, November 16, 2015

Drama Desk Celebrates Diamond Jubilee and the Stars Shine! by Jk Clarke

The post Drama Desk Celebrates Diamond Jubilee and the Stars Shine! appeared first on Theater Pizzazz.

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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Cuckooed by Jk Clarke

          by Eric J. Grimm   Mark Thomas, the UK comedian whose one-man show, Cuckooed, is currently playing at 59E59, puts us all to shame. As a tireless activ…

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Stars Salute Allegiance on Opening Night by Jk Clarke

Sunday, November 8 saw the opening night of Allegiance—the story of a Japanese-American family’s experience of wrongful imprisonment during World War II—on Broadway at the Longacre…

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Sunday, November 8, 2015

Double Trouble: The Comedy of Errors by Jk Clarke

    by JK Clarke     The thing about Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors that both has the potential to make it completely fascinating, but also logistically challenging…

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Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Drama League Honors Bernadette Peters by Jk Clarke

  The brightest stars of stage and screen came out to the Plaza Hotel Monday night, November 2, as the Drama League honored Bernadette Peters at its Centennial Celebration. The fete, ce…

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King Charles III Opens on Broadway by Jk Clarke

Sunday night, November 1, the stars came out from both sides of the pond to The Music Box Theater for the Broadway opening of the highly acclaimed King Charles III. The play, an imagining of…

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Thursday, October 29, 2015

Hurtful Truth: Veritas by Jk Clarke

    by JK Clarke   Gay rights in the United States have taken great strides in the past decade or two. So much so that it’s easy to lose sight of the vast array of discr…

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Songbird – Opening Night by Jk Clarke

      Wednesday, October 28 saw the opening night and New York premiere of Songbird, a new show about a fading star coming home to Nashville. Written by Michael Kimmel, with m…

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