Sunday, October 22, 2023
By Carol Rocamora . . . Theater history was made this week when a new Stephen Sondheim musical opened at The Shed, New York’s exciting new cultural center. It’s a cause for celebrati…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:00PMFriday, October 20, 2023
By Myra Chanin . . . Girl Crazy, the birth mother of Crazy for You, opened on Broadway in 1930 with spectacular songs by George and Ira Gershwin, and two unknown young performers who becam…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:12PMThursday, October 19, 2023
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . The Mint Theatre is widely lauded for reviving modern plays that, while long forgotten, appear to be worthy of another look. Often, the revivals uncover shiny tre…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:00PMWednesday, October 18, 2023
By JK Clarke . . . There’s been something of a drought in New York when it comes to Shakespeare plays over the past several years. Sure, there are the requisite Shakespeare in the Park p…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:35PMBy Carol Rocamora . . . Theater has always reflected the “zeitgeist”—at least that’s been my experience. It’s the most admirable mission of our art form—the “holding of the mir…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:52PMMonday, October 16, 2023
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . If there were a Central Casting list of American classical actors, Patrick Page would be near or at the top. At 61, the popular Broadway star possesses all the re…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:05PMFriday, October 13, 2023
By Ron Fassler . . . Now you’ve listened to my storyHere’s the point that I have madeChicks were born to give you feverBe it Fahrenheit or CentigradeThey give you fever. The song “Fe…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:40PMBy Ron Fassler . . . It’s not enough to write dialogue that sounds like real people talking performed by actors with the talent to make it seem effortless. These accomplishments have to …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:00PMThursday, October 12, 2023
By Marcina Zaccaria . . . Esther Williamson and Bill Bowers find themselves cycling through life as players with the Victoria Canada Bicycle Theatre Company in The Making of a Great Moment…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:15AMWednesday, October 11, 2023
By Carol Rocamora . . . “You wanna be able to dream big, right?” So said playwright Nathan Alan Davis in a recent interview regarding The Refuge Plays, his prodigious, powerful new wor…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:00AMBy Marilyn Lester . . . In the music business, legacy is mainly about family—generally the descendants of a songwriter or musician of note, tasked with making sure the work is protected …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:25AMTuesday, October 10, 2023
By Ron Fassler . . . When his country invaded Ukraine, Dmitry Krymov, a theater director of international reputation, was getting ready to come to the United States and direct Anton Chekho…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:31AMSunday, October 8, 2023
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Stage and film writers often find inspiration in familiar locales where a broad assortment of people congregate, among them bars, hotels, schoolrooms, and barbersho…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:52AMSaturday, October 7, 2023
By Myra Chanin . . . I usually arrive at the theater with varying amounts of trepidation, greater when an unfamiliar drama by a world-renowned playwright is being performed by a comparativel…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:53AMBy Melissa Griegel . . . Watching Josh Rhodes’ version of Cabaret is like drinking a full-bodied glass of red wine, aged to perfection, rich, and filled with subtle notes of complex arom…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:19AMBy Carole Di Tosti . . . Jamie Bernstein, daughter of Leonard Bernstein, who appeared at the Q&A after the press screening at Lincoln Center, highlighted a key point about the making o…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:16AMThursday, October 5, 2023
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Despite its title, don’t expect Bite Me, Eliana Pipes’s new Off-Broadway play at the WP Theater, to be about vampires (although there actually is a 2019 vampire…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:28PMBroadway Sings Queen – join Broadway talents including Christine Dwyer (Wicked, Waitress), Tony Nominee Constantine Maroulis (Rock of Ages), and Keri René Fuller (Six, Jagged Little Pill)…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:25AMWednesday, October 4, 2023
On October 9th at Sony Hall at the Paramount Hotel, Broadway Inspirational Voices (BIV), is hosting the “Hope In Harmony: Award Ceremony & Fundraiser Cocktail Party.” The evening’s…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:56PMTuesday, October 3, 2023
By Adam Cohen . . . George Street Playhouse presents the world premiere of The Pianist, a play with music, based on the memoir by Wladyslaw Szpilman and directed and adapted for the stage …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:30AMMonday, October 2, 2023
By Carole Di Tosti . . . In his most brilliant, inventively surrealistic film to date, award-winning Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things displays the artistic genius of the fant…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:30PMBy Ron Fassler . . . When Golden Rainbow opened in early 1968, this eleven-year-old future critic had only recently seen his first Broadway show, I Do! I Do!, which was playing two blocks aw…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:45AMBy Carole Di Tosti . . . In his latest film, May December, director Todd Haynes (Safe, Carol) constructs a thought-provoking, uniquely American story that highlights the culture’s fascin…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:09AMSaturday, September 30, 2023
By Myra Chanin . . . Marcie Gorman, the philanthropic co-founder, Executive Producer and Artistic Director of the MNM Theatre Company, formerly toiled in the corporate sector as the longti…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:29AMFriday, September 29, 2023
By Ron Fassler . . . “Is it so hard to satisfy your senses?” are the first words we hear in the opening song from the iconic Melissa Etheridge in her biographical musical play, Melissa…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:16PMThursday, September 28, 2023
By Ron Fassler . . . Before getting to the question of how a sixty-two-year-old comedy like Ossie Davis’s Purlie Victorious can remain current in its social concerns without changing a l…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:58PMSaturday, September 23, 2023
By Marilyn Lester . . . When a playwright chooses a topic to write about, the roots of that choice can be intriguing indeed. In this case, T.J. Elliott was fascinated by the tale of Saint …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:00PMThursday, September 21, 2023
By Marcina Zaccaria . . . Can piano music save the soul? This is the question I kept asking myself as I watched the courageous performance in 20 Seconds, written and performed by Thomas Sw…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:36PMWednesday, September 20, 2023
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . In a number of ways, Swing State, Rebecca Gilman’s (Spinning Into Butter) often compelling, well-acted drama being presented by Audible at the Minetta Lane, res…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:50PMBy Brian Scott Lipton . . . One won’t spot an “Audrey II” among the neatly ordered plants inside the store that lends Theresa Rebeck’s involving new play, Dig its name. But even if…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:17PMMonday, September 18, 2023
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . Walk into any Target or CVS and you’ll see shelf upon shelf stacked with Halloween decorations. But big-box stores aren’t the only ones getting a head start…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:58PM 
