Sunday, November 3, 2024
Casual 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: Theater Pizzazz at 04:22AMSaturday, November 2, 2024
Theater 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: Theater Pizzazz at 10:21PMFriday, November 1, 2024
Theater 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: Theater Pizzazz at 05:32AMMonday, October 28, 2024
Theater 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: Theater Pizzazz 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: Theater Pizzazz at 09:57PMSunday, October 27, 2024
Casual 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: Theater Pizzazz at 11:55PMFriday, October 25, 2024
Theater 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: Theater Pizzazz at 06:14PMSunday, October 20, 2024
Casual 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: Theater Pizzazz at 05:54PMTuesday, October 15, 2024
Theater 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: Theater Pizzazz 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: Theater Pizzazz at 01:54AMSunday, October 13, 2024
Theater 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: Theater Pizzazz 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: Theater Pizzazz at 05:31AMSaturday, October 5, 2024
Casual 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: Theater Pizzazz at 11:01AMTuesday, October 1, 2024
Theater 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: Theater Pizzazz at 09:15PMMonday, September 30, 2024
Theater 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: Theater Pizzazz at 11:00PMSunday, September 29, 2024
Casual 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: Theater Pizzazz at 05:47AMFriday, September 27, 2024
Theater 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: Theater Pizzazz at 08:15PMWednesday, September 25, 2024
Theater 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…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:00PMSaturday, September 21, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Martin Short. I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legen…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:54PMMonday, September 16, 2024
Theater Review by Brian Scott Lipton . . . Do good things come to those who wait? In the case of Empire Records: The Musical, the extremely entertaining adaptation of the flop 1995 film (a…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:58PMSunday, September 15, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Julian Schlossberg. My First Book—Part 2: A Producer’s…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:40PMTheater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . The oversized names and faces of Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone command a large space over the Booth Theatre for Jen Silverman’s comedy, The Roommat…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:12AMSaturday, September 7, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Julian Schlossberg. Try Not to Hold it Against Me: A Produ…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:47PMTuesday, September 3, 2024
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . What? You’ve never heard of Solderville, Colorado? That tiny mining village “on the highest mountain of the highest mountain range in North Ameri…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:15AMSunday, September 1, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . John Mayer. Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago: In Th…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:48AMSaturday, August 24, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Richard Christiansen. A Theater of Our Own: A History and …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:00PMMonday, August 19, 2024
Theater Review by JK Clarke . . . Just about everyone loves to sneer at lawyers despite their importance and frequent value to us as individuals and society as a whole. I won’t even both…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:45PMSunday, August 18, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Barbra Streisand. My Name Is Barbra (New York: Viking, 2…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:53PMWednesday, August 14, 2024
Theater Analysis by Carol Rocamora . . . When multiple revivals of the same classic dominate our stages in successive seasons, one can’t help but ask, as we’re now tempted to do: “Why …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:43PMSaturday, August 10, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Judi Dench (with John Miller). And Furthermore (New York…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:44PMTuesday, August 6, 2024
Theater Review by JK Clarke . . . There are jobs in this world that many of us, well actually most of us, could never dream of doing. They’re dirty, dangerous, or horrifying—but the tr…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:22PM 
