Saturday, July 22, 2023
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Deirdre Kinahan’s The Saviour, a one-act, two hander, running a shade over an hour, is now receiving its world stage premiere (following an online debut) at the…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:40AMFriday, July 21, 2023
By Ron Fassler . . . As a teenager, I watched Lucie Arnaz week in, week out on her mother’s CBS-TV series “Here’s Lucy” over the course of its six season run (Monday nights at 9 PM).…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:30PMBy JK Clarke . . . Musicals that take place during revolutions or periods of historic social upheaval tend to not only be compelling to audiences but have a fairly good track record. Think…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:51AMSaturday, July 15, 2023
By Walter Murphy . . . In recent years, my wife and I have been spending time in Ireland during the summers. While there we try to visit many of the excellent national museums and parks. T…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:10PMFriday, July 14, 2023
By Myra Chanin . . . I first visited Florida as a new mother in the 1980s. We drove down accompanied by our little darling, Steven, a toddler whose possessions filled the entire trunk of o…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:36AMThursday, July 13, 2023
By Stuart Miller . . . There’s a moment somewhere in the middle of I’m Going to Marry You Tobey Maguire when you start to see the seams of Samantha Hurley’s sketch comedy writing bac…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:13PMFriday, July 7, 2023
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . For the past couple of weeks, I’d been wondering if my visit to the Free Shakespeare in the Park production of Hamlet was to be or not to be. First, a weather s…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:47AMTuesday, July 4, 2023
By Carole Di Tosti . . . Everyone should write their own story. But how is this possible if an omnipotent narrator demands obedience upon the threat of banishment? We discover dreams can c…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:30PMWednesday, June 28, 2023
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . To quote the great Noel Coward: “I’ve been to a marvelous party.” It was filled with soigné New Yorkers of every age and shape, dressed in glamorous 1920…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:55PMMonday, June 26, 2023
By Alix Cohen . . . Alex Edelman has been doing stand-up since he was a teenager and honing his show, Just For Us (which has just moved to Broadway’s Hudson Theatre), since 2018. Charism…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:30PMFriday, June 23, 2023
By Myra Chanin . . . Harrumph!!! Where in the world can a theatergoer find a well performed farce nowadays? I just reveled in the perpetually amusing Will Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:23PMBy Brian Scott Lipton . . . Anyone remotely involved in the world of entertainment knows the meaning of the phrase “triple threat”: someone who can act, sing and dance. Anyone who has …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:00PMBy Brian Scott Lipton . . . You don’t see a miracle? Luckily, there’s a quick fix for that dilemma—this weekend only—if you can grab a ticket to City Center Encores’ vocally gorgeo…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:10PMOne of the last greats of Broadway’s Golden Age, and celebrated lyricist of Fiddler on the Roof, Sheldon Harnick died Friday in NYC at the age of 99. Born in Chicago in 1924, Harnick e…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:33PMThursday, June 22, 2023
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Given the cultish popularity of the 1989 high school movie Heathers, about serial killings, and of its 2014 stage musical version, you’d imagine anyone contempl…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:08PMWednesday, June 21, 2023
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . Like it or not, the so-called “jukebox musical” has become a staple of New York City theater and shows no signs of disappearing. The latest example, Rock &a…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:00PMBy Brian Scott Lipton . . . If you believe everything you see in the movies, “cabaret” often consists of a cool, soigne-dressed songstress delivering sultry standards to a barely involve…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:18PMBy Marilyn Lester . . . In what was possibly one of her most magnificent cabaret shows to date, Natalie Douglas proverbially blew the roof off Birdland with A 60s Songs Juneteenth Jubilee.…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:38PMBy Marcina Zaccaria . . . John Rubinstein remembers victory as the 34th President of the United States in Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground. Social unrest, race riots, and eventually the as…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:28AMTuesday, June 20, 2023
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Apart from Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt, perhaps, the play with the most sustained dramatic and intellectual power now playing in New York is The Doctor, at the …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:16AMFriday, June 16, 2023
By Adam Cohen . . . Rent at the Paper Mill Playhouse remains a wonder to behold, a sumptuous song-fest to enjoy, a spiritual boost for all. Director Zi Alikhan delivers a crazily brilliant…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:30AMWednesday, June 14, 2023
By Ron Fassler . . . A Simulacrum is a world premiere production presented by the Atlantic Theatre Company and co-written by Lucas Hnath with Steve Cuiffo. Hnath, a playwright whose credit…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:00PMBy Samuel L. Leiter . . . When it comes to supernatural pop cultural tropes that keep popping up in shows, movies, and TV series, few are as common as vampires, zombies, and dragons. For a r…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:30PMBy JK Clarke . . . What better way to get into the spirit of Pride Month than with a pride of amazing singers performing some of Judy Garland’s biggest hits (and a few deep cuts)? Hard t…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:55AMBy Carol Rocamora . . . London theatre has been soaring this spring with a striking variety of offerings, ranging from the sensational to the scintillating to the sentimental. Nicholas H…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:57AMTuesday, June 13, 2023
By Alix Cohen . . . Bronx-born Thomas Wright “Fats” Waller (1904 –1943), jazz pianist, organist, composer and vocalist copyrighted over 400 songs, most co-written with Andy Razaf who d…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:55PMBy Carol Rocamora . . . “Two people stranded at sea . . . Two stranded people are we . . .” So goes the leitmotif of Days of Wine and Roses, a heartrending new musical now filling the At…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:56AMMonday, June 12, 2023
By Marcina Zaccaria . . . Ropes with pulleys flying through the air are a visual sign of the intense muscularity of dock work, lauded in The Hook. Brave New World Repertory Theatre challen…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:52PMWednesday, June 7, 2023
By Adam Cohen . . . Abe Burrows, Jo Swerling, and Frank Loesser’s 1950 musical comedy, Guys and Dolls, is one of my favorite shows. When the opportunity came to travel to London, seeing …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:58PMBy Brian Scott Lipton . . . More than once during her Monday night performance of California Dreamin’: Jessica Vosk Sings the Songs of Laurel Canyon, the singer joked that she was treati…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:30AMTuesday, June 6, 2023
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . I’m sure most people would agree that, even if they have no idea of what Wet Brain Syndrome is, it makes a more intriguing play title than Wernicke-Korsakoff [o…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:30PM 
