Monday, November 14, 2022
By Ron Fassler . . . Peter Fogel is a throwback to a time when you could watch a comedian like him on The Ed Sullivan Show, the CBS Sunday night variety series that ran from 1948 to 1971. Fa…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:30AMBy JK Clarke . . . Ask any working comic and they’ll tell you that the standup comedy business is more difficult now than it has been in over fifty years. Not since organized crime figur…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:30AMFriday, November 11, 2022
By Ron Fassler . . . No, the headline is not hyperbole. There were approximately 150 witnesses to the opening night performance of Leslie Uggams’ weekend run of shows at 54 Below on Thur…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:26PMBy Samuel L. Leiter . . . Once again this season, a writer with a gift for language has crafted a play that is essentially a work of literature, gussied up for the stage with creative desi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:59PMThursday, November 10, 2022
A mélange of melody and tour de force performances featuring lyrics by Michael Colby, will be presented as part of Urban Stages 2022 “Winter Rhythms” series, produced by Tom Toce and Su…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:25AMBy Myra Chanin . . . The Thin Place is the charmingly chilling play by Lucas Hnath that deals with a provocative issue of mortality: whether there actually is an existence beyond death and, …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:13AMWednesday, November 9, 2022
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . The availability on streaming and cable of so many popular mainstream movies of the past is tempting for theater reviewers about to see a show based on one of the…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:00AMMonday, November 7, 2022
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Probably no other New York stage director has as recognizable a style as John Doyle (The Color Purple), who has been regularly demonstrating it at the Classic Sta…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:30AMSunday, November 6, 2022
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Judging by the last three shows I saw, dialogue drama, like democracy and the economy, is in serious trouble. After seeing the one-hander Albert Camus’ The Fall…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:30PMBy Samuel L. Leiter . . . You Will Get Sick, Noah Diaz’s frequently puzzling new play at the Roundabout’s Laura Pels Theatre, may have the most off-putting title around, but its conten…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:00PMMonday, October 31, 2022
By JK Clarke . . . Sometimes when you walk into a theater for a show you know little to nothing about, you hope it’s going to be simple and straightforward, with no contrivances or exces…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:43AMSunday, October 30, 2022
By JK Clarke . . . Bedlam, one of New York’s most creative and innovative theater companies, has been at it for ten years now. Bursting out of the gate that first year (2012) with outstand…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:30AMSaturday, October 29, 2022
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . In 1956, a year before he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Albert Camus, the Algerian-born French writer famous for his philosophical novels The Stranger and The…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:18AMThursday, October 27, 2022
By Myra Chanin . . . If you, like me, are a first-generation American-born child of Russian immigrants who suffered greatly in the Bad Old Country before arriving in The Golden Land, then …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:26AMMonday, October 24, 2022
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Turkey, the fowl, appears in dozens of plays, especially those set on or around Thanksgiving; but Turkey the country is a rarity on the American stage. HOUND DOG …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:30PMSunday, October 23, 2022
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . With Chushingura—47 Ronin, Ako Dachs, a respected New York actress born and bred in Japan (where she was a Takarazuka member!) has undertaken a unique but aweso…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:08PMBy Carole Di Tosti . . . Cine-memoir is difficult to approach, but with acute sensitivity writer-director James Gray (The Lost City of Z) does a yeoman’s job tackling his most personal f…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:14PMThursday, October 20, 2022
By Ron Fassler . . . If you like puns (such as the title of this show, Villain: DeBlanks), a pre-Halloween Trick and Treat was had by one and all this past Tuesday evening in the cabaret spa…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:50PMSaturday, October 15, 2022
By Ron Fassler . . . In the excellent one-person show, Everything’s Fine, now playing at the DR2 Theatre, Douglas McGrath portrays himself. An Academy Award-nominated screenwriter (Bulle…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:01AMBy Carole Di Tosti . . . In 2017, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey smashed through the patriarchal norms that allowed and even encouraged sexual predation in the workplace with cover-ups, sett…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:45AMFriday, October 14, 2022
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . 1776, Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone’s historical drama about the signing of the Declaration of Independence, which won multiple Tony and other awards in 1969�…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:05PMBy Marilyn Lester . . . When you’re an actress, a vocalist that handles musical theater as well as opera, and have a resemblance to a world-famous legend of the opera world, what do you …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:57AMBy Ron Fassler . . . Broadway veteran Kurt Peterson, a part of the original cast of Follies (in addition to a host of other musicals), offered a one-man show Monday evening that he has dub…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:51AMWednesday, October 12, 2022
By Carole Di Tosti . . . Sarah Polley’s spare, darkly spun, cinematic treatise Women Talking, is an imaginative adaptation of Miriam Toews’ titular bestseller. Toews’ novel is base…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:46PMMonday, October 10, 2022
By Carol Rocamora . . . Rarely does a play come along with the majesty and magnitude of Leopoldstadt, the monumental new work by the celebrated British playwright Tom Stoppard now playing on…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:41PMBy Carole Di Tosti . . . In Tǻr Todd Field has written and directed a masterpiece starring Cate Blanchett in the complicated portrait of a world renown symphony orchestra conductor. The…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:04AMSaturday, October 8, 2022
By Ron Fassler . . . I consider myself fortunate to have seen the original Broadway production of 42nd Street in its opening week, back in 1980. The biggest hit of that season, it won the To…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:30AMThursday, October 6, 2022
By Carole di Tosti . . . A whimsical, picaresque adventure told through the viewpoint of a donkey, Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO is a stunning film, visually haunting and poetic. The legendary Po…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:24PMWednesday, October 5, 2022
By Ron Fassler . . . Upon entering the Linda Gross Theater for the Atlantic Theater’s production of Grace Garner’s new play, I’m Revolting, you are met by a strikingly realistic set …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:00PMTuesday, October 4, 2022
Initial casting for this 34th Annual FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS includes Liana Sta. Ana (Broadway: Miss Saigon), Will Blum (Broadway: Beetlejuice), Benai Alicia Boyd (LA: Bronco Billy), Kai An…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:47AMMonday, October 3, 2022
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Cost of Living, Martyna Majok’s (Sanctuary City) sometimes touching and funny dramedy, which premiered in 2017 at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, was produc…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:58PM 
