Tuesday, 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 02:22PMMonday, August 5, 2024
Cabaret Review by Cooper Lawrence and Sheila Watko . . . Another great Joe Iconis & Family show is in the books at 54 Below. It was—once again—the coolest party in town with the co…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:42AMSunday, August 4, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Mel Brooks. All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Bus…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:17AMThursday, August 1, 2024
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Are you a sucker for sentiment? Do you not care that much if a play you’re seeing is contrived, clichéd, and conventional, as long as you enjoy …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:31PMSunday, July 28, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Chris Jones. Rise Up! Broadway and American Society from…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:01PMSunday, July 21, 2024
Theater Review by Michael Dale . . . With Manhattan temperatures regularly hitting the mid-90s this July, even the most serious-minded theatergoer is apt to be searching for frothier fare …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:06PMTheater Review by Yani Perez . . . María Irene Fornés’ La Viuda returns to the stage in a new production by Dogteam Theatre Project at Atlantic Stage 2. Translated and directed by Olga…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:35PMCasual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Peter Hay. Theatrical Anecdotes. (New York: Oxford Unive…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:28PMFriday, July 19, 2024
Cabaret Review by JK Clarke . . . Lea DeLaria’s cleverly double- or triple-entendre titled monthly show at 54 Below, Brunch is Gay may also just be unintentionally exhibiting the simples…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:00AMTheater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . I know that’s an unconventional way to begin a review of a new work, but that’s the feeling that swept over me, watching Kathleen McGhee-Anderson…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:29AMSunday, July 14, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot-off-the-presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Pete Blatchford. Wicked, Immoral, Utterly Bad! An Illust…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:03AMSaturday, July 13, 2024
Theater Review by Adam Cohen . . . Cole Escola’s Oh, Mary! is unadulterated hysteria. Stop reading now and book your tickets. Escola brilliantly subverts history and creates an indelible v…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:30AMThursday, July 11, 2024
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Summertime, and the pickings are measly. At least that’s the case with two new Off-Broadway musicals I had the displeasure of seeing over the pas…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:30PMSaturday, July 6, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot-off-the-presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Chris Jones. Bigger, Brighter, Louder: 150 Years of Ch…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:44PMTheater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . From Here, a disposable musical brought to New York’s Signature Center by the Renaissance Theatre Company of Orlando, Florida, is the kind of pro…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:57AMSunday, June 30, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot-off-the-presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Ben Hecht. A Child of the Century. (New Haven and Lond…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:37PMSunday, June 16, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Norman Mathews – The Wrong Side of the Room: A Life in…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:40AMSaturday, June 15, 2024
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . A ferocious flock of Furies is unleashed in Lucy Kirkwood’s wild new play The Welkin. They seek vengeance upon the world—and each other—for the…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:16AMFriday, June 14, 2024
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . We learn that he was bitten by a spider at the age of six. We learn that she wanted to be a ballerina at the age of twelve. We learn that, growing up…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:41AMThursday, June 13, 2024
Theater Review by Brian Scott Lipton . . . . Just like many skeptics refused to believe that the enormous “ship of dreams” known as Titanic could ever actually be built, an eyebrow or tw…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:25PMCabaret Review by Myra Chanin . . . . Ricky Ritzel is an exceptionally inventive, highly motivated, knowledgeable theatrical anthropologist, ready to rummage through mounds of musical comedy…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:12AMSunday, June 9, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . SITI Company: THIS IS NOT A HANDBOOK (n.p.: SITI Company…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:13PMTheater Review by Yani Perez . . . . The Public Theater’s Mobile Unit is back this season, presenting the bilingual musical adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, ada…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:59PMWednesday, June 5, 2024
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . Every once in a while, a small, forgotten play resurfaces, making a great and joyful noise. Such is the case with the beautiful revival of Home, Samm…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:00PMTuesday, June 4, 2024
GALECA, the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, gave “Illinoise,” “Merrily We Roll Along,” “Oh, Mary!” and “Stereophonic” its top honors in the group’s second annual Do…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:17PMTheater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Molly Sweeney, by the great Irish playwright Brian Friel, is a sensitively crafted, verbally rich, but dramatically challenged and overlong (two ho…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:51PMTheater Review by Jeffrey Bruce . . . . “Everybody Loves Somebody,” (Irving Taylor/Ken Lane) sung by Dean Martin, plays as the lights dim on Theatrical Outfit’s magnificent production …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:19AMReview by Ron Fassler . . . . In what was meant to be a 100th birthday party for Broadway lyricist Sheldon Harnick this past weekend at the 92nd Street Y, what took place instead was somethi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:31AMSaturday, June 1, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Mary S. Ryzuk. The Circle Repertory Company: The First F…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:04PMTheater Review by By Ron Fassler . . . . As someone who can quickly and fondly call up memories of the Broadway production of Once, the Tony Award-winning Best Musical of 2012, a tinge of …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:13AMSaturday, May 25, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Marshall W. Mason, The Transcendent Years: Circle Repert…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:00PM 
