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 04:16AMTheater 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 05:41AMTheater 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 04:12AMCasual 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 01:59PMTheater 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 08:00PMGALECA, 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 03:31AMCasual 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 05:13AMCasual 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 12:00PMTheater Review by Yani Perez . . . . Dungeons and Dragons: The Twenty-Sided Tavern is a high-energy, interactive show brimming with fun for both fans of the game and newcomers alike. The …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:57AMTheater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Perhaps the most admired fairytale musical ever, Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods, might hesitate before calling itself perfect, so you must tak…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:24AMTheater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . A picture is worth a thousand words—so goes the saying It can also change our way of looking at history . . . and ourselves. Such is the power …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:13AMCasual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Bryan Cranston, A Life in Parts (New York: Scribner’s,…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:46PMFlorida Theater Review by Myra Chanin . . . . The last three performances of ArtBuzz’s seriously amusing, amazingly witty, agonizingly poignant, heartbreakingly real staging of William Fin…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:17AMTheater Review by Michael Dale . . . . Being one of the early arrivals, the first thing that happened during my visit to Sam Myers and Dan Kuan Peeples’ appropriately discomforting immersi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:03AMTheater Review by Myra Chanin . . . . The Lost Virginity Tour at the Delray Beach Playhouse is a curious mishmash. I initially found the initial frame—four superficial women who meet perio…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:07AMCasual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Martin Bauml Duberman, Paul Robeson (New York: Knopf, 19…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:56AMTheater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . The idea behind Ronnie Larsen’s sentimental farce, The Actors—now playing at Theatre Row—is, for all its seeming improbability, so comedicall…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:27PMCasual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Stephen Cole. MARY & ETHEL . . . and Mikey Who? (New…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:36AMTheater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . As the 2023-2024 Broadway season hurtled through its overstuffed last week before the annual awards deadline, two plays about motherhood—one more…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:25AMBy Ron Fassler . . . . The Acting Company is the brainchild of the co-founders of Juilliard’s drama division, John Houseman, the legendary producer and director, and Margot Harley, who ser…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:35PMTheater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . In charge of adapting Sufjan Stevens’ 2005 concept album Illinois for the stage, Jackie Sibblies Drury (playwright) and Justin Peck (director and chor…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:45AMBy Walter Murphy I arrived at the An Beal Bocht Cafe ready to review Eileen Byrne Richards’ one-woman performance of Running with Coffee only to realize I was attending a family reunion—…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:29AMCasual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Barry Singer. Ever After: Forty Years of Musical Theatre…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:00AMTheater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . Anton Chekhov, the Russian-born author, dramatist, and medical physician, died at age forty-four 120 years ago. In his short lifetime, he wrote four e…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:01AMTheater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . “What good is sitting alone in your room?” Good question! And the answer lies in the succeeding line: “Come hear the music play!” It’s a ly…
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