Saturday, 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 12:00PMFriday, May 24, 2024
Theater 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 01:57AMMonday, May 20, 2024
Theater 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 03:13AMSunday, May 19, 2024
Casual 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 11:46PMThursday, May 16, 2024
Florida 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 02:17AMWednesday, May 15, 2024
Theater 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 12:03AMSunday, May 12, 2024
Theater 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 05:56AMWednesday, May 8, 2024
Theater 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 09:27PMSunday, May 5, 2024
Casual 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 05:36AMFriday, May 3, 2024
Theater 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 03:25AMThursday, May 2, 2024
By 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 02:45AMTuesday, April 30, 2024
By 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 03:29AMMonday, April 29, 2024
Casual 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 03:01AMSaturday, April 27, 2024
Theater 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…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:31AMFriday, April 26, 2024
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . Every time Suzan-Lori Parks writes a play, she creates a new dramatic form. In the case of Sally and Tom, now playing at the Public, let me try to de…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:20AMThursday, April 25, 2024
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . Copyrights have expired for all published works produced prior to 1926. Now considered public domain, permissions are no longer necessary, nor royalties…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:00PMTheater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . I suspect that, if the category for Final Jeopardy were “Russian Oligarchs” and the clue was, “Mathematical prodigy who claimed responsibilit…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:13AMWednesday, April 24, 2024
Theater Review By Myra Chanin . . . . America’s Sexiest Couple, currently being presented by Boca Stage, might just as easily be entitled “America’s Formerly Sexiest Couple.” It has …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:21AMTheater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . Nine actors enter the performance space of St Ann’s Warehouse. Surrounded by the audience on all sides, it is stark and empty save for a dozen boxe…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:28AMTuesday, April 23, 2024
Theater Review by Carole Di Tosti . . . . Being a caretaker of a chronically ill child is a difficult task for the most dedicated of parents of means. However, when a single mother is left w…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:30PMTheater Review by Michael Dale . . . . “The heart of rock and roll is still beating,” announced Huey Lewis and The News back in 1983. I’m no expert in such matters, so I’ll take thei…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:08PMTheater Review by Walter Murphy . . . . In Last Call for Babe Reilly playwright Marianne Driscoll imagines what it takes to make it into heaven: To be kind. Pretty good advice in these fract…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:38AMTheater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . The brave folks at J2 Spotlight, which produces musicals that usually haven’t seen the light of day in some time, are offering two shows this spring (…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:58AMSaturday, April 20, 2024
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Stephen J. Bottoms. Playing Underground: A Critical Hist…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:32PMTheater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . A brief (but incomplete) timeline: 1900: L. Frank Baum publishes his fantasy novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; 1903: a hit musical version of the …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:24PMTheater Review by Walter Murphy . . . . The Worst Cafe in the World should not be confused with the venue where it takes place, Ryan’s Daughter. This Irish pub has been an Upper East Side …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:51AMFriday, April 19, 2024
Theater Review by Myra Chanin . . . . In case you mistakenly thought The Buddy Holly Story was a seasonal legend about a friendly sprig of mistletoe, the life of Buddy Holly currently resurr…
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