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 03:31AMTheater 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 04:20AMTheater 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 03:13AMTheater 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 02:28AMTheater 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 02:58AMCasual 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 03:51AMTheater 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…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:24AMTheater Review By Ron Fassler . . . . Once the new Broadway musical Lempicka begins, two things become instantly apparent: 1) a musical history lesson is in store, and 2) it is going to pres…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:57AMTheater Review by Carole Di Tosti . . . . Marching from its premiere at the Public Theater in 2022 to its Broadway premiere, SUFFS, with book, music, and lyrics by Shaina Taub is now runni…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:30PMTheater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Once upon a time when romances began, the big question was: what’s the other person’s religion? Then it became a question of race. Now it’s p…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:49AMTheater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . The immersive Macbeth at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington D.C. this month is more than just another classical revival. Momentous in timi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:27AMTheater Review by Michael Dale . . . . “I’d rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man,” sang John Lennon on The Beatles’ Rubber Soul album, released in 1965 durin…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:51AMTheater Review by Walter Murphy . . . . An hour-long monologue about the most vital yet least appreciated instrument of an orchestra, the double bass, could easily have left an audience ques…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:44AMTheater Review by Marcina Zaccaria . . . . With statistics tracked on a large screen overhead, aerobic kicks are measured and calculated when Kevin becomes a beta tester for a new workout sy…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:05AMBy Barbara & Scott Siegel . . . Let’s Hear It For Broadway’s Senior Stars! Just before the run-up to the bumper car finale of the 2023-24 theater season, we wanted to pause to ma…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:07PMCasual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Eila Mell. The Tony Awards: A Celebration of Excellence in…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:18PMTheater Review by Carole Di Tosti . . . . Making a Broadway musical adaptation from S.E. Hinton’s popular classic novel, The Outsiders, and Francis Ford Coppola’s titular film, seems no …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:51PMCabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . . It was with a gleam in her eye and a kick in her step that song stylist Margaret Curry bounded onto the stage of the Laurie Beechman Theatre last Saturd…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:01PMTheater Review by Jeffrey Bruce . . . . Luckily, I was able to catch the final performance of Clyde’s presented by one of Atlanta’s premier theater groups, Theatrical Outfit. The scene i…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:41PMTheater Review by Marcina Zaccaria . . . . One clown guides the beginning and end of our journey. Another beautifully designed figure expresses contentment through its mask. In Admiral Grey�…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:29PMCabaret Review by Brian Scott Lipton . . . . At almost age 75, Patti LuPone has absolutely nothing to prove to anyone—not her (adoring) audiences or even, I suspect, herself. Still, her ne…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:10PMTheater Review by Walter Murphy . . . . I’ve always felt that Monty Python owes a debt of gratitude to Gilbert and Sullivan (G&S). Their sketches gleefully offer a skewed view of Bri…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:22AMTheater/Dance Review by Ron Fassler . . . . Even with the very un-springlike weather we’ve been experiencing this week, you can always tell it’s spring when international dance companies…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:25AMCasual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . 4th edition This edition of Leiter Looks at Books looks a…
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