by Jordan Cohen Marti Gould Cummings, well known in the New York drag scene as a singing comedy queen, presented a one night only rock concert, dire…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:13AMLiz Callaway sings Maltby & Shire at the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse by Susan Hasho There is no better ambassador for Maltby and Shire than Liz …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:08AMby Brian Scott Lipton Is it 1776 or 2016? It can be occasionally be hard to tell what year we’re watching—or living in—during Tony Award winner Garry…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:56AMby JK Clarke Inherent in taking a risk with a theatrical production, as with any risk, is that the chance for failure is significantly increased. When the gambit …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:30PMOscar-winning actress and theater star Patty Duke died on Tuesday in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho at the age of 69. Duke, who rose to prominence on Broadway as Helen Keller in Th…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:59AMby Marilyn Lester The seventh edition (in three years) of Robin’s Nest—a cabaret hosted by Robin Westle to benefit the work of helpusadopt.org �…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:18AMby MR Anderson The recent abundance of fledgling theater companies are the great double-edged sword of our new crowdfunding era of the arts. Numerou…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:02AMby Beatrice Williams-Rude The Pearl Theatre is the jewel in Theatre Row’s crown. Whether presenting classics, like Shakespeare and Shaw; insightful translations such a…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:09PMThursday night, March 24 at the Cort Theater saw the gala opening of Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s new musical, Bright Star. The opening night red carpet, mobbed by ph…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:47AMby Eric J. Grimm August Strindberg Repertory continues its American update of Strindberg’s To Damascus trilogy with the second installment, Damascus II, …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:31AMA frustratingly rough-edged, but fascinating tale of a 19th century musical legend. by Joel Benjamin The Czechoslovak-American Marionette The…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:40PMby Beatrice Williams-Rude A new work by Swedish wunderkind Jonas Hassen Khemiri and produced by Origin Theatre Company, The Hundred We Are, is openi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:45PMBoldface names from the theater world turned up Sunday night at the Barrow Street Theatre for opening night and US debut of The Effect, by Lucy Prebble. Having recently taken L…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:37AMby JK Clarke Historically, visions of the future have been optimistic about the quality of the people therein. The Jetsons always showed happy, zippy people in fl…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:25PMby JK Clarke For a total dummy, Ray is no dummy. The Olympics-level competitive swimmer and protagonist of Red Speedo, Lucas Hnath’s new play now running…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:48PMby Rudy Gerson For most people, declaring bankruptcy would be an unpleasant experience, but the matriarch of Labyrinth Theater’s current production of The …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:05PMBy Sandi Durell The Edison Ballroom was filled to capacity on March 14th as two theater greats were honored for their untiring and unique contributi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:13AMby Brian Scott Lipton A nearly two-decade absence from the New York stage has done nothing to lessen the considerable chops of Timothy Olyphant. Indeed, hi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:51AMby Beatrice Williams-Rude Gracing the theater scene is an elegant and utterly delightful new production of George Bernard Shaw’s Widowers’ Houses. Guid…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:57AMby Monica Charline Brown Acclaimed playwright Eduardo Ivan Lopez has molded a true paragon of the contemporary American drama with his play, Natural Life, running…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:42PMby JK Clarke Prior to attending First Maria’s production of Hamlet at Teatro Círculo in the East Village, I had mistakenly fallen under the impression that I would be…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:54AMby JK Clarke Many years ago, I saw Tammy Faye Starlite perform with her group, the Mike Hunt Band (don’t say that name out loud) on New Year’s Eve at the …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:55PMby JK Clarke Imagine a scenario in which a politician starts to gain too much popularity even though he proposes turning the present governmental system on its ea…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:50AMLast night, Tuesday March 8, Disaster struck Broadway . . . that is to say Disaster! the musical, which opened at the Nederlander Theater. The production, written by…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:14PMMonday night The New Group honored Ed Harris, Amy Madigan and Ellen Roth with the 2016 Michael Mendelson Award for Outstanding Commitment to Theater at their Annual Gala, held at Tribeca R…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:40PMby JK Clarke There’s a lot going on in Danai Gurira’s new play, Familiar, which opened Thursday at Playwrights Horizons. So much so that …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:06PMby JK Clarke Sometimes theater should make you uncomfortable. And it’s usually those uncomfortable plays that have the deepest impact and make you think most seriously…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:24AMby JK Clarke I have always maintained that a low-budget, community theater production of a Shakespeare play, if done properly, can be as entertaining an…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:01AMby JK Clarke It can be argued that the theatergoers who get most excited about a staging of Shakespeare’s little-known and (until recently) seldom performed—and perh…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:59PMby Joe Regan Jr. The Shakespearean Jazz Show is made up of a group of jazz musicians and singers who got together when they were students at Emerson College and t…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:48AMby Rudy Gerson Paul Auster’s 1985 novel City of Glass is a creative inquiry into identity, validity, and language’s inability to represent either. Th…
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