by 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…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:51AMby JK Clarke There’s plenty to poke fun at when it comes to the 1970s and 80s in American culture. From fashion to music to television to mustaches, what…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:22AMPhotos by JK Clarke Monday night, February 23, Theater for the New City held its 13th annual gala. This year’s event, held at the esteemed National Arts Club on Gr…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:28AMBroadway couple Andy Karl and Orfeh played the Appel Room in Lincoln Center’s American Songbook by Linda Amiel Burns Powerhouse performers, Andy Karl a…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:01AMby Joe Regan Jr. Dana Lorge, the host of a monthly recurring series featuring guest cabaret performers, suffered a pneum…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:27AMby JK Clarke Once upon a time a lot of people were fascinated by the Manson Family. Charles Manson and his followers epitomized, for many, the breakdown of the 19…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:55AMby JK Clarke One of the many things makes Twelfth Night—arguably Shakespeare’s best comedy—so special is that it’s hard to screw it up. It’s a fast-flowing, hu…
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SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:25PMby Marilyn Lester Part cabaret and part awards show, the first annual International Cabaret Festival (ICF) kicked off at The Metropolitan Room with a gala featuri…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:08PMby Brian Scott Lipton The “dysfunctional family gets together for a holiday” play (or movie), no matter how brilliant or funny, usually descends into u…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:01PMby Joe Regan Jr. Broadway Inspirational Voices is a Grammy nominated multi-racial gospel choir whose mission is to give hope, inspiration, and changed live…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:20AMTap dance icon and star of Maurice Hines’ Tappin’ Thru Life (currently playing at New World Stages) was honored with an iconic caricature portrait yesterday afternoon at S…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:49AMby Jordan Cohen On Monday, February 15, I saw Love Is Crazy, Justin Vivian Bond’s Valentine’s Day Show at Joe’s Pub. Mx. Bond, a beloved staple of the downt…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:01AMby Paulanne Simmons Jimmie Bush Jr. may be twenty-five years old, but his musical heart belongs in the 1960s and 1970s. Those were the times when artists s…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:03AMby Samuel L. Leiter In 2008, Barack Obama ran for the presidency on a promise of hope and change, a promise whose results continue to be hotly debated. One…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:18PMThe Good Girl: A Futuristic Time Warp Into The Present by Carole Di Tosti The Good Girl, written by Emilie Collyer, directed by Adam Fitzgerald and present…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:00PMStreamlined Buried Child Still Taps Shepard’s Inner Storm by Michael Stever Digging into the dark recesses of our own past is…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:15PMby JK Clarke You know you’re in for a long seventy-five minutes when the opening scene of Fen, Caryl Churchill’s 1983 play (presented by the Red Garnet Theate…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:26PMby Eric J. Grimm So much theater in New York tries to lazily imitate the film experience while refusing to push boundaries that don’t need to exist when an audi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:32AMby Eric J. Grimm There has never been a better time to see Mike Birbiglia live than now. With his unkempt appearance and propensity to tell stories about h…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:57PMby Monica Charline Brown The phrase “dynamic duo” does not even begin to do justice to the performance Tor and Lisa (Tor Hyams and Lisa Rothause…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:48AMThe Discovery of King Tut – An Exhibit Worthy of a Pharaoh by Marilyn Lester Arguably the most famous Egyptian in the annals of world history is the “boy king…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:01PM“War teaches people nothing.” – Bertolt Brecht by Monica Charline Brown Mother Courage and Her Children—Bertolt Brecht’s dramatic method of p…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:24PMby Susan Hasho Not all is well in Amber’s life. She has the air of a woman overburdened and underappreciated. She’s really pissed off at her seemingly unrelia…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:26PMA Mash-up of Love, Injustice and Power in Our Time, For All Time by Carole Di Tosti Resonance Ensemble is presenting an elucidation of the elements of greatness …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:25PMby Monica Charline Brown Leonard David Goodisman’s new work, My Backyard, is quite the wacky evening of entertainment. Addressing the environmental issues afflicting c…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:14PMby JK Clarke It may have taken Downton Abbey to make aristocratic costume drama accessible and mainstream, but it took the Bedlam Theatre Company to turn it into …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:26PMby Eric J. Grimm Phoenix Theatre Ensemble’s production of August Strindberg’s Creditors makes a fine case for reviving the 127-year-old play. Strindberg’s brisk pa…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:23AMby Eric J. Grimm Company XIV’s erotic dance fairy tales have quickly become a phenomenon at the West Village’s Minetta Lane Theatre, with Nutcracker Rouge bec…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:29PMby Samuel L. Leiter Are you a sitcom fan? Do you enjoy watching comic stereotypes (especially Asian and gay) run through smartly formulated, if admi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:00PMLinda Lavin: My First Farewell Concert. Birdland, January 31, 2016 by Joe Regan Jr. Linda Lavin is receiving critical raves for her current Broadway perfor…
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