A peculiar show, it should still leave one grateful to see it after so many years and happy to support J2 Spotlight’s commitment to producing seldom-seen musicals
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:02PM[SHARE]May 5, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron FasslerWell, the 79th Annual Tony Nominations have just been announced and, as usual, theatre fans all over are reviewing the situation. In …
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 04:21PM[SHARE]Thought provoking and unsettling, "Kenrex" is a drama with a central performance by Jack Holden that should not be missed.
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:43AM[SHARE]By Samuel L. Leiter As I watched the revival of August Wilson’s emotionally explosive but dramatically stiff Joe Turner’s Come and Gone at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, I was struck by …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:18PM[SHARE]Review by Ron Fassler . . . Famously, New York City’s Joe Allen restaurant on West 46th Street features a wall of shame; its brick walls decorated with the original posters of flop shows f…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:23PM[SHARE]Reporting by Ron Fassler and Melissa Griegel. Last night at a cocktail party at the Algonquin, on the site where Al Hirschfeld once hung out with the esteemed members of the hotel’s illust…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:07PM[SHARE]Sara Chase (center) and company in “Schmigadoon!”April 28, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.When I began writing this column ten years ago and titled it “Theatre Yest…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 11:19AM[SHARE]Wonderfully self-effacing in his well-structured cabaret act, Panaro is in love with performing and crafts an evening of pleasurable sincerity.
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:06PM[SHARE]Review by Ron Fassler . . . As an avid theatregoer and critic, I consider myself fortunate that at the age of twelve, I saw the original 1969 Broadway production of 1776. A critic even back…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:04PM[SHARE]By Samuel L. Leiter The Broadway revival of David Auburn’s 1999 drama Proof at the Booth Theatre, directed by Thomas Kail (Hamilton), has various laudatory features, but it fails to prov…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:33PM[SHARE]With two heaven-sent actresses, it is unfortunately left to the gifted Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara to grapple with a play that has always been a bit of a soufflé and is now downgraded to…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:18PM[SHARE]"The Ballusters" provides more gut-busting laughter than any show this season
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:30PM[SHARE]By Alex Eichholz . . . If you haven't heard by now, Cats, now dazzlingly rebranded as Cats: The Jellicle Ball, has opened on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre after a critically acclaimed a…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:36PM[SHARE]Review by Ron Fassler . . . In a 2011 interview, the legendary composer Jerry Herman referred to Milk and Honey, his first musical produced on Broadway, as "an extraordinary adventure, fi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:39PM[SHARE]By Ron Fassler . . . The Annual fundraiser concert for Broadway Inspirational Voicers (BIV) was held Monday night at City Winery. As the sun set on the Chelsea Piers, a festive and happy cro…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:15AM[SHARE]Review by Ron Fassler . . . The early 20th century playwright Elmer Rice, born Elmer Leopold Reizenstein in New York City in 1892, had two dozen plays produced on Broadway in his lifetime ov…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:12PM[SHARE]By Ron Fassler . . . Anyone serious about theatre will most likely recall their introduction to Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. At age eighteen, when director Mike Nichols saw its or…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:00PM[SHARE]The original cast of "Beautiful Girls" from "Follies" (1971) with the inevitable Roscoe (Michael Bartlett). Photo by Martha Swope.April 4, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fas…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 09:17PM[SHARE]Jon Bernthal commands the stage from start to finish, accomplishing that with an honest charisma, a true voice made for the theater, and solid acting chops.
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:19PM[SHARE]"Rhinoceros" couldn't be timelier.
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:28PM[SHARE]Review by Ron Fassler . . . In 1966, children's book author Stoo Hample, along with Eric Marshall, co-edited a small volume of letters to God written by children, aptly titled Children's …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:09AM[SHARE]March 30, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler. Jonathan Groff at the curtain call of "Just in Time," his final performance as Bobby Darin. Photo by Ron Fassler.Almost a y…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 01:51PM[SHARE]The theatrical event of the season.
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:40AM[SHARE]Jesse Tyler Ferguson is charming, even if one wishes for someone in the role with a genuine score to settle
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:48PM[SHARE]A riveting 70-minutes.
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:50PM[SHARE]Just sit back and appreciate songs filled with nostalgia, sentiment, humor, wisdom, longing, and regret.
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:53AM[SHARE]Review by Ron Fassler . . . Daniel Radcliffe has the distinction of being a worldwide household name and face for twenty-five of his thirty-six years. The British-born actor first burst onto…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:00PM[SHARE]Dual record set for "Sondheim: A Musical Tribute," or as it's commonly known, the "Scrabble Album" (1973).March 11, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler First published Ma…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 09:43AM[SHARE]You may never look at a treadmill the same way again.
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:43PM[SHARE]Review by Ron Fassler . . . The title "Peter Filichia and Friends: Broadway Tale and Tunes" tells you what you're getting yourself into even if you have no idea who Peter Filichia is (a love…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:51PM[SHARE]Charles Durning (1923"2012).February 28, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler An update of a column written and published in 2018. Born on this date more than a hundred ye…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 10:50AM[SHARE]
