Tuesday, April 28, 2026
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 03:07PMSara 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 11:19AMSunday, April 26, 2026
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 01:06PMFriday, April 24, 2026
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 01:04PMThursday, April 23, 2026
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 05:33PMWednesday, April 22, 2026
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 05:18PMTuesday, April 21, 2026
"The Ballusters" provides more gut-busting laughter than any show this season
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:30PMFriday, April 17, 2026
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 04:36PMReview 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 01:39PMThursday, April 16, 2026
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 08:15AMWednesday, April 15, 2026
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 12:12PMThursday, April 9, 2026
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 10:00PMSaturday, April 4, 2026
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 09:17PMThursday, April 2, 2026
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 02:19PMTuesday, March 31, 2026
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 11:09AMMonday, March 30, 2026
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 01:51PMFriday, March 27, 2026
Monday, March 23, 2026
Jesse Tyler Ferguson is charming, even if one wishes for someone in the role with a genuine score to settle
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:48PMFriday, March 20, 2026
Monday, March 16, 2026
Just sit back and appreciate songs filled with nostalgia, sentiment, humor, wisdom, longing, and regret.
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:53AMThursday, March 12, 2026
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 11:00PMWednesday, March 11, 2026
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 09:43AMThursday, March 5, 2026
You may never look at a treadmill the same way again.
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:43PMTuesday, March 3, 2026
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 04:51PMSaturday, February 28, 2026
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 10:50AMThursday, February 26, 2026
Monday, February 23, 2026
Review by Ron Fassler . . . In describing the place and time of her comedic play Mother Russia, playwright Lauren Yee writes: "Our story take place in fall 1992. St. Petersburg, Russia, w…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:16PMTuesday, February 17, 2026
Review by Ron Fassler . . . Robert W. Schneider is a director, writer, producer, educator, podcaster, and historian. His desire for learning and communicating much of what he's gleane…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:41PMMonday, February 16, 2026
Louise Troy, Edward Woodward, and Tammy Grimes in "High Spirits" (1964). Photo by Friedman-Ables.February 16, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.
High Spirits, the musical …
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 04:15PMThursday, February 12, 2026
Okieriete Onaodowan and Aigner Mizzelle are mesmerizing in this deceptively simple play about lost connections and an arduous path towards reconciliation.
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:10PM 
