Friday, August 23, 2019
By Samuel L. Leiter A word of advice for anyone writing a new musical: don’t play a medley of pop hits before the show starts and during its intermission. As demonstrated by the g…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 05:07PM By Sandi Durell –Theater Pizzazz mantra: “If music was everywhere and in everyone’s life, the world would surely be a better place” (more than ever!) — Falling into cab…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 04:25PM Photos: Maryann Lopinto Tony Award Winning Revival, OKLAHOMA, released their original cast CD with a musical presentation by the cast and the signing of the CD on August 22. The …
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 04:17PM by Alana Silber Basic Glitch, the first full-length play written by New York based playwright Stephanie Salazar-Amaro, takes place in a world similar to our own, but with one slight…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 01:31PMThursday, August 22, 2019
by Edward Medina While watching the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival production of Heloise one could imagine what it was like watching a first draft workshop rehearsal of The Lion in Wi…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 09:14PM By Ron Fassler The annual Rave Theater Festival is underway on the Lower East Side of Manhattan this August with theatre, dance and music to entertain (as the circus once said) “c…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 05:04PMFriday, August 16, 2019
By Samuel L. Leiter Ah, the variety of New York theatergoing! One night it’s the raucous, decadently spectacular, nearly three-hours-long, jukebox musical Moulin Rouge in Broad…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 09:00PM By Marilyn Lester That familiar opener, Billy Strayhorn’s “Take the A-Train” (the Duke Ellington Orchestra’s theme song from 1940 on) was a sure bet to herald a delightfu…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 10:14AM by Magda Katz On the first day of rehearsals, the cast and creatives of Fern Hill held a meet and greet with the press at Theatre Row Studios. The play, written by Michael Tucker (w…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 07:24AMThursday, August 15, 2019
Theater Review by Brian Scott Lipton The power (and limits) of imagination. The ways we repeat (and defy) our own family history. The ways we lived then (and now). These are head…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 10:01PM Theater Review by Edward Medina Let’s play a ghoulish little game. Let’s create a fast paced comedy thriller that puts four characters in a spooky setting. Let’s play up who’s …
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 07:04AMTuesday, August 6, 2019
The Lambs, America’s first professional theater club and the oldest professional theatrical organization in the US, marks the 100th Anniversary of the Actors’ Strike of 1919. A cen…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 01:17PM by Magda Katz Friday, August 2, 2019, Grammy Award winning Canadian-born singer-songwriter, pop star Sarah McLachlan took the stage of the Forest Hills Stadium backed by the lush …
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 06:38AMMonday, August 5, 2019
An Amusement Column by Harry Haun THE LONG-DISTANCE RUNNERS: T…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 04:43PM by Michael Bracken Rachel (playwright Domenica Feraud) is home for the weekend, and everyone is walking on eggshells. Well, not quite everyone. Her brother, Brody (a fearlessly direct …
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 02:44PMSunday, July 21, 2019
by Matt Smith It’s been said that life is a cabaret, and nowhere was that more apparent than at Robbie Rozelle’s zany new late-night romp, which launched last Tuesday night at M…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 09:48PM By Sandi Durell Welcome back Rita Rudner in this charmer of a musical comedy, at 59e59 Theaters, where laughter is the name of the game, written by Ms. Rudner and hubby Martin Bergman …
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 02:15PMSaturday, July 20, 2019
by Carole Di Tosti The New York Musial Festival 2019, currently in its 16th season has been offering entertaining, seamlessly performed productions by talented casts and creatives. …
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 07:44AMFriday, July 19, 2019
by Adam Cohen A spectacular New York debut is made in the New York Musical Festival production of “Leaving Eden.” Sarah-Anne Martinez commands the stage as Lilith in this intri…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 10:20PMThursday, July 18, 2019
By Sandi Durell Waiting for this new musical comedy, with book and lyrics by Jamie Jackson and book and music by SoHee Youn, to begin, the chatter amongst some of my nearby seatmate…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 09:38PM Theater Pizzazz’ Shoshana Medney had the time of her life on July 16 at an early unprecedented preview of the first-ever Blue Man Group interactive exhibition featuring one of the ic…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 10:13AM By Marilyn Lester There’s a reason that interactive theater productions and murder-mystery weekends are enduringly popular––they’re great fun! In that spirit, actor Prudence…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 07:36AMSaturday, July 13, 2019
by Susan Hasho Luba Mason told a very human story at The Green Room 42 Wednesday night (July 10). She opened the show with the song “On Broadway” (Lieber/Stoller) and described …
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 12:21PMThursday, July 11, 2019
By Brian Scott Lipton If you’ve done your fair share of cabaret-going, you’ve likely sat through at least one act that could have doubled as a therapy session, as a performer clear…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 11:08PM Theater Pizzazz’ Marcina Zaccaria spoke with Hazen Cuyler about Greenhouse Ensemble’s upcoming production of Romeo and Juliet to gather more information about the Artistic Director/Fo…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 10:47PM by Adam Cohen Alien lizards secretly rule Earth. And their goal is to impregnate as many humans as possible in order to secure their rule. However sound their plan, things aren’t…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 03:55PM By Marilyn Lester Surely the ghosts of Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet and Eugène Ionesco were hovering over the three playwright-performers of the highly existential play, leaves. But unl…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 03:35PM by Harry Haun ON AGAIN LONERGAN: Playwright Kenneth Lonergan started small, Off-Broadway, but, ever since he copped the British and American Oscars for his Manchester by the Sea s…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 03:05PMSunday, June 23, 2019
The magnificent production of Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish donated every seat in the Stage 42 Theater to refugees from around the globe in celebration and in honor of World Refugee D…
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