By Alix Cohen Johnny Mathis (1935- ), known for his smooth voice and romantic ballads, helped define the easy-listening and adult contemporary genres with a career spanning more than six dec…
By Alix Cohen Laurie Krauz may be one of the best jazz artists of our generation. Her well honed vocal instrument evinces elastic versatility and control. Tantalizing power eschews the easy …
By Alix Cohen Sidney Myer is the beating heart of New York’s cabaret community, as much a part of its health and well being as the sun in the mornin’ and the moon at night. Iconoclastic …
By Alix Cohen Once more unto the breach!* This is the 14th Blue Wave concert raising money for Democratic candidates since 2018. Stephen Hanks, at various times editor, writer, publisher, re…
A chat with Megan Hilty about her new Café Carlyle show and what inspires her about playing at the legendary supper club.
By Alix Cohen Two slight plays- the first more than the second- show Frank Cossa has an ear for naturalistic dialogue. The first features Tom (Riyadh Rollins) waiting impatiently at a café …
A compassionate look at being institutionalized by Alix Cohen
By Alix Cohen Irish Repertory Theatre founders, Charlotte Moore & Ciarán O’Reilly, throw a grand party. At 37, the theater is not only as vibrant and energetic as ever, it still has a…
By Alix Cohen There’s much to recommend The Public Theater’s first production of this Shakespeare classic in 40 years. Firstly, its cast contains stand-outs: Star-crossed lovers, Romeo (…
By Carol Rocamora... History feels alarmingly current in this riveting portrait of political persecution.
By Alix Cohen In October 1989, Donald Smith’s four year-old Mabel Mercer Foundation held its first annual New York Cabaret Convention. The New York Times headline read: Cabaret Convention …
By Carol Rocamora... Kip Williams transforms Genet's dark tale of obsession and revenge into a visually astonishing theatrical experience that blurs the line between stage and screen.
By Walter Murphy... Murder, mistaken motives, and absurd twists fuel this fast-moving improvised homage to Alfred Hitchcock.
By Alix Cohen Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman left one of the most enduring legacies in American songwriting, crafting elegant, emotionally rich lyrics that became part of the cultural fabr…
By Alix Cohen This is hands down the most thrilling dance production to which I’ve ever been treated. In words I’ve rarely written, there’s nothing I would change. Be prepared for hype…
TheaterPizzazz has named author and theater historian Ron Fassler its first Chief Theatre Critic, effective immediately.
By Alix Cohen People become jockeys not because it’s easy, but because they can’t imagine life without horses, competition, and the thrill of the ride. Robert Montano was the short kid p…
Review by Ron Fassler . . . There’s a relatively new theatre space off-Broadway (well, maybe off-off-Broadway, but who defines these things anyway?) and it goes by the moniker East Villa…
Basketball’s loss was musical theatre’s gain when Adrienne Warren switched her professional interest.
By Alix Cohen Imagine, dear reader, a young boy set adrift upon the bustling and often unkind tide of the world, furnished with little more than a hopeful heart and a talent for observing it…
By Alix Cohen Josh (Harrison Bryan) is successively suspended from NYU and kicked out of rehab. He goes on a bender, apparently flies to Miami, then finds himself literally on the ground in …
By Alix Cohen Lucille Carr-Kaffashan is a psychologist. This is a smart show with excellent, often little known song choices that relate to one another. Wise points are well made. The vocali…
By Alix Cohen It takes artistic audacity for a female artist to offer a show of Barbra Streisand material.Though Melissa Errico tells us the evening is an homage– trying to chart the ways …
By Alix Cohen This is a terrific presentation, terrific. Rarely do components come together with such finesse, feeling and craftsmanship. History and tradition provide whole cloth through wh…
Heather Christian's 'Animal Wisdom,' is her profound musical requiem of mourning and expiation in a rich ceremonial tribute to spiritual familial influences.