Tuesday, November 11, 2025
By Stuart Miller... As Sarah she sneers and snarks her commentary on life but her actions reveal a hidden heart.
The post Laurie Metcalf Gives “Little Bear Ridge Road” its Heart, Soul an…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:19PMBy Alix Cohen Between Acts I and II of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice the production is shut down by protesters. Saul Rubinek, as a version of himself playing Shylock, refuses to go …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:06PMMonday, November 10, 2025
Review by Ron Fassler . . . Now in its 55th year, the 92NY Lyrics & Lyricists Series is as essential to New York City as such other venerable institutions as Shakespeare in the Park and …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:34PMSunday, November 9, 2025
By Alix Cohen This is, or will be, the third revue in a trilogy of Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire’s songs. Starting Here, Starting Now (1976) focused on young adulthood, romantic begi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:18AMFriday, November 7, 2025
By Andrew Poretz Performer Kay Kostopolous is a highly accomplished Bay Area jazz singer for whom New York is her second home. She regularly appears at Pangea with her Black Olive Jazz quart…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:40PMBy Abbe Sparks... The Consummate Musician Continues to Push the Boundaries to New Heights
The post The Many Faces of Hot Jazz Guitarist Stéphane Wrembel – Live at Dizzy’s appeared first…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:25PMTheater Pizzazz's Eyal Solomon in conversation with Casey Holloway and Catie Hogan, creators of "Vape! The Grease Parody"
The post Behind the Scenes with the Creators of Vape! “The Grease …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:13PMBy Alix Cohen Though Queens takes place from 2001 to 2017, the phenomenon of immigrant women sharing overcrowded apartments as part of survival strategy more than likely exists today. Econom…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:46AMThursday, November 6, 2025
Elizabeth I - In Her Own Words is a solo performance of the "Virgin Queen" remembering significant events of her long reign, brilliantly played by Tammy Meneghini
The post Elizabeth I – In…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:44PMJackie Mason lives again in this riotously funny comedy based on a true story. The show features Jackie’s real life daughter comedian Sheba Mason, his striking look-alike Ian Wehrle, and…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:29PMBy Alix Cohen Over twenty-five years in, Michael Feinstein’s Standard Time continues to be the occasion to hear American Songbook as it was intended. The artist’s respect for material, h…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:39PMBy Melissa Griegel… Photos by Melissa Griegel Photography Additional photos by Delia Dumont Suite 524 is running a special one-month, eight-show immersive dinner theater experience at Barl…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:30PMBy Stuart Miller... Martyna Marjok’s play examines the struggles and heartbreak endured by women who emigrate here for work or a new life.
The post In “Queens,” Immigrants Shoved Into …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:11PMWednesday, November 5, 2025
By Melissa Griegel… Photos by Melissa Griegel Photography The new musical Reunions celebrated their opening night this week on November 2, 2025 with a party at Tanner Smiths. See below for…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:24PMReview by Ron Fassler . . . While sitting through Kyoto, which opened this week at the Mitzi Newhouse Theatre, I couldn’t help being reminded of several other recent plays best described …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:14PMBy Alix Cohen “Blow the bugle/Sound the cymbal/All my troubles fill a thimble/I’m as happy as it’s legal to be/Come on, kids, let’s hear it for me!” Mason Prickett sings from the b…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:33AMBy Eyal Solomon… You’ll never watch Grease the same way again.
The post “Vape! The Grease Parody” Is the One That You Want appeared first on Theater Pizzazz.
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:27AMTuesday, November 4, 2025
By Andrew Poretz . . . Back in 1968, an advertising poster for Blackglama furs featured a Richard Avedon photo of iconicc star Bette Davis with the tagline, “What Becomes a Legend Most?”…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:42PMThe Power of Women’s Voices is a soul-stirring celebration of prose, poetry, art, and music that honored the unapologetic brilliance of women over 40. The Triad had a packed house, and the…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:03PMA Woman Silenced and Maddened By Alix Cohen Written in 1892, The Yellow Wallpaper was published as a series of diary entries by an unnamed woman suffering from postpartum depression. Her phy…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:08AMSunday, November 2, 2025
Review by Ron Fassler . . . When George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion first premiered in London in 1914, it boasted two of the greatest stars of the British Theatre as its leads: Herbert Beer…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:49PMBy Stuart Miller... Natalie Palamides plays both sides of a couple in this laugh-a-minute clowning play
The post “Weer” Goes All In By Going Halfsies appeared first on Theater Pizzazz.
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:22PMFriday, October 31, 2025
By Alix Cohen Nothing comes close to the rollicking madness of a Joe Iconis & Family production. Holidays are an excuse to take these even further. The Laurie Beechman stage is gleefully…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:29PMBy Ron Fassler . . . I recently had the pleasure of chatting with Linda Purl, an actress and singer with decades in the business. Her resume includes starring in over 45 made-for-TV movies …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:54PMThursday, October 30, 2025
Review by Ron Fassler . . . “This is a play about my mother. For my mother. Who recently . . . who’s not here anymore. And so, it’s about her, and her friends, her beautiful friends—…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:36PMBy Alix Cohen The Big Band Era spanned roughly from the early 1930s to the late 1940s. It was the golden age of large jazz orchestras lead by icons. Evolving from New Orleans style dance and…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:28PMBy Alix Cohen Hannah Senesh – an anglicized Hannah Szenes, (1921-1944) is revered by Jewish people as a symbol of courage, resistance, and Zionist idealism—an enduring heroine of World W…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:39AMTuesday, October 28, 2025
Review by Ron Fassler . . . Oscar Hammerstein II’s words to Jerome Kern’s melody “The Song is You,” could have been written to perfectly describe the songstress Marilyn Maye: Beautif…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:53PMMonday, October 27, 2025
Pianist-entertainer Chris Autore is marking an extraordinary 75 years in show business with a special performance of Look at Me Now on Wednesday, November 5 at 7 PM at Don’t Tell Mama. He�…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:17PMSaturday, October 25, 2025
The New York Cabaret Convention Third NightHost K.T. Sullivan, Artistic Director -The Mabel Mercer Foundation By Alix Cohen Opening tonight’s show, Mardie Millit and Michael Garin ebullien…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:39AMFriday, October 24, 2025
The New York Cabaret Convention – Second NightHosts Klea Blackhurst and Billy Stritch By Alix Cohen Jule Styne (Julius Kerwin Stein 1905-1994) was a British American songwriter who contrib…
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