8,564 stories from Theater Pizzazz
By Alix Cohen... The play is riveting- smart, imaginative and provocative- decisions that need to be made by homo sapiens
By Andrew Poretz... Gunhild Carling turns a night of traditional jazz at City Winery into a wild vaudeville romp, with dazzling musicianship and surprises at every turn.
Review by Ron Fassler. The headline above referencing Thomas Ellenson’s new three-character play Thomas & Me, in which he also stars, works on two levels. Yes, this actor/playwright h…
By Walter Murphy... Shelter Inn Place mixes hurricane havoc, family dysfunction, and serious themes of loneliness and suicide in a relentlessly broad comedy.
By Alix Cohen... Imagination is off the charts; manifestation virtuosic. Not to be missed.
By Walter Murphy... A tense psychological drama about power, ambition, buried truths, and the lasting wounds of the past.
By Alix Cohen... Joy: the queer maximalist performance tradition established by Taylor Mac, Matt Ray, and Machine Dazzle.
By Alix Cohen... Unrequited Love (and Scholarship)
Review by Ron Fassler I have no master list of the shows I’ve attended in a lifetime of theater going. But if I did, of the classics I’ve seen multiple times, Anton Chekhov’s The Cher…
By Alix Cohen... A fascinating conversation between Hannah Arendt and her captor
By Alix Cohen... Michael Ceveris folk singer bears no resemblance to the his persona as a musical theater performer
If you are as yet unaware of the talents of this writer/actress/activist, you owe it to yourself to take a trip to Brooklyn and revel in her presence.
By Alix Cohen... From hotsy-totsy to wiki-wacki authentic jazz and ragtime - A Whizz Bang Good Time
A fine cast works diligently to get Marin Ireland's memory drama across the finish line with mixed results.
Singer and pianist Chris Autore returns to Don\'t Tell Mama on November 8th with a piano-only show, with guest singer Goldie Dver.
By Scott Penn... Melissa Errico brings wit, warmth, and glorious vocals to Provincetown in The Streisand Effect, her deeply personal homage to Barbra Streisand.
By Alix Cohen... An especially appealing balance of experience, talent and mutual respect pervades the production of this 1964 musical.
By Alix Cohen Charles Busch is one of our great storytellers, conquering high and low with imagination, skill, and irrepressible pleasure. Songs arrive parlando- part acted, part sung. Stori…
Review by Ron Fassler . . . David Rasche has been a working actor for fifty-five years. Beginning as a member of Chicago’s fabled Second City improv troupe (he replaced John Belushi in 197…
By Alix Cohen... Effervescent distraction
By Alix Cohen... L.B. Browne’s beautifully written, imaginative story is a fisheye view of consequences suffered by one family when radical, unchallenged certainty is imposed.
By Alix Cohen This is the 15th iteration of Blue Wave, now Blue Tsunami variety fundraisers which began in 2018. Pied Piper Stephen Hanks stepped into the fray with ardor and organizational …
By Alix Cohen... An unforgettably theatrical original, Nomi stunned New York’s downtown scene fusing soaring precision of an operatic countertenor with the groove of new wave, glam rock, c…
Interview with Ron Fassler . . . I had the opportunity recently to talk with multi-hyphenate Tony Danza, a performer who’s been steadily entertaining audiences for close to fifty years. It…
By Alix Cohen... A hit or miss production of Anton Chekhov\'s Ivanov that deserves better.
