8,552 stories from Theater Pizzazz
 by Sandi Durell  Those 72 miles can be a short hop and jump or, as in Hilary Bettis' new play at Roundabout Theatre Company's Laura Pels Theatre, an indeterminate unreachable number…
 by Alix Cohen  Take your time passing through the exhibit of Dadaist objects and signage on the way in. An embodiment of the show, it's droll, minimal, evocative; mood setting. Joel…
   by Adam Cohen  Political polemics abound, especially in an election year where viruses get politicized.  This concept is theatricalized compellingly in the George St…
 The producers of To Kill a Mockingbird, West Side Story, The Lehman Trilogy, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and The Book of Mormon, in an unprecedented move, have…
  By Brian Scott Lipton  What is, what was and what might have been. These everyday yet profound questions envelop the minds of both the main characters and the audience of Unkno…
  By Linda Amiel Burns  Joan Ryan has been living in Los Angeles for many years, and commuting between the two coasts. However, she is thrilled to now be living in NY full time a…
  By Sandi Durell  Have you read A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole? I urge you to read this cult classic for insight into the significance of Vivian Neuwirth's pla…
 Kristin Chenoweth has accepted an appointment as Artist in Residence at her alma mater, Oklahoma City University, beginning in April 2020. The Tony and Emmy Award winning performer has …
 by Marcina Zaccaria  At first, we're not sure if it's a painter's or sculptor's studio. The table is perfectly prepared. Rolls of paper hang from the wall in a tall loft whe…
 Â
The post The Actors' Temple Spring Benefit appeared first on Theater Pizzazz.
 by Carol Rocamora  The graceful Golden Gate Bridge stretches across the San Francisco Bay, a steel marvel connecting two shores. But it's not a shining symbol for the young prot…
By Ron Fassler  In the course of the past seven days" completely random, too" I happened to see Mack & Mabel, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, and No Strings, three shows not often perfor…
  by Alix Cohen                                 …
  By Brian Scott Lipton  Saucy. Spicy. One hardly needs to be an experienced theater critic for these adjectives to pop into one's head during the prolonged opening section of Ka…
     By Samuel L. Leiter  It's too soon to suggest a trend but All the Natalie Portmans, the MCC's production of C.A. Johnson's bumpily engaging, African-American, co…
An Amusement Column  by Harry Haun  A GENDER-BENDING GENRE: Frankenstein, Hamlet and Dracula all come to tragic crash-and-burn conclusions in local productions on the same Sunday Blo…
Musical Revivals: Purists Versus Radicals " Where to Draw the Line?   By Barbara & Scott Siegel   We didn't used to have a big hubbub when a musical revival hit the board…
 by Sandi Durell  A capacity crowd of 18,000 New York City public school students made history at Madison Square Garden on February 26, 2020 along side the Broadway cast of To Kil…
By Susan Hasho  Jane Monheit opened at Birdland having just completed her Ella Fitzgerald tour and promoting the new album The Songbook Sessions: Ella Fitzgerald. She was very glad to be…
 Transport Group's The Unsinkable Molly Brown opened on February 26 at Abrons Arts Center on Grand Street and Theater Pizzazz was on the scene as Alice Teeple captured the curtain cal…
By Ron Fassler  Lucas Hnath is a playwright who with each new effort continues to surprise his audiences with an imaginative flexibility. His previous efforts include the well-received O…
      By Brian Scott Lipton  "There are only two sure things in life, death and taxes," Benjamin Franklin famously told the public, and playwright Young Jean Lee …
By Linda Amiel Burns  Since Jerry Herman passed away on December 26, 2019, I have attended many wonderful tributes for this legendary man of music who is considered one of Broadway's gre…
    By JK Clarke  For many of us, the most preferable way to understand an historical event or era is through historical fiction with dramatized narratives. Obviously, wo…
  By Sandi Durell  Two things happen when you have an opportunity to see the marvelous Marilyn Maye at Dizzy's . . . the glamorous flickering lights of the New York cityscape pro…
