8,552 stories from Theater Pizzazz
     By JK Clarke  Upon introducing their evening of songs Tuesday night at Pangea, Barbara Bleier and Austin Pendleton explained they called the performance"which pl…
 Video Interviews/Photos: Shoshana Medney             Curtain Call  EMOJILAND opened at The Duke on 42nd Street on Monday, January 19 t…
by Marcina Zaccaria  Wild Dogs Under My Skirt begins with the presentation a large knife, with a long, thick blade not curved like a hatchet or scythe. The Wild is presented as a …
   By Samuel L. Leiter  Emojis! Those ubiquitous computer images we attach to our emails offering shortcut messages showing feelings, foods, celebrations, machines, weather, …
By Ron Fassler It's hard to believe that the musical revue Forbidden Broadway began in 1982 at a tiny supper club on West 72nd Street on Manhattan's Upper West Side. In the intervening 38 ye…
By Michael Tingley Before me, a tire, laying on mossy turf. A couch, tilted backward, slashed underneath. A bathtub. And, most strikingly, a pond" or a puddle more exactly. Something like a …
 By Matt Smith  "There's no harder role for an actor to play than yourself." Such is the bold declaration made by multi-faceted international entertainer Juan Pablo di Pace, toward t…
  NYC Restaurant Week January 21 " February 9 is a celebration of NYC's most fabulous pastime: dining out. With hundreds of restaurants throughout the City rolling out special prix-f…
  By Samuel L. Leiter  I was only five in 1945, but even then I was aware of five major events in that earthshaking year: the death of FDR, the atom bombs, the end of the war, my…
 By Ron Fassler The Green Room 42 in New York City played host to Ann Hampton Callaway channeling the song stylist and composer Peggy Lee. It was almost too perfect" in that one great si…
 By Ron Fassler This new 90-minute play by Talene Monahon is not a how-to for those interested in learning the retro skill of loading a musket. But it does (as you might surmise) concern…
   by Meredith Ganzman  Her name is Lucy Barton. That's who you'll meet in the Manhattan Theatre Club's US premiere of My Name is Lucy Barton, which stars the award-winning p…
   by Samuel L. Leiter  You know those CNN documentaries that cover an entire decade in an hour? "The Sixties"? "The Seventies"? "The Eighties," etc.? Film and video clip…
By Fay Simpson Occasionally one encounters, while sitting in the audience, a performer who is so fearless and unselfconscious that one can truly relax and let the messages being expressed on…
By Tania Fisher The devotees of one of this century's greatest comic talents flocked to fill Feinstein's/54 Below as they celebrated the great Mel Brooks. The rollicking, joyous evening was …
 by: Carole Di Tosti  As the Founder and Producing Artistic Director of the International WOW Company, Josh Fox has written/directed/produced three award-nominated and award-winni…
  by Samuel L. Leiter  Eva O'Connor's patchy, pro-choice dramedy, Maz and Bricks, now at 59E59 Theaters as part of Origin's First Irish, is yet another example of the current tre…
  There's no doubt that Daniel Fish is creative, free thinking and gets into the nitty gritty of a musical as evidenced by the Tony Award winning Oklahoma! that won Best Revival of a…
 HOW DID THAT HAPPEN SO QUICKLY? WE'RE ALL ASKING THE SAME QUESTION BUT HERE IT IS . . . THE BEGINNING OF A NEW YEAR. FROM ALL OF US AT THEATERPIZZAZZ.COM TO ALL OF YOU . . . WISHING…
          Sandra Bernhard: Sandy's Holiday Extravaganza-A Decade of Madness and Mayhem  by Carole Di Tosti  Sandra Bernhard is a performer, ac…
     By JK Clarke  As a society, here in the US of A, it's fair to say we hardly spend much time thinking about Idaho. Sure, there's the odd joke or two about potatoe…
 In the Tradition of MetroStar and Mama's Next Big Act, Comes Spoonfed's Talent Challenge 2020 Aspiring Singers compete Mondays, Jan. 20th, 27th and February 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th Â�…
   By Sandi Durell  Happy New Year Everyone! Can it almost/already be 2020? We can't stop the clock but with the slew of cabaret entertainment ahead in January and February y…
 by Sheila Watko  New York City is home to a number of beloved Christmas traditions: the Rockefeller Center tree, the Rockettes, the decked-out shop windows. But Feinstein's/54 Below…
 by Brian Scott Lipton  New Yorkers have many age-old holiday traditions, from visiting Macy's windows to going ice skating at Rockefeller Center. One of the newer, if equally deligh…
