8,552 stories from Theater Pizzazz
  by Myra Chanin  I grew up in a Yiddish-speaking household where my parents, while fluent in English, loved Yiddish theater, so I saw my first play at the age of five. It was…
 Theater Pizzazz' Sandi Durell visited with Grammy winning and Emmy nominated Desmond Child at his New York digs to talk about his most recent live recording at Feinstein's/54 Below " 'D…
 By Barbara & Scott Siegel  The Inheritance Both Broadway and Off-Broadway can boast a considerable number of truly great plays dealing with the AIDs crisis " many of them writte…
  Tony Award Winner star of The Prom and The Drowsey Chaperone, Beth Leavel, will return to Feinstein's/54 Below in "Thirteen Shows & Counting " It's Not About Me" on January 14,…
By Ron Fassler  Antonio Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" is one of the most famous and expressive compositions in the classical repertoire. First written and performed around 1716-1717, grea…
 By Myra Chanin  Renee Katz is a buoyant, optimistic Cabaret star whose powerful, rapturous, playful soprano reminds many of her fans of Barbara Cook because, like Cook, Renee Kat…
 By Samuel L. Leiter  American playwright Matthew Lopez's (The Legend of Georgia McBride) marathon play, The Inheritance, directed by Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliott), comes to Broadwa…
 By Argenis Ovalles   Step right up to a world of child-like wonder in Kit Goldstein Grant's musical masterpiece, The Giant Hoax. Be ready to meet The Cardiff Giant (Daniel Moser…
    By Sandi Durell  The cast and creative team of "Anything Can Happen in the Theater: The Musical World of Maury Yeston" met with the press at the York Theater today to…
 By Sandi Durell  The Green Room 42 was packed to the rafters with fans, friends and celebrities as the one and only host/impressario Daniel Dunlow welcomed the audience and Mark Wil…
  by Edward Medina  At a time of great political uncertainty, in the shadow of an unprecedented presidential impeachment inquiry, in the wake of a two-party system wrenching the …
  By Brian Scott Lipton  There can be no argument that Maury Yeston belongs in the pantheon of great musical theater composers. The 74-year-old New Jersey native has won Tony Awa…
 by Sandi Durell  Theater Pizzazz is always interested in getting to know about young theater companies and artistic directors on the rise not only in New York City, where so many bl…
 By Brian Scott Lipton  The fluidity of identity " the reality that both how we define ourselves and how others define us can change multiple times in our journey from cradle to tomb…
  By Sandi Durell  What happens when you put two belters on a stage together . . . one a little older, the other a little younger? It's the battle of the broads! The claws and fe…
 By Meredith Ganzman  Bring napkins and tissues to the new Broadway musical, A Christmas Carol. The first because the cast members, who are not playing holiday music before the show …
  by Marcina Zaccaria  The debate floor is appropriately aged, with the orange curtains and the enormous IBM Selectric typewriters are set for Confidence (and The Speech), a play…
  CAAD Partners LLC & The Cutting Room Present "CHRISTMAS AIN'T A DRAG " A BIG BAND CABARET MUSICAL" in its NYC DEBUT on Saturday December 7th, at The Cutting Room. 44 East 32nd …
  By Brian Scott Lipton  "Solea! Solea! Solea!" I would not have been surprised if those words had been shouted in unison as Solea Pfeiffer took her bows after turning in her abs…
An Amusement Column     by Harry Haun  CAN'T SEE FORSTER FOR THE TREES: He arrived in movies on a horse bareback"bare everything, in fact"an object of festering obsession…
  by Carol Rocamora  If you're desperate for political theatre to illuminate our turbulent times, you never have to look further than Shakespeare. Watching the Druid Company's me…
  By Marcina Zaccaria  Angela Lansbury spoke at Lincoln Center's Library for the Performing Arts, as part of the League of Professional Theatre Women's Oral History Project. The …
  by Alix Cohen  Betty Comden (1917-2006) and Adolph Green (1914-2002) collaborated for six immensely fertile decades resulting in 18 musicals, 9 screenplays and their own high s…
 An Amusement Column  by Harry Haun  MONDAY BLOODY MONDAY: With all the galas and benefits going on these days, you'd think somebody would come up with some kind of Calendar of E…
    By JK Clarke  Edmond de Rostand's 1897 play, Cyrano de Bergerac is a story that lends itself to reinterpretation and modernization. With a simple, straightforward the…
