8,553 stories from Theater Pizzazz
     By Samuel L. Leiter  The official diplomatic phrase for the events behind this play are the "1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda."  One of modern histor…
 Photo by Maryann Lopinto The Drama League (Gabriel Stelian-Shanks, Executive Artistic Director) today announced the 2019 Drama League Awards Nominees for Outstanding Production of a Pla…
 Review By Ron Fassler  Steve Tyrell, that laid back and amiable Texan, returned last night to the Café Carlyle for an eleven-day engagement, performing his favorites from the Great…
  By Brian Scott Lipton  Stephen Sondheim isn't always right: You don't always need a gimmick to prove you're more than just a mimic. At least not if you're Jarrod Spector. While…
 By Marcina Zaccaria  Finding the right tone for the hectic, puzzling, madcap world of New York City would be the challenge. The City inspires. It triumphs. It demands. Yet, in the e…
by Adam Cohen  Based on the 1993 movie, Paper Mill Playhouse presents the east coast premiere of a sparkling new musical "Benny & Joon."  This is a lovable, witty, spry musical…
 By Ron Fassler  The musical Foxy opened on Broadway fifty-five years ago at the now demolished Ziegfeld Theatre. It was based on Ben Johnson's Volpone, first performed in 1606, and …
  By Tania Fisher  Although this play is set against the backdrop of one of the most horrific periods of our history, as well as the heavy subject matter that the play specifical…
  By Sandi Durell  Although Theater Pizzazz has a review posted written by JK Clarke on the initial run at Brooklyn's St. Ann's Warehouse (which I did not see) prior to this Broa…
 by Linda Amiel Burns  The Broadway Beacon Awards are presented yearly to individuals in the theater community who have been advocates for increasing audiences for live theatre…
By Sandi Durell  The lady was on fire kickin' it up once again. That should sum it up for April 10, Ms. Maye's real birthday and everyone was there a second, third time because they coul…
     by Samuel L. Leiter  This week, I watched the great Broadway librettist and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II get hammered twice. The first was Daniel Fish's radical…
     By Matt Smith  "I've been so many places in my life and time / I've sung a lot of songs and I've made some bad rhymes / I've acted out my life on stages / With t…
     By Ron Fassler  According to the program notes, The Mad Ones are "a New York City-based company that creates ensemble-driven work through the ongoing collaborati…
     By Brian Scott Lipton  If you're a theatergoer who truly subscribes to the philosophy of "if it's not on the page, it's not on the stage" or "the play's the thin…
     by Carol Rocamora  It's a play with an outrageous premise"and Suzan-Lori Parks wants it that way. As a playwright who has been writing about race and American hi…
     By Tania Fisher  Now playing at The Theater for the New City, Shareholder Value is set against the backdrop of the fiscal crisis of 2008, and is loosely based on…
     by Carol Di Tosti  Happiness is a sleight of mind. When it is founded on lies, duplicities and secrets, it will never last, even though one may desperately cling…
          The Outer Critics Circle, the organization of writers covering New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other …
      by Samuel L. Leiter  A few months ago, I asked my friend Richard, house manager of Second Stage's Helen Hayes Theater, what was next on the venue's agenda. …
  PhotosVideo by: Shoshana Medney  With Shoshana Bean currently starring in Waitress as Jenna, she was all smiles welcoming her new co-star Jeremy Jordan as Dr. Pomatter. The…
 by Sandi Durell  From a brilliantly devised title " "I Wish I Were 90 Again!" " to a well-constructed show, this remarkable chanteuse never ceases to amaze, thrill and bring her hea…
    by Carol Rocamora  Everything about Peaches is shocking"from the pink color of her big hair to her shiny pink alligator suit to the stream of profanities that spew fr…
     By Joseph Pisano  Despite an initial Broadway run that was, to say the least, severely abridged, few theatrical works have as culturally schismatic a performance…
 by Alix Cohen  Buster Poindexter and his band are FUN! A vocalist/songwriter (later, actor) who burst on the East Village scene in the early 1970s (with birth name David Johansen) a…
