8,553 stories from Theater Pizzazz
 By Myra Chanin  Well, whaddaya know? The becoming-more-illustrious-with-every-passing-year, larger-than-life Ricky Ritzel, who produces, creates, performs and music directs a…
 by Adam Cohen  Someone keeps mugging Eva (Megan Hill) in the kitchen at her debt collection agency office. Co-workers Howie (Justin Long) and Jordan (Ugo Chukwu) fuel the clueless s…
 Encompass New Opera honors theater luminaries Laura Benanti and Bartlett Sher with "A Musicial Salute!" at the National Arts Club on March 31, 2019 featuring stars of Broadway, opera, t…
    By Samuel L. Leiter  Off-Broadway's Red Bull Theater (Jesse Berger, artistic director) loves to take risks by staging infrequently seen, even obscure classics (okay, …
     By Ron Fassler  Sondheim: Wordplay at the Kaufmann Concert Hall on Saturday night was genuine truth in advertising. For surely there has been no Broadway lyricis…
    by JK Clarke  It can be argued that William Shakespeare's much loved Roman Republic play Julius Caesar is actually two plays in one: the first half being a tragedy ve…
 by Sandi Durell  This smart, snazzy, stylish and savvy crooner, once again, regaled a full house of fans at The Green Room 42 reprising 'Come Croon With Me' on March 29. Dressed in …
 By Tania Fisher  We love Lainie. We just do. Can anyone define exactly why? I don't think so; it's like putting a label on a piece of artwork, and Lainie Kazan, is a true, l…
  By Sandi Durell  Back to Detroit where R & B and Motown all began . . . it's, as they say, the soundtrack of many lives, surely mine. Yes, I was among the thousands who mov…
  By Shoshana Medney  St. Peter's Foot will make you laugh, question some of your life choices and make you grateful for the people in your life: Written by Anna Theresa Casci…
    By Myra Chanin  The abundant twists and turns in most narrative arcs ultimately boil down to a series of themes. For example, there's "boy meets girl," as in Cinderel…
    It's a massive epic, and what masterful stagecraft is marshaled to tell it!   by Carol Rocamora  The Lehman Trilogy, the astonishing new play at the Park Aven…
 By Brian Scott Lipton   Forty years ago, Tony Danza worked his way into America's hearts as hunk with surprisingly strong comic chops on the hit sitcom "Taxi." Well, four decade…
   by Linda Amiel Burns  The New York Cabaret community filled their new glitzy venue Sony Hall for a festive evening on March 26, celebrating the best of cabaret and song in…
 By Shoshana Medney  I went in-depth with three of the stars from The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical. You'll find unique stories from my 10 minute conversations with Chri…
     By Myra Chanin  I am enraged, infuriated, maddened by the use of phrases like "The Holocaust" or "The Shoah""politically correct, less disturbing words which att…
   By Ron Fassler  Those swinging, singing sisters, Liz and Ann, in their new concert show, Broadway with the Callaways (at the Sony Concert Hall), brought screams of cheers …
 By Sandi Durell  When you think of the iconic Judy Holliday, the immediate visual is of that dumb blonde Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday for which she received both an Academy Award a…
    by Samuel L. Leiter  I've been to the Soho Playhouse many times but never have I seen such a crowd of well-dressed, excitedly buzzing theatergoers standing outside on…
      by JK Clarke  The 1620 voyage by members of the Separatists (a Puritan sect) on the Mayflower to what is now New England was one of the most daring ventures…
    By Ron Fassler  It was with some trepidation that I took my seat at actress Maddie Corman's one-person play Accidentally Brave, which she wrote and appears in. I knew…
 By Ron Fassler  Lyle Kessler has been writing plays for more than fifty years now. When his first Broadway show, The Watering Place, premiered in March of 1969, it had the misfortun…
 By Marilyn Lester  In the second of Sean O'Casey's Dublin Trilogy, Juno and the Paycock, the Irish Repertory Theatre has tackled the playwright's fierce realism head on and come up …
  by Sandi Durell  Without a doubt, in my book, Kiss Me, Kate is genius Cole Porter's best of the best " you know, love and can sing just about every song in this gorgeously stag…
 By Marcina Zaccaria  Stepping into St. John the Divine is nothing short of magical. The Episcopal Cathedral, located on Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan, is known for its uncommon Rose…
