8,554 stories from Theater Pizzazz
 by Carol Rocamora  "I'd rather make $800 playing a maid than $8 a week being one." Those were the fighting words of Hattie McDaniel, the first African American ever to win an Ac…
 The Cast and Creatives of INK met with the press on March 5. Theater Pizzazz' Shoshana Medney was on the scene to capture it all, including interviews. Written by Olivier Award winning …
 by Cathy Hammer  Anyone who has been in a long term relationship has likely experienced a "song and dance" argument. One person says that thing, the other responds with that other t…
  By Ron Fassler  Although Betsy Wolfe has titled her first-time solo cabaret show at Feinstein's/54 Below "All Bets Are Off," she could easily have called it "Here's the Deal," …
     by JK Clarke  Since its Broadway debut in 1964, Fiddler on the Roof has remained largely unchanged, and maintained its status as an emotive and poignant musical …
    By Samuel L. Leiter  Audiences investing time and money in seeing New Light Theater Project's production of Imagining Madoff, Obie-winning Deb Margolin's (Turquoise) …
 By Steve Nardoni  So what if one could be in an audience and get to hear songs by Noel Coward, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and others, all with a saloon singer, a comedienne, a sultr…
  By Tania Fisher  The stylish Café Carlyle fills quickly with happy patrons whose eager anticipation only becomes heightened as they wait patiently for the arrival of their bel…
 by Sandi Durell  The co-production of Vineyard Theatre and The New Group's 'Daddy' at The Pershing Square Signature Center (The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre) is a searing revela…
  by Brian Scott Lipton  "Follow the directions," North Carolina bakeshop owner Della (the marvelous Debra Jo Rupp) implores us at the start of "The Cake," now receiving its New …
"We're all of humanity, whether we like it or not."   by Carol Rocamora  That may be a line from Beckett's Waiting for Godot, but it also belongs in the stunning revival of Boesm…
   By Tania Fisher  Urban Stages once again brings top quality theater and well-deserved exposure to new writers, with Death of a Driver written by the talented recipient of …
 by Carol Rocamora  It's a challenge to write an apocalyptic comedy about the end of the world, isn't it? That makes Madeleine George's new play all the more impressive an achievemen…
   Deborah Grace Winer presents The Classic American Songbook Series on March 24 at 7 and 9:30 pm featuring George and Ira Gershwin's inimitable songwriting style and classic son…
  By Martha Wade Steketee  Deep moody melodies, a dark Yiddish lullaby, a few standards, and a smattering of singer-songwriter staples inform the splendid cabaret offering by vet…
 Award winning playwright (2019 Writer's Guild Award & Emmy Award television writer) Anna Theresa Cascio's new play St. Peter's Foot touches on abortion and right of choice and about…
     by Sheila Watko  What happens when you cross Bring It On with Scream, add an incredible girl power cast and throw in some Broadway-pop music for good measure? Yo…
 by Alix Cohen  In the 1950s, lyric soprano Barbara Cook made a splash with ingénue roles in successive musicals. Work became less frequent in the 60s, and by the 70s the artist was…
The Price of Thomas Scott Offers Social Themes, a Dutiful Daughter and Dance Breaks   by Martha Wade Steketee (review as originally published in Urban Excavations, Feb. 20, 2019) Â�…
 By Ron Fassler  If I were granted a wish to travel back in time and see any one entertainer of the 20th century strut their stuff on a nightclub stage, it would be Sammy Davis, Jr. …
*See All Your Favorite Performers Right Here on Video! Photos/Video by Shoshana Medney  Patti Murin, Jenny Laroche and Julie Gold joined New York Yankees legend and Latin Grammy-n…
 Fresh on the heels of starring in Spamilton and Smokey Joe's Cafe, Nicole Vanessa Ortiz will make her debut at Feinstein's/54 Below on March 7, 2019 at 9:30 pm in Becoming Her: A Div…
 2019 MAC AWARD NOMINEES REVEALED! The Manhattan Association of Cabarets (MAC) is pleased to announce the 2019 MAC Award nominees. The nominees, in a majority of the categories, were det…
Broadway By The Year celebrates 19th Season with a concert of musicals born in the years 1928 and 1935 at The Town Hall on Monday, February 25, 2019  by Linda Amiel Burns  After near…
     by Brian Scott Lipton  Lewis Carroll's Victorian-era masterpiece Alice in Wonderland has sparked the theatrical imagination of such diverse talents as Eva Le Gal…
