8,554 stories from Theater Pizzazz
By Brian Scott Lipton "Satire is what closes on Saturday night," the playwright George S. Kaufman famously said. Well, in the case of the Casey Hushion's producti…
The annual KLEBAN PRIZE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE presentation took place Monday, February 4 at ASCAP, 250 W. 57th Street.  Broadway's  legendary musical theater creators and up-and…
by Matt Smith It's been said that a team is only as good as its leaders, and all those who know that to be true in the music world packed Midtown hotspot Feinstein's/54 Below l…
by JK Clarke In his first book, War on Peace, published last summer, New Yorker investigative journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner (for his exposé …
by Carol Rocamora Rarely does a historical play come along with the power both to enlighten you and move you to the core. Such is the case of Behind the Sheet, the mesmerizing …
By Tania Fisher As flickering candlelight spreads across the anticipating faces of couples and friends alike seated at their tables encompassed in the famed hallows of t…
If you don’t know Ellen Auwarter in "Make Just a Ripple " Songs About Life's Brave Moments," you should. After three sold-out shows in June and November, the final encore perfor…
by Alix Cohen For five decades Robert Gordon Mackie has dressed some of the most glamorous and a few of the most outrageous entertainers in show business. Designing for movemen…
by Samuel L. Leiter In a script note for his stumbling satire on our racist history, The American Tradition, Ray Yamanouchi asks directors to "utili…
by Myra Chanin Every time I attend the latest monthly episode of Ricky Ritzel's Broadway, performed by The More Than Ready for Primetime Players, I am struck anew by the…
By Ron Fassler Last night, I attended "We'll Have Manhattan: Rodgers & Hart in New York," the inaugural show of 2019 for the 92nd Street Y's "Lyrics & Lyricists." It is…
by Ron Fassler In the spring of 1979, Carmelina, a new musical by the formidable talents of Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane, opened on Broadw…
One of the great, long standing traditions in the theater community the Drama Desk Awards will be presented by Broadway Brands, publisher of Broadway News and Broadway Briefing, an…
The touring company of William Finn’s Falsettos will begin its tour in Fayetteville, Arkansas on February 8th starring Max von Essen, Nick Adams, Eden Espinosa and Nick Blaemire…
by Matt Smith Dianna Agron knows a thing or two about curveballs. Throughout her six-season stint on popular musical dramedy series Glee, her character, spiteful …
by Carol Rocamora Watch out for that cake! You don't have to cross the Atlantic to see fabulous French farce at its finest. Just over the Brooklyn Bridge at BAM, a terrific…
by Michael Bracken A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1983, True West is arguably Sam Shepard's funniest play. But don't worry. There's no shortage of the playwright'…
by Samuel L. Leiter Given the sturm and drang of what goes on there, it's a wonder anyone would want to return to the medieval convent that forms th…
The cast and creatives of BE MORE CHILL met with the press yesterday. The buzz is hot, hot, hot, coming off huge accolades and a sold out run off Broadway to now open on Broadw…
The hardest people to make laugh are comedians but if you are Colin Quinn you have that down pat. Tuesday night, January 22, 2019 Coin Quinn opened his one-man  hysteric show COLIN QUINN …
by Magda Katz On Saturday, January 19 2019 stars of the Cabaret World paid tribute to Peter Leavy in honor of his 90th Birthday at the Laurie Beechman Theatre. Peter wa…
By Samuel L. Leiter When's the last time you saw 15 talented actors doing a nonmusical show on a tiny Off-Broadway stage? For me, it was last night at The …
by Sheila Watko What if one of the Six Merry Murderesses of the Cook County Jail was a terrible storyteller? How would the course of Alison Bechdel's life have been altered if …
by Adam Cohen The feeding of movies to theater and visa versa has gone ad infinitum.  But few have truly realized the potential of opening a story and characters u…
With inaugural TodayTix Presents Concert, Ethan Slater Proves He's Not "Just a Simple Sponge" by Matt Smith No matter how much you may have ra…
