8,555 stories from Theater Pizzazz
By Ron Fassler When it comes to the thousands of Broadway overtures written over the past hundred years or more, there is a general consensus that the one Jule Styne com…
By Myra Chanin The first time I heard Barbara Ann Malley sing was at the March 27th performance of Ricky Ritzel's Broadway at Don't Tell Mama, its home base. That eve…
By Sandi Durell Mike Birbiglia is a force of nature whether he is dubbed new or old! His wry, slow and direct delivery about life, his life in particular, is filled with…
By Steve Nardoni My circle is tired of hearing me whine, "I don't remember the '80s!" So it was that I took this assignment with trepidation, fearin…
By Sandi Durell There's a new game in town, back to when dinner theater was a way of life, now created and produced in a very unique, upscale contemporary immersive expe…
by Matt Smith There's no question the Town Hall was the place to be last Monday night, when Broadway's resident jack-of-all-trades Seth Rudetsky took the stage with six-…
By Iris Wiener Forget the giant, fantastical musicals currently on stage. For a true lesson in the power of kindness, optimism and wonder, look no further than Off-Broad…
by Adam Cohen Bertolt Brecht’s The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui has been revived by Classic Stage Company.  The play is ripe for our times, unfortunately.  It…
by Carol Rocamora It's almost too painful to watch. I'm referring to the look on Kerry Washington's face, throughout the 90 agonizing minutes of American Son. Kerry W…
by Brian Scott Lipton Fifty years ago, The Beatles asked us if we wanted a revolution. In 1975, Michael Bennett delivered one to musical theater fans in the form of "A C…
By Sandi Durell Can one so young, good looking and confident from Toledo, Ohio, making his debut at The Green Room 42 be this extraordinary? You bet! Mark William, taking the s…
By Sandi Durell The ultimate narcissists get real when they realize they need a cause! So a group of aging Broadway actors, who have seen better days, decide they're goi…
By Ron Fassler "Okay folks, this is how it all started," said Twyla Tharp at last night's opening of her latest dance concert at the Joyce Theatre in Chelsea (or words very muc…
Irvin Berlin's Holiday Inn will begin performances Wednesday, November 21, 2018, and will continue through Sunday, December 30 2018, at Paper Mill Playhouse (22 Brookside Drive, Milbu…
by Hazen Cuyler When your show is titled, Medicine the Musical, it's easy to jump to conclusions. Even before walking into the theater, I envisioned a half-baked, mon…
By Myra Chanin Pangea is a magical space. Change the overhead lights to fuchsia and the art deco-cum-SNL-conehead wall sconces move the setting from Weimar Berlin " i…
By Samuel L. Leiter Despite its title, Scott Aiello's Bernie and Mikey's Trip to the Moon is anything but a slacker/stoner play in the vein of the Bill and…
By Ron Fassler The musical revue was a staple of Broadway (then later off-Broadway) from the early part of the 20th century and on into the 1950s. As time marched on, su…
By Joseph Pisano “If you are afraid of loneliness, don’t marry.” Anton Chekhov’s sardonic advice could serve as a solid epigraph for the Brian Friel dou…
By Marcina Zaccaria It could be just the confetti or posters of adoration, but there's something absolutely electric about Bobby Kennedy. Leading Actor David Arrow meets…
By Marcina Zaccaria How do we present ourselves? Who will be there to see us later?  The Chinese Lady begins triumphantly a woman in silks, played by Shannon Tyo, …
by Hazen Cuyler An avid art audience, of any form, searches for the new. A resounding voice, never before experienced, expressing the evolved emotional lives of people today.Â…
by Sheila Watko Even before Joe Iconis (Larson Award winner; Drama Desk nominee; creator of Be More Chill, Broadway Bounty Hunter, The Black Suits) and Geo…
By Marcina Zaccaria A plaintive, subtle presentation, Everything Starts from a Dot is much more than a shape study or a deconstruction of a painting. With …
By Sandi Durell Some, but not many, may be aware of recent upsets in the long and illustrious career of theater critic Frank Rizzo, who spent 33 years at The Hartford Co…
