8,556 stories from Theater Pizzazz
by Adam Cohen Irony is alive and well. She strides the stage, resplendent in a glittery cocktail dress, telling a tale of a changing city and culture. And the st…
Grammy Award-winner Kirstin Maldonado, of the hit acapella group Pentatonix, made her Broadway debut as "Lauren" and Caroline Bowman rejoined the cas…
By Marilyn Lester You may think you know all about the sinking of RMS Titanic in the long ago seas of the North Atlantic, but you really don't know the half of it " at l…
by Lisa Joy Reitman-Dobi Monday night January 29 was anything but dark at Don't Tell Mama. The big room was teeming with talent and camaraderie. One would expect…
by Carol Rocamora A bare stage, a set of gilded chairs, a pair of huge mirrors, and presto " the remarkable life and times of Sergei Diaghilev are conjured up before our eyes. …
By Eric J. Grimm Isaac Mizrahi is back at the Carlyle for more standards, rosé spritzers, and tales of a life on an anti-anxiety medication. If last year’s show suffered whe…
 by Susan Hasho About the title of her show, Marissa Mulder said, "People asked me if Eve refers to Eve Harrington" (in All About Eve). But no, it's about Eve"the Ada…
by Michael Bracken It's named Cardinal after the bird, not a Pope wannabe. Or maybe it's both. It's the color that's important, and human cardinals have been known to don vestm…
The York's Winter Mufti Series celebrates composer Jule Styne opening with  1968 Tony Winner Hallelujah, Baby! Review by Linda Amiel Burns Opening Nite Photos: Magda Katz &#…
by Matt Smith "It's an honor and a joy to be in show business… I feel that spotlight hit me and I'm gone." There's no doubt many of us within the community share this abo…
by Adam Cohen Deadwood City’s two most famous peace officers, Calamity Jane (Sara Jane Ford) and Wild Bill Hickock (Tally Sessions), must save the local saloon. Henry Mil…
by Sandi Durell It’s with great sadness that I write this; Â that the creative and vibrant 62 year old Rick McKay was found dead in his apartment and everyone is…
by Adam Cohen Politics and theater have always made for strange bedfellows.  And truly rich political satire, especially on a main stem stage, is fairly rare.  …
The Pierre Hotel celebrates Best of Broadway, a monthly cabaret series in the Two E Bar & Lounge. by Linda Amiel Burns Photos: Magda Katz The Pierre Hotel teamed up with aw…
"If I am to be a chauvinist pig, I want to be the number one pig!" by Lisa Joy Reitman-Dobi The Story: Bobby Riggs knew how to horrify feminists. Â He also knew how to…
Pianist/singer Steve Ross performs the songs of legendary lyricist Alan Jay Lerner to a packed house at Birdland with guest artist, soprano Shana Farr for one night only. by Linda Ami…
Hilarity in the House of Atreus   by Beatrice Williams-Rude Dyin' For It, by Derek Murphy, is the funniest play I've seen in years. How to describe it? Think Greek tr…
by Hazen Cuyler It's not surprising that The Civilians was the first theatre company to earn a residency at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Their remounted production of The Un…
2018 Season of 92Y Lyrics & Lyricists starts off with a sensational tribute to Bobby Darin starring Jonathan Groff and directed by Broadway’s Alex Timbers. by Linda Amiel Burns …
by Susan Hasho  The Thing with Feathers opens with a girl sitting on her bed talking to someone on the Internet"a boy. They're having a great conversation about her w…
by Michael Bracken Still fresh from its 2016 debut at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn, Miles for Mary is making its off-Broadway debut at Playwrights Horizons' Peter Jay Sharp T…
by Michael Bracken Ngozi Anyanwu's The Homecoming Queen makes an impressive debut at the Atlantic Theater Company's Stage 2, where it's currently enjoying its world premiere. A…
by Brian Scott Lipton There can be little argument that Isobel Mahon's "Party Face," now at New York City Center Stage II, plays out more like a very special episode of …
by Marilyn Lester Thirty years ago the AIDS crisis was at a terrible peak. Stirred by events of the time, poet and writer Bill Russell, with composer Janet Hood, wrote Elegies …
by Magda Katz At rehearsals with NJPAC and Crossroads Theatre Company who teamed together for an encore presentation of Crossroads' hit 2011 production of Ain't Misbehavin'.…
