8,556 stories from Theater Pizzazz
by Carol Rocamora "This is a story of kings, or what passes for kings these days…" So goes the opening line of Junk, Ayad Akhtar's riveting morality tale of money …
by Matt Smith "You were all promised nothing but stupidity tonight, and I am delivering it in spades." Such is the witty, spot-on remark made by the effervescent, theatrical jack-of-a…
By Eric J. Grimm Cafe Carlyle more often than not plays home to the familiar; this is not to say that the programming is stale, but revelations are quietly offered with artists subtly…
By Sandi Durell It's a battle of the sexes in John Patrick Shanley's (Pulitzer Prize Doubt/Oscar Moonstruck) latest comedy about love, which he also directed at Manhatta…
By Brian Scott Lipton With its now-prescient take on presidential politics, including plotlines involving beauty pageants, foreign collusion and impeachment " it's almost shock…
By Martha Wade Steketee Ann Hampton Callaway is a Chicago girl with one of the biggest hearts in cabaret. On a recent evening at Birdland, on a day when a derange…
Cast and  guests gathered after the opening night of Ayad Akhtar’s illuminating play Junk at Tavern on the Green for an evening of celebration. On the scene were Steve…
by Adam Cohen There's no doubt the world hasn't been clamoring for a parody of the television situation comedy show "Friends." But judging from the box office lines at St. Luke…
by Carol Rocamora Just when you think "you've seen it all" on the topic of drug addiction and recovery, along comes a play that blows the top of your head off. That'…
By Samuel L. Leiter If you love physical comedy in the manner of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin or, to cite more recent exemplars, Bill Irwin and…
Photos by Maya Werner On Monday night, at the Town Hall, Broadway stars got together to perform in a concert raising money for the charity, "You Gotta Believe." Hosted by Siriu…
by Hazen Cuyler Before seeing this one-man-show, I'd heard some of the hype and excitement surrounding Strange Interlude produced by Transport Group Theatre Company, directed b…
Bette Midler poses with Bernadette Peters at Hulaween, the annual benefit supporting Midler's New York Restoration Project held at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Monda…
by Peter Haas A sparkling program of song filled Pace University's Schimmel Center on a recent Saturday night, as the auditorium hosted Salon Songbook: The Gershw…
by Carole Di Tosti A dance of love and antagonistic struggle by Young Woman and Pony William opens the intriguing U.S. Premiere of Knives in Hens by David Harrower, conc…
By Brian Scott Lipton The rather ramshackle new jukebox musical, "Red Roses, Green Gold," now at the Minetta Lane Theatre, inadvertently poses a rather thorny que…
By Sandi Durell Yes, this is what Marilyn Maye says is her middle name! Â And why not! It's a special treat to hear how Ms. M orchestrates in and through the st…
by Adam Cohen As iconic as the Empire State Building and Central Park " the Big Apple Circus has thankfully returned to Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park for a holiday season's wo…
By Sandi Durell  The always impressive and over-whelming feeling of sitting in the historical grandeur of Carnegie Hall is never surpassed. It is only heightened by the exq…
by Sandi Durell Whoosh! There goes another imagined tennis ball soaring across the imagined net, with imagined racquets. Yet the intensity of this ace spor…
Theater Pizzazz is happy to announce the cross pollination with Bite of the Best – a restaurant guide created and written by one of the mainstays in the industry who never misse…
by Alix Cohen Tonight's show is the concert version of a play that premiered at this year's New York Musical Theater Festival. Photos from that production show on screens as vo…
By Martha Wade Steketee Lea DeLaria holds court with passion and grace in her David Bowie tribute show. Twice a night through Saturday October 28 at Birdland Jazz…
Hamilton and The Rockefeller Foundation welcomed 1,300 Students to Exclusive Student Matinee of HAMILTON on Broadway by Sandi Durell The innovative …
by Susan Hasho Occupied Territories is a memory play strung together with grit and realism. Two daughters have gathered in their father's house after his funeral. Jude has been…
