8,558 stories from Theater Pizzazz
By Samuel L. Leiter The trickle of Shakespeare-to-musical comedy adaptation business that began on Broadway in the 1930s with The Boys from Syracuse and Swingin' the Dre…
by JK Clarke William Shakespeare's plays are far too often slandered as snooty intellectual fare, despite their being, from the beginning, theater for the …
by Adam Cohen Two-time Tony Award-winner Norbert Leo Butz returns to Feinstein’s/54 Below with an updated version of his show Memory & Mayhem which features pop…
Hear what the cast and creatives had to say and perform on Media Day at the York Theatre September 7. Desperate Measures opens in a limited engagement Tuesday, September 19, 2017 conti…
The cast of Desperate Measures, Emma Degerstedt, Gary Marachek, Lauren Molina, Conor Ryan, Peter Saide, Nick Wyman, and Director and Choreographer Bill Castellino, along with…
By Beatrice Williams-Rude The Baroness: Isak Dinesen's Final Affair is showcasing a performance so dazzling as to bring  to mind all the splendid actres…
Songbook Summit, Charolais, Van Gogh's Ear, and Prince of Broadway By Barbara & Scott Siegel In a new season that is, so far, more noteworthy for what …
By Sandi Durell As the unexpected swinging addition to their exciting show at the Café Carlyle reminds us . . . "get your coat and get your hat, leave your worri…
By Brian Scott Lipton If you simply heard the voice of Sierra Boggess, one of the purest, most crystalline sopranos to ever grace the stage, you might imagine it …
by Alix Cohen James Habacker, owner/host, has offered New York unique Vaudeville Theater over 18 years in intimate, atmospheric iterations of his iconic club: "My goal as curat…
by Alix Cohen The Charolais breed of cattle is used quite often in Ireland, bred commonly amongst farmers and often reported as the leading terminal sire for suckler cow herds.…
By Martha Wade Steketee Modern society is packed with machine-crafted and hand-hewn objects intended for display or consumption or decoration. In societies of abundance,…
By Brian Scott Lipton While there is music and love and romance, why not just soak it all in? Sounds hard? Nah! It's easy to do if you can make it to the s…
By Myra Chanin I have attended almost every single one of the now going on three years' worth of Ricky Ritzel's Broadway's and always depart in varying states …
by Susan Hasho Village, My Home is a part of The Dream Up Festival presented at Theater for A New City. The citizens of this slice of an unnamed town are expressive and …
By Marilyn Lester Ireland has never had a shortage of literary greatness, a fact deftly demonstrated in the works of the "forgotten playwright," Teresa Deevy. The Mint T…
BROADWAY BLESSING is a service of song, dance, and story designed to seek God’s grace on the new theater season. This year’s FREE event will be a celebration of the 20t…
By Sandi Durell Thomas Klingenstein's If Only, currently at the Cherry Lane Theater, is set in 1901 New York. It discusses racial divides, politics and reminisces about …
By Sandi Durell   If you're expecting deep-rooted insights into the extraordinary producer-director Harold Prince's life story, you'll be sorely disappointed. But if yo…
by Alix Cohen Karen Akers eases towards the stage with playfulness that implies. This is an artist who can sing …my life was simply hellish… ridiculing pretense with…
by Adam Cohen One can't help but watch Lesli Margherita's Rule Your Kingdom concert at Feinstein's/54 Below and envision her in other roles. Picture Groundhog…
by Alix Cohen Robin Westle, speech pathologist, vocalist, and banner carrying adoptive parent, welcomes us to the 11th edition of Robin's Nest, entertaining fundrais…
By Sandi Durell  Alas, the heat and lazy days of  summer will soon end as Fall descends and beautiful multi-colored leaves will start to fall " Autumn in New York…
by Carole Di Tosti Peter and Will Anderson, identical twin jazz saxophonists, are not only consummate musicians, they are fine musicologists. In celebrating the A…
By Brian Scott Lipton When it comes to Jerry Zaks' ultra-exuberant revival of the classic 1964 musical, "Hello, Dolly!," now at the Shubert Theatre, you can bet o…
