8,558 stories from Theater Pizzazz
by Joel Vig The world of show business was knocked for a loop recently by the unexpected announcement that Daniel Day Lewis plans to retire from the acting profession.  Daniel Day Lewi…
by Marcina Zaccaria My Dear Watson is a clever tale of mystery at The New York Musical Festival. Â With Book, Music, and Lyrics by Jami-Leigh Bartschi, My Dear Watson …
For actor/singer/comedienne/Broadway, film and TV star Tovah Feldshuh, it couldn’t be more accurate . . . Aging is Optional! Â And so the wonderfully inspirational Ms. Feldsh…
By Beatrice Williams-Rude What do you get when you mix Berthold Brecht, Brendan Behan and George Bernard Shaw? The brilliant Howard Barker, whose pithy, biting, t…
The crystalline-voiced Liz Callaway returns to Feinstein’s/54 Below with a new show . . . The Beat Goes On . . featuring pop hits (and Broadway and the movies too!) from …
A tribute to Michael Lavine, musical theater's secret treasure. By Joel Benjamin Michael Lavine is a very important showbiz personality, one whose name per…
By Sandi Durell We are each inspired by others who allow us to dream. Ella was that great inspiration to Andrea Frierson " book writer and performer in Me and Ell…
by Adam Cohen Before the show, Matthew McConaughey vs. The Devil, you face the underbelly of Hollywood " literally with James Fenton's back of the famed Hollywood sign " rusted…
By Sandi Durell The Metropolitan Room was abuzz and filled with fans of the renowned Finkel Brothers " Ian and Elliot " sons of the famous Fyvush Fi…
by Alix Cohen Dorian Gray (the well cast Brad DeLeone), has just returned to 19th Century London to claim his inheritance and is greatly uninformed about the world into which h…
by Alix Cohen  Once again playwright Craig Lucas (Prelude to a Kiss, Amelie) takes us on a curious journey mixing grounded human foible with fantasy. Here we wat…
Feinstein's/54 Below does New York a favor with its 54 Sings Man of La Mancha. By Joel Benjamin There probably are numerous productions of Man of La Mancha circul…
by Alix Cohen Francesca Capetta is a young, attractive Italian woman with a pronounced accent and big, pop voice. The combination lends itself well to the schmaltzy side…
by Carol Rocamora Caution: Enter At Your Own Peril…. That's the sign they should place on the marquee of the Hudson Theatre. Those of you already traumatized by…
Leave it to the always clever wordsmith Mark Nadler – an entertainer’s entertainer – to ferret out the best places in town for his new summer cabaret series. Â Th…
Scott Siegel's 11th Annual Edition of Broadway's Rising Stars concert showcased twenty-one future stars of the Great White Way at Town Hall by Linda Amiel Burns I…
by Alix Cohen  “Ethical control may survive in small groups, but the control of the population as a whole must be delegated to specialists"to police, priests, owners, teache…
By Marilyn Lester The residents of the fictional town of Spoon River do not go gentle into that good night. Quite the contrary: in death they’re as animated as they were in life…
By Sandi Durell I am astonished that it took me so long to finally have this pleasurable theater experience at Penguin Rep in Stony Point, NY! When Artistic Director Joe Brancato contacted m…
The Broadway community turned out in droves to support the annual Broadway Barks on July 8 in Shubert Alley co-hosted by Bernadette Peters and Malcolm McDowell. Stars included Andy Ka…
by Michael Bracken It may be labeled a "problem play,", but the Drilling Company has no problem whipping up a high-spirited production of Shakespeare's All's Well…
Two dissimilar artists join in a radiant, thoughtful portrait in song. By Joel Benjamin Could there be two more dissimilar singers than Edith Piaf and Christine A…
A robust, sensual take on our favorite patriotic musical. Â By Joel Benjamin "So, sue me, sue me, what can you do me," *I prefer 1776 to t…
by Myra Chanin A funny thing happened on my way to the Palace Theater on Mother's Day 2017, a day when the giving of gifts and love are de rigeuer by national proclam…
by Carole Di Tosti In a first time festival of award-winning work, Soulpepper Theatre Company which hails from Canada is presenting ten shows plus concerts, cabarets and…
