8,558 stories from Theater Pizzazz
by JK Clarke One doesn't expect much from free outdoor summer Shakespeare productions (aside from The Public's professional Shakespeare in the Park, of cou…
by Magda Katz He may be president, but comedy is KING!  Me The People: The Trump America Musical, a new musical revue with a book and lyrics by Nancy Holson (Bus…
by Samuel L. Leiter Horton Foote, the admired Texas playwright who died at 92 in 2009, wrote so many worthy plays it's rare for a season to pass wit…
The Off Broadway Alliance Announces 2017 Award Winners! Ernest Shackleton Loves Me is Best New Musical Indecent is Best New Play The Off Broadway Al…
The unique and celebrated stage actor and stand-up comic Mario Cantone makes his Café Carlyle debut June 20-23. by Linda Amiel Burns …
by Carole Di Tosti What happens when you leave your seven-year-old child alone for three minutes in a locked car with the specific instructions not to open…
by Martha Wade Steketee We make our way to the second floor Buttenwieser Hall at the 92nd Street Y on a sultry June evening without benefit of functioning elevato…
by Myra Chanin I am rarely at a loss for words, but the opening night of Marilyn Maye By Request at the Metropolitan Room rendered me speechless, so I'm letting a…
by Steve Nardoni Several rows of fixed folding chairs on either side of the stage face sterile and appropriate scenery: merely six wooden benches. As we en…
by Carole Di Tosti Terezin, a tragedy written and directed by Nicholas Tolkien is in a World Premiere at The Peter Jay Sharp Theater, New York City.…
Emily Bowker, Graeme Brookes, Elizabeth Boag, Alastair Whatley by Lisa Reitman-Dobi Torben Betts's devastating comedy is a glorious reminder that sharp theater is alive and kic…
One Hundred Years Remembered – 1917-2017: Tychyna, Zhadan & the Dogs by Marcina Zaccaria One hundred years is a long time. W…
54 Sings breathes new life into a forgotten, but quality, Broadway musical By Joel Benjamin Henry, Sweet Henry, the 1967 Broadway musical, based on Nora Johnson's…
by Beatrice Williams-Rude The Aran Islands are a windswept group of three rocky isles at the mouth of Galway Bay in western Ireland. They hav…
by Carole Di Tosti What is the price one pays for freedom in a country where women are oppressed and under the servitude of men? In a trenchant and …
by Marilyn Lester Broadway veteran, two-time Tony-winner and recent inductee into the Theater Hall of Fame, Brian Stokes Mitchell made his long-awai…
by Marilyn Lester In his decades-long career, Allan Harris has been noted for his eclecticism and remarkable versatility. Drawing from his September 2016 C…
by Myra Chanin Ira Lee Collings, an 81-year-old imp who blends Maurice Chevalier's charm with Jimmy Durante's conviviality, calls himself a Gay Geezer. Col…
by Brian Scott Lipton They have over two dozen Broadway credits (and four Tony Award nominations) between them, but Norm Lewis and Carolee Carmello …
Pulitzer Prize nominated playwright A.R. Gurney, whose work was known for its depiction of American WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants) families, died at home Tuesday i…
by Myra Chanin Sometimes in the world of theater reviews we stumble across the good fortune of having pieces by two different esteemed critics, allowing us to see compar…
by Samuel L. Leiter Sometimes in the world of theater reviews we stumble across the good fortune of having pieces by two different esteemed critics, allowing us to see c…
 by Carole Di Tosti Benjamin Franklin counseled, "Be not disturbed at trifles or accidents common or unavoidable." However, shouldn't one be more than dis…
by Martha Wade Steketee Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic narrative poem Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie from 1847 (yes, I looked it up) muses poetically on t…
Celebrating its landmark 35th anniversary season, on Monday, June 12 at their annual Broadway Beacon Awards Gala at The JW Marriot Essex House (160 Central Park South), leading…
