8,559 stories from Theater Pizzazz
Tuesday night, April 18 saw the Broadway opening night festivities of Paula Vogel’s Indecent at the Cort Theatre. The story of the making of, and subsequent censorship and obsce…
by JK Clarke In an allusion, perhaps, to the story of Exodus and the 40 years that Moses led his people through the desert to freedom, Pulitzer Priz…
by Michael Bracken A family that preys together…. never stops preying. At least not if the family in question is the clawingly, cloyingly, claustrophobically close-kni…
The Drama League (Executive Artistic Director, Gabriel Stelian-Shanks) has announced the 2017 Drama League Awards Nominees for Outstanding Play, Outstanding Revival of a Play, Outstan…
By Barbara & Scott Siegel Theatrical Elite: Patti LuPone, Christine Ebersole, John Leguizamo, Harvey Fierstein, Kevin Kline…They're Back! As we head toward …
By Joel Benjamin That showbiz magician, Scott Siegel, pulled yet another rabbit out of his endlessly deep hat. His 54 Sings Broadway's Greatest Hits!, despite bei…
by Susan Hasho Carmen Cusack popped up at 54 Below April 16th, rescheduled after NYC's only snowstorm in March left her marooned in Florida. Lucky us, we got to see her …
By Sandi Durell I recently had the opportunity to sit down with the star of A Bronx Tale, Bobby Conte Thornton who plays the pivotal role of Calogero. It's…
 By Eric J. Grimm Andrea Dantas' one woman show Fragmented Frida, now playing at BAM, dives deep into the life of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, detailing her struggles with …
Photos/Video by Magda Katz On Friday evening, April 14, Fox television anchor Kelly Wright performed with the Jeff Frazel Trio at the Metropolitan Room. He turn…
Or, plus ça change, plus c'est le même chose by Beatrice Williams Rude Angel & Echoes are two plays with the same theme: the oppression of women. It spans time, geography, e…
The New York Pops will celebrate its 34th birthday with a grand gala evening honoring Karen van Bergen, the CEO of Omnicom Public Relations Group, and Tony Award winners Kelli O'Ha…
By Sandi Durell This is the story that dreams are made of. And so let us give thanks to two extraordinary performers with extraordinary presence and voices tha…
By Sandi Durell And that torch is shining ever so bright and brilliantly as the doyenne of Jazz, lyric interpretation and storyteller extraordinaire, dress…
By Marcina Zaccaria At Cuisine and Confessions, anything can happen next. The tumbles, twists, and slides to the ground are truly extraordinary. The acroba…
by Samuel L. Leiter Film buffs, especially those who know the 1942 movie classic Casablanca and something of its backstory, will get a kick out of Casablancabox, Sara Fa…
by Sandi Durell Who is Derek DelGaudio? A magician, an illusionist . . . a storyteller who has mastered the art of unique unpredictability. DelGaudi…
by Linda Amiel Burns The youngest artist to ever sing at this legendary venue, classical crossover star Jackie Evancho made her debut at the Café Carlyle. Â Two days …
by Alix Cohen Did you know there was a society called Friends of Alec Wilder, or that there have been 31 annual concert tributes to the multifaceted artist up til…
By Barbara & Scott Siegel The power of expectations: Church & State and The Glass Menagerie The way we react to a play depends a great deal upon our expec…
by JK Clarke Most of us have work anxiety dreams: showing up to a sales meeting completely unprepared, having thousands of customers in a restaurant…
By Marcina Zaccaria With bicyclists, jugglers, aerialists, and a skilled contortionist, Circus 1903 takes itself quite seriously. Evoking the Golden Age of Circus, the two hour…
by Michael Bracken Sometimes what we hate the most is what reminds us of ourselves. Perhaps that's why Raif Almedin (Ali Reza Farahnakian) has such disdain for practicin…
by Lisa Joy Reitman-Dobi Janis Joplin. Leslie Gore. Dusty Springfield. Nina Simone. The 1960s was the breakout decade for scores of now-legendary women vocalists,…
The entire cast of COME FROM AWAY was present at Barnes and Noble to perform and to sign their new Original Cast CD just released. On hand were writers David Hein and Irene S…
