8,559 stories from Theater Pizzazz
by Carol Rocamora That frightening figure high on his blood-red throne, staring out at you from the darkness, will haunt you long after you leave the theatre. He's the self-app…
Jen Fellman brings April in Paris to New York on a Blustery Spring Night By Myra Chanin Mon Dieu! Jen Fellman's All-American parents may have come to th…
by Steve Nardoni Toward the end A Life Behind Bars, a compelling, comedic, but chilling one-man autobiographical show (directed by Tanya Moberly), playing every o…
MCC Theater’s annual Miscast gala, held at the Hammerstein Ballroom, has become one of the hottest tickets of the theatrical season. The reason: audiences get the …
By Marilyn Lester A huge attraction of Michael Feinstein's Jazz & Popular Song series (now in its seventh consecutive year) is a combination of extraordinary tale…
by Carol Rocamora Theater Pizzazz loves more than one review on a show. Here’s another one! The sign on the theater marquee is upside down, there are misprints in the pro…
by Marilyn Lester  If there is one man who epitomizes the New York City piano bar and cabaret scene, the odds are it's Scott Barbarino. Barbarino has worn many hats " pe…
Theater Pizzazz loves having two writer reviews on the same show. Â Hear what Sandi Durell and Carol Rocamora have to say! By Sandi Durell Murder, mayhem…
By MR Anderson At the West Park Presbyterian Church, there's a light in the attic. Far above the pews and pulpit hangs a balcony. Originally the home of the Riverside Sh…
By Sandi Durell Back from Down Under, the high seas and Piccadilly, Christina Bianco once again takes Birdland by storm. This lady of a thousand voices, wi…
by Michael Bracken Is it the time or the timing? It's both, of course, but I have to think brisker pacing in the current revival of Noël Coward's Present Laugh…
Hamish Linklater’s The Whirligig cast, a production by The New Group, met the press for a photo shoot recently at New 42nd Street Studios. Â Directed by Scott El…
The Off-Broadway League has announced the following nominations in 19 categories for the 32nd Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. The Lortel Awards …
by JK Clarke If you're one of those policy wonks who just can't get enough of political discussions that to others can be frustrating and depressing, then …
Daniel’s Husband opened last night at the Cherry Lane Theatre followed by an after party at Sushi Samba where cast members and guests celebrated. Â Theater Pizzazz̵…
By Sandi Durell What makes a play an immediate 'sit up and take notice!' There's the sense that the quality of fine performances deal with insightful reali…
By Beatrice Williams-Rude The official title of the show is " Trumped! de Blasio to the rescue?" However, a case could be made for calling it "The Triumph of Gabe Pressman." Gabe, "th…
Point Honors New York brought 400 guests to The Plaza hotel last night for a celebrity-filled evening in support of Point Foundation (Point), the nation's largest scholarship-g…
by Michael Bracken You know you're in trouble when ten minutes into a show you're looking at a man with talking goldfish covering his head, especially when five minutes …
by Marilyn Lester As the name might imply, the all female DIVA Jazz Orchestra has been swinging a mighty sound for 24 years, most of them under the leadership of drum vi…
Celebrating its 16th season, the critically-acclaimed Ensemble for the Romantic Century (ERC) returns to BAM Fisher with a two-week run of The Dreyfus Affair –Â …
by Sandi Durell From Carol Hall to Liesl Tommy; Linda Cho to Lileana Blain-Cruz; Jess Chayes to Emily Simoness – the best of all categories of creatives were laude…
by Myra Chanin The world premiere of Vanity Fair, Kate Hamill's adaption of Thackeray's satirical novel, as directed by Eric Tucker, is a great and glorious, equal parts cab…
By Sandi Durell The Public Theater's Anspacher Theater is getting a shake up currently with John Leguizamo lecturing, classroom style, to us " morons that …
by Carol Rocamora Rarely does a production explode upon the theatre scene like Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape, now receiving an extraordinary revival at the Park Avenue …
