8,546 stories from Theater Pizzazz
Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . .  . Conceived and directed by Stephen Sachs, Fatherland is a powerful verbatim play that is currently at New York City Center Stage II through No…
Theater review by Carol Rocamora… Come down to La Mama in the East Village and you'll see an amazing sight: a David facing a (metaphorical) Goliath, on a basketball court, in a theatre. Th…
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . Cabaret regular Renee Katz is back with a new show at Don't Tell Mama titled "Lost in His Arms." It doesn't take much of a sleuth to fi…
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . I've never had the pleasure until the other night at 54 Below of seeing Cheyenne Jackson onstage. Well aware of his talents, and having seen him in such f…
Theater Review by Walter Murphy with Catherine Kemm . . . Every time I see a show I learn something. After seeing A Fairly Odd Musical! at the Jerry Orbach Theater I learned that there a…
Music Review by Marilyn Lester… When the Wynton Marsalis-led Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JALCO) is in Rose Hall, the venue is known as the House of Swing. That appellation was never …
Theater review by Carole Di Tosti… In Nancy Harris' The Beacon, directed by Marc Atkinson Borrull, we witness a family drama that grows more complex in its unraveling. Son Colm (Zach Appel…
Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . Political satire isn't an easy thing to pull off. Ask the folks at Saturday Night Live who've been doing it for fifty years (and those are just …
Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . If you aren't aware of who Kara Young is by now you are missing out on one of the best actresses currently working in the theatre. And man does she wo…
Musical duo The Bengsons (Abigail and Shaun Bengson) will be performing songs live on stage from The Magnetic Fields (composer, Stephin Merritt), including selections from their album "69 Lo…
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Martin Short. I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legen…
Theater review by Stuart Miller… In 1941, Nazi invaders marched the 1,600 Jews of the Polish village of Jedwabne into a barn and set it ablaze. At least, that's the story that Poles told t…
Tony Award Winner Danny Burstein will be playing "Herbie" opposite six-time Tony Award Winner Audra McDonald "Rose" in GYPSY. Directed by the legendary six-time Tony Award-winni…
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . See What I Wanna See is a musical written by composer/lyricist Michael John LaChiusa, first produced at the Public Theatre in 2005. Inspired by the sto…
Three leading ladies from Hairspraywill star in I'm A Big Girl Now! are back and better than ever! Tony nominees Laura Bell Bundy (Legally Blonde), Kerry Butler (Beetlejuice, Xanadu), and To…
The 2024 edition of the Chain Summer One-Act Festival features the New York premiere of Banshee by award-winning writer John Patrick Shanley, the world debut of the Jesse Eisenberg-produ…
The Overlook Sessions is a new weekly event on Monday nights in September at The Overlook Bar, featuring live performances by Jesse Gelber, the renowned pianist from Speakeasy Magick, and hi…
WaldenBabeReal Women Have Curves: The Musical Motell Foster Joins Emmy Rossum and Zoë Winters in "Walden" Motell Foster will complete the cast of Amy Berryman's play WALDEN, joining the p…
Music review By Andrew Poretz …. Quintin Harris returned to Birdland Jazz in September for several concerts in the new 5:30 slot. This reviewer last reviewed Harris with his quintet back i…
A Broadway production of the acclaimed new musical Buena Vista Social Club will hit Broadway in early 2025. With a book by Marco Ramirez (Drama Desk Award, The Royale), director Saheem Ali (…
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler… In 2023, the fabled supper club 54 Below became a non-profit organization. Since that time, its longstanding goals of expanding the art of cabaret have taken…
Theater Review by Brian Scott Lipton . . . Do good things come to those who wait? In the case of Empire Records: The Musical, the extremely entertaining adaptation of the flop 1995 film …
Cabaret Review By Marilyn Lester… Seventy-six years ago, in 1948, a radio show entitled "Life Begins at Eighty" debuted, eventually moving on in 1950 to that new invention: television. At …
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Julian Schlossberg. My First Book"Part 2: A Producer's Lif…
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . The oversized names and faces of Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone command a large space over the Booth Theatre for Jen Silverman's comedy, The Roommat…
