8,611 stories from Theater Pizzazz
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . Well, knock me over with a feather. I really liked Jamie Lloyd's sexually charged, visually exhilarating, and highly conceptualized Sunset Boulevard, n…
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Scotty Bowers, with Lionel Friedberg. Full Service: My Adv…
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . Sponsored by the Mabel Mercer Foundation, the 35th annual New York Cabaret Convention was presented over a three-night period this past week at Rose Hall …
Cabaret Review by Andrew Poretz … The three-night 2024 Cabaret Convention had a spectacular opening night, with Put On a Happy Face: A Celebration of the Music of Charles Strouse.For the f…
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . It's rare, if indeed it ever occurs, that you'd encounter a sympathetic Nazi in any context "not in a historical record, and certainly not on…
The Theater Pizzazz family is heartbroken by the passing of Sandi Durell, TP's founder, and longtime publisher & editor. Her death followed a long and valiant fight with cancer.Sandi was…
Theater mainstay and the very busy Richard Topal is starring in Our Class at Classic Stage Company. In this interview by Theater Pizzazz's Meredith Heyman, he discusses his connection to the…
Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . Actor and Playwright James Hindman's What Doesn't Kill You, which recently opened at the 59E59 Theaters complex in midtown, has just been extended thro…
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . The lyric writers of popular song have never attracted nearly the spotlight the way composers do in receiving the lion's share of attention. As Ira Gershw…
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Reviews by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Michael Coveney. Maggie Smith: A Biography. London: Weide…
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . It's hard to believe it's been nearly twenty years since The 25th Annual Putnam Country Spelling Bee opened on Broadway. It arrived during one of th…
Theater Pizzazz's Meredith Heyman in conversation with "That Parenting Musical" ]Producers Graham & Kristina Fuller.
The post Video " Behind the Scenes of "That Parenting Musical" with P…
Strings McCrane, a music-and-movie star with more acolytes than actual friends or family, loves to hear himself talk, so talk he does.  "Hold On to Me Darling" is written by Kenne…
Before I tell you about "Whore's Eye View," Kaytlin Bailey's insightful and funny one-woman show about the way society has treated sex workers throughout history, let me tell you about Baile…
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . "It's better in this country sometimes to mind your own business. It's safer." What an understatement! Judging from the title of the play wherein t…
Theater Review by Elise Nussbaum . . . The endless elasticity of Shakespeare can be stretched to fit any variety of settings: a pre-gentrification West Side, an animated African savannah…
Music Review By Ron Fassler . . . It's hard to believe that Kelli O'Hara, an ingenue's ingenue if there ever was one, first made her Broadway debut close to twenty-five years ago. Since then…
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . All is right with the world when Marilyn Maye is in town and performing in a small room packed with her fans. And at ninety-six, she still has the c…
Theater Review by Walter Murphy . . . Shakespeare's Twelfth Night has been around for a bit, since 1604, so there is little more to be said about the text that hasn't been picked over by…
Theater review by Carole Di Tosti… If you had a chance to go back in time to change things, would you risk the potential danger and "bring weapons?"Â Adapting Derek Connelly's endearing…
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Katie Gee Salisbury. Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shi…
Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . Picture the surprise gasp from the audience as the curtain rose on Our Town at its premiere in 1938. The sight of there being no scenery must have sho…
Theater review by Adam Cohen… "What are you going to see?" asks my daughter as I make my way towards Paper Mill Playhouse " a theater in Millburn, New Jersey she happens to love. "Jersey B…
Review by Marilyn Lester… Each year at the beginning of October, The New York Pops has a special cabaret at 54 Below to support the organization's significant educational program, PopsEd. …
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . David Cromer is one of the most in-demand directors in the theatre. With his choice of projects his for the asking, when a play arrives with his name atta…
