8,617 stories from Theater Pizzazz
Todd Haimes, President/CEO, in memoriam; Scott Ellis, Interim Artistic Director) announces Emmy & Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth in KRISTIN: AN EVENING WITH FRI…
Scott Siegel's BROADWAY BY THE SEASON returns for its second year at Merkin Hall with an All-Star line-up for three Spring concerts: March 25, April 29, and June 17. For the first show, Broa…
Theater Review by Michael Dale . . . . There are two main reasons I accepted the invitation to review Joyce Griffen's The Script In The Closet: A) My desire to spend my latter years as a…
by Meredith Heyman . . . . Broadway leading man, Andrew Samonsky, is returning to the boards in the new musical, Lempicka, playing Tamara de Lempicka's husband, Tadeusz Lempicka. In a video …
Theater Review by Myra Chanin . . . . Marilyn Wick is simply amazing. She produces one wonderful entertainment after another on her perpetually twirling Wick Theater stage. Her latest? An en…
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . It's hard to believe that it's been fifty-three years since A Little Night Music first opened on Broadway. Though a teenager at the time and with a few …
by Meredith Heyman . . . . Writer Carson Kreitzer is preparing to make her Broadway debut in the new musical, Lempicka. Kreitzer wrote the show's book and lyrics and also came up with the or…
By Sandi Durell . . . . She's got that thing That sexy thing Long blonde hair and . . . A saxophone? A lady with a sax, that's a real fact! And, by the way, not only can she toot This jazz b…
Tony Award winner John Lloyd Young returns to the Café Carlyle, May 14-18, with one of his most-popular sets. Original Jersey Boys screen and stage star, John Lloyd�…
Cabaret review by Andrew Poretz . . . . When last we saw young French Canadian crooner David Marino, in July 2023, he was making his New York cabaret debut downtown (read HERE). He was quite…
Philadelphia, Here I Come!, presented by Irish Repertory Theatre. Philadelphia, Here I Come! is the third production in The Friel Project, a retrospective of the work of renowned…
Great Barrington's Historic Firehouse at 20 Castle Street is nearing completion of its restoration by Warrior Trading. Following a multi-million-dollar refurbishment, including a new r…
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . Amongst his thirty-eight plays, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, is something of a redheaded stepchild in Shakespeare's canon. Its authorship is not entirely t…
The New Group has announced complete casting for All of Me, by Laura Winters, with Lily Mae Harrington, Florencia Lozano, Brian Morabito and Kyra Sedgwick joining,…
MCC Theater presents THE LONELY FEWÂ April 27 thru June 2, a New York premiere rock musical about the forces that launch us from home and the gravitational pull that can bring us back. By …
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . In 1973, Len Cariou created the role of Fredrik Egerman in Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's A Little Night Music. Playing a man described in the …
MAKE ME GORGEOUS!' 100th performance was celebrated on March 7th.  Darius Rose aka Jackie Cox ("RuPaul's Drag Race"), who stars as Kenneth "Mr. Madam" Marlowe, was joined by spec…
The Wooster Group/Symphony of Rats " Out Of the Box Theatrics/Krysta Rodriguez " Othello/Denzel Washington & Jake Glyllenhaal " Jamie Lozano & La Familia " SoHo Playhouse/Messy White…
Cabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . At Pangea last month, Barbara Bleier, Austin Pendleton, Gretchen Cryer and Richard Malby, Jr. converged on this intimate venue to reprise their popular …
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . In 2005, I sat in the sixth row of the orchestra at the Walter Kerr Theatre and luxuriated in the tall talents of Cherry Jones, BrÃan F. O'Byrne, Hea…
By Melissa Griegel . . . . The cast and creative of the upcoming Broadway show Suffs presented a special sneak peek of the show on Wednesday, February 28th, 2024 at the Great Hall at Cooper …
by Meredith Heyman . . . This spring it's "hip" to be Huey Lewis on Broadway. The music of the iconic rock star will debut on the Great White Way in the new musical, Theater Pizzazz spoke to…
Theater Review by Carole Di Tosti . . . . In Brooklyn Laundry, John Patrick Shanley elucidates profound themes about family, love, loss, responsibility, and the healing power of truth. The 8…
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . . I'm of an age when radio was the means by which people became familiar with popular songs. In my teenage years, a portable transistor was responsibl…
CD Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Margot Sergent is a marvelous French performer I've caught a couple of times, including her Edith Piaf show at Birdland (reviewed HERE). As a jazz harpist,…
