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BIRDLAND JAZZ CLUB will present the return of Broadway leading man James Barbour in his annual Holiday Concert on Monday, December 18 at 7:00 PM. The audience will be…
Academy Award nominee Rachel McAdams stars in the Broadway premiere of Mary Jane, written by Pulitzer Prize finalist Amy Herzog (4000 Miles, the recent Tony-nominated adaptati…
54 Celebrates Hanukkah " Mamie Parris, Paige Turner /The Green Room 42 " Doris Dear Christmas Special/Triad Theater By Sandi Durell . . . 54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, will again present…
By Sandi Durell . . . The American Popular Song Society (formerly NY Sheet Music Society) has been around for over 35 years. In fact, it's now in its 40th Season! Â Holding monthly meeting…
Nik Walker, now in the just opened revival of the Monty Python musical Spamalot, chatted with Theater Pizzazz contributor Ron Fassler on what it's like cavorting onstage with a splendid grou…
The holiday headliners are Zachary Clause (Dec 1 and 8); Dame Edna (Dec 15); David Cale (Dec 17); Rachelle Garniez (Dec 28 and Jan 4), and Mark Nadler, who hosts N…
Cabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . This writer reviewed Karen Akers' well-received Water Under the Bridge cabaret show at Birdland Jazz in September 2022 (read it HERE). Ms. Akers broug…
Review by Myra Chanin . . . . I spent Saturday afternoon sampling the fruits of the spectacular interaction between a quartet of indefatigable theatrical somebodies. Let's start with three t…
Cabaret Review by Marilyn Lester. . . . Take a book"Fifty Key Stage Musicals"note that a contributor and editor of it, Robert W. Schneider, is an Original Programming Producer at 54 Below, a…
54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, proudly presents the return of two-time Tony® Nominee Carmen Cusack and the 54 Below debut of "RuPaul's Drag Race"Miss Congeniality winner Nina West (And…
ALAN CUMMING IS NOT ACTING HIS AGE " London, Manchester & Glasgow January 2024 What exactly is acting your age? And who decides? These are the questions Alan Cumming has been gra…
Theater Review by Walter Murphy . . . . Music Halls have traditionally presented a variety of acts with a sing-along quality"popular entertainment for the people. This year's Christmas Spect…
Export Quality/HERE " A Sign of the Times/The York Theatre Co " Reverend Billy and The Church of Stop Shopping " Alex Wyse/Picking Up Speed " EST Sloan Project The York Theatre CompanyÂ�…
Music Review by Ron Fassler . . . . Hard to believe it was for only one night because the show that Sutton Foster and Kelli O'Hara put together with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall th…
Music Review by Brian Scott Lipton . . . Given the extreme amount of audience participation Joshua Henry demanded of his audience at the 92NY on Saturday night at his "Get Up Stand Up" c…
Theater Review by Carole Di Tosti . . . . The versatile Qui Nguyen, Co-Founder of the acclaimed theater company Vampire Cowboys, notable for its productions of She Kills Monsters, Revenge So…
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . It's a pleasure to report that, with Amid Falling Walls (Tsvishn Falndike Vent), the venerable National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene yet again demons…
On the heels of an Olivier Award-nominated run in London's West End, "Tammy Faye," a new musical based on the the lives of famous televangelists Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker, has set a Broadway…
Review By Marilyn Lester . . . West End and Broadway actress-singer, the Tony® Award winning, Frances Ruffelle, is a fierce storyteller. In this show, Frankie & Beausy at 54 Below on …
Review by Marilyn Lester . . . In 2006 John Lloyd Young won the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for his role as Frankie Valli in Broadway's Jersey Boys. It was a role that pro…
The Quintin Harris Quintet " KT Sullivan, Stacy Sullivan, Jeff Harnar & Todd Murray " James Monroe Iglehart " Michael Feinstein and Jean-Yves Thibaudet The Quintin Harris Quintet "Â Q…
Theater Review by Walter Murphy . . . . Mischief Production has staked its claim as the king of collegial parodies. It asks audiences to suspend an expectation of professionalism with an app…
Sandra Bernhard's Easy Listening " Santa Claire/The Green Room42 " Robert Bannon Christmas Special " Natalie Douglas/New Year's Chelsea Table+Stage " Goldie Dver Holiday Benefit for St. Jude…
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett's two-act, existential tragicomedy, was first performed, in French, as En attendant Godot, in 1953, and in Englis…
Cabaret Review By Marilyn Lester . . . It's nearly impossible to believe that Dean Benner hasn't been performing all his life. With his Cowboy Band, the singer-guitarist looks as if he'd jus…
