8,618 stories from Theater Pizzazz
Jerry Orbach's Broadway will be presented at 54 Below on July 24. The evening of music honors the beloved performer, who started out Off-Broadway in The Threepenny Opera and The Fantasticks,…
By Andrew Poretz . . . Popular New York entertainer Steven Maglio, with his "big band orchestra," opened at the Cutting Room last week for the first of a monthly residency, in an impressive,…
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . To quote the great Noel Coward: "I've been to a marvelous party." It was filled with soigné New Yorkers of every age and shape, dressed in glamorous 1920s-in…
The New York Theater Workshop and co-producer American Repertory Theater will present The Half-God of Rainfall, a new play by award-winning poet and playwright Inua Ellams (Barber Shop Chron…
By Cynthia Reitman … THE GREAT GATSBY, The Immersive Show, made its official American debut in New York City. This immersive theatrical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic tale was…
By Alix Cohen . . . Alex Edelman has been doing stand-up since he was a teenager and honing his show, Just For Us (which has just moved to Broadway's Hudson Theatre), since 2018. Charism…
Tony Winner and Broadway legend Faith Prince will teach a two-day, immersive master class in the art form of Cabaret in September at The 92nd Street Y, New York School of Music. The workshop…
Backstage Babble Live! returns to 54 Below on July 17th. Based on the popular podcast hosted by 15-year-old expert Charles Kirsch, the concert will feature performances and stories from his …
Broadway Barks returns to Shubert Alley on Saturday, July 8, 2023, for the 25th annual star-studded dog and cat adoption event. Co-founded by Bernadette Peters and the late Mary Tyler Moore,…
By Myra Chanin . . . Harrumph!!! Where in the world can a theatergoer find a well performed farce nowadays? I just reveled in the perpetually amusing Will Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors …
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . Anyone remotely involved in the world of entertainment knows the meaning of the phrase "triple threat": someone who can act, sing and dance. Anyone who has be…
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . You don't see a miracle? Luckily, there's a quick fix for that dilemma"this weekend only"if you can grab a ticket to City Center Encores' vocally gorgeous and emo…
One of the last greats of Broadway's Golden Age, and celebrated lyricist of Fiddler on the Roof, Sheldon Harnick died Friday in NYC at the age of 99. Born in Chicago in 1924, Harnick …
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Given the cultish popularity of the 1989 high school movie Heathers, about serial killings, and of its 2014 stage musical version, you'd imagine anyone contempl…
It's been 50 years since the TKTS booth in Times Square, where so many of us have waited on line to get half-price tickets for that day's Broadway shows, first appeared. A grand celebrati…
Drew & Dane Productions presents Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors by Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen in a limited 18-week engagement, September 4 " January 7, at New World Stages (340 West …
Second Stage Theater has announced complete casting for TOROS by Danny Tejera anddirected by Gaye Taylor Upchurch. Abubakr Ali (Anything's Possible), b (American (Tele)Visions) and Tony Awar…
The New Jersey Repertory Company will present the world premiere of Michael Tucker's (LA Law, Radio Days) comedy A Tailor Near Me. Directed by James Glossman, the show stars Tony nominee …
The producers of NEW YORK, NEW YORK "the new Broadway musical that was nominated for 9 Tony Awards, including "Best Musical""have announced that the show's Original Broadway Cast…
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . Like it or not, the so-called "jukebox musical" has become a staple of New York City theater and shows no signs of disappearing. The latest example, Rock &…
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . If you believe everything you see in the movies, "cabaret" often consists of a cool, soigne-dressed songstress delivering sultry standards to a barely involved au…
By Marilyn Lester . . . In what was possibly one of her most magnificent cabaret shows to date, Natalie Douglas proverbially blew the roof off Birdland with A 60s Songs Juneteenth Jubile…
 JAWS Day (48 years since the film opened on June 20, 1975), full casting for THE SHARK IS BROKEN at Broadway's John Golden Theatre (252 West 45th Street).begins performanc…
By Marcina Zaccaria . . . John Rubinstein remembers victory as the 34th President of the United States in Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground. Social unrest, race riots, and eventually the …
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Apart from Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt, perhaps, the play with the most sustained dramatic and intellectual power now playing in New York is The Doctor, at the …
