8,618 stories from Theater Pizzazz
By Ron Fassler . . . Among a few of my favorite things, besides raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, is when a composer sings their own songs. My admiration can range from a Billy Joe…
By Andrew Poretz … Singer, guitarist and songwriter Allan Harris brought his golden baritone and his matching gold guitar to Chelsea Table + Stage for a grade-A set of jazz standards, Nat …
Outstanding New Musical Some Like It Hot; Outstanding New Play " Leopoldstadt The Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the official organization of writers on New York theatre for out-of-town n…
Ellen Foley and Robert I Rubinsky will return with their acclaimed show Club Dada/Kabaret Kaput to Dixon Place (161A Chrystie Street on the Lower East Side) with two shows on May 24 and 25. …
By Stuart Miller . . . When my son and I saw Molière in the Park's staged reading of Tartuffe in Prospect Park two years ago, we laughed frequently and marveled at the relevance of Moli…
By Myra Chanin . . . In 2009, when Disenchanted was getting ready to hold its first workshop (at Pearl Studios in New York City), over 700 women auditioned for the 11 roles for a one-nig…
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike continues and more discussions have ensued about the fate of the 2023 Tony Awards. The WGA began striking on May 2 after negotiations with …
Susan Mack returns to Birdland Theater, after recent sold-out performances, on June 1st @ 7 pm with her newest show, "Yesterdays," showing off her diverse and uplifting spin of jazz standard…
By Myra Chanin . . . Zap! Pow! Wowie! I don't believe I have ever watched a more fulsome, luxuriant, talent-flooded extravaganza than Lynn University's 2023 Celebration of the Arts. The …
54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents Broadway veterans Ali Ewoldt, LaVon Fisher Wilson, Donna Vivino and Stuart Zagnit in "Welcome to Sammy's", a concert of the music of "Sammy's Bower…
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Chip Zien/Harmony " Bad Cinderella Closing " Lucille Lortell/Immigrant Experiences " Tamara Tunie/LPTW Interview " 2StUptown/Toros " MasterVoices/82nd Season " Nancy Drew & The Mystery a…
Vineyard Theatre/This Land Was Made " Roundabout/Primary Trust " Atlantic Theatre/A Simulacrum " National Yiddish Theatre Folksbienne Season Jay O. Sanders " William Jackson Harper (photo: J…
The 11th annual "Night Of A Thousand Judys" " the Pride concert to benefit The Ali Forney Center written and hosted by Justin Elizabeth Sayre " will take place …
By Ron Fassler . . . Anyone with an interest in hearing songs from a musical that for whatever reason were cut and never saw the light of day on stage, then what happened at 54 Below on May …
Featuring 7 New Songs by John Kander and Lin-Manuel Miranda & 9 Tony Nominations The producers of NEW YORK, NEW YORK " the new Broadway musical nominated for 9 Tony Awards, incl…
By Ron Fassler . . . The 92nd Street Y's Lyrics & Lyricists series has been presenting original shows for more than fifty years now. Over that time, hosts of songwriters (later broadened…
National Asian Artists Project (Baayork Lee, Executive Artistic Director), whose mission of "showcasing the work of Asian-American theatre artists through performance, outreach and education…
by Adam F. Cohen . . . Comedian, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert writer and A Good Cry podcast host Michael Cruz Kayne brings his amazingly entertaining new one-man s…
The Theatre World Awards Board of Directors announced today that Tony Award-winner Brian Stokes Mitchell is the recipient of the 10th Annual John Willis Award for Lifetime Ach…
The New York Drama Critics' Circle today named Bruce Norris's Downstate best play of the 2022-23 season. The award for best foreign play went to Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt.  …
By Ron Fassler . . . In Richard Ploetz's The Country Play, now at the Theater for the New City, the author wants desperately for us to make a connection with what he has written"the way Anto…
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . In his Foreword to the 1965 publication of Lorraine Hansberry's 1964 play, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, John Braine takes issue with the critics who, more …
By Brian Scott Lipton. . . Those of us who consider ourselves experts when it comes to Lionel Bart's musical Oliver! because we've seen Carol Reed's sumptuous Oscar-winning film adaptation n…
Jaime Lozano will return to Lincoln Center with a new residency of concerts starting Thursday, May 18th at 7:30pm. The first concert Jaime Lozano and his wife Florencia Cuenca, will bring to…
