Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Review by Ron Fassler . . . William Finn was a composer and lyricist of remarkable versatility. His death in April of 2025, at age seventy-three, was especially sad because he was still work…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:29PM[SHARE]Monday, October 26, 2026
Review by Ron Fassler . . . Oliver Cotton’s The Score presents German composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) as its primary character: a musical giant of the late Baroque period. As …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:46PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 24, 2026
Review by Ron Fassler . . . There are times when you see a new play and, once the plot gets underway, find yourself wondering whether the playwright can balance the many issues and themes in…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:09PM[SHARE]Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Nat C. Goodwin, Nat Goodwin’s Book. Boston: Richard C…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:42PM[SHARE]Friday, October 23, 2026
Review by Ron Fassler . . . In 2011, Jon Robin Baitz’s Other Desert Cities opened at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center. With strong reviews and healthy ticket sales, it mov…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 15, 2026
Review by Ron Fassler . . . I must admit that the genre of an actor’s confessional, one-person show is not among my favorites. Although I’ve seen some that were excellent, in my vast exp…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 14, 2026
By Stuart Miller … Jeanie is sitting at her kitchen table in a San Antonio suburb, working feverishly on her laptop when her teenage daughter, Delia, storms in and through. After a door sl…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:58PM[SHARE]Review by Stuart Miller . . . A Ghost in Your Ear is a rare theatrical treat. It’s not a comedy with plenty of laughs or a drama that stirs up emotions with nuanced characters. It is a Ha…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:40PM[SHARE]Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers and hot off the presses. Book Reviews by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Diana Forbes-Robertson. My Aunt Maxine: The Story of Ma…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:52AM[SHARE]Monday, October 12, 2026
By Stuart Miller . . . Karya is a typical seventeen-year-old girl: mortified by her mother, simultaneously jealous and disgusted by her best friend’s sex life and trying to figure out thin…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:49AM[SHARE]Friday, October 9, 2026
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Oskar Eustis, renowned artistic director of the Public Theater, has a gift for writing strongly supportive program notes for the shows he presents; he could have be…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:10PM[SHARE]Monday, October 5, 2026
Review by Ron Fassler . . . In a career that began on Broadway in 1973, Patti LuPone continues to reveal layers that define her as a once-in-a-generation talent. In Patti LuPone: A Life in …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 4, 2026
Review by Stuart Miller C-Span is not known for its dynamic dialogue. Even the most compelling and insightful hour of discussion and debate will feature circular talk and boring repetition o…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:25PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 3, 2026
Review by Ron Fassler. The internationally famed author and teacher Phillipe Gaulier, who died earlier this year, was described in his obituary in the Guardian as a “French clown who …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 1, 2026
Review by Stuart Miller. In Mfoniso Udofia’s new play creation stories and all the important importants, which opened tonight at the Claire Tow Theatre at Lincoln Center, an unnamed “G…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:27PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 24, 2026
Review by Ron Fassler. The headline above referencing Thomas Ellenson’s new three-character play Thomas & Me, in which he also stars, works on two levels. Yes, this actor/playwright h…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:20PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 19, 2026
Review by Ron Fassler I have no master list of the shows I’ve attended in a lifetime of theater going. But if I did, of the classics I’ve seen multiple times, Anton Chekhov’s The Cher…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 17, 2026
If you are as yet unaware of the talents of this writer/actress/activist, you owe it to yourself to take a trip to Brooklyn and revel in her presence.
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 15, 2026
A fine cast works diligently to get Marin Ireland's memory drama across the finish line with mixed results.
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:58AM[SHARE]Friday, September 11, 2026
Review by Ron Fassler . . . David Rasche has been a working actor for fifty-five years. Beginning as a member of Chicago’s fabled Second City improv troupe (he replaced John Belushi in 197…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:09PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 6, 2026
Jon Tenney, Len Cariou, Kevin Kline, Nell Verlaque, and Laura Linney in “American Classic.”September 6, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron FasslerIt’s not often that film can o…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 02:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 1, 2026
Interview with Ron Fassler . . . I had the opportunity recently to talk with multi-hyphenate Tony Danza, a performer who’s been steadily entertaining audiences for close to fifty years. It…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:48AM[SHARE]Monday, August 31, 2026
Alan Jay Lerner (1918–1986).August 31, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.One of the most colorful of men, Alan Jay Lerner was a librettist and lyricist from the golden age…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 12:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 25, 2026
Review by Ron Fassler . . . Allow me to confess that I have never seen any of the seven Paranormal Activity films produced since 2007. Admittedly, my enthusiasm for horror has waned somewh…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:07PM[SHARE]Monday, August 17, 2026
William Redfield as Harding in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” (1975).August 17, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron FasslerOn this date fifty years ago, the versatile and de…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 01:38PM[SHARE]Monday, August 3, 2026
Review by Ron Fassler . . . With this being the centenary of Tony Bennett’s birth (in fact, he was born today, August 3, 1926), cabaret icon and pianist-singer Billy Stritch put together a…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:25AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 2, 2026
By Ron Fassler . . . At the moment, playwrights seem happy to dig into the dangers of AI because—let’s face it—there’s drama in them thar hills. Disruption, Andrew Stein’s new play…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 30, 2026
Jason Babinsky, Michael McKean and Adam Kantor in “Are You Now or Have You Ever Been.”July 30, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.About six years ago, my theatre going b…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 04:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 23, 2026
Montgomery Clift (October 17, 1920 — July 23, 1966).Credited with bringing a bold and newfound realism to the big screen, Montgomery Clift distinctively transformed movie acting in th…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 07:22PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 19, 2026
The 1967 cast of “Hello, Dolly!” led by Pearl Bailey (Friedman-Abeles Photography).July 19, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron FasslerIf your love of Broadway musicals has brough…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 01:35PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 12, 2026
Review by Ron Fassler . . . One of the first things you might be struck by while watching Jonathan Spector’s impressive three-hour and twenty-minute Birthright, currently playing at MCC, …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:13PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 8, 2026
July 8, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron FasslerWith this week’s official passing of the torch from one to another, the Belasco Theatre can now boast Will Aronson and Hue Park’…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 03:02PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 4, 2026
The original cast on Jo Mielziner’s elegant set with Patricia Zipprodt’s stunning costumes (photo by Martha Swope).July 4, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.I’ve writ…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 10:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti in “Once” (2012). Photo by Sara Krulwich.July 1, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.The 21st century began on January 1, 2001 (this is a s…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 01:28PM[SHARE]Monday, June 29, 2026
Review by Ron Fassler . . . Her mastery of cabaret should come as no surprise to fans of Megan Hilty’s Broadway work, already well aware how beautifully she knows her way around a song. …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Review by Ron Fassler ...
With so many interesting plays these days dealing with young teenage women, Dad Don't Read This struggles to find its place among them.
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:13PM[SHARE]In front of the Apollo Theatre in the West End after attending “The Truth” (self-portrait by Ron Fassler).June 24, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron FasslerYesterday, I wrote ab…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 01:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 23, 2026
The Royal Theatre Haymarket’s SAFETY CURTAIN — a thing of beauty and a joy to behold (photo by Ron Fassler).June 23, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron FasslerWhile in London…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 08:36AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 13, 2026
A chat with Megan Hilty about her new Café Carlyle show and what inspires her about playing at the legendary supper club.
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:41PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 4, 2026
Review by Ron Fassler . . . There’s a relatively new theatre space off-Broadway (well, maybe off-off-Broadway, but who defines these things anyway?) and it goes by the moniker East Villa…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:03PM[SHARE] 
