The Cast of Merrily We Roll Along Stops By the 92nd Street Y by Jk Clarke

Friends Talking About Friends with New Friends A Conversation Series Review by Walter Murphy . . . . Friends talking about friends who have stayed friends for decades could easily become off…

SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 6:31am on March 31, 2024[SHARE]

Leiter Looks at Books by Jk Clarke

Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . 3rd edition: Carole King, A Natural Woman: A Memoir (New …

SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 4:40am on March 31, 2024[SHARE]

Water For Elephants " The Musical by Jk Clarke

Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . .  When was the last time you shed tears of joy upon seeing an elephant? It happened to me at last Wednesday's matinee when a life-sized one named R…

SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 7:34pm on March 29, 2024[SHARE]

Teeth by Jk Clarke

Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . You might call it the Peter Principle. (No, not that one!) Teeth, the grisly new musical by Anna K. Jacobs and Michael R. Jackson at Playwrights Ho…

SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 6:07pm on March 29, 2024[SHARE]

FLORIDA THEATER " Sondheim Rolls Along More Merrily  by Jk Clarke

And with More Passion in Delray Beach than It Did on Broadway Theater Review by Myra Chanin . . . . Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along (hereinafter MWRA), is the story of the friendshi…

SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 6:13am on March 29, 2024[SHARE]

Orson's Shadow by Jk Clarke

Theater Review by Michael Dale . . . . As an actor, director, playwright, and teacher, Austin Pendleton's sextet of decades as a mainstay of American theater, film, and television can certai…

SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 3:31am on March 27, 2024[SHARE]

The Notebook by Jk Clarke

Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . .  The Notebook, a supremely sentimental new musical now on Broadway, might very well be upstaged this high-flying season by powerhouse productions …

SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 3:18am on March 27, 2024[SHARE]

Leiter Looks at Books by Jk Clarke

Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . .  2nd edition: The Age and Stage of George L. Fox 1825-…

SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 9:14pm on March 25, 2024[SHARE]

An Enemy of the People by Jk Clarke

Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . .  "Our town is sick . . . diseased . . . All our spiritual sources of life are poisoned, and our society is built on a heap of lies." Sounds like a…

SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 4:02am on March 25, 2024[SHARE]

Dead Outlaw by Jk Clarke

Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . .  Like many reviewers, I'm always being asked what shows I've liked lately. Normally, my octogenarian brain is too crammed with recent shows to s…

SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 6:02pm on March 24, 2024[SHARE]

A Toast to Steve and Eydie at Carnegie Hall by Jk Clarke

Music Review by Ron Fassler . . . . For more than a half-century, the husband and wife singing team of Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé performed live the world over"producing best-selling al…

SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 2:19pm on March 22, 2024[SHARE]

Like They Do in the Movies by Jk Clarke

Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Laurence Fishburne has been a TV, film, and TV presence for just about 50 of his vigorous 62 years. During that half-century of thespian activity, …

SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 8:00pm on March 21, 2024[SHARE]

Leslie Uggams Astonishes at 54 Below by Jk Clarke

Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . . Confession: I've been a fan of Leslie Uggams for more than sixty years, going back to when I first saw her on television as a small child. Of course, sh…

SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 2:19pm on March 21, 2024[SHARE]

Duke Ellington Orchestra " Featuring Lisa Fischer  by Jk Clarke

Music Review by Marilyn Lester . . . . This year, 2024, marks the 125th birthday of one of America's finest composers and musicians: pianist and band leader, Edward Kennedy (Duke) Ellington.…

SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 6:03am on March 20, 2024[SHARE]

Leiter Looks at Books by Jk Clarke

Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Michael Meyer, Not Prince Hamlet: Literary and Theatrical…

SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 5:37am on March 20, 2024[SHARE]

43 Stages of Grieving " A Comedy by Jk Clarke

Theater Review by Michael Dale . . . .  A 333-year-old woman and a pregnant robot walk into a studio apartment in Williamsburg . . .  While the initial premise behind playwright/direct…

SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 5:09am on March 20, 2024[SHARE]

Corruption " Ousting the Fox From the Henhouse by Jk Clarke

Theater Review by JK Clarke . . . . It seems oddly disconcerting this year that there are two significant Off-Broadway productions that confront eroding global standards of journalism. But t…

SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:45pm on March 18, 2024[SHARE]

Atlanta's Out Front Theatre Company Presents "The Gulf" by Jk Clarke

Theater Review by Jeffrey Bruce . . . . Atlanta's leading LGBTQIA+ theater, Out Front, is presenting the premier of Audrey Cefaly's The Gulf directed by K. Parker. The two-character play tak…

SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 9:40pm on March 18, 2024[SHARE]

The Affections of May " Florida Theater Scene by Jk Clarke

Pigs Do Fly Brings a Second Course of Canadian-based Laughter to Fort Lauderdale's Empire Stage Theater Review by Myra Chanin . . . .  Ever heard of the playwright Norm Foster? If you lik…

SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 3:14am on March 16, 2024[SHARE]

Ibsen's Ghost " An Irresponsible Biographical Fantasy by Jk Clarke

Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . .  It's always a pleasure to anticipate whatever popular playwright-drag artist-actor Charles Busch is cooking up for his next comedic endeavor. O…

SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 8:00pm on March 14, 2024[SHARE]

The Effect by Jk Clarke

Theater Review by Brian Scott Lipton . . . . We've all heard that love is a drug. But can a drug cause love? That's the big practical question being posed"alongside a host of philosophical o…

SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 4:07pm on March 14, 2024[SHARE]

The Script is in the Closet by Jk Clarke

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…

SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 9:30am on March 12, 2024[SHARE]

Another Amazing Ride on the Wick's "Carousel" " Florida  by Jk Clarke

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…

SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 4:39am on March 12, 2024[SHARE]

A Little Night Music in New Jersey by Jk Clarke

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 …

SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:45pm on March 11, 2024[SHARE]

Fiasco Theater's Pericles by Jk Clarke

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…

SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 6:28am on March 10, 2024[SHARE]