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by Lisa Joy Reitman-Dobi On January 27, one year after Jesse Luttrell's 54 Below debut, he retuned to a sold out house. I returned to review the show. Having seen the la…
Theater Pizzazz’ Mark Ryan Anderson was at AOC L’aile ou la Cuisse to meet the cast and creatives of The Tooting Arts Club production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet S…
By Michall Jeffers If Mama Mia and Jersey Boys had a baby, she would probably be a whole lot like The Bikinis. This is a show that rocks on, featuring one catchy golden oldie a…
The New Group met with the press to introduce the cast of All the Fine Boys, a new play from writer and director Erica Schmidt, featuring Abigail Breslin, Isabelle Fuhrman, Joe Tip…
The second BroadwayCon took place last weekend for three days at Jacob K. Javitz Convention Center.  Last years BroadwayCon took place during New York’s blizzard and most transpo…
by Samuel L. Leiter Justice Smith, the wiry 21-year-old actor playing the feral, 14-year-old Bobbie in Yen, Anna Jordan's potent, if uneven, prize-winning British drama …
Juan Pablo Di Pace, breakout star of Netflix's #1 show Fuller House, makes his sizzling solo debut at Feinstein's/54 Below February 21 and 22 at 9:30 pm While he is known best …
A charming, simple revival of Jerry Herman's first Broadway Musical By Joel Benjamin Despite dating myself, I freely admit that as a kid I saw the original Broadway prod…
Mandy Gonzalez, on the heels of starring in the Tony Award-winning hit musical Hamilton as Angelica Schuyler, returns to Feinstein's/54 Below, on February 12 and March 12, 7 pm, with an unfo…
By Beatrice Williams-Rude By Georgie, he's got it! Let me exclaim at the outset that Ed Dixon is brilliant–as an actor, author and raconteur. This solo show…
Theater Pizzazz’ Magda Katz was front and center on press day to meet the cast and creatives for The View UpStairs Invisible Wall Productions has announced that The Vi…
A fuzzy-headed, but earnest staging of a Shakespeare classic By Joel Benjamin Why go to the trouble of staging yet another Macbeth? A starry cast? A totally new interpre…
By Myra Chanin January's Ricky Ritzel's Broadway XV at Don't Tell Mama was the best one ever. If you've flunked Mathematical Latin, I'm talking about the 15th in the ser…
The 32nd Annual Bistro Award Winners have been announced and will be honored on March 13 at Gotham Comedy Club at 6:30 pm. Darlene Love / Bob Harrington Lifetime Achievement Award Car…
Theater Pizzazz’ Mark Ryan Anderson had the opportunity to speak with Tom Kitt at recent press previews about Tom’s upcoming show at 54 Below scheduled for February 9 and …
Ghostlight Records celebrated the cast album of the critically acclaimed Broadway revival of William Finn and James Lapine's Tony Award-winning musical FALSETTOS " based on the Lincol…
By Barbara & Scott Siegel The British called their working class theater "Kitchen Sink Drama." One is tempted to call the new American play created by the Neo-Futurists, "Everythi…
Brandon Uranowitz spoke to Theater Pizzazz’ Mark Ryan Anderson about his upcoming debut at Feinstein’s/54 Below: Tony Award nominee Brandon Uranowitz makes h…
by Carol Rocamora "We are such stuff as dreams are made on," says Prospero in The Tempest. Two fearless women of the British theatre share a passionate dream " to provid…
by Carol Rocamora "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his." Oscar Wilde's quip comes to mind, while watching the scorching rev…
Over four hundred years old and still fresh and funny! By Joel Benjamin David Ives (Venus in Fur, New Jerusalem) has breathed new life into Pierre Corneill…
by Steve Nardoni Most who have had the privilege of seeing and enjoying Hamilton are a diversified (and young!) crowd who adoringly embrace the novelty, creativit…
By Marcina Zaccaria Wartime drama in Incident at Hidden Temple, produced by Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, is as compelling as it gets. As the landscape shifts from…
A Very Contemporary Study of Fascinating, Everlasting Conflicts By Myra Chanin I never thought that a previously unproduced play written the year I was born by…
Three-time Tony Award-winner Glenn Close (as Norma Desmond) and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Sunset Boulevard return to Broadway in this new produc…
