8,552 stories from Theater Pizzazz
By Alix Cohen... From hotsy-totsy to wiki-wacki authentic jazz and ragtime - A Whizz Bang Good Time
A fine cast works diligently to get Marin Ireland's memory drama across the finish line with mixed results.
Singer and pianist Chris Autore returns to Don\'t Tell Mama on November 8th with a piano-only show, with guest singer Goldie Dver.
By Scott Penn... Melissa Errico brings wit, warmth, and glorious vocals to Provincetown in The Streisand Effect, her deeply personal homage to Barbra Streisand.
By Alix Cohen... An especially appealing balance of experience, talent and mutual respect pervades the production of this 1964 musical.
By Alix Cohen Charles Busch is one of our great storytellers, conquering high and low with imagination, skill, and irrepressible pleasure. Songs arrive parlando- part acted, part sung. Stori…
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…
By Alix Cohen... Effervescent distraction
By Alix Cohen... L.B. Browne’s beautifully written, imaginative story is a fisheye view of consequences suffered by one family when radical, unchallenged certainty is imposed.
By Alix Cohen This is the 15th iteration of Blue Wave, now Blue Tsunami variety fundraisers which began in 2018. Pied Piper Stephen Hanks stepped into the fray with ardor and organizational …
By Alix Cohen... An unforgettably theatrical original, Nomi stunned New York’s downtown scene fusing soaring precision of an operatic countertenor with the groove of new wave, glam rock, c…
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…
By Alix Cohen... A hit or miss production of Anton Chekhov\'s Ivanov that deserves better.
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…
by Melissa Griegel … Photos by Melissa Griegel Photography At a 54 Below Staff Show three years ago, I was completely blown away by the talent of Pier Lamia Porter, known to everyone as …
By Alix Cohen... A fabulous salute to the ground-breaking 1921 (and 2016 revival) of Eubie Blake/Noble Sissle\'s \'Shuffle Along\'
By Alix Cohen... Second Chances are complicated in this tale of jealousy, vengeance, retribution, guilt and- surprise! a happy ending
By Alix Cohen... Jazz in Pergatory
By A;ix Cohen... Wendy Wasserstein’s excellent play skewers politics, media frenzy, and the double standards women face in public life. It asks why accomplished women are so often held to …
By Alix Cohen... A reframing of the story of Lilith to reflect burgeoning awareness
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…
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…
By Alix Cohen Michael (Ivan Howe) and Paul (Julius Rinzel), both in their early teens, chase one another competing in such chores as the speed of candle snuffing. Were they not wearing albs,…
By Yani Perez... Fast, physical, and fabulously strange, piss.jpeg (Working Title) finds unexpected humanity within a gleefully illogical world.
By Alix Cohen... Nicolas King II- Other Aspirations
