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Theater Review by JK Clarke . . . Sam Gold's apparent vendetta against William Shakespeare continues. Over the past ten or so years, the Tony Award-winning and often quite effective (las…
Theater review by Brian Scott Lipton…. Ever since its publication in 1975, I have been fascinated by E.L. Doctorow's seminal novel "Ragtime," which brilliantly intertwines the lives of a W…
Theater Review by Walter Murphy . . . The Irish play HOTHOUSE, produced by Malaprop Theatre and currently playing at the Irish Arts Center is both sad and silly, while visually entertaining.…
A compiliation of Sandi Durell's life in photos by Beth Naji.
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Cabaret review by Linda Amiel Burns… The closing night of the Mabel Mercer foundation's cabaret convention 'everything old is new again" was hosted by songstress, KT Sullivan, it's artisti…
Review by Ron Fassler I'm a longtime fan of MasterVoices, a performing arts organization which continues to thrive after undergoing many changes in its long history. Founded in 1941, it has …
Review by Ron Fassler . . . Oscar Hammerstein II was a man of many accomplishments, though he will be best remembered for three indisputably monumental things: 1) He wrote Show Boat wi…
Theater Review by Carole Di Tosti… Using a dramatic approach to present a play about the consequences of ignoring climate change, In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot opens with a group of …
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . I was bar mitzvah age in 1953 when the news exploded across the world that a former GI from the Bronx, a photographer named Christine Jorgensen (…
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Fifty-four years ago movie audiences wept uncontrollably at Love Story, based on a novel by Erich Segal, in which glowingly golden college studen…
Broadway choreographer Lorin Latarro joins Theater Pizzazz for a new interview. She recently finished choreographing her third Broadway show this year, the revival of Once Upon a Mattress wi…
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . Well, knock me over with a feather. I really liked Jamie Lloyd's sexually charged, visually exhilarating, and highly conceptualized Sunset Boulevard, n…
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Scotty Bowers, with Lionel Friedberg. Full Service: My Adv…
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . Sponsored by the Mabel Mercer Foundation, the 35th annual New York Cabaret Convention was presented over a three-night period this past week at Rose Hall …
Cabaret Review by Andrew Poretz … The three-night 2024 Cabaret Convention had a spectacular opening night, with Put On a Happy Face: A Celebration of the Music of Charles Strouse.For the f…
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . It's rare, if indeed it ever occurs, that you'd encounter a sympathetic Nazi in any context "not in a historical record, and certainly not on…
The Theater Pizzazz family is heartbroken by the passing of Sandi Durell, TP's founder, and longtime publisher & editor. Her death followed a long and valiant fight with cancer.Sandi was…
Theater mainstay and the very busy Richard Topal is starring in Our Class at Classic Stage Company. In this interview by Theater Pizzazz's Meredith Heyman, he discusses his connection to the…
Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . Actor and Playwright James Hindman's What Doesn't Kill You, which recently opened at the 59E59 Theaters complex in midtown, has just been extended thro…
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . The lyric writers of popular song have never attracted nearly the spotlight the way composers do in receiving the lion's share of attention. As Ira Gershw…
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Reviews by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Michael Coveney. Maggie Smith: A Biography. London: Weide…
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . It's hard to believe it's been nearly twenty years since The 25th Annual Putnam Country Spelling Bee opened on Broadway. It arrived during one of th…
Theater Pizzazz's Meredith Heyman in conversation with "That Parenting Musical" ]Producers Graham & Kristina Fuller.
The post Video " Behind the Scenes of "That Parenting Musical" with P…
Strings McCrane, a music-and-movie star with more acolytes than actual friends or family, loves to hear himself talk, so talk he does.  "Hold On to Me Darling" is written by Kenne…
Before I tell you about "Whore's Eye View," Kaytlin Bailey's insightful and funny one-woman show about the way society has treated sex workers throughout history, let me tell you about Baile…
