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"If music be the food of love play on." Orsino, Twelfth Night By Alix Cohen In August 1956, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn were performing in Canada when they crossed paths with the Stra…
By Alix Cohen Moses Pendleton's 2022 Alice, aka this Alice in Wonderland-ish dance/theater piece, is a visual feast: wildly imaginative, impressionistic and allusive, rather than depicting A…
Review by Ron Fassler . . . As musicals go, Guys and Dolls is a show I've seen productions of in more venues than any other. Over the years, I've sat through versions by elementary, mi…
By Andrew Poretz . . . Mia Vassilev, who goes by her first name, made her 54 Below debut with her retro, high-energy Keys on Fire! on December 9. The pianist extraordinaire has performed thr…
By Stewart Miller... Rachel Vail's adaptation of her YA novel brings a deft comic touch to high school relationships.
A pick me up for the weary soul. By Alix Cohen For those of you sadly unfamiliar, throwback Bryce Edwards plays and sings 1920s/30s songs as they would've been performed at the time, often o…
Review by Ron Fassler . . . Here in New York City, the non-profit Urban Stages has been championing the work of playwrights, composers, and lyricists for decades. Its modest home on West 30t…
Buckle your seat belts! By Alix Cohen The Hellzapoppin' holiday spectacle Pied Piper Joe Iconis annually engineers is wry, raunchy, subversive, sprawling, shamelessly exuberant fun. Though f…
By Melissa Griegel… Photos by Melissa Griegel Photography Multi-month Culinary Activations Kick-off December 15 through February, with New NYC Locations Weekly Tyra Banks is bringing her g…
Diversion' by Scott Organ is about ICU nurses under intense pressure when their team leader tells them they are being investigated for "diverting" opioids.
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By Carol Rocamora... What is it about these intimate, small-cast plays that are stealing our hearts this season?
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Every December, New York City overflows with holiday entertainment, from intimate cabaret shows to the full-scale spectacle of Radio City. Having seen more than my share"some mawkish, some m…
By Alix Cohen Paul Williams (1940) is an American songwriter, composer, singer, and actor whose career spans six decades. Known for penning enduring hits such as "We've Only Just Begun" for …
By Melissa Griegel… Photos by Melissa Griegel Photography The holiday season is upon us with Marieann Meringolo's 19th Annual Holiday Show "In the Spirit" cabaret taking place at a sold-ou…
By Alix Cohen Love and Lunacy; Erroneous Conclusion, Blackmail, and Marriage or Not By Alix Cohen The thing begins when Bertie Wooster's chum, Gussie Fink-Nottle begs him to come to Totleigh…
By Barbara & Scott Siegel... Best Performances of the Year - So Far
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Book review by Samuel L. Leiter Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Barbara Wallace Grossman, A Spectacle of Suffering: Clara Morris…
By Alix Cohen Under the leadership of Artistic Director Alicia Graf Mack, an Ailey dancer and Judith Jamison mentee 2005 " 2014, the company begins a chapter with fresh energy. "This monumen…
By Alix Cohen Among dozens of holiday shows, Ann Kittredge's holiday album release proved particularly warm and original. Gathering talented friends, presenting lesser known, sometimes quirk…
By Abbe Sparks... Gotta Dance! is more than a showcase"it's a living archive of Broadway's choreographic brilliance.
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By Martin Kilp... More than a century after its premiere, Anna Christie remains a sturdy and affecting story
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By Andrew Poretz . . . The New York Pops orchestra, under the direction of Maestro Steven Reineke, is one of the hippest and exciting orchestras out there, with innovative programs and darin…
By Carol Rocamora... The current reincarnation of The Baker's Wife is a musical gem, the fruit of decades of collaborative labor.
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Review by Ron Fassler . . . Friends who have been performing together in tandem for almost twenty-two years, Christine Ebersole, a two-time Tony Award winning actress and Billy Stritch…
By Andrew Poretz . . . There probably isn't a reader of Theater Pizzazz who has never seen some version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol in film, television, or even animation (Mister M…
