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Video Interview with Andrew Samonsky ‘Lempicka’

Video Interview with Andrew Samonsky ‘Lempicka’

by Meredith Heyman . . . . Broadway leading man, Andrew Samonsky, is returning to the boards in the new musical, Lempicka, playing Tamara de Lempicka's husband, Tadeusz Lempicka. In a video interview with Theater Pizzazz, Samonsky revealed his cosmic connection with...

A Little Night Music in New Jersey

A Little Night Music in New Jersey

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 of its more adult themes going over my head, I was still wowed by what was the...

Video Interview with Carson Kreitzer – Lempicka

Video Interview with Carson Kreitzer – Lempicka

by Meredith Heyman . . . . Writer Carson Kreitzer is preparing to make her Broadway debut in the new musical, Lempicka. Kreitzer wrote the show’s book and lyrics and also came up with the original concept for the work. In a video interview with Theater Pizzazz, she...

Saxy Susie Clausen Oh What a Gal!

Saxy Susie Clausen Oh What a Gal!

By Sandi Durell . . . . She’s got that thing That sexy thing Long blonde hair and . . . A saxophone? A lady with a sax, that’s a real fact! And, by the way, not only can she toot This jazz baby can warble With personality to boot Oh, Don’t Tell Mama . . . but she sure...

John Lloyd Young Returns to Café Carlyle

John Lloyd Young Returns to Café Carlyle

Tony Award winner John Lloyd Young returns to the Café Carlyle, May 14-18, with one of his most-popular sets. Original Jersey Boys screen and stage star, John Lloyd Young, is one of the current longest-running recurring performers at the storied, iconic venue. For...

A Triumphant David Marino Soars At Birdland

A Triumphant David Marino Soars At Birdland

Cabaret review by Andrew Poretz . . . . When last we saw young French Canadian crooner David Marino, in July 2023, he was making his New York cabaret debut downtown (read HERE). He was quite good then, and has already grown in leaps and bounds, as evidenced by his...

Irish Rep Presents Philadelphia, Here I Come!

Irish Rep Presents Philadelphia, Here I Come!

Philadelphia, Here I Come!, presented by Irish Repertory Theatre. Philadelphia, Here I Come! is the third production in The Friel Project, a retrospective of the work of renowned Irish playwright Brian Friel, celebrating Irish Rep’s 35th Anniversary. Directed...

Growing A Theater Complex in Great Barrington

Growing A Theater Complex in Great Barrington

Great Barrington’s Historic Firehouse at 20 Castle Street is nearing completion of its restoration by Warrior Trading. Following a multi-million-dollar refurbishment, including a new roof and windows, brick repointing, steel girder stabilization,...

Fiasco Theater’s Pericles

Fiasco Theater’s Pericles

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 the Bard’s and it was omitted from the First Folio in 1623, the collection of...

All of Me Completes Casting

All of Me Completes Casting

The New Group has announced complete casting for All of Me, by Laura Winters, with Lily Mae Harrington, Florencia Lozano, Brian Morabito and Kyra Sedgwick joining, as previously announced, Madison...

The Lonely Few – MCC Theater

The Lonely Few – MCC Theater

MCC Theater presents THE LONELY FEW April 27 thru June 2, a New York premiere rock musical about the forces that launch us from home and the gravitational pull that can bring us back. By award-winning composer Zoe Sarnak (A CROSSING, GALILEO) and Rachel Bonds (JONAH;...

Make Me Gorgeous Celebrates 100th Performance

Make Me Gorgeous Celebrates 100th Performance

Marc Acito Darius Rose Jinkx Monsoon MAKE ME GORGEOUS!' 100th performance was celebrated on March 7th.  Darius Rose aka Jackie Cox ("RuPaul's Drag Race"), who stars as Kenneth "Mr. Madam" Marlowe, was joined by special guests including Wade McCollum (Make Me...

UPCOMING THEATER AND MORE

UPCOMING THEATER AND MORE

The Wooster Group/Symphony of Rats - Out Of the Box Theatrics/Krysta Rodriguez - Othello/Denzel Washington & Jake Glyllenhaal - Jamie Lozano & La Familia - SoHo Playhouse/Messy White Gays - Labrynith/Lolita Lolita begins March 12th thru March 24th at Labrynith...

“Old Friends” Warmed the Heart at Pangea

“Old Friends” Warmed the Heart at Pangea

Cabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . At Pangea last month, Barbara Bleier, Austin Pendleton, Gretchen Cryer and Richard Malby, Jr. converged on this intimate venue to reprise their popular Old Friends cabaret show. This writer last saw Bleier and Pendleton back in...

The Return of Doubt

The Return of Doubt

Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . In 2005, I sat in the sixth row of the orchestra at the Walter Kerr Theatre and luxuriated in the tall talents of Cherry Jones, Brían F. O’Byrne, Heather Goldenhersh, and Adriane Lenox in John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable....

First Look at the New Musical Suffs

First Look at the New Musical Suffs

By Melissa Griegel . . . . The cast and creative of the upcoming Broadway show Suffs presented a special sneak peek of the show on Wednesday, February 28th, 2024 at the Great Hall at Cooper Union. Suffs previewsbegin on March 26th, 2024 at the Music Box Theatre, with...

Video Interview with Director Gordon Greenberg

Video Interview with Director Gordon Greenberg

by Meredith Heyman . . . This spring it’s “hip” to be Huey Lewis on Broadway. The music of the iconic rock star will debut on the Great White Way in the new musical, Theater Pizzazz spoke to the director, Gordon Greenberg about connecting with Lewis's music and why...

Brooklyn Laundry – Cleansing the Soul with Truth

Brooklyn Laundry – Cleansing the Soul with Truth

Theater Review by Carole Di Tosti . . . . In Brooklyn Laundry, John Patrick Shanley elucidates profound themes about family, love, loss, responsibility, and the healing power of truth. The 80-minute play, also directed by Shanley, is currently running Off-Broadway at...

Soul Picnic at 92NY

Soul Picnic at 92NY

Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . .  I’m of an age when radio was the means by which people became familiar with popular songs. In my teenage years, a portable transistor was responsible for how I fell in love with Laura Nyro’s music, not only when sung by the...

Margot Sergent Delights in her Newest CD, Douce France

Margot Sergent Delights in her Newest CD, Douce France

CD Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Margot Sergent is a marvelous French performer I’ve caught a couple of times, including her Edith Piaf show at Birdland (reviewed HERE). As a jazz harpist, singer and songwriter, Ms. Sergent is a solid triple threat. She is...

MORE OFF-BROADWAY THEATER COMING UP

MORE OFF-BROADWAY THEATER COMING UP

Joanna Rush/United Solo Festival - Antony and Cleopatra/The Acting Co - Caitlin Cook/SoHo Playhouse - Stalker/New World Stages - J2Spotlight Musical Theater 2024 Season - Jordans/Public Theater Stalker, which combines street magic, stunning illusions, physical...

THE SIEGEL COLUMN

THE SIEGEL COLUMN

By Barbara & Scott Siegel . . . . Rarely Commented Upon: The Foundation of Broadway’s Current Success - Mammoth Long Running Shows! When you consider the ebb & flow of shows that open and close every season - the millions upon millions of dollars lost by...

Maiden Voyage

Maiden Voyage

Theater Review by Stuart Miller . . . . Five years ago I saw Cayenne Douglass’ one-act play, Oh My, Goodness, about suicide and survival, at the Ensemble Studio Theater and was moved by her nuanced writing of complicated and messy people striving for hope. (Her work...

Video Interview with Director Schele Williams

Video Interview with Director Schele Williams

by Meredith Heyman . . . . Director, Schele Williams, is making her Broadway debut this spring in not one, but two, musicals. First up, Williams is bringing the stage musical adaptation of The Notebook to the boards, alongside co-director and close friend, Michael...

Sunset Baby

Sunset Baby

Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . Context. That is what struck me as the value of Sunset Baby, Dominique Morisseau’s gem of a play, now being given a mighty revival at the Signature Theatre. There is its context in recent Black American history; there is its...

THEATER COMING UP

THEATER COMING UP

78th Annual Theatre World Awards - Patriots/Ethel Barrymore Theatre - Herself/A.R.T. - Gun & Powder/PaperMill Playhouse - Yoga for Billionaires/FrigidFestival Kathleen Simmonds as Maureen in "Herself." Photo by Cody Hanish. The Drilling Company's 25 year...

Marilyn Maye Sponsors Theater Pizzazz

Marilyn Maye Sponsors Theater Pizzazz

Yes, that Marilyn Maye! The Queen and Grand Dame of Cabaret, jazz and pop! A musical theatre actress and masterclass educator, much in demand. The super singer and feisty lady who gets all those rave reviews and standing ovations nationwide, worldwide. . . Since she...

Richard Holbrook: Twenty + Four in 2024

Richard Holbrook: Twenty + Four in 2024

Cabaret Review By Melissa Griegel . . . . 54 Below was a veritable who’s who of cabaret and Broadway, as stars packed the house to see Richard Holbrook and the Tom Nelson Trio on February 28th. The sold-out show was directed by Jeff Harnar and celebrated the 24-year...

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