Ben Platt will lend his vocals to an upcoming concert residency on Broadway this spring. The Tony Award-winning actor most recently seen onstage in “Parade” will offer audiences an 18-performance engagement at the newly refurbished Palace Theatre. Michael Arden, who...

Music Review by Marilyn Lester . . . . This year, 2024, marks the 125th birthday of one of America’s finest composers and musicians: pianist and band leader, Edward Kennedy (Duke) Ellington. For 100 of those years, The Duke Ellington Orchestra has been in continuous...

Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Michael Meyer, Not Prince Hamlet: Literary and Theatrical Memoirs (London: Secker and Warburg, 1989). 292pp. Last year, after having...

Theater Review by Michael Dale . . . .  A 333-year-old woman and a pregnant robot walk into a studio apartment in Williamsburg . . .  While the initial premise behind playwright/director Micharne Cloughley’s 43 Stages of Grieving: A Comedy may seem a bit...

Theater Review by JK Clarke . . . . It seems oddly disconcerting this year that there are two significant Off-Broadway productions that confront eroding global standards of journalism. But the fact that both MCC’s excellent musical The Connector (which ended a...

Lempicka, the highly anticipated sweeping new musical portrait celebrating the gripping true story of renowned artist Tamara de Lempicka, released a new portrait of the principal company, ahead of the first preview on Tuesday evening Mar. 19th. The cast...

SoHo Playhouse’s U.S. premiere of Epidermis Circus, The Weirdest Puppet Show You’ve Ever Seen!, co-created and performed by Ingrid Hansen (Puppeteer for Jim Henson Company’s Fraggle Rock and Sesame Workshop’s Helpsters), co-created and directed by Britt Small...

Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . .  It’s always a pleasure to anticipate whatever popular playwright-drag artist-actor Charles Busch is cooking up for his next comedic endeavor. Only rarely is one disappointed; to a limited degree that’s true as well of...

Theater Review by Brian Scott Lipton . . . . We’ve all heard that love is a drug. But can a drug cause love? That’s the big practical question being posed—alongside a host of philosophical one—by Lucy Prebble in her emotionally devastating and incredibly...

Todd Haimes, President/CEO, in memoriam; Scott Ellis, Interim Artistic Director) announces Emmy & Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth in KRISTIN: AN EVENING WITH FRIENDS FOR TODD, a special benefit concert directed by Warren...

Scott Siegel's BROADWAY BY THE SEASON returns for its second year at Merkin Hall with an All-Star line-up for three Spring concerts: March 25, April 29, and June 17. For the first show, Broadway stars Lisa Howard, Jenny Lee Stern, and song & dance man Danny...

Theater Review by Michael Dale . . . .  There are two main reasons I accepted the invitation to review Joyce Griffen’s The Script In The Closet: A) My desire to spend my latter years as a theater reviewer spotlighting affordable Off-Off Broadway and indie theater...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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;...

Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . .  In 1973, Len Cariou created the role of Fredrik Egerman in Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s A Little Night Music. Playing a man described in the text as “middle-aged,” Cariou was then all of thirty-three years old. The...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...