As year end approaches, we here at TheaterPizzazz.com want to wish all of you a Happy, Peaceful and Stress-less Holiday and New Year! A personal thank you from me, Sandi Durell, to our readers and to all the fabulous writers for helping to make our website as vital as it has become. We hope you continue to enjoy what we have to say in 2014. Lots more ahead!
THEATER FAVORITES:
A Christmas Story the Musical
Myra Chanin:
Juno and the Paycock
A Christmas Story the Musical
Winslow Boy
Bedlam Theater’s Saint Joan
All in the Timing
Old Jews Telling Jokes
Soho Theater’s Uncle Vanya
My Son, the Waiter, a Jewish Tragedy
Buyer & Cellar
Fetch Clay Make Man
You Never Can Tell
JK Clarke:
Twelfth Night
Richard III
Bedlam’s Hamlet
Bedlam’s St. Joan
Waiting for Godot
No Man’s Land
Under the Greenwood Tree
Ubu
Handbook for an American Revolutionary
Alix Cohen:
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder- Broadway
Twelfe Night-Broadway
Matilda-Broadway
The Jacksonian- Acorn Theater
Around the World in Eighty Days- The Mint
Cinderella- Broadway
After Midnight-Broadway
Murder for Two- New World Stages
Gems No Longer on the Boards:
Talley’s Folly & The Big Knife- Roundabout
The Other Place- Manhattan Theater Club
Around the World in Eighty Days- The New Theater Production
I Malvolio- New Victory Theater
Fix Me Jesus – The Abingdon Theater
Bull- 59E59th Theaters
Perfect Catch- Canal Street Playhouse
Sandi Durell:
Twelfe Night
Pippin
Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812
Buyer & Cellar
Kinky Boots
Waiting for Godot
A Christmas Story the Musical
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder
Here Lies Love
You Never Can Tell
Fetch Clay Make Man
The Glass Menagerie
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
The Jacksonian
Susan Hasho:
Fix Me Jesus – Abington Theatre Company
The English Bride – 59E59
Mari Lyn Henry:
Broadway:
Kinky Boots
Vanya, Sonia, Masha and Spike
First Date
Lucky Guy
The Nance
Off Broadway:
Buyer & Cellar
Summer Shorts, Series A at Primary Stages – hilarious ten minute play “Good Luck In Farsi” by Neil LaBute
This Side of Neverland (two J. M. Barrie one acts) at the Pearl Theatre
9MM America! – Bob Moss Theatre, produced and directed by GirlBeHeard
Jenny Lyn Bader”s Pirira – West End Theatre
Marilyn Lester:
The Glass Menagerie
Twelfth Night
The Weir (Irish Rep)
Buyer & Cellar
The Night Alive
After Midnight
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Macbeth (Alan Cumming)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
The Testament of Mary
Brian Scott Lipton:
The Assembled Parties
Buyer and Cellar
The Flick
Fun Home
The Glass Menagerie
Here Lies Love
Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812
Passion
Pippin
Twelfth Night
Joe Regan, Jr.
Around the World Mint Theater
Buyer & Cellar
Finian’s Rainbow/Flahooley Harlem Repertory Theatre
Gay Camp -Duplex
Hello Dolly with Klea Blackhurst Goodspeed Opera House
Mildred Fearce – Theater 80 St. Marks
The Nance
Natasha Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
Passion – CSC
Phillip Goes Forth Mint Theater
Pippin
The Recommendation – Flea
Sonia Roberts:
The Wild Bride (Kneehigh/St. Ann’s Warehouse)
The Pigeoning (HERE)
The Suit (BAM)
The Orpheus Variations (The Deconstructive Theatre Project/HERE)
Isaac’s Eye (Ensemble Studio Theatre)
The Golden Dragon (The Play Company)
Shun-kin (Complicite/Lincoln Center Festival)
Neva (The Public Theater)
Marcina Zaccaria:
Brendan at the Chelsea
God’s Country
Blessed Unrest’s “A Christmas Carol”
This is My Office
novaya zemlya or a strange new land
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CABARET – MUSIC PICKS FOR 2013:
Alix Cohen:
Steve Ross- I’m in Love with Vienna
Stacy Sullivan- It’s a Good Day
Marissa Mulder- In His Own Words-The Songs of Tom Waits
Tommy Tune-Steps in Time
Carole Bufford- Body & Soul
Lauren Fox- Canyon Folkies
Lennie Watts- Bloody Bloody Lennie Watts
William Blake-Echoes of Etta
Sandi Durell:
Anita Gillette
James Barbour
Marilyn Maye
Lee Roy Reams
NY Pops-Steven Reineke, Montego Glover, Dave Bennett
John Pizzarelli/Jessica Molaskey – Children and Art
Joanna Gleason
Liza & Alan at Town Hall – 67th Birthday Celebration
Peter Haas:
Norbert Leo Butz
Stacey Kent
Barbara Carroll
Liam Forde
Music series: Lyrics & Lyricists
Susan Hasho:
Amber Martin – 54 Below
Sondheim Unplugged – 54 Below
Norbert Leo Butz “Girls” – 54 Below
Michelle Dowdy: A Brass Act – 54 Below
Marilyn Lester:
Hidden Treasures II: Songs of Larry Kerchner
T. Oliver Reid
Natalie Douglas at Cafe Carlyle
Norbert Leo Butz at 54 Below
A Tribute to Bobby Short at LALC – Allen Room
Paulanne Simmons:
On The Record
Scott Siegel’s Broadway Ballyhoo
The Pop Show at Birdland
Speakeasy Moderne
Barb Jungr
Joe Regan, Jr.
Mary Foster Conklin “Life is a Bitch”
Anita Gillette “After All”
Hunter Ryan Herdlicka
Tom Judson “Nature Boy Songs”
Judy Kuhn “All This Happiness”
Euan Morton & Grandpa Musselman & His Syncopaters
David Pascucci “Imitation of Life”
Daniel Reichard “It’s Christmas Again”
Joan Ryan
Adam Shapiro “Guide to the Perfect Breakup”
Paolo Szot
Terri White
FILM BESTS FROM ERIC J. GRIMM:
Film Director
Her Spike Jonze
Laurence Anyways Xavier Dolan
Blue is the Warmest Color – Abdellatif Kechiche
Before Midnight Richard Linklater
Spring Breakers Harmony Korine
