By Sandi Durell The press was invited on board the luxurious Princess Regal docked at the Brooklyn Terminal on Saturday October 7 for the latest peek of shipboard entertainment. Theater Pizzazz first attended a luncheon before being escorted into the theater to...
End of Longing: On the Red...
Matthew Perry’s ‘The End of Longing’ opened last night at the Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street) with quite a list of first nighters including Allison Janney, Matthew Morrison, Sarah Stiles, Halley Feiffer, Austin Smith, Matthew Lopez, Sandra Caldwell,...
Sondheim x 3 Pacific Overtures,...
by Carol Rocamora In case you haven’t noticed (but how could you not?!), there’s a Sondheim festival going on in New York this spring. Three splendid Sondheim revivals have opened recently, offering dramatically different directorial interpretations in strikingly...
Sunday in the Park with George –...
By Sandi Durell The island of La Grande Jatte is alive and pulsating with the complexity of Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics) and James Lapine’s (book) revival (the last revival 2008) of Sunday in the Park with George, a mystical, magical production at the...
A Bronx Tale – The Musical
by JK Clarke The timing couldn’t be better for the powers that be to release the musical version of the story of life growing up in the 1960s in New York City’s outer borough. America is presently awash in fetishization of nostalgia, and A...
Annie (and the Kings)
by Samuel L. Leiter I had two incentives for visiting the touring production of Annie at the Kings Theatre on Brooklyn’s Flatbush Avenue. One, of course, was to see the musical itself, in the company of family members and a friend; and the other, even more persuasive, was to...
Thérèse Raquin
by: Carol Rocamora Oh, those unfortunate 19th century heroines of the page and stage. They’re trapped in loveless marriages, suffocated by society, frustrated, desperate, driven to self-destruction. And yet, they still...
