By Monica Charline Brown   “New Show. New Stories. No F*cks.”   This marketing phrase pretty much sums up Tori Scott’s “Plan B!” at Joe’s Pub. Appearing regularly at the venue over the past five years, Tori was excited to announce the evening was being recorded for her...

      By Monica Charline Brown     Created seven years ago, the Broadway Sings series has been rocking out at the Highline Ballroom for fifteen concerts! Produced by Corey Mach, the shows are always top notch. What makes the performances unique are the musical...

  A double take on Juan Pablo di Pace with two reviews!   By Joel Benjamin and Monica Charline-Brown     (by Joel Benjamin) There’s no denying that Juan Pablo di Pace is an incredibly handsome man, even better looking in person than his photographs. There’s also no denying...

  Norma Desmond was ready for her closeup Thursday, February 9 at Broadway’s Palace Thursday as Glenn Close returned to Broadway, reviving her Tony Award winning role as Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s blockbuster Sunset Boulevard.   Theater Pizzazz’s JK...

    By Monica Charline Brown     “If I’m gonna die I’ll live the life that frees me.” – lyric from a song the character Solvay sings in Act One of Peer Gynt and The Norwegian Hapa Band Henrik Ibsen: Norway’s most prominent playwright of the late nineteenth century...

  Here they are! Take a look at the Best Five of the 2016 Season in Theater and Cabaret. It’s the end of 2016 . . . hard to believe it raced by so quickly with all its turbulence. Theater Pizzazz writers, in both theater and cabaret, were extremely busy seeing many, many shows. Each one...

        Tuesday night, December 13 at the famous McKittrick Hotel (home of the immersive theater spectacle Sleep No More) saw the opening night and New York premiere of The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, a transporting, music-filled folk theater fable created by writer...

          by Monica Charline Brown   Kate Baldwin is a KNOCKOUT in her new show Extraordinary Machine—or as Kate calls it near the end of her concert, “Kate Baldwin’s Pop Adventure!”—at Feinstein’s/54 Below. A musical  theatre star known for classics like...

          “Corruption is our only hope.”    — Bertolt Brecht     by Monica Charline Brown   Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company has brought One Flea Spare out of the shadows of a twenty-year hiatus from New York City. Originally commissioned for...

            by Monica Charline Brown   Surely you have noticed we are living in a world where shock value dominates our culture. Personal lives coalesce with professional lives, and heaven forbid we should bring up those three forbidden topics in casual...

    by: Monica Charline Brown   Encore dates are always a good sign. At a club such as Feinstein’s/54 Below, where the schedule of events overflows with talent, Jennifer Damiano clearly had another successful solo show. Following three performances back in the end of July,...

  by Monica Charline Brown   BroadwayBox’s most anticipated show of the month. Broadway Sings’ twelfth concert over the course of four years. A trip to the Highline Ballroom I most look forward to every few months. Attracting Baby Boomers and Millennials alike, The Beatles, their...

    by Monica Charline Brown   Caroline Bowman has already secured a special place in the Broadway community’s heart as her burgeoning career unfolds! Tackling the roles of Elphaba in “Wicked” and Nicola in “Kinky Boots” on Broadway, as well as Eva Peron in “Evita” and Lady of...

    by Monica Charline Brown   The newest production in IRT 3B’s Development series, #liberated, is on point with where cutting-edge New York theater is headed. Envisaged and scripted by actress Lillian Meredith, the play is the product of The Living Room, an eight woman...

      by Monica Charline Brown     It is no surprise Laura Osnes has secured a spot as one of the younger generation of Broadway’s most charming leading ladies. Ms. Osnes is an ingénue, who is equally at home in the golden age era as well as the contemporary musical...

  by Monica Charline Brown     Lucille Carr-Kaffashan pieced together a truly enjoyable evening of cabaret in her latest stint at Don’t Tell Mama, one of midtown’s hottest cabaret boites. The show was called “Unwritten – Celebrating 21st Century Female Singer-Songwriters.”...

      by Monica Charline Brown   Why yes, of course, I returned for the BROADWAY SINGS Whitney Houston Encore Concert. How could I not? The initial eleventh concert in the series knocked me off my feet (literally…my tardiness afforded me standing room only which led to...

    by Monica Charline Brown   Breathing life into a play assumed to be biographical at heart, Life Jacket Theatre Company has created an eccentric and relatable piece of art through GOREY: The Secret Lives of Edward Gorey, currently running at HERE. Rather than a linear...

    by Monica Charline Brown     The opening words of playwright Justin Kuritzkes’s mind sear through the space like paralyzing ice beams. Jake Horowitz conversationally allows what would normally be shocking and graphic to simply roll off his tongue. In his forty-five...

      by Monica Charline Brown   In the late, late hours of Friday, April 22, Broadway’s favorite supper club, Feinstein’s/54 Below, presented The Girls in White: Songs from the Show. Featuring a book and lyrics by Michael Bradley, music by Artie Sievers, and direction by...

        by Monica Charline Brown   Audiences attending The Café Carlyle are in for a surprising treat this week. The Café, located inside the exceedingly elegant Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel, has been the Upper East Side’s resident hot spot since 1955. Known for such...

        by Monica Charline Brown and JK Clarke   One of the intriguing aspects of even the most basic study of Shakespeare is the debate surrounding the authorship of his work. The primary reason behind this, of course, is the scarcity of documentation and record...

      by Monica Charline Brown   On Friday night, March 18, 2016, pure magic was created at the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse in Lincoln Center. An installment in the American Songbook series, the front cover of the Playbill boasts: “Outstanding Artists, Intimate Settings,...

    by Monica Charline Brown   Starting Here, Starting Now is running at the The York Theatre Company, playing ten performances only through this Sunday afternoon March 20. This material has not been performed in New York City since the seventies.   Clearly, forty years have...

  by Monica Charline Brown   When you scratch your brain to determine some names associated with the founding of our global economy, you might guess Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman, or even Karl Marx. But what if I told you John Law of Edinburgh made a huge impact...