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About Sandi Durell

Sandi Durell is Publisher/Editor/Critic of TheaterPizzazz.com, a busy entertainment website, featuring 15+ professional reviewers covering Broadway,Off Broadway, Cabaret, News, Previews, Interviews, Media Days and Red Carpets. Sandi is a Voting Member of Drama Critics and Outer Critics Circle Awards, Member of American Theatre Critics Assoc., League of Professional Women and more.

The Portuguese Kid: Theater Pizzazz

It’s a battle of the sexes in John Patrick Shanley’s (Pulitzer Prize Doubt/Oscar Moonstruck) latest comedy about love, which he also directed at Manhattan Theater Club. The comedy is based somewhere on the Greek story of the Princess Atalanta who promises she’ll marry anyone who can outrun her, but no one can until goddess Aphrodite plays a trick on her. What makes it most intriguing is the line up of star power on that small stage. It’s silly, wacky but you gotta laugh even if you don’t want to! This is really far reaching for the likes of Shanley. The play takes place in Providence, R.I. as the spicy, larger than life [...]

By |2017-11-06T15:45:17-05:00November 22nd, 2017|Theatre|0 Comments
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Junk: Theater Pizzazz

“This is a story of kings, or what passes for kings these days…” So goes the opening line of Junk, Ayad Akhtar’s riveting morality tale of money and greed and American values in the 1980s. And who might these royals be, you ask? Why, none other than kings of finance, of course. It’s a troubling sign to see so many of these questionable kings on stage and screen today (not to mention in the White House).  Madoff and his family have shown up in a number of recent plays and films (Richard Dreyfuss and Robert De Niro both have played him).   You’ll find Rupert Murdoch (played by Bertie Carvel) today on the [...]

By |2017-11-06T15:47:04-05:00November 14th, 2017|Theatre|0 Comments
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Jesus Hoped the A Train: Theater Pizzazz

Stephen Adly Guirgis, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright in 2000 – Between Riverside and Crazy, writes with guts and blood and not for the faint of heart. If you saw that or The Motherf…ker with the Hat, you know just what I mean. If you’re a little uncertain about hearing the on-going profanity of the imprisoned at Rikers Island, you might reconsider as well. The play is awash with minor and major monologues like pop ups that arise in empty spaces with it’s own humor and one-liners and a symphony of themes that encompass social justice, imprisonment, religious belief as the inmates and the guards battle their own ... From Theater [...]

By |2017-10-28T13:20:07-04:00November 9th, 2017|Theatre|0 Comments
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M. Butterfly: Theater Pizzazz

Almost thirty years since it first fluttered onto the stage, M. Butterfly is back on Broadway, in a stunning production directed by Julie Taymor. Playwright David Henry Hwang has made some minor revisions, but the play still packs the dramatic wallop it did in 1988, when it won the Tony Award for Best Play. Loosely based on a true story, Butterfly spans twenty-odd years as French diplomat Rene Gallimard (Clive Owen) looks back from his Parisian prison cell in 1986 to the time he was stationed in China. His memories are dominated by his affair with Peking Opera star Song Liling (Jin Ha), also known ... From Theater Pizzazz review by Michael Bracken. Click [...]

By |2017-10-28T13:13:52-04:00November 6th, 2017|Theatre|0 Comments
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Torch Song: Theater Pizzazz

Who’da thunk it? A relic from a time when AIDS meant HELPS and nostalgic even then, Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy in revival would surely reek of reminiscence and easy sentiment. How could it not? Yet Moisés Kaufman’s breezy production of Torch Song – the three plays have been slimmed down to one – at Second Stage Tony Kiser Theater, plays as if it were written yesterday (all right, the day before yesterday). It pulses with the vitality of Fierstein’s script and a virtuoso performance by Michael Urie as Arnold, bolstered by the rest of the excellent cast, especially Mercedes Ruehl in a brief but unforgettable ... From Theater Pizzazz [...]

By |2017-11-08T12:37:58-05:00November 2nd, 2017|Theatre|0 Comments
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