1,755 stories by "Joe Dziemianowicz"
Fueled by "Freaky Friday" fantasy and actual health-insurance angst, "Under My Skin" is a body-swapping comedy with preexisting conditions " creaky bones and lameness.
Like the throwaway paper that gives "The Few" its title, the play's three outcasts could be tossed aside and nobody'd notice " or care.
This 1950s musical fable about a Parisian prostitute with a heart of gold is supposed to be cheeky and frolicsome fun.
But in a rare Encores! misfire, "Irma La Douce" is so leaden that it…
Politics and personal lives are inextricably " and wrenchingly " tangled in the topical and fast-moving drama "The City of Conversation," premiering at Lincoln Center.
Among the targets: "Matilda" and its murky lyrics; "Bullets Over Broadway" for its rehashed material; and the glut of jukebox musicals.
The boldly hilarious button-pusher "An Octoroon" gets lots of lift by tearing things down. First to fall is the fourth wall, with actors talking directly to the audience about the making of …
Director Carl Cofield says Amiri Baraka's play, about a fatal meeting between a white woman and black man, is as relevant as ever.
Moms and dads must love all their children equally. But what about Broadway press agents and their productions?
He pioneered detective fiction, but Edgar Allan Poe's own death is a mystery 165 years later. The writer's end is imagined in "Red Eye to Havre de Grace." It's a mashup of moody music and mo…
Nominations for the Tony Awards always make news. Here's what the nominators got right " and wrong. Wrong number 1: Denzel gets snubbed!
"A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" made a killing at the Tony nominations. The show led the pack with 10 nods, " including Best Musical, Director and two noms for Best Actor.
The writer who sued Valerie Harper for bailing out of his play has expressed "love and admiration" for the cancer-stricken star he's battling in court " and recast the villain in the grubby …
Publish or perish assumes unexpected meaning in "The Substance of Fire," an intriguing but frustrating drama.
Despite a good cast, this environmentally themed mystery tour is an uneasy mix of fact, credulity-stretching fiction and songs that don't work with the rest of the show.
Though Michelle Williams is credible but not memorable in her Broadway debut as songstress Sally Bowles, her performance can't mar the Roundabout's redo (re-revival?) of its Tony-winning 199…
Dudes look like ladies in "Casa Valentina," an intriguing but diffuse new drama about straight cross-dressers in 1962 New York.
As a pope, John Paul II was revered around the world. As a playwright, well, not so much. Before he was Christ's vicar on Earth, John Paul II was a Polish writer named Karol Wojtyla.
Transformation is tricky, sometimes even painful. But Broadway's sensational "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" starring a kick-ass Neil Patrick Harris is a reminder that change doesn't have to hur…
There's a compelling and worthwhile story out there about an age-addled woman's battle to live out her life in her own home. "The Velocity of Autumn" isn't it.
If you look under your seat at "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," now on Broadway, you might find one of the slyest jokes on the Great White Way: A Playbill for "Hurt Locker: The Musical."
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Daniel Radcliffe has appeared naked on stage, but he's never been as emotionally raw or as steady on his feet as he is now portraying Billy in "The Cripple of Inishmaan."
Early in the exhilarating musical "Violet," a backwoods young woman totes a tattered suitcase onto a bus.
It's a Broadway win-win I didn't expect: Loved the show " adore the T-shirt.
There's no riddle about the aim of "The Mystery of Irma Vep." The goal is to crack you up.
The new Moss Hart bioplay, "Act One," is affectionate, handsome and overstuffed.
