1,755 stories by "Joe Dziemianowicz"
Stroll through the theater district and the question is bound to hit you: When did Broadway become the highway to heaven?
Witness the spiky spiritual satire "The Book of Mormon" and…
Ricky Martin gives a great big touch of star quality to the seductive revival of "Evita" at the Marquis. He also gives an appealing performance in the role of Che, which, like the show, has …
3 stars
'The Taming of the Shrew'
Through April 21, Duke on 42nd St., 229 W. 42nd St.
Tickets: $75; (646) …
Neil Patrick Harris will reprise his role as the host of the Tony Awards " again. Producers of Broadway's grand prize night announced that the "How I Met Your Mother" star will emcee the sho…
Tribute and trash collide uneasily in "End of the Rainbow," a jacked-up portrait of Judy Garland that captures the legend at the end of her rope near the end of her life.
Politics is a dirty business. No shock there. Just read or watch the news. So if in 1960 the candidates were different, the game was the same " smear or be smeared.
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"Newsies" chorus guys
(Nederlander Theatre)
Everyone in the danc…
An exhilaring jolt of youthful energy has hit Broadway. It arrives with 30 dazzling dancing feet, a bright rising star, buoyant songs and " whoops, I buried the lead " something meaningful t…
For a show that drills the importance of seizing the day, "Now. Here. This." is fixed on sizing up days gone by.
One good thing to take away from Rodgers and Hammerstein's ragtag 57-year-old musical "Pipe Dream" is that your cramped apartment won't seem so bad.
Matt Charman has been called Britain's "fastest-rising" young playwright
But in his likable, low-impact new drama "Regrets," the Off-Broadway rookie takes it slow. Very slow. Somethi…
1. "Lost in Yonkers" (Beckett Theatre) Neil Simon revival finds an Off-Broadway home.
(Venues at FathomEvents.com)
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Corbin Bleu will join the Broadway cast of "Godspell" as Jesus beginning April 17 at the Circle in the Square Theatre.
"The Capitol Steps." 8 p.m. Friday at Town Hall, 123 W. 43rd St. The acclaimed equal-opportunity political satirists celebrate 30 years of lampooning in this musical revue and perform fresh …
I don't know how to love this.
The most passion I can muster for the flashy and mechanical new Broadway resurrection of "Jesus Christ Superstar" is qualified like.
Drawn f…
In the new production of Neil Simon's 1991 Pulitzer-winning "Lost in Yonkers," clouds loom over the Kurnitz family living room. Those mists are gray, threatening and unmoving, just like the …
What's fitting foreplay for some forbidden sex? What else " a forbidden dance.
So begins the U.K.-based Cheek by Jowl's lively take on John Ford's 17th-century tragedy "'Tis Pity S…
Dan LeFranc's tasty and energetically acted little comedy The Big Meal" is being served through April 8 at Playwrights Horizons.
Although it runs a short 85 minutes, the …
What becomes a Broadway hunk?
Two musicals figure it's the perennial, popular, humble white Henley, sparking a Shubert Alley version of "Who wore it better?"
Steve Kazee p…
"Smash" gets a jolt of bona fide Broadway star power on Monday when Bernadette Peters appears as a famous actress and spotlight-hogging stage mom (is there any other kind?) on the show.
It's hard to imagine a time before electronic media co-opted the news business. But the Broadway productions of "Newsies," opening March 29, and "The Columnist," beginning previews April 3, …
Kleenex alert!
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The Broadway Beauty Pageant
(Symphony Space)
Chorus guys throw d…
In Jesse Berger's canny staging of Jean Genet's "The Maids," the domestics don't do windows.
The audience does " at least in a way. Seated on four sides of an enclosed bedroom set, …
