1,755 stories by "Joe Dziemianowicz"
There's not much art but plenty of commerce in "Shatner's World: We Just Live In It," which opened last night at the Music Box Theatre for a limited run.
Is apartheid thicker than family? That's the terrible question throbbing at the heart of "Blood Knot," a poky but ultimately persuasive 1961 drama by Athol Fugard, which premiered on Thursda…
The title of Gabe McKinley's new play "CQ/CX" looks like the makings of a lousy Scrabble hand.
It's actually newspaper lingo related to fact-checking and that looms large in this fi…
Like a cut flower, Violetta, the courtesan who falls in love and fatally ill in Verdi's "La Traviata," is living on borrowed time.
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Theresa Rebeck wrote for 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' before she created "Smash," the new NBC series about the making of a Broadway musical.
So the Brooklyn writer can rip storie…
A full moon gleams like a shiny hubcap in the opening moments of "How I Learned to Drive."
But Uncle Peck (Norbert Leo Butz) doesn't notice. He sees only the "celestial orbs" on Li…
A cut on the original cast recording (don't call it a soundtrack!) of "The Book of Mormon" is a cheery little tune called "I Am Here for You." Native New Yorker Robert Lopez will be there fo…
I've seen a lot of Stockard Channing at the gym lately. Not on an adjacent treadmill or stair-climber, but on the overhead TVs, where ads for her play "Other Desert Cities" have been running…
It started out like a flop in 1981.
And despite wonderful Stephen Sondheim songs, the middling new production of "Merrily We Roll Along," at Encores! through Feb. 19, isn't an ideal…
Opera up-and-comer Laquita Mitchell has been lavishly praised for the power and pure tones of her soprano.
But as she fine-tuned her Violetta for New York City Opera's "La Traviata," someon…
Theresa Rebeck: With "Seminar" on Broadway, "Smash" on NBC tonight and a new play in Houston in May, she makes overachievement look easy.
"I came to watch," whispers Debra Messing as she strides onto the set of "Smash," where an elaborate dance number has been filming on and off for three hours.
Cameras roll. Recorded…
Any revival worth its salt " and an audience's time " will illuminate a play in fresh ways.
Director Sam Gold's Off-Broadway production of John Osborne's "Look Back in Anger" does t…
Who needs diamonds? For Broadway actress Megan Hilty, Marilyn Monroe is a girl's best friend. The kind of pal that gets you two great gigs.
Good-bye split ends, hello split personality. Constantine Maroulis snagged a Tony nomination playing a shaggy-haired rocker in "Rock of Ages." In spring 2013 on Broadway, he'll star as a doc…
Teaching moments about the evils of greed don't come more musically majestic than "Gotterdammerung" (Twilight of the Gods), which culminates in nothing less than the end of the world.
1 "The Book of Mormon" (Eugene O'Neill Theatre) The ace original principal cast just renewed for a year. Praise be.
A dead unwanted infant. A secret homemade grave. A spiritually bankrupt, seriously sick family.
In "Wit," prickly English professor Vivian Bearing confronts something even more uncompromising and unforgiving than herself: late-stage ovarian cancer.
"It is not my intention to …
Mid-'60s flashbacks don't come brighter or more candy-colored than Petula Clark singing her chart-toppers from that era like "Downtown," "I Know a Place" and "A Sign of the Times."
Despite my issues with the production, the quality of the material and performances earned "Porgy and Bess" four stars from me and, now, a coveted top-10 slot.
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You don't leave humming the sets.
But scenery definitely has the potential to make a Broadway show purr.
I was reminded of that at my second visit to "How to Succeed in Bu…
The Fat Lady is singing at a leaner price.
Following six months of sour labor negotiations, New York City Opera announced something sweet: All remaining tickets for two upcoming pro…
THE HISTORY MYSTERY Tonight-Feb. 19, TADA! Youth Theater, 15 W. 28th St.
How do events from childhood shape people as adults and the world at large?
With talent, industry and plenty of luck, an actor will play lots of roles. And not just fictional ones.
Take Pun Bandhu, 37, who's making his Broadway acting debut in the drama "…
