1,755 stories by "Joe Dziemianowicz"
"You have a romantic streak," a bright young woman tells a sad songwriter in "Once," which runs through Jan. 15 in the East Village.
The same goes for the creators of this rapturous…
Global warming? Yeah, right.
You'll find scant radiant heat in the grimly " and flickeringly " funny interpersonal worlds Ethan Coen creates in "Happy Hour."
That's the iro…
At just two hours, the Classic Stage Company's presentation of "The Cherry Orchard" clocks in as the shortest revival of the tragicomedy in memory.
You'd think the glorious fruit tr…
They did it all for love and fame.
That's about as deep as it gets in "Bonnie and Clyde," the nicely performed but overly tame and unsurprising musical about notorious Depression-e…
"Let the gore begin," says director Michael Sexton.
That's just going with the flow when you take on "Titus Andronicus."
His staging of Shakepeare's notorious but little-k…
A guide to performances of the classic Christmas story all around New York City.
It takes more than everyday oats to make a war horse like "Faust" canter with a fresh kick.
It takes an original idea.
And "Jersey Boys" director Des McAnuff, in his Metrop…
He's famous for playing a pining architect on TV's "How I Met Your Mother" and for writing, directing and starring in the film "happythankyoumoreplease," but Josh Radnor, 37, is no stranger …
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
Everybody knows that.
But how does Radio City's 79th annual "Christmas Spectacular" look from the $45 budget seats?
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The motto of the Boy Scouts of America is Be Prepared.
And anyone who sees "Wild Animals You Should Know" should be prepared to be intrigued and a bit disappointed by the underdeve…
With his patented blend of velvety nastiness, Alan Rickman is ideally cast as a noxious instructor savaging young writers in Theresa Rebeck's tangy but sometimes contrived comedy "Seminar," …
In "Horsedreams," a play about addiction and race at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater through Dec. 11, a long strand of white fluorescent tubes cuts across the cracked gray set. It looks …
Kim Cattrall gazes out in character as Amanda on the Playbill for Noel Coward's "Private Lives," her head cocked back, nose pitched at a high angle, her face softly kissed in a glamorous glo…
At the 10th annual "24 Hour Plays" on Monday, one of the six shorts in this always entertaining celebration of on-the-fly theater works are written, rehearsed and performed within a day " f…
The theater fan on your list can always get tickets for the holidays " and some are suggested here " but there's more to the New York theater community, and more ways to play Santa to that f…
Fitting for a show about a cannibal and a serial killer, "Silence!" isn't golden. Much of the time, it's dimly lit.
But even in shadows, this lewd, lyrical and laugh-your-butt-off musical p…
Patti LuPone is posing for me and my BlackBerry.
Yes, that Patti LuPone " the Broadway superstar who recently has become the queen of "Stop Taking Pictures Right Now!"
Thomas Bradshaw's new drama, "Burning," fails to catch fire or to cohere. But you can't accuse the practiced downtown provocateur, now represented in midtown at the New Group through Dec. 17…
Renee Fleming revisits her triumphant take on Handel's "Rodelinda" Monday night at the Metropolitan Opera, where she's sung 21 roles in 20 years.
That's one busy diva.
Not …
A giddy love-in has taken over the Broadhurst Theatre, where "Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway" opened last night for a limited run through Jan. 1.
For 16 years as a brilliant and ruthless litigator on "Law & Order," Sam Waterston ranted in the interest of justice.
Now, on stage at the Public Theater, he's the aged mad monarch in "Ki…
Oh, lordy. It takes real effort to drain the joy from "Godspell," the buoyant 1971 musical celebration of the life and teachings of Christ.
Whoever said lightning doesn't strike twice hasn't seen Nina Arianda reprise her breakout role in David Ives' clever but repetitive comedy "Venus in Fur."
Playing Vanda, a seemingly ditzy…
In the likable and well-acted dramedy "All-American," a former NFL star quotes his own self-help book.
It's called "Football Is Life," and the title is a tidy metaphor for explorin…
Ashlin Halfnight is known for dark and stylized plays, including the Southern gothic "Mud Blossom" and "Artifacts of Consequence," set after an environmental meltdown.
Like most wri…
