1,755 stories by "Joe Dziemianowicz"
The Darkest of Souls is the brightest beacon of delight in the well-performed but disappointing new musical "Death Takes a Holiday."
Emerald City, as we know, is the spot for finding a brain, a heart, courage and a sense of home. And story ideas. The new salsa-flavored kids musical "The Yellow Brick Road," launching on Tu…
Call it a comeback. Or a regrowth. Either way, the Tony-winning revival of "Hair" is back on Broadway. As someone who doesn't tire of hearing its great songs, including the joyful "Aquarius,…
In the Royal Shakespeare Company's blazing but somewhat bloated "Romeo and Juliet," the amorous adolescents aren't just star-crossed. They're also wardrobe-impaired.
Patti Mariano, a showbiz lifer, made her Broadway debut at age 12 in the original 1957 production of THE MUSIC MAN with Robert Preston and Barbara Cook..
Cirque du Soleil's new show "Zarkana" promises a musical and acrobatic spectacle. It makes good on that vow: Now in residence at Radio City through early October, the production boasts brill…
Points on a map provide "4,000 Miles" with a title, but this thoughtful small-scale play by Amy Herzog is really chasing after things that are unchartable.
Feature on the upcoming SILENCE! THE MUSICAL starring Brent Barrett.
The image of a doomed figure dependent on the kindness of strangers looms large in the work of Tennessee Williams. Turns out Ollie Olsen could give Blanche DuBois a run for her money.
Proof that reality is weirder than fiction? See Exhibit A: Off-Broadway's "The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World." Drawn with poetic license from true events of the '60s, it's one of the most …
Solid acting goes so far in shoring up watery material. Case in point: Carey Mulligan's mesmerizing work in Ingmar Bergman's "Through a Glass Darkly," adapted from his 1961 Oscar-winning fil…
Babies you can't live with them and you can't live without them. There, in a nutshell, is Daniel Goldfarb's likable new comedy "Cradle and All," which follows two Brooklyn Heights couples f…
Lynn Nottage won a Pulitzer Prize two years ago for "Ruined," an intense drama set against the brutal war in the Congo.
Larry Kramer's drama "The Normal Heart" was presented last year in New York and Los Angeles as one-off staged readings timed to its 25th anniversary.
"Baby It's You!" is the Lawrence Welk of jukebox musicals. The show opened Wednesday night at the Broadhurst and boasts nearly three dozen hit songs. Among them, "I Met Him on a Sunday," "He…
Fame is elusive. Chasing it is hard; doubly so if someone is holding you back. That theme rustles through "The House of Blue Leaves," which is back on Broadway in a revival starring Ben Stil…
That's what I call a rebirth. A new face has breathed fresh life into "Born Yesterday" at the Cort Theatre.
"Wonderland," which opened Sunday night at the Marquis Theatre, takes a cue from the film version of "The Wiz" and makes Alice (Janet Dacal) an unhappy grownup. There's potential to make the…
Ambition is the fatal flaw in "Macbeth," but it's the key to the success of "Sleep No More," a sensational interactive theater piece inspired by imagery from the Scottish play and Alfred Hit…
"This is kind of a weird play," announces the actor portraying Bernard, a dramatist, in "Go Back to Where You Are." The term "fantastical" also comes up. No wonder. The 70-minute one-act by …
Wanna spend the evening with some intensely troubled but deeply funny substance abusers? Have I got a play for you "The Motherf- with the Hat," starring Chris Rock and Bobby Cannavale as Ne…
It's true that inside every chunky person is a slim one trying to bust out. Same goes for "Catch Me If You Can," a new Broadway musical that is tasty but buried under empty calories.
Watching spouses go at each other in public gets grating very quickly. Ditto seeing them do it on stage. Take that as a heads-up about "Marie and Bruce," Wallace Shawn's unpleasant squall of…
Is Broadway big enough for two drag-queen musicals? You bet your sequined set of falsies.
Three years ago, "Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe came to Broadway for "Equus" and proved himself a solid dramatic actor. His current transformation into a song-and-dance man isn't quite…
