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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

'Moon River' doesn't flow in Broadway's 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' by Joe Dziemianowicz

A lunar eclipse hangs over “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” Theatergoers who attended the play’s first preview on Monday grumbled that “Moon River” is nowhere to be heard.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 04:42PM

Theater review: ‘Belleville’ by Joe Dziemianowicz

So attractive. So disturbed. So doomed. So what?

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM
Monday, March 4, 2013

Theater review: ‘Old Hats’ by Joe Dziemianowicz

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Get a load of who’s cooked up “Old Hats” — two clowns and a singing sidekick with a salty streak.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM
Sunday, March 3, 2013

Theater review: ‘Cinderella’ by Joe Dziemianowicz

In storybook terms, Broadway’s overstuffed “Cinderella” isn’t exactly a happily ever after. But there are reasons to embrace this new take on the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musi…

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM

Top 10 NY stage picks for week of March 3, 2013 by Joe Dziemianowicz

1. “Passion” (Classic Stage Company) A stirring revival of Sondheim’s strange love story.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM

Cyndi Lauper hits Broadway with 'Kinky Boots' by Joe Dziemianowicz

Cyndi Lauper admitted it on her first album 30 years ago: She’s so unusual. Talking about her new musical “Kinky Boots,” the Queens-raised Grammy winner revealed other shades …

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM
Thursday, February 28, 2013

Theater review: 'The Revisionist' at Cherry Lane by Joe Dziemianowicz

A play that lures Vanessa Redgrave to perform on a snug Off-Broadway stage deserves a kudo or two. Way to go. There, that’s done. Otherwise, “The Revisionist” is an n…

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM

Theater review: 'Passion' at Classic Stage Company by Joe Dziemianowicz

“God, you are so beautiful.” Characters say that often and insistently in “Passion.” The Classic Stage Company’s revival of this strange but stirring 1994 Best …

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM

Review: 'Carousel' at New York Philharmonic by Joe Dziemianowicz

Merry-go-round horses hover in the air at odd angles, as though the painted ponies have hit turbulence. The images, seen on stage at Avery Fisher Hall, perfectly capture the soaring…

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:08PM

Theater review: 'The Dance and the Railroad' by Joe Dziemianowicz

Two Chinese men in their early 20s wearing blue-gray peasant outfits face off on a jagged bluff set against a vast open sky. They exch…

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM

'Breakfast at Tiffany's' returns to Broadway in a new play by Joe Dziemianowicz

“Breakfast at Tiffany’s” is served again. On Monday, a dramatization of the classic New York story starring Emilia Clarke (“Game of Thrones”) begins previews on Broadway …

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Theater review: ‘The Madrid’ by Joe Dziemianowicz

On “Nurse Jackie,” Edie Falco plays a newly sober RN. Now she’s starring in the Manhattan Theatre Club production of “The Madrid.” The play by Liz Flahive and Falco is awkward enou…

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM
Sunday, February 24, 2013

Top 10 NY stage picks for week of Feb. 24, 2013 by Joe Dziemianowicz

1. “Caesar and Cleopatra” (Players Club) Daniel Davis and Tony winner Nikki M. James lead Project Shaw’s Feb. 25 reading.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:27PM

Reality is fodder for drama in "Laramie Project' by Joe Dziemianowicz

The Best Picture Oscar nominees — including “Argo,” “Lincoln” and “Zero Dark Thirty” — have all taken hits for fudging facts in varying degrees in the interest of pumping up …

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM

Nikki M. James takes on Cleopatra at Project Shaw by Joe Dziemianowicz

Not all twos are terrible. Ask Nikki M. James, who marks a second anniversary today that is worth celebrating. “It’s been exactly two years since I gave my first perfor…

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM
Friday, February 22, 2013

'Hands on a Hardbody' revs up for Broadway by Joe Dziemianowicz

Cross “A Chorus Line” (and its “God, I hope I get it”) with “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” (minus the fatal bullet to the head) and you’ve got a bead on the new musical …

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Ben Foster subs for Shia LaBeouf in 'Orphans' by Joe Dziemianowicz

Less than 24 hours after the official word came that the “Transformers” star was out of the show because of “creative difference,” producers announced that Foster, who had auditioned…

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:45PM

LaBeouf launches Twitter rant after exit from ‘Orphans’ by Joe Dziemianowicz

First you leave, then you tweet. Hours after Shia LaBeouf's sudden exit from the Broadway production of the play "Orphans" was announced, the hot-headed "Transformers" star started a Twitter…

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:51AM
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

'Glee's' Jane Lynch will debut on B'way in 'Annie' by Joe Dziemianowicz

Jane Lynch, an Emmy-winning star of “Glee,” will join the cast of “Annie” at the Palace Theatre for a limited eight-week run beginning May 16.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:54PM

Shia LaBeouf exits Broadway production of 'Orphans' by Joe Dziemianowicz

Can’t we all get along? Nope. Shia LaBeauf has left the Broadway production of “Orphans” co-starring Alec Baldwin and Tom Sturridge due to creative differences.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:43PM

Cabaret review: Adam Guettel at 54 Below by Joe Dziemianowicz

He’s part of a Broadway dynasty and has two Tony Awards for “The Light in the Piazza,” GQ-ready looks and a smile that gleams like high beams on a Benz. Everything about Adam …

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:30PM

'Mary Poppins' stars look back on high-flying role by Joe Dziemianowicz

They’ve flown a total of 24 miles over the audience’s head, entertained Suri Cruise and Katie Holmes and shamelessly boasted of being “practically perfect in every way.”

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM
Tuesday, February 19, 2013

'Les Miserables' returns to Broadway in March by Joe Dziemianowicz

Back to the barricades! Buoyed by renewed interest in “Les Misérables” thanks to the Oscar-nominated film, a stage production of the musical will arrive on Broadway in March.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:05PM
Monday, February 18, 2013

Theater review: 'Donnybrook!' at Irish Rep by Joe Dziemianowicz

In Innisfree, the Irish locals’ idea of a good time is watching men knock each other’s blocks off. It’s probably the last place Sean Enright, a champion American prizefighter who’s s…

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:00PM
Sunday, February 17, 2013

Theater review: ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ by Joe Dziemianowicz

She’s the single lady who says she’s set on not putting a ring on it.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM

Emmy winner Edie Faclo stages return to theater by Joe Dziemianowicz

Thanks to her acclaimed roles on “The Sopranos” and “Nurse Jackie,” Edie Falco has become a household name and filled her trophy case with four Emmys (three for the mob drama, one fo…

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:01PM

Top 10 NY stage picks for week of Feb. 17, 2013 by Joe Dziemianowicz

1. “All in the Timing” (59E59 Theater) Six bite-size and delicious comedies by David Ives.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM
Friday, February 15, 2013

N.Y. stages: 'Powder Her Face,' '70s Disco' and 'Ragtime' by Joe Dziemianowicz

Powder Her Face. Tonight through Feb. 23. BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn Move over, Don Giovanni. This audacious 1995 work by composer Thomas Adès and l…

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM

Theater review: 'The Laramie Project Cycle' by Joe Dziemianowicz

The fence is gone, but the town’s scars remain. In October 1998, 21-year-old gay college student Matthew Shepard was tortured and left to die at a fence in Laramie, Wyoming. …

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM

Theater review: 'Bunnicula' by Joe Dziemianowicz

Before you adopt that cute and cuddly bunny, ask yourself: Could he be a vampire? Goofy? Sure, but it clicked for a book series by Deborah and James Howe. And it works in a chipper …

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Westminster winner makes Broadway debut by Joe Dziemianowicz

Banana Joe wowed the Westminster Kennel Club on Tuesday and won the title of Best in Show. On Wednesday night, the pint-sized Affenpinscher swings onto Broadway for a cameo star turn in the …

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:50PM

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