All stories by Joe Dziemianowicz on BroadwayStars

Thursday, June 26, 2014

‘The Muscles In Our Toes,’ theater review by Joe Dziemianowicz

Friendships forged in high school can be enduring — and so can wounds inflicted there.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PM

‘The Lion’: Theater review by Joe Dziemianowicz

Personal losses pile up in the musical memoir “The Lion,” but creator and star Benjamin Scheuer makes the one-man show an irresistible winner.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PM

'Tick, Tick ... Boom!': Theater review by Joe Dziemianowicz

A familiar story beats at the heart of the easy-to-like production of “Tick, Tick ... Boom!”

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:31PM
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

‘Clinton’ musical will feature two actors portraying former Prez by Joe Dziemianowicz

For years Bill Clinton’s troubling two-sidedness has had tongues wagging. Now, with wife Hillary poised for a presidential run, it’s got musical theater performers belting. It takes two …

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 04:05PM
Sunday, June 22, 2014

'Newsies' to end Broadway run in August by Joe Dziemianowicz

Broadway's singing and pirouetting paperboys are calling it a day. Disney Theatrical announced that "Newsies" will end its run at the Nederlander Theatre on Aug. 24.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:00PM

Summer theater thriving just outside NYC by Joe Dziemianowicz

All the world’s a stage — and some playing spaces are located in leafy idylls.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00AM
Saturday, June 21, 2014

Ultimate summer guide: Theater by Joe Dziemianowicz

To see a cluster of the summer’s brightest stars you don’t need a telescope. Just train your gaze on New York stages.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM
Thursday, June 19, 2014

‘Holler If Ya Hear Me’: Theater review by Joe Dziemianowicz

The Tupac Shakur musical “Holler If Ya Hear Me” is vibrant, raw and rousing, but it shoots itself in the foot with predictability and unintelligibility.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PM

Blogger Tavi Gevinson graduates to Broadway by Joe Dziemianowicz

Can 18-year-old fashion blogger-turned-actress Tavi Gevinson be a hit on Broadway? Well, 248,000 Twitter followers can’t be wrong.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00AM
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

‘When We Were Young and Unafraid,’ theater review by Joe Dziemianowicz

An ambitious but murky drama about women and violence, “When We Were Young and Unafraid” unfolds in 1972 on an island where the waters are tricky to navigate and drenched in legend.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PM

Metropolitan Opera cancels controversial simulcast of ‘The Death of Klinghoffer’ amid anti-Semitic fears by Joe Dziemianowicz

Amid escalating fears of anti-semitism, the Metropolitan Opera has cancelled plans to transmit a performance of its upcoming “The Death of Klinghoffer” to movie screens this fall.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:53PM
Monday, June 16, 2014

‘The Who & the What’: Theater review by Joe Dziemianowicz

The daughter of a Pakistani immigrant writes what she knows — and what she knows will hurt her father.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PM

‘Much Ado About Nothing,’ theater review by Joe Dziemianowicz

Preseasoning boosts the flavors of many dishes — and plays.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PM
Thursday, June 12, 2014

Top actors are looking for a good read this month by Joe Dziemianowicz

Good actors make an audience hang on every word. That’s the aim at starry readings this month.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:37PM

Jake Gyllenhaal to make Broadway debut by Joe Dziemianowicz

Jake Gyllenhaal will make his Broadway debut with his head in the stars in the dramedy “Constellations” in December.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:59PM
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

‘Fly By Night,’ theater review by Joe Dziemianowicz

Talented actors lend needed lift to the droopy musical fable “Fly by Night.”

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PM
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

‘The Village Bike,’ theater review by Joe Dziemianowicz

A shiny two-wheeler has a cameo in “The Village Bike.” But what British playwright Penelope Skinner is really chasing here is the double meaning of the title.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PM

Broadway Show League players stage a rally every Thursday by Joe Dziemianowicz

Anika Larsen didn’t win a Tony on Sunday — but she definitely doesn’t want to lose on Thursday.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00AM
Monday, June 9, 2014

Celebrity audience makes for a hit 'Men' by Joe Dziemianowicz

Faith Hill and Tim McGraw caught “Of Mice and Men” at the end of May. What took the twangy twosome so long?

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:05PM
Sunday, June 8, 2014

Tony Awards 2014: 'All the Way,' Bryan Cranston snag honors by Joe Dziemianowicz

Tony Awards host Hugh Jackman hippity-hopped into Radio City Musical Hall on Sunday night like the Sexiest Human Pogo Stick Alive. Was this Broadway’s biggest night of the year — or a be…

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:33PM

Our critic handicaps the big awards at the Tonys by Joe Dziemianowicz

Like a striving starlet’s glamour gown, some of the biggest Tony Awards races decided tonight will be supertight.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00AM
Saturday, June 7, 2014

Hugh Jackman will rap and tap dance as host at Tony Awards by Joe Dziemianowicz

It sounds nutty, but Tony emcee Hugh Jackman will drop the Rodgers & Hammerstein to channel Fiddy and Yeezus at Sunday night’s Tony Awards, says the show’s writer.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:08PM
Thursday, June 5, 2014

‘Macbeth’: Theater review by Joe Dziemianowicz

More than the air is foul and filthy in Kenneth Branagh’s thriller-diller production of “Macbeth.”

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PM

The perfect shoes for Tony night by Joe Dziemianowicz

A Tony Award nod can turn a serious director into Cinderella. Like the fairy-tale heroine, Leigh Silverman, who’s nominated for “Violet,” has discovered the magical p…

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:32PM
Tuesday, June 3, 2014

'Just Jim Dale' Off-Broadway by Joe Dziemianowicz

You can take the boy out of the English music hall but you can’t take the English music hall out of the boy. Jolly good thing for that, too.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PM

Bradley Cooper coming to B'way in 'Elephant Man' by Joe Dziemianowicz

Bradley Cooper’s Broadway star vehicle has found a theater to park in this fall.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:10PM
Sunday, June 1, 2014

‘The Killer,’ theater review by Joe Dziemianowicz

Eugene Ionesco’s absurdist 1958 epic “The Killer” can slay your patience — and fanny.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PM
Friday, May 30, 2014

The Brits Off Broadway are coming! by Joe Dziemianowicz

“Ayckborn Ensemble” Through June 29 59E59 Theaters, 59 E. 59th St.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00AM
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Megan Hilty's a fine fit in Cafe Carlyle spotlight by Joe Dziemianowicz

There’s something about a baby bump that makes the jazzy standard “The Best Is Yet to Come” even riper with meaning.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:26PM
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

For Tom Cruise, the sun may come out 'Tomorrow' by Joe Dziemianowicz

One of Broadway’s sunniest songs costars in a new TV spot for one of the year’s darkest action movies.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:03PM
Sunday, May 25, 2014

An all-female 'Romeo and Juliet' in city parks by Joe Dziemianowicz

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. But a woman playing the Bard’s besotted Romeo is bound to raise eyebrows — and questions.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00AM

All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime