1,755 stories by "Joe Dziemianowicz"
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Through Dec. 12, Samuel J.
He's become a specialist in one-man works with multiple characters whose stories are told with poetry, power and, at times, near-evangelical flourishes. Beaty is true to form in "Through the…
In "The Break of Noon," David Duchovny plays a low-level executive who, through divine intervention, survives an office massacre.
"Twilight" and the "The Vampire Diaries" have made creatures of the night hip and hot.
Julia Cho's strained comedy-drama "The Language Archive" centers on an irony: George (Matt Letscher) is a linguist who can't communicate.
If you've unwrapped a present hoping to find the coolest new plaything and instead found - darn! - gloves inside, you'll appreciate my reaction to the Broadway musical "Elf," which opened Su…
Now at the halfway mark, the current Broadway season has so far turned out to be a tepid affair. Since September, 18 shows have opened and the red-hot hits are rarer than restraint by Pee-we…
The focus on faith is to make a point: Belief systems can be complicated matters. Comical ones, too.
Do you speak English? Hoi Lun Lui thought she did.
Known for being a hit in the mid-1960s and for spawning a movie that won Goldie Hawn an Oscar, "Cactus Flower" hasn't been seen in a major stage revival in New York since it ended a Broadway…
Secrets and lies are the very lifeblood of family dramas, and they course through "After the Revolution," which opened last night in a Playwrights Horizons presentation.
Though it's called "A Life in the Theatre," it can be difficult to detect any vital signs in the sluggish Broadway revival of David Mamet's 1977 comedy. As light on nastiness (just six F-bom…
Fine-tuned ensembles drive two politically charged plays at the Public Theater.
Even if 2010 wasn't a banner year in theater, there was still much to savor. That includes stars and newcomers delivering A-plus performances to boost B-minus shows, from Mark Rylance as a h…
Mini skirt, maxi volume. That, in brief, is what's memorable about the loud but low-impact revival of "The Little Foxes" at New York Theatre Workshop. Lillian Hellman's 61-year-old potboiler…
Good things come in pairs, it's said. And for actress-singer Renee Elise Goldsberry, known for "One Life to Live" and the musical version of "The Color Purple," that's doubly true these days…
A shadowy drifter makes mobiles in "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore." As hobbies go, it's peculiar, if Calder-esque. But it fits, since Tennessee Williams' overwrought and seldom-do…
Global studies just got funnier and faster.
"When I Come To Die" follows an Indiana Death Row inmate who survives a lethal injection and gets labeled a miracle.
