1,755 stories by "Joe Dziemianowicz"
Conor McPherson's moody new drama, "The Night Alive," focuses on two down-and-out Dubliners who meet by chance.
Madeleine George's techie drama, "The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence" at Playwrights Horizons, is ambitious but buggy..
War is hell. So is love. Let's dance. And let's talk, too. That's the formula for director-choreographer Martha Clarke's compact and compelling " but uneven " dance-theater mashup of Colette…
Madonna's teen daughter Lourdes smoked cigarettes, chugged wine and got boy crazy in front of hundreds of people on Friday. But it was all just an act. Lola, as she's known, made her debut a…
The year's best Broadway show tune isn't being belted on the Great White Way. The song is "Let It Go" from the Disney movie "Frozen."
Burt Bacharach is the king of the catchy melody. But turning his gem-jammed catalogue into a worthwhile revue has proven elusive.
A lovable knight is having a new day. Starting Friday, Verdi's comic masterpiece, "Falstaff," gets its first Metropolitan Opera production since 1964, with James Levine wielding the baton an…
The bare-bones and boisterous "Much Ado About Nothing" at the Public begins with a preshow pop quiz.
A Dickens of a dilemma faces theatergoers this holiday season. Which version of "A Christmas Carol" to see? Four productions of the classic tale face off " one that's already running, and t…
Next year James Franco will add Broadway star to an ever-swelling resume that includes actor, poet, director and Oscar host.
Another night with the fictional Apple family, another master class in acting so natural that the six-member ensemble should come with ORGANIC stamps.
Being stuck in limbo has never been so magnetic.
Sarah Jessica Parker is aces at light comedy, but she's at her best when her characters are at their worst.
Someone wicked this way comes.
Hollywood stars attract lots of attention " and lots of scrutiny " when they hit Broadway. That goes double when it comes to Shakespeare, which is exactly why Ethan Hawke is tackling "Macbet…
Producers are turning the lights off forever on the Spider-Man musical on Broadway early next year, the final chapter in the story of most expensive theatrical show ever that shook off a tro…
An unforgiving theater fact: A musical can have everything else going for it, but without a great score it's got a hole in its heart.
Charm, like lightning, seldom strikes twice.
Throughout his long and storied career, Stephen Sondheim has written memorable songs about the complexities, frailties and felicities of relationships.
Actor-comedian-Oscar host Billy Crystal's career is packed with indelible moments, like when he watched Meg Ryan shiver through a sham orgasm in "When Harry Met Sally… ."
The bright stars of "The Patron Saint of Sea Monsters" are Candy Buckley's pearly whites.
Shakespeare done as in Shakespeare's day " how obvious, and how revolutionary.
Michael Stahl-David dodged a skyscraper-sized monster in the movie thriller "Cloverfield." Five years later, and he's now grappling with something almost as scary " an unsteady girlfriend, B…
After 10 years and selling 26 million recordings, Il Divo has their act down pat. The operatic pop group starts a song big, ends it huge and, in between numbers, flirts with women in the aud…
One is the loneliest number.
