1,755 stories by "Joe Dziemianowicz"
The intense immersive work "Roadkill" begins with a brief joy-ride launching from St. Ann's Warehouse in DUMBO.
Pop music teaches that two out of three ain't bad.
The makers of the ambitious but patchy musical "Venice" have glimpsed the future.
Greg, an ordinary guy at the heart of "Reasons to Be Happy," grapples with commitment. It's easy for ordinary theatergoers to be similarly wishy-washy about Neil LaBute's new play.
A hard-boiled New York columnist. A fierce British cross-dresser. A sexy whip-cracking ringmistress. And a wily and determined homesick mom. That's just a sample of the colorful characters o…
Hugh Jackman has two in his home office. Liza Minnelli keeps four on the shelf beside her parents' prizes. Linda Lavin has one " but she never took it out of the box after she moved.
Erica Lipez's impressive but uneven Second Stage Uptown debut, "The Tutors," is a play made for the Facebook era.
Goodbye, girl next door.
With the drop of an f-bomb five seconds into the Off-Broadway play "Reasons to Be Happy," Jenna Fischer sheds the wholesome America's-sweetheart image she c…
The search for presenters of the Tony Awards on June 9 has become a real star trek. Zachary Quinto, who plays Mr. Spock in the current hit, "Star Trek Into Darkness," has been tapped to hand…
Except for the title that you figure must be ironic (and it is), the Off-Broadway dramedy "Good Television" deftly ducks expectations.
The element of surprise is an automatic plus.…
The beautifully performed but problematic musical "Far From Heaven" starts with falling autumn leaves " a telltale sign of change and chill that fits this Eisenhower-era story.
This version of Bertolt Brecht's typically dry work brings a little lump in the throat, thanks to Elizabeth A. Davis' performance.
You don't need a massive stage or cast to tell a sprawling story in the theater " not if you've got some ingenuity and nimble actors.
Even if he doesn't win a Tony, "Lucky Guy" nominee Tom Hanks will get his hands on Broadway's coveted award Hanks, who's up for Best Actor for playing Daily News Pulitzer Prize winner Mike M…
Forget about fairies, creepy knocks at the door and paranormal sightings. It's regrets, missed chances and life's hard losses that are truly haunting.
Following a funeral mass where a priest goes rogue and reads his flock the riot act " "I stare into your faces and it disgusts me" " a man concludes: "It was a nice service."
Like the show's cheating upper West Side married mom, who can't resist her lower East Side ex, the musical "Murder Ballad" has been drawn downtown.
Laura Benanti knows the art of tease. That's obvious from her easygoing show at 54 Below, "In Constant Search of the Right Kind of Attention," running through Saturday.
I know the words to "The Way We Were" the way they are. Finally. It only took 40 years to get them right. The well overdue wakeup call, which struck me like a bolt last month, came courtesy …
Rousing music and ravishing performances, rubbernecking and unremarkable chicken. That's what's on the menu at rock-pop operetta "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812."
This return engagement looks mahvelous! Billy Crystal won a 2005 Tony for his solo play "700 Sundays," then went on to tour the show across the U.S. and beyond.
Playing the infamous Imelda Marcos in the disco musical "Here Lies Love," actress Ruthie Ann Miles boogies and boozes and lives life in the fab lane.
Picture this: Bunty Berman, the head of a C-list movie studio in 1950s Bombay, finds his empire at the edge of collapse following the release of his latest cinematic stink bomb. So he makes …
Minutes into the darkly humorous play, "A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney," it's clear that for the famous man who made Mickey Mouse, movies and the…
Old show. New discovery. Musical theater rookie Irina Dvorovenko provides the real high " and the high kicks " in a surefooted Encores! revival of "On Your Toes," through Sunday at New York …
