1,755 stories by "Joe Dziemianowicz"
On the surface, it's a simple story: A cocky stud muffin moseys into a tiny Kansas town to visit a buddy and whips a family of women " and anyone with XX chromosomes " into a hot, steamy lat…
The second half of Broadway's 2012-13 season, already in progress, got a whole lot more interesting last week.
On Monday, word came that the delectable Bette Midler will star as Ti…
1. "The Suit" (Brooklyn Academy of Music) Peter Brook directs this adaptation of South African writer Can Themba's tragic tale.
"Spirits of Exit Eleven." Through Feb. 2 at the Lion Theatre, 410 W. 42nd St.
Pepperoni and pasties, anyone?
In Sharr White's curvy and compelling drama, "The Other Place," Laurie Metcalf plays an addled neuroresearcher " and never leaves the stage.
That's worth noting, since the actress f…
Nothing like winning a 2012 Pulitzer to boost expectations for a play.
So it goes for Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes' "Water by the Spoonful," a sobering saga that follows a returning Iraq…
The Divine Miss M back on Broadway? You Bette!
In the spring, Midler will play famed Tinseltown agent Sue Mengers in a one-character drama by John Logan, who won a Tony for "Red," h…
1. "The Other Place" (Samuel J. Friedman Theatre) Laurie Metcalf plays a researcher coming undone.
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Tonight it's the Great Ellie White Way.
Karel Capk's 1922 Broadway drama "R.U.R," adapted by Lee Eric Shackleford, is credited with originating the word "robot."
Call it the January jones.
Folks with out-of-the-box tastes in theater have reasons to be fired up about this time of year, even if they're shivering.
What happens when all the wrong people meet at exactly the right time?
Intriguing question.
Midwinter theater blahs? Not in 2012 on Broadway, where the new year takes off like a shot. Three days in, "Glee" dreamboat Darren Criss piques interest when he temporarily takes over Daniel…
What had the New York Âtheater scene buzzing last year? Plenty. "Once" wowed. ÂDavid Mamet went both ways " "Glengarry Glen Ross" flew; "The Anarchist" flopped.
Sandy,…
1. "The Great God Pan" (Playwrights Horizons) A Brooklyn man confronts his past.
A neighbor caught my ear as he locked his bike to a lamppost on our block two weeks ago. He was humming while he was at it, and I recognized a melody from "Les Miserables" immediately. I sil…
Sequins, high heels and show tunes can take a toll on a guy. Ask Christopher Sieber, who criss-crossed the U.S. for over a year playing drag queen Albin opposite George Hamilton as his lover…
The Jewish immigrant experience " from arrival at Ellis Island to acculturation " comes to life in a tapestry threaded with period songs and a klezmer-inflected score.
Forty years after she broke through singing "The Morning After," the theme to the disaster flick "The Poseidon Adventure," Maureen McGovern's supple voice still has the warm and inviting glo…
Grandma Moses meets the Grim Reaper in an interesting surround-sound production of Samuel Beckett's first radio play, "All That Fall."
Amy Herzog's tightly wound and intensely emotional play, "The Great God Pan," concerns a man's reckoning with his past and his memories.
The story riffs on the common conundrum: If …
1.. "Golden Boy" (Belasco Theatre) One of the champs of the fall season.
Setting the holiday table is dramatically more involved this year at the home of Pulitzer-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire and his actress-wife, Chris.
Playing creeps in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" and "9 to 5," Marc Kudisch scored Tony nominations. But he was banished to Santa's naughty list.
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Hank, an unemployed economist adrift in "What Rhymes With America," is on a steady downward trend.
But Melissa James Gibson's offbeat and beautiful new comedy-dramedy purrs along, e…
