1,755 stories by "Joe Dziemianowicz"
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"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
(Booth Theatre)
The acclaimed …
Mysteries dangle like baited fishhooks right from the get-go in the spotty "Red Dog Howls."
As the drama begins Michael, a writer, gazes into the audience and gravely declares: "Th…
One Broadway show and a song from it can change a little girl's life. It happened. She grew up to be "Sex and the City" star Sarah Jessica Parker.
1. "L'Elisir d'Amore" (Metropolitan Opera) Anna Netrebko stars in Donizetti's romantic romp and gets the Met season off to a gala start.
"If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet" is a small ensemble play getting a big profile boost from Jake Gyllenhaal.
Happily, the "Brokeback Mountain" Oscar nominee shows off sturdy sta…
Emerging playwright Ethan Lipton has made a name with off-kilter works about sad-sack everymen.
He's in his comfort zone with "Red-Handed Otter," a peculiar and amusing comedy about…
Scarlett Johansson is sharpening her claws " and Southern accent " for Broadway. The Hollywood A-lister will play the sex-starved Maggie in Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."
After 17 years of living in Wilmington, N.C., Linda Lavin's moved back to New York.
On Monday at snazzy subterranean 54 Below, she celeb…
The title of Lisa D'Amour's briskly funny but blurry dark comedy "Detroit" could be misleading.
The play, a 2011 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, doesn't take place in the Motor Cit…
Filming starts next week on "August: Osage County." The venomous Violet Weston will spew anew. Remember her? Violet is the malignant pill-popping mother in Tracy Letts' sensational 2007 Puli…
1. "Cyrano de Bergerac" (American Airlines Theatre) A romance that speaks to anyone who's loved from afar.
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"All for One Theater Festival"
Through Sept. 30, Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce St.
On tap at this fest whose mission is "to present the next generation …
Justice is always a timely topic.
On Saturday, a decade after its debut downtown run, "The Exonerated" returns to share the often harrowing true-life experiences of Death Row inmates w…
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"Fly Me to the Moon"
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"Mary Broome"
In the musical "Chaplin," sets and costumes come in black and white. Unfortunately, so does the storytelling in this cut-and-dried bio about the complicated silent-film legend Charlie Chapli…
Easy to admire for its sensitivity, but hard to recommend for its sluggish repetitiveness, Athol Fugard's "The Train Driver" brings Signature's season of the South African playwright to a ya…
1. Broadway on Broadway
The free song-filled peek in Times Square at the upcoming season is today at 11:30 a.m.
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If you ever worry about the musical-theater talent pool drying up, PBS' "Broadway or Bust" will be deeply " and tunefully " reassuring.
Marksmanship matters in satire. The new edition of the popular lampoon "Forbidden Broadway" hits one bull's-eye after another.
Back after a three-year hiatus, the show is rightly su…
The hit Broadway production of "War Horse" will end its run at Lincoln Center on Jan. 6. The 2011 Best Play Tony winner, an import from the National Theatre in London, follows an English far…
Cue the cutup sweatshirts, leg warmers and welder sparks.
"Flashdance " The Musical" is coming to Broadway.
Producers announced Tuesday that a revised stage adaptation of t…
Famous for vintage songs, Michael Feinstein is always on to something new.
On Tuesday, with his friend Marilyn Maye, the 80-something singing powerhouse, he opens the last fall season of Fe…
There's no waiting on tables or taking a break for Corey Cott. The 22-year-old actor from Ohio, who graduated from college in May, is already starring on Broadway in the hit Disney musical "…
Move over, Branson and Lady Sybil. A century before hanky-panky between the hunky politically-minded chauffeur and his beautiful upper-class love heated up "Downton Abbey," English playwrigh…
Sure signs that the new Broadway season is around the corner: Theater marquees sprouting up for fall premieres. A poster that works makes you look, and, even briefly, pause. The artwork for …
