1,755 stories by "Joe Dziemianowicz"
1. "One Man, Two Guvnors" (Music Box Theatre) James Corden and company are living laughing gas.
Leapin' Lilla!
Actress Lilla Crawford has jumped into the title role of the fall 2012 revival of "Annie," producers announced on April 27.
Jeez, even the climactic thunderstorm is a letdown in "Leap of Faith." You can see the water jets " where's the fun in that?
Sorry if that's a spoiler, but nothing happens in this f…
Hidden identities, Freudian slips and splatting pratfalls are on the all-you-can-eat menu of the silly 1960s-style sex farce "Don't Dress for Dinner."
In foodie terms, this modestly…
"The Columnist" seemed to have everything going for it.
Swirling with bootleggers and bathtub gin, the Prohibition-era musical comedy cocktail "Nice Work If You Can Get It" is a light-hearted romp, but unfortunately, it's not as intoxicating as y…
During "Ghost the Musical" last Thursday, one of the enormous sliding LED panels used to create scenic and special effects slipped off its track and crashed, leading to a 20-minute delay.
Death looms large in Nicky Silver's Broadway play, "The Lyons," a caustic and canny comedy about family dysfunction packed with surprises that are alternately hilarious, tragic and absurd.
Free theater in New York City is almost as abundant as mosquitoes come warm weather.
This season that includes a new take on a Shakespeare tragedy about a dour Dane that could be c…
Black actors playing Blanche DuBois and
Stanley Kowalski
make "A Streetcar Named Desire" at the Broadhurst Theatre automatically stand out.
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"Clybourne Park"
(Walter Kerr Theatre)
. A zinging, stinging play…
Michael Esper is on a roll. In the span of two weeks in March the homegrown actor wrapped the Off-Broadway play "Assistance," shot an NBC pilot for a medical drama called "Do No Harm" and go…
Jake Gyllenhaal will make his American stage debut this summer Off-Broadway in "If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet," the Roundabout Theatre Company announced on Thursday.
Can we keep James Corden in New York for good? The young British actor headlining the London import "One Man, Two Guvnors" at the Music Box is so mad talented, adorable and hilarious that yo…
What's in a name? When one of them is Meryl Streep and the other is Kevin Kline it's the summer's hottest ticket. Priciest, too " $1,500 a pop and up.
A kidnapped billionairess and her bisexual husband. Three gay centurions. A mystery woman who keeps her dimwitted son on a leash. And a blazing fire on the beach. They're all part of the cra…
Quiara Alegria Hudes's play "Water by the Spoonful" has won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for drama.
Beaming with dizzy humor and delightful stage magic, Broadway's "Peter and the Starcatcher" is a big dipperful of fun. The "Peter Pan" precursor seen downtown a year ago is based on the 2004…
Barbara Corcoran is a badass businesswoman who's at home in a "Shark Tank."
But that doesn't make it okay to suggest that bosses at her former real-estate company that still bears …
Dueling monologues don't usually add up to my favorite kind of play. But David Harrower's vividly detailed and deeply affecting drama of estranged siblings, "A Slow Air," has made me change …
Messy stuff, morality. And José Rivera's untidy allegory of life and death, "Massacre (Sing to Your Children)," comes awash in blood, bile, tears, other body fluids, blinding lights and bla…
The hoops-themed Broadway bio "Magic/Bird" doesn't technically foul out, but it's not exactly a winner either.
Ironically, Eric Simonson's by-the-numbers and stiffly acted account of the on…
Long on gams and short on stage chops, Christie Brinkley is a Roxie without much moxie in the Broadway hit "Chicago."
The Uptown Girl avoids embarrassing herself in the long-running…
Politics and the oldest profession are on tap at the Public Theater.
Leading off the 2012-13 season announced on April 9 is "Wild With Happy," a comedy written by and starring Colm…
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"Evita"
(Marquis Theatre)
Watch it fly to giddy heights during t…
