1,755 stories by "Joe Dziemianowicz"
No name. No dialogue. No clothes.
So it goes in "Untitled Feminist Show," the new offering from playwright and director Young Jean Lee, who is synonymous with downtown daring.
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We need to talk about Kevin. Spacey, that is. Specifically, the two-time Oscar winner's ripsnorting star turn in "Richard III," now at Brooklyn Academy of Music through March 1.
Yankee Stadium is getting a huge new wall this summer, but A-Rod and other sluggers don't have to worry about hitting homers over it.
On July 6, Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters is …
Pow! Thwack! Bam! The behind-the-scenes battle at "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" has turned nastier than an irritated Green Goblin. Producers of the $75 million comic-book musical filed a c…
Traveling "The Road to Mecca" can be a trying trip.
The 1988 play by South African writer Athol Fugard is wordy and circuitous and waves metaphors around like emergency flares.
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New York City Opera has made music for 68 years, introducing to avid audiences Brooklyn's own Beverly Sills and many other stars along the way.
Now the only sound coming from compan…
From her Tony-nominated turns in "Les Miserables," "Chess" and "She Loves Me" to the film cartoon "Pocahontas," Judy Kuhn is known for her clear, crisp singing and for connecting deeply with…
The highly anticipated Broadway revival of the 1965 musical "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever," starring Harry Connick, Jr., will end its run at the St. James Theatre on Jan. 29.
Seventy-six years after its New York premiere, the great American opera "Porgy and Bess" by George and Ira Gershwin and Dubose and Dorothy Heyward has returned to Broadway in a CliffsNotes e…
1. "The Book of Mormon" Yep, the "South Park" guys' musical lives up to the hype. Prepare to laugh, cry, flinch, blanch and, finally, want more. Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
How to say "deja vu" in Mandarin? Who knows.
But watching Zayd Dohrn's thoughtful but underdone play "Outside People" downtown, you're apt to feel it if you've seen David Henry Hwa…
"Tell them we are busy." That's what two-time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey snarled when a theatergoer's cell phone went off during a performance of "Richard III" in Sydney. No matter that he br…
Lucie Arnaz chased away Old Man Winter Thursday night at Feinstein's at the packed premiere of her joyfully warm and superbly sung "Latin Roots."
"Billy Elliot," Broadway's 2009 Best Musical Tony Award winner, dances its last leaps and pirouettes on Sunday.
The movie-turned-musical about an English miner's son born for balle…
Jane Lynch starring in "Mame"?
No, it hasn't been announced.
And for all I know it's never even crossed anyone else's mind that the Emmy-winning actress now known as "Glee'…
How hot is Darren Criss?
Hot enough to freeze for " or at least shiver for. And for 10 hours.
Criss, a "Glee" breakout, makes his Broadway debut tonight in "How To Succeed…
Think globally, watch locally " supertitles included.
In January, that's the name of the game Off-Broadway thanks to a number of international theater samplers.
In April, when I first spoke to middle school theater teacher Evan Behlivanis, he was putting finishing touches on his production of "Guys and Dolls" at IS 119, in Glendale, Queens. "It was …
Where to find the best theater in New York? In 2011, the answers came from on and Off-Broadway, and even the Park Avenue Armory. That's where the Royal Shakespeare Company set up shop and ca…
"Close Up Space" is the story of an editor and, brother, this unamusing absurdist comedy could have used one.
Maybe two. Not even the deep charms of David Hyde Pierce, who stars as …
CATCHING UP WITH BROOKLYN'S BEST
Last spring, Lynn Nottage's smart and insightful comedy about racial identity "By the Way, Meet Vera Stark" got critical kisses Off-Broadway at Seco…
"What'd I miss?" That line from "Seminar," the new Broadway comedy about wannabe writers and their ego-bruising teacher gets big laughs when the dim Douglas (Jerry O'Connell) asks it.
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"Lysistrata Jones" is a little musical with big energy that slam-dunks a mythic saga into a current-day college basketball setting.
Led by the titular take-charge cheerleader, pluck…
Harry Connick Jr. is the biggest star of Broadway's new production of 'On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.'
He's also the biggest problem.
The popular crooner and 'Pajama…
How far would you go to change a life that has become desensitized and traumatized?
How about back to 1955 " or, more accurately, a faithfully detailed facsimile?
