1,178 stories by "David Rooney"
Following successful tryout runs, Disney Theatrical Productions will add the two new shows to its Broadway roster this season.
David Rooney The director and star of "American Beauty" team up for the Shakespeare play, the closing entry in the ambitious international classical theater undertaking, The Bridge Project.r…
David Rooney Rosemary Harris, Carla Gugino and Jim Dale star in the first Broadway production of Athol Fugard's 1984 play, which kicks off the South African dramatist's 80th birthday celebra…
Despite dynamic subject matter, prime archive material and insightful interviewees including Liza Minnelli, Whitney Sudler-Smith's intrusive presence onscreen somewhat trivializes his tribut…
Following "Bonnie & Clyde" and "Lysistrata Jones" as the third of the season's new musical productions to close swiftly, the departing show creates a vacancy for "Leap of Faith."
David Rooney Audra McDonald, Norm Lewis and David Alan Grier head a superlative ensemble in this streamlined reinterpretation for Broadway of the 1935 Gershwin folk opera.read more
The U2 members crow about the history-making single-week performance of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," which grossed a staggering $2.9 million last week.
Nominated for a Golden Globe for her role in "The Help" and an Independent Spirit Award for "Take Shelter," the Juilliard-trained actress will star in a major revival of the Henry James adap…
Nominated for a Golden Globe for her role in "The Help" and an Independent Spirit Award for "Take Shelter," the Juilliard-trained actress will star in a major revival of the Henry James adap…
Nominated for a Golden Globe for her role in "The Help" and an Independent Spirit Award for "Take Shelter," the Juilliard-trained actress will star in a Broadway revival of the Henry James…
The superhero musical grossed more than $2.9 million in a busy holiday session, placing it ahead of perennial top-earners "Wicked" and "The Lion King."
In a world where drag has gone mainstream, Lady Bunny brings a tonic sewer sensibility to her stand-up routine at La Escuelita Cabaret Theater.
Discerning theatergoers had plenty to chew on in 2011, even if the year's biggest news event also turned out to be its biggest critical non-event.
David Rooney David Hyde Pierce and Rosie Perez star in Molly Smith Metzler's Off Broadway premiere, which starts out promisingly but gets hijacked by a misjudged pivotal character who crushe…
The two-man play "Farm Boy" is the plot sequel to and minimalist opposite of "War Horse."
Douglas Carter Beane and Lewis Flinn's musical update on the Ancient Greek sex comedy has its bubbly charms, but it also demonstrates the challenges of transferring scrappy downtown stage su…
MOST failed auditions are quickly forgotten. Rarely does one generate a part that haunts an actor for three decades, lingering like an unresolved relationship that refuses to be eclipsed by …
Harry Connick Jr. and his castmates make magic with the melodious score, but despite an adventurous gender-switch, the problematic 1965 musical remains as over-complicated as ever in this ra…
Harry Connick Jr. and his castmates make magic with the melodious score, but despite an adventurous gender-switch, the problematic 1965 musical remains as over-complicated as ever in this ra…
"James X" is written and performed by Gerard Mannix Flynn and based partly on his experiences as a victim of childhood sexual abuse.
David Rooney Dulé Hill, Mekhi Phifer and Tracie Thoms star in Kenny Leon's production, which comes up short as both comedy and dysfunctional family drama but features a breakout performance…
Los Angeles, prepare to be converted. The Tony-winning Broadway musical smash will make its West Coast debut at the Pantages Theatre next fall.
In only half the time of other productions participating in the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS fund drive, "Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway" tops "How to Succeed in Business Without Really…
David Rooney Adapted for the stage from the 2007 feature film with Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, the production makes intelligent decisions at every step.read more
David Rooney The unbridled misanthropy found in the filmmaker's new trilogy of one-act plays is like an acid enema.read more
