1,178 stories by "David Rooney"
Watching the boy wizard sing and dance might be novelty enough for his fans, but his star vehicle could use a stronger shot of magic.
David Rooney While he doesn't quite pop as a musical-theater performer, the "Harry Potter" star does a capable job of singing and dancing in the revival, which also stars John Larroquette, R…
The first Broadway musical from the "South Park" team will have the comedy faithful flocking.
John Leguizamo's strengths as a performer are still on ample display, but in his fifth solo show, he's treading water.
Priscilla Queen of the Desert: Theater Review
The play widely considered Tom Stoppard's finest deserves a more transporting Broadway revival.
The Godlight Theater Company turns Clifford Chase's novel about a teddy bear accused of terrorism into a stage play.
"Spy Garbo," a historical rumination by the playwright Sheila Schwartz, has been given an innovative staging at the 3LD Art & Technology Center.
In "Mimic," at the Irish Arts Center, Raymond Scannell's tragic tale about a life gone off the rails is punctuated by bursts of melody, sound effects and impersonations.
"The Argument," a loosely structured multimedia play in which the audience is led around a single space, evokes the disaster of Hurricane Katrina.
In David Hay's play "A Perfect Future," a racial slur sets off a social conflagration at a dinner of supposedly civilized people.
"Small Craft Warnings," a late, problematic Tennessee Williams play revived by Mother of Invention, is a barroom dirge set on the Southern California coast.
Melissa Ross's "Thinner Than Water" is an engaging play about the corrosive bond of family.
Lynn Rosen's comedy "Apple Cove" is many things, just not as funny or clever as it should be.
In "My Scandalous Life," Lord Alfred Douglas, Oscar Wilde's lover, takes center stage.
For the Tony Award-winning actress, Sunday is a day to sleep in, read scripts and enjoy the pace of a slowed-down city.
In "The Annihilation Point," audience members are tagged with a Reproduction Candidate number and led into a time-travel transit station.
A "soul sonic superstar" diva, part motivational speaker, takes the stage at Soho Rep, punctuating jazz-inflected grooves with strutting dance breaks and regal poses.
I have been showered with unexpected attention during more than one show because of the gleaming beacon of my fur-free head.
I have been showered with unexpected attention during more than one show because of the gleaming beacon of my fur-free head.
"Dollface," a new musical set in the 1950s, brings humor straight from the Borscht Belt to the Lower East Side.
"Baby Universe: A Puppet Odyssey" is a funny and poignant eco-fable.
Jackie Hoffman caustically comments on her life so far (up to 50) and her theater career in "Jackie Five-Oh!," at Joe's Pub.
Lily Rabe has come into her own playing Portia in "The Merchant of Venice" at an emotionally turbulent time: her mother, Jill Clayburgh, died last month.
An adaptation of Kafka's "Metamorphosis" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music has been conceived with visual imagination and startling physical power.
