Tuesday, January 17, 2012
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…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PMThursday, January 12, 2012
Despite dynamic subject matter, prime archive material and insightful interviewees including Liza Minnelli, Whitney Sudler-Smith's intrusive presence onscreen somewhat trivializes his tribut…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:22PMFollowing "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."
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:19PMDavid 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
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PMThursday, January 5, 2012
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.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:58PMNominated 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…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:27PMNominated 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…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:22PMNominated 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…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:34AMTuesday, January 3, 2012
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."
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:09PMSunday, December 25, 2011
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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:05PMFriday, December 23, 2011
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.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:11PMThursday, December 22, 2011
Critics and writers for The New York Times recall their favorite moments onstage in 2011, some of them happening in the smallest and most offbeat of places.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:25PMMonday, December 19, 2011
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…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PMThursday, December 15, 2011
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
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…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:09PMMonday, December 12, 2011
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 …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:26AMSunday, December 11, 2011
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…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:51PMFriday, December 9, 2011
“James X” is written and performed by Gerard Mannix Flynn and based partly on his experiences as a victim of childhood sexual abuse.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:21PMThursday, December 8, 2011
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…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PMWednesday, December 7, 2011
Los Angeles, prepare to be converted. The Tony-winning Broadway musical smash will make its West Coast debut at the Pantages Theatre next fall.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:52PMIn 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…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:02PMTuesday, December 6, 2011
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
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:30PMMonday, December 5, 2011
David Rooney The unbridled misanthropy found in the filmmaker's new trilogy of one-act plays is like an acid enema.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:30PMThursday, December 1, 2011
David Rooney The connection between crime and celebrity is hammered over and over again in director-choreographer Jeff Calhoun's production.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:36PMTuesday, November 29, 2011
The budget for the Trey Parker and Matt Stone-penned musical, which opened in March, is believed to be around $9 million.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:32PMWednesday, November 23, 2011
Playing both the staunch human battleship and the diminished old woman sifting through her past, Meryl Streep is riveting in "The Iron Lady," an engrossing if somewhat deferential biopic of …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:10PMMonday, November 21, 2011
You gotta love Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin. No, really, you gotta absolutely love them to be anything but underwhelmed by this lazily conceived valentine.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:47PMSunday, November 20, 2011
David Rooney Sam Gold' directs Theresa Rebeck's entertaining new Broadway comedy with a stellar five-character ensemble.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:00PMThursday, November 17, 2011
David Rooney After 25 years away from Broadway, Kim Cattrall is back playing opposite Paul Gross in the evergreen 1930 comedy by Noel Coward. read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:30PMMonday, November 14, 2011
After opening last week to the best reviews to date of the current Broadway season, Hugh Jackman has set a new house record for the second time at the Broadhurst Theatre.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:54PMThursday, November 10, 2011
Two hours of pure pleasure with someone who clearly loves being onstage.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:07PM 
