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Monday, September 22, 2014

Disney's 'The Lion King' Becomes History's Top-Grossing Entertainment Title by David Rooney

The Julie Taymor-directed production has earned $6.2 billion in worldwide box office to dateread more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:03AM
Thursday, September 18, 2014

'Love Letters': Theater Review by David Rooney

Brian Dennehy and Mia Farrow are up first in A.R. Gurney's intimate two-hander, with Carol Burnett, Alan Alda, Candice Bergen, Anjelica Huston and Martin Sheen to followread more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM
Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Angela Lansbury Hits the Road in ‘Blithe Spirit’ by David Rooney

The actress won her fifth Tony Award for the classic Noel Coward comedyread more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:18PM
Monday, September 15, 2014

Carole King Bio-Musical 'Beautiful' Becomes an Official Broadway Hit by David Rooney

Bucking the trend of a season in which one major show after another closed at a loss, the musical has recouped its $13 million capitalization in ten monthsread more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:24AM
Monday, September 8, 2014

'A Midsummer Night's Dream': Toronto Review by David Rooney

Julie Taymor's lauded recent New York production of William Shakespeare's joyous comedy of love and enchantment is given deluxe filmed treatmentread more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:25PM
Sunday, September 7, 2014

'The Last 5 Years': Toronto Review by David Rooney

Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan fall in and out of love in Richard LaGravanese's screen version of the stage musicalread more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:00PM

'Miss Julie': Toronto Review by David Rooney

Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell and Samantha Morton star in Liv Ullmann's film of the classic Strindberg drama, relocated to Irelandread more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:24PM
Wednesday, September 3, 2014

'Cymbeline': Venice Review by David Rooney

Penn Badgley and upcoming 'Fifty Shades of Grey' star Dakota Johnson play Shakespeare's lovers torn apart by unfolding violence in this modern-day retellingread more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:51AM
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

It's Official: Emma Stone Comes to the 'Cabaret' by David Rooney

The actress will make her Broadway debut as Sally Bowles, starring opposite Alan Cumming in the hit revival of the classic Kander & Ebb musicalread more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:00PM
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Peter Dinklage and Taylor Schilling to Spend 'A Month in the Country' by David Rooney

The Emmy-nominated stars of 'Game of Thrones' and 'Orange is the New Black' will team in an Off-Broadway staging of the Ivan Turgenev playread more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:22PM
Monday, August 18, 2014

Elizabeth Reaser Steps Into Neil LaBute's 'The Money Shot' by David Rooney

The actress replaces previously announced star Heather Graham in the Off-Broadway play, appearing opposite Frederick Wellerread more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:31PM
Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Bill Condon to Make Broadway Directorial Debut With 'Side Show' by David Rooney

The Oscar-winning screenwriter will stage his reimagined production of the 1997 cult musical about a pair of conjoined twins on the vaudeville circuit of the 1920s and '30s.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:59PM

Helen Mirren to Return to Broadway in 'The Audience' by David Rooney

The Oscar-winning actress will reprise her role of Queen Elizabeth II in Stephen Daldry's production of the history-spanning Peter Morgan play.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:00PM
Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Review: 'Calvary' is exquisitely nuanced by David Rooney

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- John Michael McDonagh's 2011 debut, "The Guard," provided the wonderful Brendan Gleeson with a vehicle for some of his best screen work, playing an Irish West Country…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:42PM
Thursday, July 17, 2014

Elaine Stritch: An Appreciation by David Rooney

THR's lead theater critic pays personal tribute to the legendary Broadway performer, whose exacting professional standards were as renowned as her tart tongue and eccentric style.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:09PM
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

'Hedwig,' Starring Neil Patrick Harris, Joins the Broadway Profit Circle by David Rooney

Following stellar reviews and sell-out business, the Tony-winning revival of the cult musical by John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask has recouped its $5 million investment.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:12PM

'Rocky' Gets Knocked Out on Broadway by David Rooney

After struggling to attract audiences in sufficient numbers to sustain its high weekly running costs, the Sylvester Stallone-produced musical will close on Aug. 17.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:57PM

Joely Richardson to Star in 'The Belle of Amherst' by David Rooney

The "Nip/Tuck" and "The Tudors" actress will headline a new Off-Broadway production in the fall of William Luce's one-woman play about the life of Emily Dickinson.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:30PM
Monday, July 14, 2014

Tupac Show 'Holler If Ya Hear Me' Meets Swift Demise on Broadway by David Rooney

After opening to disastrous business and poor reviews June 19, the urban rap musical inspired by the lyrics and poetry of Tupac Shakur will close next Sunday.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:45PM
Sunday, July 13, 2014

Theater Review: ‘Atomic,’ a Musical About the Making of the Bomb by David Rooney

“Atomic,” a new Off Broadway musical at Theater Row, centers on Leo Szilard, a physicist who helped create the first atomic bomb.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM

'The Long Shrift': Theater Review by David Rooney

James Franco directs his "Child of God" star Scott Haze in Robert Boswell's drama about a young man wrongly convicted of rape, who re-encounters his accuser nine years later.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM
Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Bradley Cooper's Broadway Return in 'The Elephant Man' Delayed by David Rooney

Dates of the highly anticipated revival, which also stars Patricia Clarkson and Alessandro Nivola, have been pushed back a month due to scheduling conflicts.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:40PM
Monday, July 7, 2014

'Black Orpheus' Descending on Broadway by David Rooney

Written by Lynn Nottage and directed by George C. Wolfe, the bossa nova-beat musical is based on the Oscar-winning 1959 screen retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth set during Carnival …

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:58PM
Friday, July 4, 2014

Broadway Casting Director Barry Moss Dies at 74 by David Rooney

A veteran of film and television as well as theater, Moss worked on almost 90 Broadway shows, among them "Nine," "Torch Song Trilogy," "The Who's Tommy" and "Sophisticated Ladies," and helpe…

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:47PM
Thursday, July 3, 2014

Ellen Burstyn to Star in 'The Cherry Orchard' by David Rooney

The Oscar, Tony and Emmy winning actress will head the cast in director John Gould Rubin's free staging for The Actors Studio of the Chekhov classic.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:19PM
Monday, June 30, 2014

'The War of the Roses' Stakes Out Broadway Battleground by David Rooney

Warren Adler adapted his bestselling novel about a domestic death match, which became a hit 1989 screen comedy with Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:00PM

Kelli O'Hara, Ken Watanabe to Star on Broadway in 'The King and I' by David Rooney

Lincoln Center Theater's eagerly anticipated revival of the Rodgers & Hammerstein classic reteams Tony-winning director Bartlett Sher and his "South Pacific" leading lady.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:13PM

Broadway-Bound 'First Wives Club' Musical Sets Chicago Tryout by David Rooney

TV veteran Linda Bloodworth-Thomason will adapt the book, with a score by Motown songwriting team Holland-Dozier-Holland that features original songs and classics.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:10PM
Thursday, June 26, 2014

America Ferrera Returns to the Stage in 'Lips Together, Teeth Apart' by David Rooney

Also starring in the Off Broadway revival of Terrence McNally's acerbic 1991 comedy are Michael Chernus, Tracee Chimo and Austin Lysy.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:30PM

Lindsay Lohan to Make Stage Debut in David Mamet's 'Speed-the-Plow' by David Rooney

The London revival will see the actress and tabloid queen step into a role originally played on Broadway in 1988 by Madonna.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:50PM

Jesse Eisenberg, Holly Hunter, Bill Pullman and Dianne Wiest Book NY Stage Roles by David Rooney

The actors will appear in 20th anniversary season productions for leading Off-Broadway company the New Group, with Cynthia Nixon set to make her directing debut.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:34PM

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