1,178 stories by "David Rooney"
Simon Stephens, represented on Broadway with "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," reopens the wounds of high school in this impressive earlier workread more
Hugh Jackman brings his bona fide Broadway marquee muscle to Jez Butterworth's mystical chamber piece on the elusiveness of loveread more
The five-time Emmy winner will return to Broadway in spring in the Harvey Weinstein-produced musicalread more
Oscar nominee John Hawkes makes his New York stage debut, starring opposite Tracie Thoms in David Auburn's intimate two-handerread more
Hugh Jackman, Glenn Close and Nathan Lane are also among stars pushing plays to rival musical grosses this fallread more
The "Glee" star will play the lead role of "Peter Pan" author J.M. Barrie in the long-gestating musical produced by Harvey Weinstein and adapted from the 2004 Miramax movieread more
Brian Stokes Mitchell and Laura Osnes lead this stage remake of the 1953 MGM classic, with Tracey Ullman and Michael McKean channeling Betty Comden and Adolph Greenread more
Bill Pullman, Holly Hunter and Ben Schnetzer star in David Rabe's 1971 play about the toxic effect on an American sitcom family of their son's return from Vietnamread more
The actor will join the ensemble of the hit Terrence McNally comedy in an extension of the limited engagement, replacing Nathan Lane, who leaves to honor a prior commitmentread more
The five-time Tony Award nominee will take on the iconic role of Tevye in a fall 2015 revival of the popular 1964 musical, to be directed by Bartlett Sherread more
The Motown supergroups will play a special one-week double-bill engagement at the Palace Theatre in Times Square this holiday seasonread more
Australian theater director Benedict Andrews will make his screen debut on the adaptation of David Harrower's acclaimed play, scheduled to shoot in the U.K. next summerread more
An American mother learns that her three-year-old son may be the reincarnation of a Tibetan high lama in Sarah Ruhl's new playread more
The Tony-winning musical revival will close Jan. 4 at the Music Box Theatre after a run of just under two yearsread more
The actor follows his acclaimed work in 'Macbeth' with a return to the same theater in a role made famous by Peter O'Toole in the 1972 screen versionread more
Ewan McGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal make their Broadway debuts in this revival of Tom Stoppard's 1982 exploration of love, marriage and infidelityread more
Tyne Daly and Harriet Harris will star as warring mothers in the new musical comedy about wedding-day insanityread more
Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Suzan-Lori Parks revisits the American Civil War in this stunning Homeric trilogy, which begins a sprawling nine-part historical cycleread more
Sting returns to his childhood home in its dying days as a shipbuilding port in this allegorical musical about hope and redemptionread more
Islamophobia rears its head in Ayad Akhtar's provocative 2013 Pulitzer Prize winner, which comes to Broadway with a cast that includes Gretchen Mol and Josh Radnorread more
The producing team behind Oscar winner "Chicago" and NBC's "The Sound of Music Live!" have signed a three-year development deal with the theater powerhouseread more
The new stage adaptation of Emile Zola's classic 1867 novel will open Roundabout Theatre Company's 50th anniversary season next fallread more
The Weinstein Co. chief and a team of New York theater creatives will overhaul the Radio City Music Hall "Spring Spectacular" after this year's aborted launchread more
The "Orphan Black" star will appear opposite Thomas Sadoski in the world premiere of Neil LaBute's two-hander about love and lustread more
Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, the team behind Pulitzer Prize winner "Next to Normal," will adapt writer-director Tom McCarthy's 2007 film, which starred Richard Jenkinsread more
