1,178 stories by "David Rooney"
Five-time Tony winner Audra McDonald portrays an emotionally volatile Billie Holiday toward the end of her life in Lanie Robertson's bio-play fashioned around a nightclub appearance.read more
Zach Braff stars as a playwright who learns that success comes with compromises in Woody Allen's musicalization of his screen comedy, directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman.read more
The actor will join Richard Thomas as Iago and Kristen Connolly as Desdemona in San Diego this summer in the Old Globe staging of William Shakespeare's classic tragedy.read more
The "Arrested Development" star will appear opposite Kieran Culkin and fashion blogger Tavi Gevinson in a revival of Kenneth Lonergan's 1996 play, produced by Scott Rudin.read more
The long-overdue career honor recognizes an artist who has designed for more than 125 Broadway productions covering a half-century, in addition to working in opera, dance, film and televisio…
The star of "Frances Ha" and CBS' upcoming sitcom spinoff, "How I Met Your Dad," steps into the Off Broadway production following Maggie Gyllenhaal's exit.read more
The Off Broadway premiere of Sarah Treem's play will also feature Cherise Boothe, Patch Darragh and Morgan Saylor, alongside previously announced lead Cherry Jones.read more
Best known for the award-winning 1998 feature, "Slam," which he co-wrote and starred in, Williams heads a cast of Broadway regulars and newcomers in the non-biographical show inspired by Tup…
Toni Collette, Michael C. Hall, Tracy Letts and Marisa Tomei reach for connections both human and cosmic in Will Eno's existential sitcom about mortality.read more
The "Parks and Recreation" star will play New Orleans pariah Ignatius J. Reilly in an industry-only workshop reading of Jeffrey Hatcher's stage adaptation, which is aiming for Broadway.read …
After previously stating that she found the prospect of seeing her life and marriage replayed in the Broadway bio-musical too painful, the singer-songwriter surprised the tearful cast by joi…
Denzel Washington stars with Sophie Okonedo, Anika Noni Rose and LaTanya Richardson Jackson in this deluxe Broadway revival of the landmark drama about a black Chicago family.read more
The ex-Talking Heads frontman's Imelda Marcos musical dominates this year's Off Broadway honors alongside "Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812," with eleven nods apiece.read more
The "Breaking Bad" star will headline opposite Tony Award nominee Billy Magnussen in the Second Stage production of Laura Eason's drama, directed by David Schwimmer.read more
The longtime Broadway supporter will be presented with the Isabelle Stevenson Award in recognition of her commitment to arts education and her work through her Rosie's Theater Kids initiativ…
The era-defining black comedy, in which Winona Ryder and Christian Slater took down a totalitarian high school clique, gets bubblegum song-and-dance treatment Off Broadway.read more
Idina Menzel, the breakout voice star of Disney's "Frozen" juggernaut, returns to Broadway for the first time in 10 years in this new musical from the creators of "Next to Normal."read more
Contenders for Broadway's top honors will be broadcast live on April 29 from New York's Paramount Hotel at 8:30 a.m. EST on TonyAwards.com and "CBS This Morning."read more
Tyne Daly, Frederick Weller and Bobby Steggert star in Terrence McNally's new play, which returns to characters first encountered in his 1988 one-act, "Andre's Mother."read more
The veteran actor, who died Friday at 65, had a stage career spanning more than three decades, including seven Broadway productions.read more
The 1980s blockbuster returns to Broadway in a cinematically propulsive staging that stars Ramin Karimloo as prisoner 24601, Jean Valjean, and Will Swenson as his adversary, Javert.read more
The actors will star in a production at Williamstown Theatre Festival this summer of Sam Shepard's 1983 play about two combative ex-lovers duking it out in a Mojave Desert motel.read more
Disney's latest animated movie musical to get a Broadway makeover is the 1992 fairy tale set in a fictional Middle Eastern kingdom, featuring songs by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman.read more
The Grammy-winning recording artist will reprise her guest headliner spot, coinciding with the period in which many Tony voters will be checking out the Jazz Age Broadway revue.read more
The Shaw revival will be part of Nicholas Hytner's farewell season at the helm of Britain's National Theatre, alongside Cillian Murphy in Enda Walsh's "Ballyturk" and new plays from David Ha…
