1,178 stories by "David Rooney"
The veteran stage, screen and television actress will make her first appearance on the Great White Way in 30 years, starring in the beloved Horton Foote play.read more
The Broadway League's annual demographics report for 2011-12 examines the strongest 52-week season in history, with more than 12.3 million admissions and total box office of close to $1.14 b…
Despite its disappointing New York run, the bio-musical based on the life and career of silent screen legend Charlie Chaplin has announced plans for a U.S. national tour.read more
The two-hander about an ex-radical angling to shorten her life sentence has its world premiere on Broadway.read more
"Chris March's The Butt-Cracker Suite!" is a campy reinvention of Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker," which Mr. March calls a "trailer park ballet."
Debuting in May, the world premiere is a companion piece to the playwright's Tony-nominated 2008 drama, "Reasons to Be Pretty."read more
Katie Holmes tackles her first leading role on Broadway, alongside Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz in this Ohio-set comedy from "Smash" creator Theresa Rebeck.read more
Soon to be seen onscreen in Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained," the actress will make her Broadway debut in the 1984 Beth Henley play.read more
Kirsten Holly Smith channels Dusty Springfield in "Forever Dusty," a biographical musical about the British pop-soul singer.
"The Outgoing Tide," starring Michael Learned and Peter Strauss, focuses on the difficult journey of decline and death.
Smartly retooled for the stage from the 1983 MGM holiday movie (a perennially popular December cable staple), this nostalgic tale set in 1940 follows a bespectacled Indiana kid's quest to ge…
Cusi Cram's "Radiance" suggests a story rich in compelling conflict. But that story is resistant to being told in theatrical form.
The untitled project from producers Fran Kirmser and Tony Ponturo follows two previous sports-themed plays, "Lombardi" and "Magic/Bird."read more
Cheyenne Jackson, Ari Graynor, Alicia Silverstone and Henry Winkler star in David West Read's Broadway comedy, which unfolds around the Adult Film Awards in Las Vegas.read more
Winner of five Tony Awards in 1986, Rupert Holmes' interactive musical elaboration on Charles Dickens' unfinished final novel returns in this Roundabout Theater Company production featuring …
David Hyde Pierce and Sigourney Weaver star in the world premiere of Christopher Durang's Chekhov-inspired comedy. read more
The Oscar-winning actress will join Zach Grenier and Noah Robbins in the new work by actor-turned-playwright Hamish Linklater.read more
Anthony LaPaglia and Kathryn Erbe star as Richard and Pat Nixon in screenwriter Douglas McGrath's play, which revisits the then-VP candidate's famous 1952 speech that forever changed the rol…
Somewhere between Kathleen Turner clubbing an "Annie" fan to death in "Serial Mom" and Jay-Z sampling "It's the Hard Knock Life," this crowdpleasing family-friendly 1977 musical became a bel…
Broadway producer Dede Harris has optioned the song catalogue of the six-time Academy Award nominee to develop a new musical.read more
The veteran stage, screen and TV actress will play a 12-week stint in the Gershwin musical "Nice Work If You Can Get It," which stars Matthew Broderick.read more
The comedian and his opening act Colin Quinn will donate all income from three upcoming New York area standup performances to the superstorm relief effort.read more
Charles Morey's spry adaptation of "The Marriage of Figaro" taps 21st-century parallels to Beaumarchais's original skewering of the rich and powerful.
The "Ugly Betty" star will play a cash-strapped woman struggling to survive in the world premiere of Laura Marks' dark comedy, produced by Women's Project Theater.read more
David Strathairn, Dan Stevens and Judith Ivey also star in the Broadway revival of this 1947 play, adapted from the Henry James novel "Washington Square."read more
