1,178 stories by "David Rooney"
With a lineup that featured The Who, Annie Lennox, The Spice Girls, Madness, The Pet Shop Boys, George Michael, Liam Gallagher and Fatboy Slim, the London Olympics signoff ceremony was a Bri…
The pinnacle of the composer's work across film, theater, television and recorded music is inarguably the milestone 1975 backstage musical about auditioning Broadway dancers.read more
The 1957 musical "New Girl in Town," an adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's "Anna Christie," is revived at Irish Repertory Theater.
Kenneth Branagh, J.K. Rowling, Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean, David Beckham, Paul McCartney, Daniel Craig and Queen Elizabeth II were among the eclectic featured cast of director Danny Boyle's …
While "3C" playwright David Adjmi backed down to pressure from legal reps of the vintage 1970s sitcom, a prominent group of playwrights, directors, theater company chiefs and actors is defen…
Andrew Ondrejcak's "Feast" is a modern take on the fall of Babylon, with contemporary urban speak and twisty wordplay.
Berry Gordy is using YouTube to find a performer to play the multiple roles of the pre-teen Jackson, Stevie Wonder and the music mogul himself.
The 1991 Warner Bros. feature directed by Nancy Savoca and starring River Phoenix and Lili Taylor has been adapted into a touching Off Broadway musical by up-and-coming composing team Benj P…
The actress will star opposite Finn Wittrock in David Cromer's production of the Tennessee Williams play at Chicago's Goodman Theatre, starting Sept. 15.read more
The veteran theater, opera and ballet designer was renowned for his witty and elegant work on period musicals, earning Tonys for "Kiss Me, Kate" and "Thoroughly Modern Millie."read more
Scotland's own Alan Cumming takes on the country's most famous dramatic character in a radical one-man rethink of the Shakespeare classic, presented in New York as part of Lincoln Center Fes…
The actors join the cast of Christopher Durang's new play, premiering Off Broadway in the fall in a Lincoln Center Theater production.
Producer and former HBO Films president Colin Callender confirms his ongoing commitment to bringing the late writer's bioplay about Mike McAlary to the stage.read more
THR's David Rooney analyzes the legacy of the writer-director's screen work, which often traded successfully in old-fashioned romance.read more
The "30 Rock" star will be back on the Great White Way next spring in director Daniel Sullivan's production of the 1983 Lyle Kessler play.read more
A bio-show based on the life of the legendary music mogul, the production will feature hits from Diana Ross and the Supremes, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and Michael Jackson, among others.
Jim Henry's play "7th Monarch" involves an academically brilliant, socially challenged young woman with parent issues.
The singer-actor will make his Broadway debut in the long-running Kander and Ebb revival, now in its 16th year.read more
The co-composer and lyricist of hit shows "The Pajama Game" and "Damn Yankees" also staged and produced the legendary Kennedy celebration at which Marilyn Monroe sang "Happy Birthday, Mr. Pr…
Lily Rabe, David Furr, Andre Braugher, Oliver Platt, Renee Elise Goldsberry and Stephen Spinella star in the summer's Shakespeare in the Park opener, relocated to the American South in 1840 …
In the first of two major roles he is scheduled to tackle on the Great White Way this season, the "Nurse Jackie" star will appear opposite the previously announced Pacino in David Mamet's cu…
Abi Morgan's "Tiny Dynamite" is bruising and intense, blending humor with melancholy.
The five-time Tony Award winner will direct and choreograph the Broadway musical adaptation of Allen's 1994 crime comedy about an aspiring playwright mingling with the Mob.read more
He's nothing like Jimmy Stewart ... and that's a good thing for the "Big Bang Theory" star, who brings quirky charm to the Broadway revival of the 1944 comedy about a man and his invisible, …
The actress will star opposite Patti LuPone in the playwright's new work about passion, deception, religion and revolution, one of a handful of additions to the new theater season announced …
