1,178 stories by "David Rooney"
The late artist's unique stage legacy includes a Broadway turn in 'The Elephant Man,' rock concerts famed for their blazing theatricality and the recent sui generis musical, 'Lazarus.'read m…
THR looks ahead at the productions still to come in the 2015-16 theater season, starting Jan. 14 with 'Noises Off.'
THR looks ahead at the productions still to come in the 2015-16 theater season, starting Jan. 14 with 'Noises Off.'read more
After shepherding Lincoln Center Theater's emerging artists program since its inception, Evans will now oversee one of the city's leading off-Broadway companies.read more
Pulitzer-winning playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis will pen the adaptation of the Al Pacino thriller about a botched bank holdup.read more
The show will play its final performance Feb. 14 at the Longacre Theatre, after struggling to build audiences since its November opening.read more
Disney's 'The Lion King' was once again the year's top-selling show, raking in $102.7 million, but overall box office and attendance were both down for 2015.read more
With expanding crowds regularly blocking traffic around the Richard Rodgers Theatre, producers are putting the 'Ham4Ham' lottery show on hiatus for the winter to seek safety measures.read mo…
Despite the disappointing total overall, a healthy 18 shows grossed more than $1 million apiece, with three productions crossing the $2 million threshold.read more
Director Bartlett Sher's reputation for enriching the dramatic texture of great American musicals is further cemented by this stirring revival starring Danny Burstein.read more
Charles Schumer has been the key force behind the just-unveiled tax package, rallying for the bill alongside Broadway performers Neil Patrick Harris, Bryan Cranston and Tyne Daly.read more
Fresh off Broadway blockbuster 'Hamilton,' director Thomas Kail and designer David Korins reveal plans for Fox's Jan. 31 entry into the live musical game.read more
THR's lead theater critic rounds up the standouts from Broadway and beyond in a year dominated by the dazzling achievement of 'Hamilton.'
The popular recording artist will play the expanded role of Pierre in writer-composer Dave Malloy's inventive electro-pop Tolstoy musical, which drew raves in earlier off-Broadway runs.read …
While the move uptown had seemed a risky prospect, producers on Sunday announced recoupment of their initial investment, just eight months after opening.read more
Newcomer Cynthia Erivo stars alongside Jennifer Hudson and Danielle Brooks, all three making their Broadway debuts, in director John Doyle's reappraisal of the 2005 musical based on Alice Wa…
The 'Skyfall' and 'Spectre' director cites scheduling difficulties with upcoming film projects but will remain on board as a producer through his Neal Street banner.read more
In the first production outside New York for the instant Broadway phenomenon, Lin-Manuel Miranda's blockbuster will open in the Windy City in Sept. 2016.read more
David Bowie teams with Irish playwright Enda Walsh and Belgian avant-garde director Ivo van Hove on this unconventional music-theater project starring Michael C. Hall.read more
Fresh from the the show's Broadway opening night, plans have been announced to launch the musical adaptation of the 2003 Jack Black film with additional productions in London and on a U.S. t…
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Julian Fellowes team up to retool the popular Jack Black movie as a stage musical, enlisting a troupe of gifted preteens.read more
Al Pacino stars as a one-percenter whose plan to avoid paying sales tax on his new $60 million private plane backfires in David Mamet's latest play.read more
"I only heard a couple of hours ago," said Ronan, speaking by phone from Dublin. "I was in the car on the way home and I almost actually crashed into a bus."read more
The new play from the writer-director of 'Bachelorette' and 'Sleeping With Other People' will be produced off-Broadway next summer by Second Stage Theatre.read more
They join previously announced lead Zachary Quinto in Noah Haidle's play, to be directed by Anne Kauffman for off-Broadway's MCC Theater.read more
