Close Up Space: Theater Review
David Rooney David Hyde Pierce and Rosie Perez star in Molly Smith Metzler's Off Broadway premiere, which starts out promisingly but gets hijacked by a misjudged pivotal character who crushe…
David Rooney David Hyde Pierce and Rosie Perez star in Molly Smith Metzler's Off Broadway premiere, which starts out promisingly but gets hijacked by a misjudged pivotal character who crushe…
Todd McCarthy The movie is based on Michael Morpugo's 1982 best-seller, which was previously adapted for the stage.read more
Douglas Carter Beane and Lewis Flinn's musical update on the Ancient Greek sex comedy has its bubbly charms, but it also demonstrates the challenges of transferring scrappy downtown stage su…
Harry Connick Jr. and his castmates make magic with the melodious score, but despite an adventurous gender-switch, the problematic 1965 musical remains as over-complicated as ever in this ra…
Harry Connick Jr. and his castmates make magic with the melodious score, but despite an adventurous gender-switch, the problematic 1965 musical remains as over-complicated as ever in this ra…
David Rooney Dulé Hill, Mekhi Phifer and Tracie Thoms star in Kenny Leon's production, which comes up short as both comedy and dysfunctional family drama but features a breakout performance…
Los Angeles, prepare to be converted. The Tony-winning Broadway musical smash will make its West Coast debut at the Pantages Theatre next fall.
In only half the time of other productions participating in the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS fund drive, "Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway" tops "How to Succeed in Business Without Really…
David Rooney Adapted for the stage from the 2007 feature film with Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, the production makes intelligent decisions at every step.read more
David Rooney The unbridled misanthropy found in the filmmaker's new trilogy of one-act plays is like an acid enema.read more
David Rooney The connection between crime and celebrity is hammered over and over again in director-choreographer Jeff Calhoun's production.read more
The budget for the Trey Parker and Matt Stone-penned musical, which opened in March, is believed to be around $9 million.
Playing both the staunch human battleship and the diminished old woman sifting through her past, Meryl Streep is riveting in "The Iron Lady," an engrossing if somewhat deferential biopic of …
You gotta love Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin. No, really, you gotta absolutely love them to be anything but underwhelmed by this lazily conceived valentine.
David Rooney Sam Gold' directs Theresa Rebeck's entertaining new Broadway comedy with a stellar five-character ensemble.
David Rooney After 25 years away from Broadway, Kim Cattrall is back playing opposite Paul Gross in the evergreen 1930 comedy by Noel Coward. read more
After opening last week to the best reviews to date of the current Broadway season, Hugh Jackman has set a new house record for the second time at the Broadhurst Theatre.
Two hours of pure pleasure with someone who clearly loves being onstage.
What was Al Pacino thinking?
"I am primarily not a film actor -- that's what's so ironic about [this honorary Oscar]!... I'm still a novice in film work... I haven't found that character that I can say, 'Yeah, that repr…
David Rooney The actor builds cumulative power and pathos in the title role, supporting player John Douglas Thompson delivers standout performance in director James Macdonald's interpretatio…
David Rooney Inspired by the novella "Venus in Furs" by Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the story centers on an actress and a director whose power shifts during the course of the …
This misconceived production -- valiantly if blandly piloted by Hunter Parrish of Showtime's Weeds as a smiley-faced, buff Abercrombie & Fitch Jesus -- pretty much obliterated 40 years of af…
To get off the ground, the Broadway spectacle had to pull money from many sources, including from Patricia Lambrecht, who put up $2.5 million in collateral so that producers could license th…
Airing Sunday on PBS, David Hare's first film as writer-director in more than 20 years is a muted affair.