
David Rooney The connection between crime and celebrity is hammered over and over again in director-choreographer Jeff Calhoun's production.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:36PM[SHARE]The budget for the Trey Parker and Matt Stone-penned musical, which opened in March, is believed to be around $9 million.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:32PM[SHARE]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 …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:10PM[SHARE]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.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:47PM[SHARE]David Rooney Sam Gold' directs Theresa Rebeck's entertaining new Broadway comedy with a stellar five-character ensemble.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:00PM[SHARE]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
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:30PM[SHARE]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.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:54PM[SHARE]Two hours of pure pleasure with someone who clearly loves being onstage.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:07PM[SHARE]What was Al Pacino thinking?
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:18PM[SHARE]Alan Rickman presides over a writing workshop in Therese Rebeck's new comedy, "Seminar."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:46PM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:00PM[SHARE]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 …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:06PM[SHARE]Airing Sunday on PBS, David Hare's first film as writer-director in more than 20 years is a muted affair.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:00PM[SHARE]David Rooney Jon Robin Baitz's first new play in six years has ripened significantly in its move to Broadway.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM[SHARE]A 20th-anniversary revival of Brian Friel's memory play "Dancing at Lughnasa" is at the Irish Repertory Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:35PM[SHARE]David Rooney Actor-turned-playwright Jesse Eisenberg has a way with character, but this slender debut doesn't add up to much.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM[SHARE]David Rooney The play was a smash in Chicago, but its charms feel a little stretched as it makes its Broadway debut, writes THR's David Rooney.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:32PM[SHARE]This comedy ménage à trois is not without laughs, but overall, it's thin and tired.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:12PM[SHARE]David Rooney Mike Daisey's provocative monologue, which has been updated but not softened since the "techno-libertarian hippie" died earlier this month, makes its New York debut.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:00PM[SHARE]David Rooney Katori Hall's play is based on the legendary Martin Luther King Jr.'s life, with a fictionalized account of his last night on Earth.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM[SHARE]A respectful adaptation of the 2001 documentary of the same name, "Southern Comfort" chronicles the final year in the life of Robert Eads, a female-to-male transsexual who has ovarian cancer.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:47PM[SHARE]Simon Curtis' biographical drama co-stars Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh, Eddie Redmayne, Judi Dench and Dominic Cooper.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:54PM[SHARE]When commemorating a major playwright, it's never a great idea to choose one of his less memorable works.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:50PM[SHARE]The New York Musical Theater Festival's first week offered numerous works in progress, with a couple of familiar names, Austen and Gatsby, showing the most promise.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:37PM[SHARE]The Bottom Line: "True Blood" regular Rutina Wesley shines in Jeff Talbott's provocative but unsatisfying play.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:46PM[SHARE]In transferring a 1992 Disney film to the stage, "Newsies the Musical," at the Paper Mill Playhouse, makes full use of a book by Harvey Fierstein.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:21PM[SHARE]"To me, this is an educational outreach tool," the writer says at the star-studded one-night-only presentation. "It's important that people know the arguments on both sides as this case make…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:18PM[SHARE]edit@hollywoodreporter.com (David Rooney) Bernadette Peters, Jan Maxwell, Danny Burstein, Ron Raines, Elaine Paige star in the new production of the 1971 original, which grows more bewitchin…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM[SHARE]Review of "Jersey Shoresical" at NY Fringe Festival
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:23PM[SHARE]"The Hangover's" Justin Bartha plays a lovelorn depressive in Braff's debut play.read more
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