1,179 stories by "Robert Simonson"
Mickey Rooney, the diminutive, one-time Hollywood box-office champ whose career turned out to last nearly as long as his life, died April 6 at the age of 93.
Jeffry Denman, creator of the new casting app CastPRO, chats with Playbill.com about the inspiration and launch of the new tech-savvy way to cast a show.
Marc Platt, who provided fancy footwork in many musicals and films, most notably in the original 1943 Broadway production of Oklahoma!, died March 29 in San Rafael, CA. He was 100.
John Travolta's favorite tongue-twister, Idina Menzel, made her long-in-coming return to Broadway this week, when If/Then, the new musical by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning Next t…
Playbill's newest weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
Academy Award-winning actor F. Murray Abraham, currently performing in The Threepenny Opera at Atlantic Theater Company, chats with Playbill.com about his lengthy career and recent resurgen…
Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg's musical Les Misérables enjoyed its third Broadway opening in 30 years this week, as a reimagined revival featuring fresh scen…
Playbill's newest weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
James Rebhorn, a character actor who was busy on both stage and screen, died March 21. He had been battling melanoma for many years. He was 65.
Playbill.com offers a look at the history behind the award-winning blockbuster musical Les Misérables.
Playbill.com talks with James Franco, Chris O'Dowd and Anna D. Shapiro about the Broadway revival of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men.
James Lapine, Matthew Schechter, Chuck Cooper and Andrea Martin talk with Playbill.com about the new Broadway play Act One.
Disney turned its luck on Broadway around with Newsies, its most recent Times Square opening, collecting the reviews needed to give long-running The Lion King a fellow hit to keep it company.
Gene Feist, who in 1965 founded the theatre troupe that would grow into the multi-theatre Broadway behemoth, the Roundabout Theatre Company, died March 17 at the Lillian Booth Actor's Ho…
Playbill's newest weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
Kathleen Raitt, a producer and executive with the theatre-owning Nederlander Organization, died March 15.
Playbill.com offers a look at 35 years of TDF's Accessibility Programs, aiming to reach new audiences.
That blast of trumpets you heard at the Winter Garden Theatre March 13 was the opening of Rocky, the new musical based on the Academy Award-winning 1976 Sylvester Stallone film of the same n…
Playbill's newest weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
Sheila MacRae, a U.K.-born actress best known for playing Alice Kramden in the late 1960s iteration of the sitcom "The Honeymooners," titled "The Jackie Gleason Show," di…
Bryan Cranston followed up his small-screen triumph as the everyday, all-American drug lord Walter White in "Breaking Bad" with a starring turn in playwright Robert Schenkkan&…
Martin Gottfried, an award-winning drama critic and author who wrote biographies on Arthur Miller, Jed Harris and Bob Fosse, died at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Cent…
Playbill's newest weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
Tony Award-winning director Anna D. Shapiro chats with Playbill.com about helming the upcoming Broadway revival of Of Mice and Men.
Alan Menken, longtime collaborator of the late Howard Ashman, discusses bringing Ashman's work to Broadway 25 years after his death.
