1,179 stories by "Robert Simonson"
Scenic designers Kacie Hultgren and John Lee Beatty share with Playbill.com how the new technology of 3D printers has changed their work.
Billie Holiday is certainly getting a workout on the New York stage this season.
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If you were in the mood for a light workout, accompanied by ukelele and accordion music, peppered with inspirational speeches and capped with a cocktail hour, there was really only one place…
Following a quiet couple of months, Broadway enjoyed a good, old-fashioned, big musical opening Feb. 20, when Kelli O'Hara and Steven Pasquale opened in The Bridges of Madison County.
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A theatre full of stage character actors came together to remember a fellow character actor at a Feb. 17 memorial held for Christopher Evan Welch at the the Irene Diamond Stage of The Pershi…
For decades, a crossroads for architectural geeks, New York history buffs and theatre devotees stood at the dusty intersection of Broadway and 46th Street where, on the northeast corner, a T…
Neil Patrick Harris did a knockout job hosting the Tony Awards ceremony the last three years. But for the 2014 show, Broadway favorite Hugh Jackman will return to host the annual broadcast l…
Ralph Waite, who to millions of television viewers became the voice and face of rough-hewn, kind-hearted wisdom as the father of a large, rural, Depression-era family in the popular 1970s se…
It's almost Valentine's Day and love is in the air. It's also on the stage, if you know where to look. Playbill.com sifted through centuries of scripts and came up with a collect…
Sid Caesar, who, as the star of the 1950s live comedy show "Your Show of Shows," became one of the first television celebrities and set a bar for sketch comedy that would remain fo…
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The theatre and film worlds received a unexpected shock this week when actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, a titanic creative force on stage and screen for more than a decade, was found dead in hi…
Jacques le Sourd, who, as the drama critic of the Gannett newspaper chain, covered the New York theatre scene for more than three decades, died Feb. 5, in Preston, England, where he had move…
The all-male Shakespeare’s Globe repertory productions of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and Richard III have been dependable house-fillers all through the box-office doldru…
Philip Seymour Hoffman, the Academy Award-winning stage and screen actor who brought his own unique presence and deep-delving intelligence to his every role, was found dead in his Manhattan …
The Arena Stage has exhibited some very canny casting for its upcoming production of the world premiere of the historical drama Camp David.
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Playbill.com offers a history of the expressionist drama Machinal, which was inspired by the real-life execution of Ruth Snyder.
Arena Stage artistic director Molly Smith searches for the fun in Brecht as she stages a music-filled Mother Courage and Her Children, starring Kathleen Turner.
Playwright John Patrick Shanley has had some critical successes and some outright misses in the ten years since Doubt made him a bankable writer. But he hasn't achieved a popular success…
Leslie Lee, a playwright who chronicled the modern African-American experience in America, and a mainstay artist at the Negro Ensemble Company, died Jan. 20 in Manhattan. He was 83.
Frank Gero, an actor and stage manager who reinvented himself mid-career as a producer, died Jan. 18 at age 84.
Sarah Marshall, a British actress who racked up a collection of comedic Broadway credits in the 1950s in works by Neil Simon and Gore Vidal, culminating in a Tony nomination for her supporti…
