1,179 stories by "Robert Simonson"
Playbill's newest weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
A revival of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men begins previews March 19 on Broadway. Playbill.com offers a look at the play's history, describing how the novel came to be adapted and …
Was there ever a famous actor more determined to earn his stage stripes than Daniel Radcliffe?
Playbill's newest weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
A year after launching a Broadway-aimed tour, Flashdance producer Marc Routh and director-choreographer Sergio Trujillo speak about the ongoing out-of-town tryout of the musical and its cont…
Actors' Equity president Nick Wyman talks with Playbill.com about the recent controversy regarding the salaries of touring productions.
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Amiri Baraka, who both depicted and embodied the African-American experience, and frequently courted controversy through his poetry, fiction, essays and plays, died Jan. 9 at Beth Israel Med…
Producer Marc Routh and director-choreographer Sergio Trujillo chat with Playbill.com about the ongoing out-of-town tryout of the musical Flashdance.
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Producer Marc Routh and director-choreographer Sergio Trujillo chat with Playbill.com about the ongoing out-of-town tryout of the musical Flashdance.
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Tony winner Duncan Sheik chats with Playbill.com about composing music for Classic Stage Company's production of Bertolt Brecht's A Man's a Man.
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Perhaps having exhausted the pop and rock catalogues of the 1950s, '60s and '70s, jukebox musicals are now venturing into rap territory.
Playbill's newest weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
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Though it is set to close Jan. 4, the Broadway production of Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark continues to generously provide the press with stories. Over this quiet New Year's Eve week alon…
Juanita Moore, who made an impression as the long-suffering black friend of Lana Turner's famous actress character in the 1959 Douglas Sirk melodrama "Imitation of Life," died …
Joseph Ruskin, the vaguely sinister-looking actor who acted in a host of films and television series, died Dec. 31 of natural causes in Santa Monica, CA. He was 89.
Anna Crouse, the widow of playwright Russel Crouse and mother of actress Lindsay Crouse, who had a hand in the revitalization of Lincoln Center Theater and the creation of the TKTS booth, di…
Playbill's newest weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
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Actors Julie Harris, Peter O'Toole, Joan Fontaine, Christopher Evan Welch, Jean Stapleton, Karen Black and Jane Connell, veteran press agent Shirley Herz, theatre pioneer Ruth Maleczech …
Playbill.com offers a look back at the year in Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, the $75 million Broadway musical that will close Jan. 4, 2014.
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Playbill.com looks back at the members of the entertainment community who passed away during 2013.
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In the winter and spring months ahead, Off-Broadway will present new works by Sarah Ruhl, Charles Busch and David Henry Hwang, as well as a revival of Bertolt Brecht's A Man's A Man.…
On Christmas week, when all but the actors settle down for a short winter's nap, a story like who might go into a Broadway show can constitute a major news story.
In the winter and spring months ahead, Broadway offers Neil Patrick Harris as Hedwig, Idina Menzel in a return to the stage and Bryan Cranston going All the Way.
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From to Mame to Annie, from Ibsen to Thornton Wilder, our choices for the greatest Christmas scenes in modern stage history are a varied lot. (No, we didn't include medieval nativity pla…
Business ticked along fairly steadily on this week before Christmas, with box office and attendance not much changed from last week. Total collections across the 30 Broadway shows (same numb…
