1,179 stories by "Robert Simonson"
It was a year for seeing theatre in duplicate, for seeing theatre on all sides, for seeing theatre from Boston. It was a good year for Jason Robert Brown, Christopher Durang and The Public T…
Playbill.com chats with Sherry Kondor, Cynthia Weil, Barry Mann and Gerry Goffin, some of the people behind the story of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, currently in previews on Broadway…
While Broadway bigwigs took off to holiday on sunny beaches and in snowy chalets, leaving Times Square to the tourists, London provided a bit of excitement for the theatre world. The Aldwych…
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Joan Fontaine, who rocketed to fame playing frightened wives in two landmark Hitchock films of the early 1940s, died Dec. 16 of natural causes at her home in Carmel, CA. She was 96.
Playbill.com chats with Jeff Whiting, creator of the app Stage Write, which documents the stage blocking and choreography of shows and has been employed by Newsies, Mamma Mia!, The…
Peter O'Toole, the charismatic, devil-may-care film actor who brought charm, wit and intelligence to the roles he played on the screen, as well as to his daily persona and often dissolut…
Peter O'Toole, the charismatic, devil-may-care film actor who brought charm, wit and intelligence to the roles he played on the screen, as well as to his daily persona and often dissolut…
It turns out the producers of Eric Coble's The Velocity of Autumn meant it earlier this year when they said the new play would be coming to Broadway.
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Eleanor Parker, a film actress known for her versatility and wide variety of portrayals, died Dec. 9 at a medical facility near her home in Palm Springs. She was 91.
Eleanor Parker, a film actress known for her versatility and wide variety of portrayals, died Dec. 9 at a medical facility near her home in Palm Springs. She was 91.
In the New York premiere of How I Learned What I Learned, Tony winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson takes on the role of playwright August Wilson — who also happened to be his collaborator and…
Three-time Tony Award nominee Marin Mazzie landed her biggest stage assignment in some time this week. She won the much-coveted part of temperamental stage diva Helen Sinclair in the new Bro…
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Playbill's newest weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
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Christopher Evan Welch, a prolific character actor in television and film who performed in a host of plays on the New York stage, died Dec. 2 at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 48. The cause …
Jane Kean, an actress with stage and cabaret credits who was best known for playing Art Carney's wife Trixie in a 1960s revival of the Jackie Gleason sitcom "The Honeymooners,"…
Playbill.com chats with the founder of Fractured Atlas, a nonprofit dedicated "to building smart technology for artists," which recently launched the new software system …
Film actor James Franco seems to have done a little bit of everything with his still young career — acting, screenwriting, directing, teaching and being a famously truant NYU graduate …
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Director James Lapine, journalist Frank Rich and composer Stephen Sondheim chat with Playbill.com about HBO's new film "Six by Sondheim."
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For the majority of workers in most fields of endeavor, the holiday season means a few days off to relax and enjoy the familiar comforts of hearth and home. For Broadway performers, however,…
Marc Breaux, who, with his partner-wife, delighted 1960s movie audiences with his choreography for the hit Julie Andrews musicals "The Sound of Music" and "Mary Poppins,"…
It took three years, but those predictions that Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark detractors made that the ever-beleaguered musical would shutter at a great loss have finally come true.
