1,179 stories by "Robert Simonson"
Playbill's newest weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
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The war between a theatre critic and artist is a tale as old as time. Playbill.com offers a history of the two parties battling over their pride and their work.
The war between a theatre critic and artist is a tale as old as time. Playbill.com offers a history the two parties battling over their pride and their work.
Anne Einhorn, who over many years worked in several capacities at the Off-Broadway nonprofit theatre company Primary Stages, died on July 11. She was 89.
The war between a theatre critic and artist is a tale as old as time. Playbill.com offers a history the two battling over their pride and their work.
Jonathan Tolins imagines life with a megastar in Buyer & Cellar.
Did no one tell Kenneth Branagh that we had a Macbeth on Broadway this season (Alan Cumming's still-running version) and that we're expected another production of the Shakespeare tra…
Playbill's newest weekly feature examines the box office trends of the past week.
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The biggest opening of the week was in Chicago, where the world premiere of The Jungle Book was officially unveiled at the Goodman Theatre July 1 following previews that began June 21. Origi…
Donald Bevan, who created caricatures of theatre greats for the walls of Sardi's Restaurant, died May 29 at his home in Studio City, CA. He was 93.
Zach Braff will be Woody Allen on Broadway.
The Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced that Off-Broadway theatres in New York are now eligible to receive the Regional Theatre Award. Playbill.com reports on the decision and…
Marc Blitzstein's 1937 musical The Cradle Will Rock has one of the most celebrated origin stories in the history of American theatre. It was written for the Federal Theatre Project to be…
That Neil Patrick Harris loves Broadway and the theatre is made readily apparently by the effusive sincerity of his praised turns hosting the annual Tony Awards ceremony. That passion, howev…
That Neil Patrick Harris loves Broadway and the theatre is made readily apparently by the effusive sincerity of his praised turns hosting the annual Tony Awards ceremony. That passion, howev…
Bernard Sahlins, who, as the co-founder of Second City, the legendary improvisational comedy theatre group, had an incalculable affect on generations of American comedy, died June 16 in his …
The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin explores the unavoidable mess one man makes after serving his time.
It was entertaining! It was filled with suspense and upsets! The ratings went up! The reviews were good!
During its first 100 years, Actors' Equity Association — which celebrated its centennial on May 26 — battled the forces of segregation, bigotry, blacklisting, economic depres…
Perhaps he got the idea watching the acting antics of playwrights like Tracy Letts, Christopher Denham, and Jonathan Marc Sherman — or, reaching farther back, to a member of his own ge…
Today's young generation is too fresh to this planet to know a time when you couldn't escape the title "The Bridges of Madison County." Published in 1992 by an unknown auth…
Every Broadway producer should be fortunate enough to have a playwright like Christopher Durang.
Leslie B. Cutler, who directed of hundreds of productions over a 50-year period at the Kenley Players in Ohio and other stock venues, died of congestive heart failure at St. Luke’s Roo…
Helen Hanft, a brassy performer who established herself as a regular presence on the small stages of the Off-Off-Broadway movement of the 1960s and '70s to such an extent that New York T…
Jean Stapleton, a seasoned stage and film actress who found lasting fame as the dimwitted and big-hearted wife of Archie Bunker on the 1970s social sitcom "All in the Family," died May 31 at…
