1,179 stories by "Robert Simonson"
Lincoln Center Theater this week joined New York's three-theatre club—members of this exclusive group include the Roundabout Theatre Company, Manhattan Theatre Club and, most recen…
Bart Kahn, a dresser and stage manager who worked on Broadway, died April 19. He was 46.
Two left coast stars of very different generations and personalities are coming to Broadway.
The breakneck horse race of last week over and done with, the standings were read aloud on May 1, as the nominees for the 66th Annual Tony Awards were announced at The New York Public Librar…
Tony Award winner Jonathan Pryce (Miss Saigon, Comedians) reflects on the work of playwright Harold Pinter on the occasion of a new British production of The Caretaker, now playing BAM&…
There was never any question where the May 1 memorial for late theatre producer-director Theodore Mann would be held. Of course it would be at Circle in the Square, the Broadway theatre name…
This week passed without reports that any critics had checked in at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital suffering from physical exhaustion. That was a minor miracle, given that reviewers had t…
Bruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning Clybourne Park, now on Broadway, takes a page out of A Raisin in the Sun. Did Norris have to pay for rights to the source material?
Well, hallelujah! Broadway has not one, but three critical hits this week!
With an "adolescent need to piss people off," Bruce Norris may have reached his zenith with the success of the Pulitzer-winning Clybourne Park, now on Broadway.
Paul Bogart, a prominent television director who brought a number of well-known plays to the screen, died April 15 in Chapel Hill, NC. He was 92.
Tennessee Williams' Blanche DuBois, living on the fumes of the romantic past, is back on Broadway in A Streetcar Named Desire. It seems a perfect time to choose five of our favorite Will…
How is it that Neil LaBute and August Strindberg haven't gotten together before now? If ever there were predestined BFFs, it's these two guys.
Ask Playbill.com got curious about the facts behind Newsies antagonist Joseph Pulitzer. Read all about it.
If there are three Broadway openings in one week, it must be April.
Last year at this time, as Playbill was polling theatre pundits about possible recipients of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, many assumed that Jon Robin Baitz's widely praised family …
Last year at this time, as Playbill was polling theatre pundits about possible recipients of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, many assumed that Jon Robin Baitz's widely praised family …
John Arden, a British playwright with a pungent political conscience who rose to prominence in the 1950s and was often likened to an English answer to Bertolt Brecht, died March 28. He was 8…
The theatrical arm of Disney woke up March 30 to something sunnier than a princess who gets her prince: good reviews.
Ask Playbill.com answers a question about Monday night previews on Broadway. Why do they tend to disappear after opening?
Now, some other solo artist has to write a play called The Agony and the Ecstasy of Mike Daisey.
Ulu Grosbard, a Belgian-born American stage director who brought a naturalistic touch, intelligence, a low profile and unending patience to premieres by Frank D. Gilroy, David Mamet and Arth…
Cris Alexander, who played one of the three sailors in the original Broadway production of the musical On the Town, died March 7 of natural causes. He was 92.
Chris Alexander, who played one of the three sailors in the original Broadway production of the musical On the Town, died March 7 of natural causes. He was 92.
Talk about your tight-knit company. The cast of Broadway's Jesus Christ Superstar includes father-and-son Sandy and Jonathan Winsby and brothers Jason and Julius Sermonia. Here are their…
