1,179 stories by "Robert Simonson"
An unearthed skeleton in Harvard University's closet provides the real-life drama for Tony Speciale's Unnatural Acts, Off-Broadway.
A question about whether the June 12 Tony Awards can be seen in South Korea and elsewhere abroad.
Broadway's holding its breath this week, as producers await the outcome of this weekend's Tony Awards, which are to be held for the first time at the Beacon Theatre on the Upper West…
Over a quarter-century after the start of the AIDS epidemic, playwright–activist Larry Kramer's play, a work "full of ghosts," still haunts.
A 1960s sibling pop group, hailed as outsider artists, is the subject of a new Off-Broadway musical, The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World. The show's creators discuss their work.
Tommy Brent, a producer on the New England straw hat circuit who put in more than two decades as producer at Rhode Island's historic Theatre-by-the-Sea, died on June 4 at his home in Man…
Clarice Taylor, a stage actress who won late fame playing Bill Cosby's mother in "The Cosby Show," died in Englewood, NJ, on May 30. She was 93.
A 1960s sibling pop group, hailed as outsider artists, is the subject of a new Off-Broadway musical, The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World. The show's creators discuss their work.
The San Francisco-set musical Tales of the City, based on Armistead Maupin's novels, opened at the American Conservatory Theater in that same city on May 31. By the end of the week, addi…
Philip Rose, a Broadway producer who bet—and sometimes won—on unlikely theatrical projects, including several works that advanced the cause of African-American stage artists&mdas…
Giorgio Tozzi, an operatic bass who occasionally made forays into the theatre, including a Tony Award-nominated turn in The Most Happy Fella, died May 30. He was 88.
Jeff Conaway, who played Kenickie in the hit movie version of the musical "Grease" and was one of the stars of the classic sitcom "Taxi," died May 27 at a Los Angeles-are…
We haven't heard much from Baz Luhrmann since his stylized vision of La Boheme livened up the 2002-03 Broadway season. Back then, there was a lot of talk that Luhrmann's next st…
Two questions in this column: One about the possibility of a Broadway show opening in the Tony Award season, and one about the number of people in a Broadway chorus.
Michael Brenner, the German producer and impresario who founded and was managing partner of the Mannheim-based BB Promotion GmbH, died in the early hours of May 21. He and his wife were on a…
Douglas B. Leeds, an advertising executive who was a producer and vice-chairman of the American Theater Wing, died of cancer on May 9, in New York City. He was 63.
Joseph Brooks, the Hollywood composer of "You Light Up My Life" and the Broadway musical In My Life, committed suicide on Sunday, May 22, in his Upper East Side apartment. He had been awaiti…
Evenings of one-acts were once a relative commonplace on Broadway. During the Golden Age, the Great White Way had room for dramas, comedies, musicals, farces, revues and concerts. Why not a …
Randall L. Wreghitt, a theatrical producer known for bringing innovative dramatic work to Broadway and Off-Broadway stages, among them several of the works of Irish playwright Martin McDonag…
Pam Gems, who found stage plays in the lives of persons as diverse as French chanteuse Edith Piaf and English painter Stanley Spencer, died on May 13 at her home in England. She was 85.
Jerusalem playwright Jez Butterworth rejects the idea that he purposely embedded his acclaimed, Tony Award-nominated Broadway and London play with cultural references that inform A Big Alleg…
Following in the glorious footsteps of The Scarlet Pimpernel, the much-reported-about musical Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, which has been on hiatus since April 17, appeared again May 12 in …
Jerusalem playwright Jez Butterworth rejects the idea that he purposely embedded his acclaimed, Tony Award-nominated Broadway and London play with cultural references that inform A Big Alleg…
Gerald Bordman, a theatre scholar who wrote the standard reference volume "The American Musical Theatre," died of cancer May 9, at Saunders House in Wynnewood, PA. He was 79.
Doric Wilson, an early figure in New York's Off-Off-Broadway scene who was as big a champion of gay theatre as he was of gay rights in general, died May 7, according to friends. He was 7…
