1,179 stories by "Robert Simonson"
Kristine Nielsen, who received her first Tony Award nomination in 2013 for Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, returns to the Great White Way in another family comedy, You Can't Take It…
The mission of the nearly century-old American Theatre Wing has long been the celebration and advancement of excellence in the theatre. Yet for much of its history, the organization has …
The British can be depended upon to lend Broadway an old-fashioned double-bill every now and then. Last year, Mark Rylance came over with his hit alternating productions of Twelfth N…
Matthew Warchus, director of numerous Broadway musicals and plays, returns to the cinema for his second feature film, an inspiring true story of "Pride."
The dynamic duo of Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane sit down with Playbill.com to discuss their latest onstage pairing in Terrence McNally's It's Only a Play.
Playbill's new weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
The new production of the Leonard Bernstein musical On the Town began previews this week at the Lyric, bringing the total of shows currently lighting up Broadway to 29, and nudging the overa…
Jordan Strohl, from Lillian Booth Actors Home, shares the benefits of integrating music into the lives of patients with Alzheimer’s and dementia with Playbill.com…
Jordan Strohl, from Lillian Booth Actors Home, shares the benefits of integrating music into the lives of patients with Alzheimer’s and dementia with Playbill.com…
Some of the most exciting news this week came from the road. (What is this, the 1960s?)
What a different a single autumn week makes.
Paul C. Vogt, who has appeared on Broadway in Chicago and Hairspray, opens up to Playbill.com about his battle with cancer and returning to the stage.
Bob Crewe, the songwriter and producer who was to all intents and purposes the unseen fifth member of the Four Seasons, co-writing many of their greatest hits, including "Sherry,&qu…
Broadway went through its biggest social media episode since Shia LeBeouf started tweeting things about his erstwhile Orphans co-stars in early 2013.
In reflection on Sept. 11, Playbill.com looks back at our feature "When the Curtain Came Down on the American Heart," which interviewed Broadway industry members a decade after the…
Playbill's new weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
Playwright David Hare has been a fairly regular presence on Broadway since the early '80s. But, unlike fellow British dramatist Tom Stoppard, his plays usually visit once and never retur…
Joan Rivers, a comedian whose tongue was often tart and whose talent for reinventing herself led to an unusually long and varied career, died Sept. 4. On Aug. 28, she was rushed to the hospi…
Like once-hot restaurants that suddenly shut their doors "for renovations," Motown, the Broadway show featuring music from the legendary Motown catalogue, has announced that it is …
Playbill's weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
Upon first sighting the marquee for the upcoming Broadway play This Is Our Youth, at the Cort Theatre, you’d be forgiven for concluding that the production is being done on a shoestrin…
James Earl Jones, star of the Broadway revival of You Can't Take It With You, talks with Playbill.com about the play's relevancy and political message to a 21st-century audience.&nbs…
This week was marked by loss, as two performing legends left the stage forever. Neither were best known for their stage work, but each made a mark there.
Playbill's weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
Charles Keating, a stage actor who was best known for his long run as the villainous Carl Hutchins on the soap opera "Another World," died at his home in Weston, CT, it was reporte…