1,179 stories by "Robert Simonson"
Elizabeth Swados, whose experimental and socially searching pieces of musical theatre were a mainstay of 1970s and '80s theatre in New York, died Jan. 5 from complications following sur…
Robert Stigwood, an Australia-born entertainment impresario who seemed omnipresent in the 1960s and 1970s, with stakes in some of the biggest going concerns in music, theatre and film, h…
Record-setting box-office takes greeted Broadway in the first days of 2016, starting this year off with a bang.
Wayne Rogers, the actor best known for playing the madcap war surgeon Captain "Trapper" John McIntyre on the long-running television comedy "M*A*S*H," died Dec. 31 in…
Mother Courage has lost its Mother Courage.
Hamilton wasn't the only big theatre story in 2015 (though, to be honest, it was the biggest story). From theatrical triumphs to cell-phone disasters, our staff delivers the need-…
Hamilton wasn't the only big theatre story in 2015 (though, to be honest, it was the biggest story). From theatrical triumphs to cell-phone disasters, our staff delivers the need-…
The neon lights may be bright on Broadway, but there's a slew of terrific theatre happening Off-Broadway this winter/spring season. With everything from new works by name playwrights…
Broadway had a super happy holiday at the box office, as collected monies rose $7 million.
Nothing like a theatrical forecast to put a little spring in your step. Here's a look at the eight musicals, ten plays and innumerable anticipated performances beginning on Broadway in t…
Broadway squeaks in one more opening before the holiday break. Plus, exciting details about the plans for the Rialto's newest theatre, a big surprise in Boston and another record for&…
Many luminaries who brightened the American and international stages over the past half century were lost in the twelve months that made up 2015.
Patricia Elliott, a stage actress who won a Tony Award in 1973 for her portrayal as the comically embittered Countess Charlotte Malcolm in the original production of the Stephen Sondheim and…
Multiple musicals saw jumps in revenue, while straight plays were down last week on Broadway.
It's a big week in the nonprofit world as The Public Theater announces another musicalization of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Roundabout Underground expands.
Edmund Lyndeck, who originated the role of the evil Judge Turpin in Stephen Sondheim’s operatic tale of revenge, Sweeney Todd, died Dec. 14. He was 90. The cause of death was not i…
Broadway business was steady, with the two most talked about musicals of the decade — Hamilton and The Book of Mormon — performing best.
The much-anticipated arrival of Broadway's The Color Purple and the Off-Broadway New York Theatre Workshop musical Lazarus bowed this week. But what did the critics think?
Last week, it was announced that Les Misérables will say goodbye to the third of its seemingly endless number of lives, and Sheryl Crow's n…
Last week, it was announced that Les Misérables will say goodbye to the third of its seemingly endless number of lives, and Sheryl Crow's n…
Thanksgiving week is hard to beat, box-office-wise. Accordingly, numbers across Broadway dropped this past week from the holiday's robust figures. Overall gross across the board …
The next time you're wondering what's great in theatre, you might want to click to Show-Score. The brand new site is the first to publish consumer reviews and grades for every sh…
Playwright David Mamet and actor Al Pacino revealed their latest collaboration to the press this week, while "Star Wars" director J.J. Abrams announced that Hamilton creator Lin…
Broadway rebounded in a big way at the box office over the holiday weekend, with most shows posting improvements.
Allan Wallach, a longtime theater critic and entertainment editor for the Long Island newspaper Newsday, died Nov. 17 at his home in Manhattan, Newsday reported. He was 88.
