Robert Simonson

Robert Simonson (Brooklyn, NY) has chronicled American theater for a quarter century. His writings have appeared in the New York Times, Time Out New York, The Village Voice, Variety and Playbill.com, where he was editor from 1999 to 2006. He is the author of the biography The Gentleman Press Agent and two collections of theater profiles, Role of a Lifetime and On Broadway, Men Still Wear Hats. In his other life, he drinks cocktails and then writes about them for the New York Times.