In 1927, the original production of Show Boat opens on Broadway.

The Subways Are for Sleeping star was also the first recipient of the Isabelle Stevenson Award.

The York Theatre Company will present Bar Mitzvah Boy, Subways Are for Sleeping, and Hallelujah, Baby!

It's an age-old problem for Broadway marketers. How do you find a reviewer's quote to use in an ad when the review wasn't that good?

The Tony Award-winning actor, lyricist, and women’s healthcare advocate passed away September 15 at age 86.

Playbill looks back at the actors, directors, choreographers, and other theatremakers who died in the past year.

The Christmas Carol that's lingering at the Westside Theatre these holidays is one you should remember as the star of the original West Side Story: Carol Lawrence.

THE FROGS and EVENING PRIMROSE Nonesuch 79638
Asterisked amongst the works of Stephen Sondheim is something called The Frogs, which disappeared after a week in 1974. Burt Shevelove — co-librettist of Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum — had done an earlier adaptation of the Aristophanes play while at Yale. Shevelove and Sondheim were longtime friends (Shevelove was fifteen years older). A highly theatrical fellow with a keen comic mind, he finally hit it big in 1971 as the adapter/director of the multi-company superhit No, No, Nanette. He decided to revisit The Frogs, inviting Sondheim along for what might have seemed like a Greek equivalent to their Roman comedy Forum. Sondheim and Shevelove's Broadway prominence earned them the most stupendous of venues for this amphibious comedy: the varsity swimming pool at Yale University. (Hence the lyric: "Please don't swim/The theatre is a temple not a gym.")

THE FROGS and EVENING PRIMROSE Nonesuch 79638
Asterisked amongst the works of Stephen Sondheim is something called The Frogs, which disappeared after a week in 1974. Burt Shevelove — co-librettist of Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum — had done an earlier adaptation of the Aristophanes play while at Yale. Shevelove and Sondheim were longtime friends (Shevelove was fifteen years older). A highly theatrical fellow with a keen comic mind, he finally hit it big in 1971 as the adapter/director of the multi-company superhit No, No, Nanette. He decided to revisit The Frogs, inviting Sondheim along for what might have seemed like a Greek equivalent to their Roman comedy Forum. Sondheim and Shevelove's Broadway prominence earned them the most stupendous of venues for this amphibious comedy: the varsity swimming pool at Yale University. (Hence the lyric: "Please don't swim/The theatre is a temple not a gym.")

From to Mame to Annie, from Ibsen to Thornton Wilder, our choices for the greatest Christmas scenes in modern stage history are a varied lot. (No, we didn't include medieval nativity plays.) Phyllis Newman, Paula Vogel, Jeremy McCarter, Douglas Carter Beane and more comment on the array. What would you include?

From to Mame to Annie, from Ibsen to Thornton Wilder, our choices for the greatest Christmas scenes in modern stage history are a varied lot. (No, we didn't include medieval nativity plays.) Phyllis Newman, Paula Vogel, Jeremy McCarter, Douglas Carter Beane and more comment on the array. What would you include?

From to Mame to Annie, from Ibsen to Thornton Wilder, our choices for the greatest Christmas scenes in modern stage history are a varied lot. (No, we didn't include medieval nativity plays). Phyllis Newman, Paula Vogel, Jeremy McCarter, Douglas Carter Beane and more comment on the array. What would you include?

From to Mame to Annie, from Ibsen to Thornton Wilder, our choices for the greatest Christmas scenes in modern stage history are a varied lot. (No, we didn't include medieval nativity plays). Phyllis Newman, Paula Vogel, Jeremy McCarter, Douglas Carter Beane and more comment on the array. What would you include?

The four-time Tony-winning director reveals backstage secrets about Hello, Dolly!, Guys & Dolls, Lend Me a Tenor, and more.

A spokesman from the New York office of legendary producer David Merrick said the impresario behind such hits as Hello, Dolly! and 42nd Street had died in his sleep early April 25 in London. He was 88.

The Know: What not to miss in theatre November 3-13.

In anticipation of the 40th anniversary of the opening of A Chorus Line Off-Broadway at the Public Theater April 16, Playbill.com reached out to the cast of the original Broadway production, who shared their memories from rehearsals to performance, including a special tribute to composer Marvin Hamlisch, who died Aug. 6, 2012.