Playwright Paula Vogel tells audiences what to expect from her Main Stem premiere, Indecent, and why she believes theatre plays a vital role in society.

The monthly missive from Across the Pond reflects on the downtown New York musical Bat Boy and the newly revised Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.

From the Special Tony Playbill

Backstage stories from 19 of the most memorable shows to win the Tony Award for Best Musical (continued).

As part of Playbill.com's 30 Days of Pride, we offer a look back at the rise of gay consciousness in commercial American theatre.

As part of Playbill.com's 30 Days of Pride, we offer a look back at the rise of gay consciousness in commercial American theatre.

As part of Playbill.com's 30 Days of Pride, we offer a look back at the rise of gay consciousness in commercial American theatre.

The British are coming! In light of the numerous productions from Across the Pond that will play Broadway this season, Playbill.com compiled a list of the most daring British works of theatre that have played New York.

Among the 20 productions scheduled are a play about the friendship between Lorraine Hansberry and James Baldwin; an immersive show set in the world of film noir; and a musical written by a 12-year-old.

Tony Award-winning American director Frank Galati will stage the pre-Broadway world premiere production of The Pirate Queen, by Les Misérables writers Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg in Chicago in fall 2006.

Suddenly it's Jones & Schmidt everywhere you look.

One of the indisputable hits of this year’s Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville was The Big Love, Charles Mee’s wild and crazy updating of Aeschylus’ The Supplicants. Sequences in this tale of fifty sisters forced to marry fifty cousins (the audience saw only three of each) included the actors throwing themselves repeatedly against the padded floor, one actress peeling off her wedding gown and sliding nude into a bathtub, two male actors throwing circular saw blades into the wall, and a grand guignol wedding night both funny and horrific. All this physical activity from a playwright hobbled by a bout with polio in his youth. In fact, Mee’s best-known work is his landmark 1989 play, Another Person Is a Foreign Country, which mixed abled and disabled performers. Other works by Mee include: Trojan Women: A Love Story, The Berlin Circle (directed by Tina Landau), and Orestes. Mee's plays are typically open in structure, creating more questions than answers about a situation. Most recently, Mee has been investigating cultural and gender-related roles in Summertime, which is currently getting a major staging at San Francisco’s Magic Theatre.

One of the indisputable hits of this year’s Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville was The Big Love, Charles Mee’s wild and crazy updating of Aeschylus’ The Supplicants. Sequences in this tale of fifty sisters forced to marry fifty cousins (the audience saw only three of each) included the actors throwing themselves repeatedly against the padded floor, one actress peeling off her wedding gown and sliding nude into a bathtub, two male actors throwing circular saw blades into the wall, and a grand guignol wedding night both funny and horrific. All this physical activity from a playwright hobbled by a bout with polio in his youth. In fact, Mee’s best-known work is his landmark 1989 play, Another Person Is a Foreign Country, which mixed abled and disabled performers. Other works by Mee include: Trojan Women: A Love Story, The Berlin Circle (directed by Tina Landau), and Orestes. Mee's plays are typically open in structure, creating more questions than answers about a situation. Most recently, Mee has been investigating cultural and gender-related roles in Summertime, which is currently getting a major staging at San Francisco’s Magic Theatre.

The athletes aren't the only performers who will shine this summer at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. The Theatre Series of the 1996 Olympic Arts Festival includes renowned theatre artists from America (including world premieres by two Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights), as well as England and China, and gives the rich, native theatre companies of Atlanta an opportunity to produce their best work before an international audience.

While theatres remain dark, revisit some of your favorites with Inside the Theatre, and get a closer look at the details you might miss before the show—plus a deep dive into the theatre's history.

From a show called Cleavage to A Broadway Musical, Playbill digs into musicals that played one official performance and the reasons for their short shelf lives.