In 1940, Pal Joey opens on Broadway, starring Vivienne Segal and Gene Kelly.

A salute to the theatre people who left us — and left us inspired — in the year 2009.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright. A legendary summer stock producer. A leading South African actor. Variety's most famous reporter. One of the most powerful agents of all time. The original Mitch in A Streetcar Named Desire.

A Broadway actor who memorably played Gen. Patton on film. A songwriter who made Oliver Twist sing. A director who boldly revived the Gershwin brothers on Broadway.

The producers of Rebecca, the new musical based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier, announced on Jan. 24 that the show's Broadway run is being postponed until the 2012-13 season. It turns out, it costs a lot to conjure the estate called Manderley, which is central to the classic tale.

News, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.

News, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.

These directors are making waves in the field—and none of them have yet directed for Broadway.

Playbill.com's feature series Their Favorite Things asks members of the theatre community to share the Broadway performances that most affected them as part of the audience.

This week we spotlight the choices of Ken Ludwig, the Tony-nominated playwright of Lend Me a Tenor, whose newest work, A Comedy of Tenors — featuring characters from the former work — is currently playing The Cleveland Play House's Allen Theatre through Oct. 3.

Playbill.com posed this question to over 100 theatre actors: If you could star in a Broadway revival of any play or musical, which show and role would you choose?

This month's column screens two early television musicals — Alfred Drake as "Marco Polo" and Jo Sullivan or Barbara Cook as "Babes in Toyland" (though not together) — plus the 1952 Oscar-winner, "The Quiet Man."

This month's column screens two early television musicals — Alfred Drake as "Marco Polo" and Jo Sullivan or Barbara Cook as "Babes in Toyland" (though not together) — plus the 1952 Oscar-winner, "The Quiet Man."

News, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.

News, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.

News, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.

News, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.

In 2002, those we said goodbye to included a lyricist-librettist who infused musical comedy with touches of crazy impishness, a Nebraska-born actress who became known as a great interpreter of the classics in London and Broadway, and a veteran producer who embraced writers ranging from Euripides to Shakespeare to Terrence McNally.

Hello, diva lovers! Well, I must admit it was a bit daunting to open a blank Word Perfect document this past Tuesday morning to attempt to write a millennium-based diva column while finishing our January subscription issue and starting our February theatre edition. At one point I decided I would just write a regular weekly column and not deal with the approaching 2000 mark, but then I thought I would simply list many of the women of the musical theatre/cabaret worlds who have brightened our lives throughout the past few decades. So, in alphabetical order, here they are. (I’m sure I’ve left out many of your favorites, so please excuse any omission!) Following this grand diva list are more detailed thoughts and musings about some (but not all) 25 of my very favorite gals (alphabetically, of course). I hope you enjoy reading this column, and may the New Year bring every diva lover out there much joy and happiness, and may it also be diva-filled!

Hello, diva lovers! Well, I must admit it was a bit daunting to open a blank Word Perfect document this past Tuesday morning to attempt to write a millennium-based diva column while finishing our January subscription issue and starting our February theatre edition. At one point I decided I would just write a regular weekly column and not deal with the approaching 2000 mark, but then I thought I would simply list many of the women of the musical theatre/cabaret worlds who have brightened our lives throughout the past few decades. So, in alphabetical order, here they are. (I’m sure I’ve left out many of your favorites, so please excuse any omission!) Following this grand diva list are more detailed thoughts and musings about some (but not all) 25 of my very favorite gals (alphabetically, of course). I hope you enjoy reading this column, and may the New Year bring every diva lover out there much joy and happiness, and may it also be diva-filled!

Will Stutts, a perennial soloist at the Walnut Studio, ends his latest presentation, the cabaret-style Noel Coward at the Cafe de Paris, Dec. 5.