The hit musical continues at the Apollo Theatre.

Machito laid the groundwork forLatin jazz, Tito Puente pushed theenvelope with passion, and on June 12 _13, Carlos Henriquez propels the musicinto the future in Rose Theater with TheMusic of Puente, Machito & Henriquez.

2009 was a memorable year…especially in the theatre. Actors, producers, industry leaders, Playbill staff and our readers respond to the question "What was your most memorable theatre moment of the year?"

Experimental theatre icon Richard Foreman had two plays Off-Broadway this year, Pearls For Pigs and Benita Canova, and together they won a tandem Best Play Award at the 1997-98 Village Voice OBIE Awards, held May 18 at Webster Hall in NYC. The Awards honor excellence in Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway theatre.

In the 1956 musical Bells Are Ringing with book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Jule Styne, Judy Holliday and Sydney Chaplin attend one of those chic Manhattan parties where the guests spend the evening dropping celebrities' names -- sometimes just their first name. Judy is frankly stumped by the identity of the names thus dropped -- except for the one she frequently drops: "Rin Tin Tin." Below is a glossary of all the names dropped in the song, "Drop That Name."

The New York Musical Theatre Festival production of Re-Animator The Musical, which reunites members of the original award-winning Los Angeles company, including Emmy Award nominee George Wendt, comes to life July 17 at the PTC Performance Space.