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.

While audiences wait for Company to resume performances, revisit the Jacobs Theatre and get a closer look at the details you might miss before the show—plus a deep dive into the theatre's history.

This month we check out the theatrical treasure trove located on the third floor of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The vision of the now retired Betty Corwin, TOFT (Theatre on Film and Tape) began in 1969 and has, according to successor Patrick Hoffman, "succeeded beyond her wildest dreams."

This month we check out the theatrical treasure trove located on the third floor of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The vision of the now retired Betty Corwin, TOFT (Theatre on Film and Tape) began in 1969 and has, according to successor Patrick Hoffman, "succeeded beyond her wildest dreams."

As the curtain starts to descend on 1996 in a welter of A Christmas Carols, its time to journey back over the year with the Ghost of Theatre Past and look at some of the major events on stages around the world.

TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA Decca Broadway 440 017 565
Two Gentlemen of Verona starts with a blast — a trumpet blast. That's a good way to describe the show, which rode a clutch of rave reviews from the open-air Delacorte in Central Park to the St. James on 44th Street. Two Gentlemen of Verona was, indeed, a blast. It opened on December 1, 1971, running for 627 performances, beginning Joe Papp's invasion of Broadway. By the time the show closed in 1973, Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival had four Broadway hits and three Tony Awards. After 30 years, the long out-of-print original cast album has finally been transferred to CD.

TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA Decca Broadway 440 017 565
Two Gentlemen of Verona starts with a blast — a trumpet blast. That's a good way to describe the show, which rode a clutch of rave reviews from the open-air Delacorte in Central Park to the St. James on 44th Street. Two Gentlemen of Verona was, indeed, a blast. It opened on December 1, 1971, running for 627 performances, beginning Joe Papp's invasion of Broadway. By the time the show closed in 1973, Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival had four Broadway hits and three Tony Awards. After 30 years, the long out-of-print original cast album has finally been transferred to CD.

It’s a Tuesday night at the Cafe Carlyle, and Melissa Errico, in a sleeveless black satin dress, is making eye contact. As she sings a set of numbers ranging from Kern and Weill to Randy Newman and Oleta Adams, she connects visually with each person, her eyes gliding from table to table, measure by measure. Although it’s her first time doing cabaret, she’s clearly enjoying it, seating herself on the grand piano for the Kurt Weill/Ogden Nash "That’s Him" from One Touch of Venus, and lacing her songs with personal background. She brings a girl-next-door charm to the work as well as to post-cabaret table-hopping to chat with eager, middle-aged fans.