This month: Sam Mendes' "Away We Go," featuring Allison Janney, plus songwriter Richard Sherman ("The Boys") and "Easy Virtue" writers Stephan Elliott and Sheridan Jobbins.

This month: Sam Mendes' "Away We Go," featuring Allison Janney, plus songwriter Richard Sherman ("The Boys") and "Easy Virtue" writers Stephan Elliott and Sheridan Jobbins.

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

For most of the first-nighters at Roundabout's 42nd Street flagship home (the American Airlines Theatre, if you will) on June 16, The Constant Wife qualified as the dawning of a new play.

For most of the first-nighters at Roundabout's 42nd Street flagship home (the American Airlines Theatre, if you will) on June 16, The Constant Wife qualified as the dawning of a new play—but only because it had risen and set outside their purview. Few were around when the Wife first bowed on Broadway 79 years ago, and the only times she has been back were in 1951 with Katharine Cornell and 30 years ago in the form of Ingrid Bergman, who had a short fuse for frou-frou.