Researchers, by contrast, will have trouble tracing the history of theater, as only a few stellar sites take on this vast topic. Clicking on a hyperlink below will launch a new browser window. A narrow bar at the left, which appears on every page, provides a helpful contents list for the entire site. Advertising is relatively unobtrusive. Listings provides useful data concerning productions ranging from New York to regional and international theater.
Reference complements Listings with seating charts for the major theaters throughout the country.
Features and Celebrities offer a grab-bag of substantive information, including transcripts of interviews conducted by PBOL with many theater stars, a database of biographical entries for theater people, weekly reports on Broadway grosses, and lengthy, annotated lists of musicals newly released on disc. The PBOL Mall provides a link to Telecharge for full-price tickets, plus a small database of restaurants and hotels limited to New York City. The Links heading near the bottom of the contents bar connects to Theatre Central, PBOL's compilation of theater resources. The design of Theatre Central's homepage mirrors that of PBOL, with the same recurring contents bar. The broad categories within the voluminous Sites range from Celebrity Sites to For the Playwright.