
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: November 10
1900 Opening night of the legendary musical Floradora at the Casino Theater for a series…
1900 Opening night of the legendary musical Floradora at the Casino Theater for a series…
How to get your hands on a piece of Fife Theater history Calendar An icon…
The host of the 12th edition of the Montgomery Film Festival this weekend is also…
1818 Playwright and novelist Ivan Turgenev was born in Russia. His most remarkable piece is…
1854 Birthday party of John Philip Sousa, composer of countless marches, who also found time…
Scene from the American Negro Theater’s Broadway production of “Anna Lucasta”, starring (left to right)…
1895 Birthday of Charles MacArthur, journalist turned playwright, whose Savoyard work includes Front page, 20th…
1916 A new play by a new playwright opens at the Provincetown Playhouse in Greenwich…
1903 Daniel Frohman opens the New Lyceum Theater on West 45th Street in Manhattan with…
1920 birthday of Nanette Fabray, Broadway Musical Star High buttoned shoes, Love life (Tony Award),…
1882 Birth of the French playwright Jean Giraudoux, author of The madwoman of Chaillot, Ondine,…
1920 birthday of Nanette Fabray, Broadway musical star High buttoned shoes, Love life (Tony Award),…
1844 Edward Harrigan, half of Harrigan and Hart’s iconic 1880s writing and performance team, was…
1907 Top ‘o the world, a musical extravaganza, opens on Broadway for an impressive series…
1888 Operetta WS Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan Broadway Premiere The Yeomen of the Guard.1915 Arthur…
1730 Birthday of Oliver Goldsmith, British author of She bends over to conquer.1900 One of…
1893 Arthur Wing Pinero woos scandal with his play The second Mrs. Tanqueray, about a…
1857 Edward Franklin Albee is born, who, along with BF Keith, controls one of the…
1919 Hitchy-Koo 1919 turns out to be a minor hit for star Raymond Hitchcock, but…
1859 Eleanora Duse was born in Italy. One of the main actors of his time,…
1890 Julius Henry Marx was born in New York. Under the nickname “Groucho”, he and…
1921 The operetta Flowering time opens on Broadway. With around twenty Franz Schubert themes rearranged…
1898 Composer George Gershwin was born in New York. He writes Porgy and Bess, “Rhapsody…
1921 The Music Box Magazine of 1921 is the first production of the new Music…
1904 Julian Eltinge, the famous female impersonator, makes her Broadway debut in Mr. Wix from…
1911 Disraeli opens on Broadway at the Wallack’s Theater. George Arliss plays the British Prime…
1879 Daly’s Theater opens on Broadway and Thirtieth Street in New York City.1894 Weapons and…
1910 Birthday of Lehman Engel, the Tony-winning Broadway conductor who founded the BMI Musical Theater…
1894 Birthday of British playwright JB Priestley, playwright An inspector calls, when we are married,…
1912 Jane Cowl becomes a star playing in In law by Bayard Veiller. The play…
Teatro Hidalgo in Los Angeles, circa 1920. National Hispanic Heritage Month runs from Sep 15…
Market Street in downtown Lewisburg is home to a combination of modern retailers and restaurants…
1919 After 30 days, 37 productions closed and 16 openings prevented, the actors’ equity strike…
The mammoth task of directing a West End musical was only magnified by the pandemic,…
1897 John Drew and Billie Burke (in her Broadway debut) star in the new play,…
1918 Birthday of composer Leonard Bernstein, who bridged the worlds of classical and Broadway, both…
As Covid-19 hit in early 2021, The Production Company was gearing up for one last…
1922 Theoni V. Aldredge, one of the leading Broadway costume designers of the late 20th…
1923 The game Red light Annie opens at the Morosco Theater (which closed in 1981…
1885 London’s hit operetta The Mikado, by WS Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, premiered on Broadway…
1871 Birthday of playwright Jesse Lynch Williams. During the 1917-1918 theatrical season, Williams’ play, Why…
1879 The legendary Barrymore family has one more to add to their list with the…
1888 Comedian DeWolf Hopper begins his dramatic recitation of the poem Bat casey at the…
1895 Bert Lahr (née Irving Lahrheim), future stage and film clown, was born in New…
1924 Singer and vaudeville star Sophie tucker opens at the Palace.1924 Helene hayes opens in…
1967 Playwright Joe Orton is found dead in his London apartment. His companion, writer and…
1975 Liza Minnelli to the rescue! With just six days to learn the role of…
1921 Composer Richard Adler was born. Alongside Jerry Ross, he wrote two of the most…
1900 Birthday of actress and singer Helen Morgan, who rose to fame as a nightclub…
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1920 Two of Broadway’s greatest songwriter talents debut on Main Stem: lyrical Lorenz Hart, 25,…
1853 Birthday of Broadway impresario David Belasco, namesake of Belasco Theater, who wrote and /…
1920 Producer Alexander H. Cohen, known for bringing quality plays to Broadway for six decades,…
1938 Helen Hayes is named the Greatest Performer on the Stage when The New York…
1951 Birthday of Lillias White, whose Broadway appearances include Effie White in Dream girls, Miss…
1928 After the birth of talkies, Variety publishes an article focusing on the amount of…
1905 Birthday of the lyricist and librettist Dorothy Champs, daughter of the vaudeville star Lew…
1895 Birthday of Oscar Hammerstein II, descendant of a notable theatrical family who became his…
1913 Birthday of theater critic Walter Kerr, namesake of the Walter Kerr Theater on Broadway.…
July 1716 (305 years ago) Charles and Mary Stagg, two artists from the colonial settlement…
1878 The original Yankee Doodle Dandy, George M. Cohan was born July 3, not July…
1924 Opening night of George White scandals from 1924, which includes a score by George…
1887 Birthday of legendary director George Abbott, whose long life (107 years) and colossal catalog…
1903 Cartoonist Al Hirschfeld was born in St. Louis, Missouri. His distinctive looping line art…
1894 Birthday of Robert Russell Bennett, orchestrator of Broadway classics including the original Sunny, Show…
1909 Birthday of Broadway star Jessica Tandy, who has created many landmark roles including Blanche…
Caffe Cino in 1962. (Photo from the collection of Brian Merlis) June 1961 (60 years…
1946 Orson Welles takes the stage in Around the world, musical he adapted from Jules…
1924 The star of the Marx Brothers in I will say that she is at…
1905 Theater producer Sam S. Shubert dies in train crash. His brothers Lee and JJ…
1903 In Runaways, with a book by Addison Burkhardt and a score by Raymond Hubbell,…
1838 John Wilkes Booth, perhaps the most infamous actor in American history, was born. Son…
Frank Chin. (Wikimedia / Nancy Wong) May 1976 (45 years ago) In the May edition…
1915 Among the dead after the sinking of the Lusitania are producer-manager Charles Frohman and…
1917 Birthday of Betty Comden, lyricist and Broadway librettist, mainly in collaboration with Adolph Green.…
1917 birthday of Betty Comden, Broadway lyricist and librettist, mainly in collaboration with Adolph Green.…
1887 Anniversary of Vernon Castle who, along with his wife and dance partner Irene Castle,…
1924 Birthday of Sheldon Harnick, who writes lyrics for musicals including Fiorello !, She loves…
1900 Cho-Cho San and his passionate and tragic love light up David Belasco’s adaptation of…
1926 Sex. It is a comedy. Mae West plays a Canadian who doesn’t have time…
1926 Sex. It is a comedy. Mae West plays a Canadian who has no time…
1925 Tallulah Bankhead and Edna Best are Fallen angels at the Globe Theater in London.…
I became a fan of John Cullum when I saw him in Shenandoah and then…
1912 Karl Malden was born in Chicago, Illinois. He appears in numerous Broadway productions, most…
1912 Karl Malden was born in Chicago, Illinois. He appears in numerous Broadway productions, most…
1872 Birthday of singer and actress Anna Held, future wife of Florenz Ziegfeld, and the…