
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: March 18
1927 Birthday of composer John Kander, who composes scores for Broadway Cabaret, Chicago, Kiss of…
1927 Birthday of composer John Kander, who composes scores for Broadway Cabaret, Chicago, Kiss of…
1927 composer’s birthday John Kander, who composes scores for Broadway Cabaret, Chicago, Kiss of the…
1928 Playwright’s birthday Edward Albee, who writes Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The goat or…
1925 Ernest Truex is The right guy for a group of drug dealers. The James…
1856 Comedian Eddie Foy was born. He plays in vaudeville and on Broadway, notably in…
1920 Ziegfeld Girls of 1920 enjoys a run at the New Amsterdam Roof Theater. This…
1920 Ziegfeld girls from 1920 enjoys a run at the New Amsterdam Roof Theatre. This…
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be out of…
1900 Composer Kurt Weill was born in Dessau, Germany. He composed the scores of Bertolt…
Theater would not be theater without the efforts of black artists, and it is important…
1859 Sholem Yakov Rabinowitz was born in Ukraine. Under the pseudonym Sholem Aleichem, he wrote…
1859 Sholem Yakov Rabinowitz was born in Ukraine. Under the pseudonym Sholem Aleichem, he wrote…
1901 A man hugs his fiancee Quiet because his parents want him to finish Yale.…
Happy birthday, Nathan Lane! 1938 A grandfather holds back death by chasing him into a…
1812 Author’s birthday Charles Dickens, whose A Christmas Carol has been adapted for the stage…
1903 Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion are seen on Broadway…
1859 Birthday of King of Broadway Operetta Victor Herbert, composer of Babes in Toyland, The…
1859 Birthday of the King of Broadway Operetta Victor Herbert, composer of Babes in Toyland,…
1860 Birthday of Anton Chekhov, one of the fathers of modern theater, whose relatively small…
MARSHALL – Drama teacher Nadine Schmidt of Southwest Minnesota State University will star in an…
1908 J. Lucifer Mephisto tempts a sculptor to be unfaithful to The kiss of the…
1885 Birthday of Master Mechanic Jerome Kern, who writes sheet music for many Broadway shows,…
1915 It is 90 in the shade at the Knickerbocker Theater. Richard Carle and Marie…
1885 Birthday of Brock Pemberton, producer of many Broadway plays and comedies over a 30-year…
1878 Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnar was born in Budapest. He writes The good fairy, the…
1903 Daniel Frohman opens the New Lyceum Theater on West 45th Street in Manhattan with…
1912 The firefly kicks off the Lyric Theater with music by Rudolf Friml and lyrics…
providedKatherine Wyeth is The Girl in the Loft, performing at the BATS Theater through November…
1925 Birthday of actor Paul Newman, who plays on Broadway in Picnic, the sweet bird…
1926 Beatrice Lily and Charles Winner are featured in the musical review Oh please at…
1888 One of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s greatest hits opens: Little Lord Fauntleroy, with Tommy Russell.…
1892 Songwriter and producer Earl Carroll was born. His best-known contribution to the theater is…
1892 Songwriter and producer Earl Carroll was born. His best remembered contribution to theater is…
1901 Birthday of actor/director/producer/teacher/coach Lee Strasberg in Austria-Hungary. As founder of the Group Theater and…
1943 George Marion, Jr. and Thomas “Fats” Waller’s Goes to bed early opens on Broadway…
1893 Birthday of Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American actor to win and be nominated for…
1904 The timeless anthem “Give My Regards to Broadway” is sung for the first time…
1946 Mary Martin and Yul Brynner play a Chinese couple who break up when the…
1868 Producer, director and manager Birth of Charles Dillingham. Dillingham’s dozens of productions include Like…
1954 Rodgers and Hammerstein Carousel is relaunched for a 10-week run in downtown New York.…
1919 Guy Bolton and PG Wodehouse call him Time to kiss at the Winter Garden…
1907 The writer and playwright Daphné du Maurier was born from the actors Gérald and…
1858 Birthday of DeWolf Hopper, vaudeville comedian and musical star, who appeared in Wang, Hoity-Toity,…
1820 Birthday of Louisa Lane Drew, matriarch of the Drew and Barrymore acting dynasty which…
1901 Sadie Martinot, Guy Bates Post and Junius Brutus Booth play The marriage game. The…
1900 Composer Kurt Weill was born in Dessau, Germany. He composes the scores of Bertolt…
With a curriculum that ranges from Shakespeare to international traditions and avant-garde, GITIS strengthens the…
DLO musical theater: the first 60 yearsby Ron McDanielupdated by Andrew PetersIn early October 1955,…
The Bellevue Theater, 1922, with a canopy entrance The Montclair History Center gave a presentation…
UnsungMusicalsCo., the nonprofit production entity that celebrates the historical legacy and cultural impact of American…
Just after the Circle Theater opened on August 30, 1916, all 3,100 seats were filled,…
1918 A stage adaptation of Booth Tarkington’s popular Penrod stories proves a bust. Opening at…
DeLanna Studi at the World Premiere of “Te Ata” at Oklahoma University of Science and…
1909 Broadway star’s birthday Jessica Tandy, who created many notable roles including Blanche DuBois in…
1898 Birthday of one of Broadway’s most endearing performers of the 1920s, Marilyn Miller, whose…
1897 John Drew and Billie Burke (in her Broadway debut) star in the new play,…
1879 The composer Rudolf Friml was born in Prague. He emigrated to the United States…
1894 Birthday of Robert Russell Bennett, orchestrator of Broadway classics, including the original Sunny, Show…
1903 Opening night of The little PrincessFrances Hodgson Burnett’s play about a child, in the…
1907 Playwright Christopher Fry, author of Ring Around the Moon and The lady is not…
1903 In runaways, with a book by Addison Burkhardt and a score by Raymond Hubbell,…
Happy birthday, Alan Alda. 1908 J. Lucifer Mephisto tempts a sculptor to be unfaithful to…
1894 Henrik Ibsen’s American premiere Ghosts, with Ida Jeffries Goodfriend, at the Berkeley Lyceum Theater.…
1889 Playwright and director George S. Kaufman was born in Pittsburgh. Former journalist, Kaufman makes…
1768 Birthday of John Durang, identified by scholars as one of the first American-born professional…
1901 A man marries his bride Quiet because his parents want him to finish Yale.…
1951 Interpreter Fanny Brice dies in Hollywood at the age of 60. Her showbiz career…
1904 Maude Adams returns to Broadway with a revival of JM Barrie The little minister.…
1912 firefly sparkles the Lyric Theater with music by Rudolf Friml and lyrics and a…
1923 Lionel Barrymore plays in David Belasco Laugh, clown, laugh!, the Pagliacci-like story of a…
1882 Birth of the French playwright Jean Giraudoux, author of La Folle de Chaillot, Ondine,…
1931 Playwright and producer David Belasco dies in New York. He began his theatrical life…
1923 Sweet Nell of old Drury opens at the 48th Street Theater in New York.…
1902 There are two beginnings in Each man: Edith Wynne Matthison makes her American debut,…
1860 Birthday of Anton Chekhov, one of the fathers of modern theatre, whose relatively small…
1849 Birthday of writer Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of several Broadway plays in the early…
1854 Birthday of John Philip Sousa, composer of countless marches, who also found time to…
1905 Shaky-voiced actor Sterling Holloway was born in Cedartown, Georgia. It becomes a Broadway staple…
1940 Victor Moore, William Gaxton and Vera Zorina star in Purchase in Louisiana. The musical…
1893 Birthday of the playwright and producer Russel Crouse, whose prodigious output of scripts -…
1920 Vincenzo Scognamiglio was born in Naples, Italy. Sound unfamiliar to you? To try Vincent…
Happy birthday, Chita Rivera! 1922 It’s alcohol, jazz and The National anthem. J. Hartley Manners’…
1907 In The Comet, Alla Nazimova plays a woman who falls in love with her…
1909 Birthday of Victor Borge, pianist and actor whose 1953 musical comedy runs 888 performances,…
1868 Producer, director and manager Birth of Charles Dillingham. Dillingham’s dozens of productions include Like…
1929 Highlights of A night in Venice include Ted Healy’s wrestling bears and Busby Berkeley’s…
1925 Ernest Truex is The fell guy for a group of dealers. The James Gleason-George…
In 2008, In the heights opens on Broadway. 1856 Comedian Eddie Foy was born. He…
1939 A young Hollywood hopeful is forced to see her own career sparkle as her…
1899 Happy birthday Edward Kennedy Ellington, who, taking the surname “Duke”, becomes one of the…