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Playbill Vault is in theater history today: July 28
1920 Two of Broadway’s greatest songwriter talents debut on Main Stem: lyrical Lorenz Hart, 25,…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: July 25
1853 Birthday of Broadway impresario David Belasco, namesake of Belasco Theater, who wrote and /…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: July 24
1920 Producer Alexander H. Cohen, known for bringing quality plays to Broadway for six decades,…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: July 23
1938 Helen Hayes is named the Greatest Performer on the Stage when The New York…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: July 21
1951 Birthday of Lillias White, whose Broadway appearances include Effie White in Dream girls, Miss…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: July 18
1928 After the birth of talkies, Variety publishes an article focusing on the amount of…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: July 15
1905 Birthday of the lyricist and librettist Dorothy Champs, daughter of the vaudeville star Lew…
Playbill Vault is Today in Theater History: July 12
1895 Birthday of Oscar Hammerstein II, descendant of a notable theatrical family who became his…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: July 8
1913 Birthday of theater critic Walter Kerr, namesake of the Walter Kerr Theater on Broadway.…
AMERICAN THEATER | This month in theater history
July 1716 (305 years ago) Charles and Mary Stagg, two artists from the colonial settlement…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: July 3
1878 The original Yankee Doodle Dandy, George M. Cohan was born July 3, not July…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: June 30
1924 Opening night of George White scandals from 1924, which includes a score by George…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: June 25
1887 Birthday of legendary director George Abbott, whose long life (107 years) and colossal catalog…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: June 21
1903 Cartoonist Al Hirschfeld was born in St. Louis, Missouri. His distinctive looping line art…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: June 15
1894 Birthday of Robert Russell Bennett, orchestrator of Broadway classics including the original Sunny, Show…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: June 7
1909 Birthday of Broadway star Jessica Tandy, who has created many landmark roles including Blanche…
AMERICAN THEATER | This (Pride) Month in Theater History
Caffe Cino in 1962. (Photo from the collection of Brian Merlis) June 1961 (60 years…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: May 31
1946 Orson Welles takes the stage in Around the world, musical he adapted from Jules…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: May 19
1924 The star of the Marx Brothers in I will say that she is at…
Playbill Vault is Today in Theater History: May 12
1905 Theater producer Sam S. Shubert dies in train crash. His brothers Lee and JJ…
Playbill Vault is Today in Theater History: May 11
1903 In Runaways, with a book by Addison Burkhardt and a score by Raymond Hubbell,…
Playbill Vault is Today in Theater History: May 10
1838 John Wilkes Booth, perhaps the most infamous actor in American history, was born. Son…
AMERICAN THEATER | This month in theater history
Frank Chin. (Wikimedia / Nancy Wong) May 1976 (45 years ago) In the May edition…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: May 7
1915 Among the dead after the sinking of the Lusitania are producer-manager Charles Frohman and…
Playbill Vault is Today in Theater History: May 3
1917 Birthday of Betty Comden, lyricist and Broadway librettist, mainly in collaboration with Adolph Green.…
Playbill Vault is Today in Theater History: May 3
1917 birthday of Betty Comden, Broadway lyricist and librettist, mainly in collaboration with Adolph Green.…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: May 2
1887 Anniversary of Vernon Castle who, along with his wife and dance partner Irene Castle,…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: April 30
1924 Birthday of Sheldon Harnick, who writes lyrics for musicals including Fiorello !, She loves…
Playbill Vault is today in theater history: April 28
1900 Cho-Cho San and his passionate and tragic love light up David Belasco’s adaptation of…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: April 26
1926 Sex. It is a comedy. Mae West plays a Canadian who doesn’t have time…
Playbill Vault is today in theater history: April 26
1926 Sex. It is a comedy. Mae West plays a Canadian who has no time…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: April 21
1925 Tallulah Bankhead and Edna Best are Fallen angels at the Globe Theater in London.…
Accidental John Cullum star is likable and full of theater history – Times Square Chronicles
I became a fan of John Cullum when I saw him in Shenandoah and then…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: March 22
1912 Karl Malden was born in Chicago, Illinois. He appears in numerous Broadway productions, most…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: March 22
1912 Karl Malden was born in Chicago, Illinois. He appears in numerous Broadway productions, most…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: March 19
1872 Birthday of singer and actress Anna Held, future wife of Florenz Ziegfeld, and the…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: March 18
1927 Birthday of composer John Kander, who composes scores for Broadway Cabaret, Chicago, Kiss of…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: March 18
1927 composer’s birthday John Kander, who composes scores for Broadway Cabaret, Chicago, Kiss of the…
Playbill Vault is Today in Theater History: March 12
1928 Playwright’s birthday Edward Albee, who writes Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The goat or…
Playbill Vault is Today in Theater History: March 10
1925 Ernest Truex is The right guy for a group of drug dealers. The James…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: March 9
1856 Comedian Eddie Foy was born. He plays in vaudeville and on Broadway, notably in…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: March 8
1920 Ziegfeld Girls of 1920 enjoys a run at the New Amsterdam Roof Theater. This…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: March 8
1920 Ziegfeld girls from 1920 enjoys a run at the New Amsterdam Roof Theatre. This…
The Story of Mainstreet Theater Ownership as Power & Light Seek Who’s Next | FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be out of…
Playbill Vault is today in theater history: March 2
1900 Composer Kurt Weill was born in Dessau, Germany. He composed the scores of Bertolt…
Highlight significant moments in the history of black theater
Theater would not be theater without the efforts of black artists, and it is important…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: February 18
1859 Sholem Yakov Rabinowitz was born in Ukraine. Under the pseudonym Sholem Aleichem, he wrote…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: February 18
1859 Sholem Yakov Rabinowitz was born in Ukraine. Under the pseudonym Sholem Aleichem, he wrote…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: February 11
1901 A man hugs his fiancee Quiet because his parents want him to finish Yale.…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: February 3
Happy birthday, Nathan Lane! 1938 A grandfather holds back death by chasing him into a…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: February 7
1812 Author’s birthday Charles Dickens, whose A Christmas Carol has been adapted for the stage…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: January 21
1903 Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion are seen on Broadway…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: February 1
1859 Birthday of King of Broadway Operetta Victor Herbert, composer of Babes in Toyland, The…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: February 1
1859 Birthday of the King of Broadway Operetta Victor Herbert, composer of Babes in Toyland,…
Today in Playbill Vault Theater History: January 29
1860 Birthday of Anton Chekhov, one of the fathers of modern theater, whose relatively small…
Reading of “the history of theater” | News, Sports, Jobs
MARSHALL – Drama teacher Nadine Schmidt of Southwest Minnesota State University will star in an…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: January 28
1908 J. Lucifer Mephisto tempts a sculptor to be unfaithful to The kiss of the…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: January 27
1885 Birthday of Master Mechanic Jerome Kern, who writes sheet music for many Broadway shows,…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: January 25
1915 It is 90 in the shade at the Knickerbocker Theater. Richard Carle and Marie…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: December 14
1885 Birthday of Brock Pemberton, producer of many Broadway plays and comedies over a 30-year…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: January 12
1878 Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnar was born in Budapest. He writes The good fairy, the…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: November 2
1903 Daniel Frohman opens the New Lyceum Theater on West 45th Street in Manhattan with…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: December 2
1912 The firefly kicks off the Lyric Theater with music by Rudolf Friml and lyrics…
Girl in the Loft: a personal take on an endearing and wonderfully executed slice of London theater history
providedKatherine Wyeth is The Girl in the Loft, performing at the BATS Theater through November…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: September 14
1910 Birthday of Lehman Engel, the award-winning Broadway conductor who founded the BMI Musical Theater…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: October 4
1880 Writer Damon Runyon, whose short story “The Romance of Miss Sarah Brown” forms the…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: January 26
1925 Birthday of actor Paul Newman, who plays on Broadway in Picnic, the sweet bird…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: January 29
Playbill Vault Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: January 29 In 1966, Gwen Verdon plays…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: December 17
1926 Beatrice Lily and Charles Winner are featured in the musical review Oh please at…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: January 5
1894 Henrik Ibsen’s American premiere Ghostswith Ida Jeffries Goodfriend, at the Berkeley Lyceum Theatre. 1914…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: December 3
1888 One of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s greatest hits opens: Little Lord Fauntleroy, with Tommy Russell.…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: September 16
1892 Songwriter and producer Earl Carroll was born. His best-known contribution to the theater is…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: September 16
1892 Songwriter and producer Earl Carroll was born. His best remembered contribution to theater is…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: November 17
1901 Birthday of actor/director/producer/teacher/coach Lee Strasberg in Austria-Hungary. As founder of the Group Theater and…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: June 17
1943 George Marion, Jr. and Thomas “Fats” Waller’s Goes to bed early opens on Broadway…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: June 10
1893 Birthday of Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American actor to win and be nominated for…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: November 7
1904 The timeless anthem “Give My Regards to Broadway” is sung for the first time…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: February 6
1946 Mary Martin and Yul Brynner play a Chinese couple who break up when the…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: May 30
1868 Producer, director and manager Birth of Charles Dillingham. Dillingham’s dozens of productions include Like…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: June 2
1954 Rodgers and Hammerstein Carousel is relaunched for a 10-week run in downtown New York.…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: May 20
1919 Guy Bolton and PG Wodehouse call him Time to kiss at the Winter Garden…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: May 13
1907 The writer and playwright Daphné du Maurier was born from the actors Gérald and…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: May 2
1887 Birthday of Vernon Castle who, along with his wife and dance partner Irene Castle,…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: March 30
1858 Birthday of DeWolf Hopper, vaudeville comedian and musical star, who appeared in Wang, Hoity-Toity,…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: January 10
1820 Birthday of Louisa Lane Drew, matriarch of the Drew and Barrymore acting dynasty which…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: December 10
1901 Sadie Martinot, Guy Bates Post and Junius Brutus Booth play The marriage game. The…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: March 2
1900 Composer Kurt Weill was born in Dessau, Germany. He composes the scores of Bertolt…
A modern approach to teaching theater history
With a curriculum that ranges from Shakespeare to international traditions and avant-garde, GITIS strengthens the…
DLO Musical Theater – History
DLO musical theater: the first 60 yearsby Ron McDanielupdated by Andrew PetersIn early October 1955,…