Playbill Vault is in theater history today: March 18
1927 Birthday of composer John Kander, who composes scores for Broadway Cabaret, Chicago, Kiss of…
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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…
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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…
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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: January 26
1925 Birthday of actor Paul Newman, who plays on Broadway in Picnic, the sweet bird…
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: 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 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,…
The Thermidor lobster at the movies? The Montclair History Center shares the history of the Bellevue Theater
The Bellevue Theater, 1922, with a canopy entrance The Montclair History Center gave a presentation…
It’s time for the solo musical show! Will document 100 years of musical theater history
UnsungMusicalsCo., the nonprofit production entity that celebrates the historical legacy and cultural impact of American…
RetroIndy: History of the Circle Theater
Just after the Circle Theater opened on August 30, 1916, all 3,100 seats were filled,…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: September 2
1918 A stage adaptation of Booth Tarkington’s popular Penrod stories proves a bust. Opening at…
AMERICAN THEATER | This Month in Theater History (August 2016)
DeLanna Studi at the World Premiere of “Te Ata” at Oklahoma University of Science and…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: June 7
1909 Broadway star’s birthday Jessica Tandy, who created many notable roles including Blanche DuBois in…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: September 1
1898 Birthday of one of Broadway’s most endearing performers of the 1920s, Marilyn Miller, whose…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: August 31
1897 John Drew and Billie Burke (in her Broadway debut) star in the new play,…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: December 7
1879 The composer Rudolf Friml was born in Prague. He emigrated to the United States…
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’s Today in Theater History: January 14
1903 Opening night of The little PrincessFrances Hodgson Burnett’s play about a child, in the…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: December 18
1907 Playwright Christopher Fry, author of Ring Around the Moon and The lady is not…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: May 11
1903 In runaways, with a book by Addison Burkhardt and a score by Raymond Hubbell,…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: January 28
Happy birthday, Alan Alda. 1908 J. Lucifer Mephisto tempts a sculptor to be unfaithful to…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: January 5
1894 Henrik Ibsen’s American premiere Ghosts, with Ida Jeffries Goodfriend, at the Berkeley Lyceum Theater.…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: November 16
1889 Playwright and director George S. Kaufman was born in Pittsburgh. Former journalist, Kaufman makes…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: January 6
1768 Birthday of John Durang, identified by scholars as one of the first American-born professional…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: February 11
1901 A man marries his bride Quiet because his parents want him to finish Yale.…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: May 29
1951 Interpreter Fanny Brice dies in Hollywood at the age of 60. Her showbiz career…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: December 26
1904 Maude Adams returns to Broadway with a revival of JM Barrie The little minister.…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: December 2
1912 firefly sparkles the Lyric Theater with music by Rudolf Friml and lyrics and a…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: November 28
1923 Lionel Barrymore plays in David Belasco Laugh, clown, laugh!, the Pagliacci-like story of a…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: October 29
1882 Birth of the French playwright Jean Giraudoux, author of La Folle de Chaillot, Ondine,…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: May 14
1931 Playwright and producer David Belasco dies in New York. He began his theatrical life…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: May 18
1923 Sweet Nell of old Drury opens at the 48th Street Theater in New York.…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: December 12
1902 There are two beginnings in Each man: Edith Wynne Matthison makes her American debut,…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: January 29
1860 Birthday of Anton Chekhov, one of the fathers of modern theatre, whose relatively small…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: November 24
1849 Birthday of writer Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of several Broadway plays in the early…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: November 6
1854 Birthday of John Philip Sousa, composer of countless marches, who also found time to…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: January 4
1905 Shaky-voiced actor Sterling Holloway was born in Cedartown, Georgia. It becomes a Broadway staple…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: May 28
1940 Victor Moore, William Gaxton and Vera Zorina star in Purchase in Louisiana. The musical…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: February 20
1893 Birthday of the playwright and producer Russel Crouse, whose prodigious output of scripts -…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: January 7
1920 Vincenzo Scognamiglio was born in Naples, Italy. Sound unfamiliar to you? To try Vincent…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: January 23
Happy birthday, Chita Rivera! 1922 It’s alcohol, jazz and The National anthem. J. Hartley Manners’…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: December 30
1907 In The Comet, Alla Nazimova plays a woman who falls in love with her…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: January 3
1909 Birthday of Victor Borge, pianist and actor whose 1953 musical comedy runs 888 performances,…
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: May 21
1929 Highlights of A night in Venice include Ted Healy’s wrestling bears and Busby Berkeley’s…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: March 10
1925 Ernest Truex is The fell guy for a group of dealers. The James Gleason-George…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: March 9
In 2008, In the heights opens on Broadway. 1856 Comedian Eddie Foy was born. He…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: July 6
1939 A young Hollywood hopeful is forced to see her own career sparkle as her…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: April 29
1899 Happy birthday Edward Kennedy Ellington, who, taking the surname “Duke”, becomes one of the…