Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: March 19
1872 Birthday of singer and actress Anna Held, future wife of Florenz Ziegfeld, and classic…
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Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: December 19
1865 Birthday of Mary Augusta Davey, who acts as Minnie Maddern, Minnie Maddern Fiske and…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: August 2
1900 Birthday of the actor and singer Helen Morgan, who rose to fame as a…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: February 13
1904 Set designer and costume designer Oliver Messel was born in London.1911 Ethel Barrymore given…
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: February 5
1900 The scandalous Sappho is staged at Wallack’s Theater in New York. Based on the…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: February 2
In 2006, winner of the Pulitzer Prize rabbit hole opens on Broadway. 1912 composer’s birthday…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: January 30
1911 Hugh Herbert Hipple was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After dropping two Hs, he becomes…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: January 24
In 2010, Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson play in Arthur Miller A view from the…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: February 12
In 1979, the musical They play our song opens on Broadway. 1903 Broadway leader’s birthday…
Today in Playbill Vault Theater History: January 4
1905 Quivery voice actor Sterling Holloway was born in Cedartown, Georgia. It becomes a staple…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: December 23
1893 dancer birthday Ann Pennington, who flaunts her legendary dimpled knee in numerous editions of…
Today in Playbill Vault Theater History: December 8
1903 Mam’selle Napoleon is Anna Held in the musical at the Knickerbocker Theater. Produced by…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: December 6
1896 Birthday of Ira Gershwin, one of Broadway’s brightest lyricists, mostly in collaboration with her…
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: December 1
1907 Theater producer Herman Levin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.1924 Fred and Adele Astaire star…
Playbill Vault Today in Theater History: November 30
1924 Henry Oscar and Esme Biddle are the protagonists of Byron by Alice Law, at…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: November 27
1906 Anna Held is The Parisian model who inherits money mysteriously. Harry B. Smith provides…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: 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 23
1920 In Rollo’s wild oats, the main character rents a theater and hires actors to…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: November 21
1694 Birthday of French writer François Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire, whose satirical novel…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: November 20
1922 The lucky is the brother who doesn’t get the girl in AA Milne’s play.…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: November 19
1906 George Arliss and Mrs. Fiske star in The New York idea, the play by…
Playbill Vault Today in Theater History: November 16
1889 Playwright and director George S. Kaufman was born in Pittsburgh. Former journalist, Kaufman imposes…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: November 15
1875 British operetta titans WS Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan make their US debut with Jury…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: November 12
1874 Birthday of pioneering African-American artist-songwriter Bert Williams, who writes music for Broadway’s In Dahomey…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: November 10
1900 Opening night of the legendary musical Floradora at the Casino Theater for a series…
Today in Playbill Vault Theater History: November 9
1818 Playwright and novelist Ivan Turgenev was born in Russia. His most remarkable piece is…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: November 6
1854 Birthday party of John Philip Sousa, composer of countless marches, who also found time…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: November 5
1895 Birthday of Charles MacArthur, journalist turned playwright, whose Savoyard work includes Front page, 20th…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: November 3
1916 A new play by a new playwright opens at the Provincetown Playhouse in Greenwich…
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’s Today in Theater History: October 27
1920 birthday of Nanette Fabray, Broadway Musical Star High buttoned shoes, Love life (Tony Award),…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: October 29
1882 Birth of the French playwright Jean Giraudoux, author of The madwoman of Chaillot, Ondine,…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: October 27
1920 birthday of Nanette Fabray, Broadway musical star High buttoned shoes, Love life (Tony Award),…
Today in Playbill Vault Theater History: October 26
1844 Edward Harrigan, half of Harrigan and Hart’s iconic 1880s writing and performance team, was…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: October 17
1888 Operetta WS Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan Broadway Premiere The Yeomen of the Guard.1915 Arthur…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: October 10
1730 Birthday of Oliver Goldsmith, British author of She bends over to conquer.1900 One of…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: October 9
1893 Arthur Wing Pinero woos scandal with his play The second Mrs. Tanqueray, about a…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: October 8
1857 Edward Franklin Albee is born, who, along with BF Keith, controls one of the…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: October 6
1919 Hitchy-Koo 1919 turns out to be a minor hit for star Raymond Hitchcock, but…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: October 3
1859 Eleanora Duse was born in Italy. One of the main actors of his time,…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: October 2
1890 Julius Henry Marx was born in New York. Under the nickname “Groucho”, he and…
Today in Playbill Vault Theater History: September 29
1921 The operetta Flowering time opens on Broadway. With around twenty Franz Schubert themes rearranged…
Today in Playbill Vault Theater History: September 26
1898 Composer George Gershwin was born in New York. He writes Porgy and Bess, “Rhapsody…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: September 14
1910 Birthday of Lehman Engel, the Tony-winning Broadway conductor who founded the BMI Musical Theater…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: September 13
1894 Birthday of British playwright JB Priestley, playwright An inspector calls, when we are married,…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: August 31
1897 John Drew and Billie Burke (in her Broadway debut) star in the new play,…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: August 25
1918 Birthday of composer Leonard Bernstein, who bridged the worlds of classical and Broadway, both…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: August 22
1922 Theoni V. Aldredge, one of the leading Broadway costume designers of the late 20th…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: August 20
1885 London’s hit operetta The Mikado, by WS Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, premiered on Broadway…
Playbill Vault is today in theater history: August 17
1871 Birthday of playwright Jesse Lynch Williams. During the 1917-1918 theatrical season, Williams’ play, Why…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: August 15
1879 The legendary Barrymore family has one more to add to their list with the…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: August 13
1895 Bert Lahr (née Irving Lahrheim), future stage and film clown, was born in New…
Playbill Vault is Today in Theater History: August 11
1924 Singer and vaudeville star Sophie tucker opens at the Palace.1924 Helene hayes opens in…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: August 3
1921 Composer Richard Adler was born. Alongside Jerry Ross, he wrote two of the most…
Playbill Vault is today in theater history: August 2
1900 Birthday of actress and singer Helen Morgan, who rose to fame as a nightclub…
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 21
1951 Birthday of Lillias White, whose Broadway appearances include Effie White in Dream girls, Miss…
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.…
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…
Playbill Vault is Today in Theater History: May 10
1838 John Wilkes Booth, perhaps the most infamous actor in American history, was born. Son…
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 21
1925 Tallulah Bankhead and Edna Best are Fallen angels at the Globe Theater in London.…
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 today in theater history: March 2
1900 Composer Kurt Weill was born in Dessau, Germany. He composed the scores of Bertolt…
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 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 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…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: January 27
1885 Birthday of Master Mechanic Jerome Kern, who writes sheet music for many Broadway shows,…