
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: March 19
1872 Birthday of singer and actress Anna Held, future wife of Florenz Ziegfeld, and classic…
1872 Birthday of singer and actress Anna Held, future wife of Florenz Ziegfeld, and classic…
In 1970, Purlie opens on Broadway with Melba Moore and Cleavon Little. 1926 at Sean…
In 2015, Helen Mirren starred in The audience on Broadway. 1920 Ziegfeld girls from 1920…
In 1997, Whoopi Goldberg reprized the role of Pseudolus in A funny thing happened on…
1900 The scandalous Sappho is staged at Wallack’s Theater in New York. Based on the…
In 2006, winner of the Pulitzer Prize rabbit hole opens on Broadway. 1912 composer’s birthday…
1911 Hugh Herbert Hipple was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After dropping two Hs, he becomes…
In 2010, Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson play in Arthur Miller A view from the…
In 1979, the musical They play our song opens on Broadway. 1903 Broadway leader’s birthday…
1896 Birthday of Ira Gershwin, one of Broadway’s brightest lyricists, mostly in collaboration with her…
1924 Henry Oscar and Esme Biddle are the protagonists of Byron by Alice Law, at…
1906 Anna Held is The Parisian model who inherits money mysteriously. Harry B. Smith provides…
1915 It is 90 in the shade at the Knickerbocker Theater. Richard Carle and Marie…
1854 Birthday party of John Philip Sousa, composer of countless marches, who also found time…
1888 Operetta WS Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan Broadway Premiere The Yeomen of the Guard.1915 Arthur…
1893 Arthur Wing Pinero woos scandal with his play The second Mrs. Tanqueray, about a…
1890 Julius Henry Marx was born in New York. Under the nickname “Groucho”, he and…
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,…
Damon Albarn performs an intimate solo concert at the Globe Theater in London.The Blur and…
1951 Birthday of Lillias White, whose Broadway appearances include Effie White in Dream girls, Miss…
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…
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…
1838 John Wilkes Booth, perhaps the most infamous actor in American history, was born. Son…
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…
1925 Tallulah Bankhead and Edna Best are Fallen angels at the Globe Theater in London.…
1872 Birthday of singer and actress Anna Held, future wife of Florenz Ziegfeld, and the…
1928 Playwright’s birthday Edward Albee, who writes Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The goat or…
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…
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…
1903 Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion are seen on Broadway…
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…
1926 Beatrice Lily and Charles Winner are featured in the musical review Oh please at…
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…
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…
1901 Sadie Martinot, Guy Bates Post and Junius Brutus Booth play The marriage game. The…
1918 A stage adaptation of Booth Tarkington’s popular Penrod stories proves a bust. Opening at…
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…
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…
Happy birthday, Alan Alda. 1908 J. Lucifer Mephisto tempts a sculptor to be unfaithful to…
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…
1902 There are two beginnings in Each man: Edith Wynne Matthison makes her American debut,…
1854 Birthday of John Philip Sousa, composer of countless marches, who also found time to…
1940 Victor Moore, William Gaxton and Vera Zorina star in Purchase in Louisiana. The musical…
1929 Highlights of A night in Venice include Ted Healy’s wrestling bears and Busby Berkeley’s…
1954 Rodgers and Hammerstein Carousel is relaunched for a 10-week run at the New York…
1919 Guy Bolton and PG Wodehouse call it Time to fuck at the Winter Garden…
1900 Cho-Cho San and her passionate and tragic love illuminate David Belasco’s adaptation of John…
1903 Cartoonist Al Hirschfeld was born in St. Louis, Missouri. His distinctive looping line drawings…
1905 Theater producer Sam S. Shubert dies in a train accident. His brothers Lee and…