Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: October 27
1920 birthday of Nanette Fabray, Broadway musical star High buttoned shoes, Love life (Tony Award),…
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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 23
1844 Actress Sarah Bernhardt was born. “La Divine Sarah” creates many memorable roles in French…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: October 22
1903 Birthday party for Jerome Lester Horwitz, better known by his stage name Curly Howard,…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: October 19
1907 Top ‘o the world, a musical extravaganza, opens on Broadway for an impressive series…
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…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: September 29
1921 The operetta Flowering time opens on Broadway. With around twenty themes by Franz Schubert…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: September 25
1928 Chee-Chee, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s musical about castration in ancient China, opens with…
Today in Playbill Vault Theater History: September 22
1921 The Music Box Magazine of 1921 is the first production of the new Music…
Today in Playbill Vault Theater History: September 19
1904 Julian Eltinge, the famous female impersonator, makes her Broadway debut in Mr. Wix from…
Today in Playbill Vault Theater History: September 18
1911 Disraeli opens on Broadway at the Wallack’s Theater. George Arliss plays the British Prime…
Today in Playbill Vault Theater History: September 17
1879 Daly’s Theater opens on Broadway and Thirtieth Street in New York City.1894 Weapons and…
Today in Playbill Vault 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,…
Today in Playbill Vault Theater History: September 11
1912 Jane Cowl becomes a star playing in In law by Bayard Veiller. The play…
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Teatro Hidalgo in Los Angeles, circa 1920. National Hispanic Heritage Month runs from Sep 15…
Playbill Vault is Today in Theater History: September 8
1914 A prank on the sale of soap called It pays to advertise, by King…
Premiere: The Campus Theater – Shedding light on the history of the Campus Theater
Market Street in downtown Lewisburg is home to a combination of modern retailers and restaurants…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: September 6
1919 After 30 days, 37 productions closed and 16 openings prevented, the actors’ equity strike…
Back to the Future releases “The Day That Changed the History of Musical Theater” video in the West End
The mammoth task of directing a West End musical was only magnified by the pandemic,…
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 today in theater history: August 29
1899 The girl from Maxime, one of Georges Feydeau’s most sparkling farces, has its American…
Playbill Vault is today in theater history: August 28
1917 Jerome Kern, Guy Bolton and PG Wodehouse open their romantic musical Leave that to…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: August 25
1918 Birthday of composer Leonard Bernstein, who bridged the worlds of classical and Broadway, both…
Production company documents its history of Australian theater online – Noise11.com
As Covid-19 hit in early 2021, The Production Company was gearing up for one last…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: August 22
1922 Theoni V. Aldredge, one of the leading Broadway costume designers of the late 20th…
Today in Playbill Vault Theater History: August 21
1923 The game Red light Annie opens at the Morosco Theater (which closed in 1981…
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 today in theater history: August 14
1888 Comedian DeWolf Hopper begins his dramatic recitation of the poem Bat casey at 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 Today in Theater History: August 9
1967 Playwright Joe Orton is found dead in his London apartment. His companion, writer and…
Playbill Vault is today in theater history: August 8
1975 Liza Minnelli to the rescue! With just six days to learn the role of…
Playbill Vault is Today in Theater History: August 6
1947 Variety announces that John Garfield will star in the first production of a new…
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 became famous as a nightclub artist.…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: August 1
1921 Opening night of the popular farce Obtain Gertie’s Garter about a man who gives…
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Learn some Greek history (theater); Head in the Clouds – Daily Breeze lineup
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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: lyricist 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 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…
The history of the Paramount Theater in St. Cloud celebrated on its 100th anniversary
ST. CLOUD – Walking into the Paramount Theater is an awe-inspiring experience, even for the…
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 theater family who became their…
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July 1716 (305 years ago) Charles and Mary Stagg, two artists from the colonial settlement…
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,…
AMERICAN THEATER | This month in theater history
Frank Chin. (Wikimedia / Nancy Wong) May 1976 (45 years ago) In the May edition…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: May 7
1915 Among the dead after the sinking of the Lusitania were director-producer 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’s Today in Theater History: April 26
1926 Sex. It is a comedy. Mae West plays a Canadian woman who doesn’t have…
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 Birthday of playwright Edward Albee, who writes Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The goat…
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’s Today in Theater History: 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…
Today in Playbill Vault 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,…