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: March 15
In 1970, Purlie opens on Broadway with Melba Moore and Cleavon Little. 1926 at Sean…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: March 11
In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry A raisin in the sun opens on Broadway. 1954 The golden…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: March 8
In 2015, Helen Mirren starred in The audience on Broadway. 1920 Ziegfeld girls from 1920…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: February 19
In 1992, Crazy of you opens on Broadway. 1900 Stages of Irish Literary Theater The…
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 17
In 2015, hamilton opens Off-Broadway at the Public Theater. 1902 Joseph Hart’s Popular Musical foxy…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: February 11
In 1997, Whoopi Goldberg reprized the role of Pseudolus in A funny thing happened on…
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: February 12
In 1979, the musical They play our song opens on Broadway. 1903 Broadway leader’s birthday…
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: November 23
1920 In Rollo’s wild oats, the main character rents a theater and hires actors to…
Today in Playbill Vault 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 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: November 1
1920 Opening night for Eugene O’Neill’s Emperor Jones, starring Charles S. Gilpin as a former…
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),…
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…
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 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…
Today in Playbill Vault Theater History: September 11
1912 Jane Cowl becomes a star playing in In law by Bayard Veiller. The play…
Playbill Vault is Today in Theater History: September 8
1914 A prank on the sale of soap called It pays to advertise, by King…
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 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…
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 18
1928 After the birth of talkies, Variety publishes an article focusing on the amount of…
Playbill Vault is Today in Theater History: July 12
1895 Birthday of Oscar Hammerstein II, descendant of a notable theater family who became their…
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 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’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 in theater history today: May 2
1887 Anniversary of Vernon Castle who, along with his wife and dance partner Irene Castle,…
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…
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…
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…
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 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,…
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 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 Today in Theater History: December 2
1912 The firefly sets off the Théâtre Lyrique with music by Rudolf Friml and lyrics…