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 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 13
1904 Set designer and costume designer Oliver Messel was born in London.1911 Ethel Barrymore given…
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: January 24
In 2010, Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson play in Arthur Miller A view from the…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: December 26
1904 Maude Adams returns to Broadway with a JM Barrie cover The little minister. He…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: December 23
1893 dancer birthday Ann Pennington, who flaunts her legendary dimpled knee in numerous editions of…
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 29
1895 Birthday of legendary film choreographer Busby Berkeley, whose career was launched by an explosion…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: November 27
1906 Anna Held is The Parisian model who inherits money mysteriously. Harry B. Smith provides…
Today in Playbill Vault Theater History: November 26
1864 Edwin Booth opens a four month booth at Hamlet at the old Winter Garden…
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’s Today in Theater History: November 10
1900 Opening night of the legendary musical Floradora at the Casino Theater for a series…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: November 6
1854 Birthday party of John Philip Sousa, composer of countless marches, who also found time…
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Scene from the American Negro Theater’s Broadway production of “Anna Lucasta”, starring (left to right)…
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 22
1903 Birthday party for Jerome Lester Horwitz, better known by his stage name Curly Howard,…
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 6
1919 Hitchy-Koo 1919 turns out to be a minor hit for star Raymond Hitchcock, but…
Today in Playbill Vault Theater History: September 19
1904 Julian Eltinge, the famous female impersonator, makes her Broadway debut in Mr. Wix from…
Playbill Vault is Today in Theater History: September 8
1914 A prank on the sale of soap called It pays to advertise, by King…
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 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’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 8
1975 Liza Minnelli to the rescue! With just six days to learn the role of…
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 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’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 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 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’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 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: 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’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 from 1920 enjoys a run at the New Amsterdam Roof Theatre. This…
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 is today in theater history: March 2
1900 Composer Kurt Weill was born in Dessau, Germany. He composed the scores of Bertolt…
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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’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: January 26
1925 Birthday of actor Paul Newman, who plays on Broadway in Picnic, the sweet bird…
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: June 17
1943 George Marion, Jr. and Thomas “Fats” Waller’s Goes to bed early opens on Broadway…
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: August 31
1897 John Drew and Billie Burke (in her Broadway debut) star in the new play,…
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: December 26
1904 Maude Adams returns to Broadway with a revival of JM Barrie The little minister.…
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: January 29
In 1966, Gwen Verdon plays in Sweet Charityopening at the Palace Theater on Broadway. 1860…
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: 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: April 29
1899 Happy birthday Edward Kennedy Ellington, who, taking the surname “Duke”, becomes one of the…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: April 28
1900 Cho-Cho San and her passionate and tragic love illuminate David Belasco’s adaptation of John…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: June 21
1903 Cartoonist Al Hirschfeld was born in St. Louis, Missouri. His distinctive looping line drawings…
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: May 12
1905 Theater producer Sam S. Shubert dies in a train accident. His brothers Lee and…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: June 25
1887 Anniversary of legendary director George Abbott, whose long life (107 years) and colossal catalog…