Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: March 15
In 1970, Purlie opens on Broadway with Melba Moore and Cleavon Little. 1926 at Sean…
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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: February 19
In 1992, Crazy of you opens on Broadway. 1900 Stages of Irish Literary Theater 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…
Do not miss the concert of the group Cairo Café at the Al-Gumhouriya theater – Music and dance – Al-Ahram Weekly
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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 Today in Theater History: November 30
1924 Henry Oscar and Esme Biddle are the protagonists of Byron by Alice Law, at…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: January 25
1915 It is 90 in the shade at the Knickerbocker Theater. Richard Carle and Marie…
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: October 29
1882 Birth of the French playwright Jean Giraudoux, author of The madwoman of Chaillot, Ondine,…
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Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol is on stage at the Stanley Theater from November…
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 17
1888 Operetta WS Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan Broadway Premiere The Yeomen of the Guard.1915 Arthur…
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 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 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: September 6
1919 After 30 days, 37 productions closed and 16 openings prevented, the actors’ equity strike…
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: 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…
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…
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Frank Chin. (Wikimedia / Nancy Wong) May 1976 (45 years ago) In the May edition…
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…
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…
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’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…
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MARSHALL – Drama teacher Nadine Schmidt of Southwest Minnesota State University will star in an…
Playbill Vault is in theater history today: January 25
1915 It is 90 in the shade at the Knickerbocker Theater. Richard Carle and Marie…
The winners announced for the 2020 BroadwayWorld Boise Awards! Stagecoach Theater, Music Theater of Idaho and Idaho Shakespeare Festival win awards!
The winners have been announced for the 2020 BroadwayWorld Boise Awards – which were back…
Paula Plum is 2020-2021 Boston College Monan Professor in Theater Arts
“We are meant to go into the unknown.” That’s the mantra of Professor Monan 2020-21…
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 is in theater history today: June 10
1893 Birthday of Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American actor to win and be nominated for…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: November 7
1904 The timeless anthem “Give My Regards to Broadway” is sung for the first time…
Readers’ Choice for Theater, Music and Museums
The people have spoken. The Bay Area Reporter is pleased to announce the 2020 winners…
Howard University Theater Arts Department and Shakespeare Theater Company Announce College Night and Special Performance on February 22
WASHINGTON – Howard University students Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Field of Musical Theater of…
NMSU Theater Arts to Partner with Community Members in ‘Broadway On Stage 2020’
New Mexico State University’s Department of Performing Arts and the American Southwest Theater Company have…
WIPA Announces Auditions for Musical Theater Arts Company
The Company, for students aged 10 to 18, offers young aspiring artists the chance to…
Jazz, historical theater, films and literary workshops galore
Tabitha Smyth as Dorothy of Northern Ireland Stars, artist Barry Mulholland of Creative Exchange and…
AMERICAN THEATER | This Month in Theater History (August 2016)
DeLanna Studi at the World Premiere of “Te Ata” at Oklahoma University of Science and…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: June 7
1909 Broadway star’s birthday Jessica Tandy, who created many notable roles including Blanche DuBois in…
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’s Today in Theater History: January 14
1903 Opening night of The little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s play about a child, in…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: December 18
1907 Playwright Christopher Fry, author of Ring Around the Moon and The lady is not…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: May 29
1951 Interpreter Fanny Brice dies in Hollywood at the age of 60. Her showbiz career…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: November 28
1923 Lionel Barrymore plays in David Belasco Laugh, clown, laugh!, the Pagliacci-like story of a…
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: February 19
1900 A week-long engagement at Dublin’s Gaiety Theater by the Irish Literary Theater doesn’t make…
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: November 12
1874 Birthday of pioneering African-American singer-songwriter Bert Williams, who wrote music for Broadway In Dahomey…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: June 25
1887 Anniversary of legendary director George Abbott, whose long life (107 years) and colossal catalog…
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The School of Theater Arts proudly presents four stage productions at the Jerome Mirza Theater…