
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: March 15
In 1970, Purlie opens on Broadway with Melba Moore and Cleavon Little. 1926 at Sean…
In 1970, Purlie opens on Broadway with Melba Moore and Cleavon Little. 1926 at Sean…
In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry A raisin in the sun opens on Broadway. 1954 The golden…
In 1992, Crazy of you opens on Broadway. 1900 Stages of Irish Literary Theater 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…
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1903 Mam’selle Napoleon is Anna Held in the musical at the Knickerbocker Theater. Produced by…
1924 Henry Oscar and Esme Biddle are the protagonists of Byron by Alice Law, at…
1915 It is 90 in the shade at the Knickerbocker Theater. Richard Carle and Marie…
1874 Birthday of pioneering African-American artist-songwriter Bert Williams, who writes music for Broadway’s In Dahomey…
1882 Birth of the French playwright Jean Giraudoux, author of The madwoman of Chaillot, Ondine,…
Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol is on stage at the Stanley Theater from November…
1903 Birthday party for Jerome Lester Horwitz, better known by his stage name Curly Howard,…
1888 Operetta WS Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan Broadway Premiere The Yeomen of the Guard.1915 Arthur…
1857 Edward Franklin Albee is born, who, along with BF Keith, controls one of the…
1919 Hitchy-Koo 1919 turns out to be a minor hit for star Raymond Hitchcock, but…
1921 The operetta Flowering time opens on Broadway. With around twenty themes by Franz Schubert…
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,…
1919 After 30 days, 37 productions closed and 16 openings prevented, the actors’ equity strike…
1922 Theoni V. Aldredge, one of the leading Broadway costume designers of the late 20th…
1923 The game Red light Annie opens at the Morosco Theater (which closed in 1981…
1920 Producer Alexander H. Cohen, known for bringing quality plays to Broadway for six decades,…
1951 Birthday of Lillias White, whose Broadway appearances include Effie White in Dream girls, Miss…
1928 After the birth of talkies, Variety publishes an article focusing on the amount of…
1895 Birthday of Oscar Hammerstein II, descendant of a notable theater family who became their…
1887 Birthday of legendary director George Abbott, whose long life (107 years) and colossal catalog…
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…
1946 Orson Welles takes the stage in Around the world, musical he adapted from Jules…
1924 The star of the Marx Brothers in I will say that she is at…
Frank Chin. (Wikimedia / Nancy Wong) May 1976 (45 years ago) In the May edition…
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…
1926 Sex. It is a comedy. Mae West plays a Canadian who doesn’t have time…
1926 Sex. It is a comedy. Mae West plays a Canadian woman who doesn’t have…
1912 Karl Malden was born in Chicago, Illinois. He appears in numerous Broadway productions, most…
1912 Karl Malden was born in Chicago, Illinois. He appears in numerous Broadway productions, most…
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1859 Sholem Yakov Rabinowitz was born in Ukraine. Under the pseudonym Sholem Aleichem, he wrote…
1859 Sholem Yakov Rabinowitz was born in Ukraine. Under the pseudonym Sholem Aleichem, he wrote…
MARSHALL – Drama teacher Nadine Schmidt of Southwest Minnesota State University will star in an…
1915 It is 90 in the shade at the Knickerbocker Theater. Richard Carle and Marie…
The winners have been announced for the 2020 BroadwayWorld Boise Awards – which were back…
“We are meant to go into the unknown.” That’s the mantra of Professor Monan 2020-21…
1925 Birthday of actor Paul Newman, who plays on Broadway in Picnic, the sweet bird…
1893 Birthday of Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American actor to win and be nominated for…
1904 The timeless anthem “Give My Regards to Broadway” is sung for the first time…
The people have spoken. The Bay Area Reporter is pleased to announce the 2020 winners…
WASHINGTON – Howard University students Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Field of Musical Theater of…
New Mexico State University’s Department of Performing Arts and the American Southwest Theater Company have…
The Company, for students aged 10 to 18, offers young aspiring artists the chance to…
Tabitha Smyth as Dorothy of Northern Ireland Stars, artist Barry Mulholland of Creative Exchange and…
DeLanna Studi at the World Premiere of “Te Ata” at Oklahoma University of Science and…
1909 Broadway star’s birthday Jessica Tandy, who created many notable roles including Blanche DuBois in…
1894 Birthday of Robert Russell Bennett, orchestrator of Broadway classics, including the original Sunny, Show…
1903 Opening night of The little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s play about a child, in…
1907 Playwright Christopher Fry, author of Ring Around the Moon and The lady is not…
1951 Interpreter Fanny Brice dies in Hollywood at the age of 60. Her showbiz career…
1923 Lionel Barrymore plays in David Belasco Laugh, clown, laugh!, the Pagliacci-like story of a…
1882 Birth of the French playwright Jean Giraudoux, author of La Folle de Chaillot, Ondine,…
1900 A week-long engagement at Dublin’s Gaiety Theater by the Irish Literary Theater doesn’t make…
1903 Cartoonist Al Hirschfeld was born in St. Louis, Missouri. His distinctive looping line drawings…
1874 Birthday of pioneering African-American singer-songwriter Bert Williams, who wrote music for Broadway In Dahomey…
1887 Anniversary of legendary director George Abbott, whose long life (107 years) and colossal catalog…
The School of Theater Arts proudly presents four stage productions at the Jerome Mirza Theater…