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: 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 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 30
1911 Hugh Herbert Hipple was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After dropping two Hs, he becomes…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: December 29
1919 The Lafayette Players of New York open the new Dunbar Theater in Philadelphia with…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: December 23
1893 dancer birthday Ann Pennington, who flaunts her legendary dimpled knee in numerous editions of…
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’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 23
1920 In Rollo’s wild oats, the main character rents a theater and hires actors to…
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’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 12
1874 Birthday of pioneering African-American artist-songwriter Bert Williams, who writes music for Broadway’s In Dahomey…
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: October 8
1857 Edward Franklin Albee is born, who, along with BF Keith, controls one of the…
Neil Simon’s “Chapter Two” Launches New Season at Newport Theater Arts Center
Clockwise from top left: Victoria Serra, Mitchell Cohen, Lori Kelley and Thom Gilbert featured in…
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…
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’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 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 6
1947 Variety announces that John Garfield will star in the first production of a new…
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 15
1905 Birthday of the lyricist and librettist Dorothy Champs, daughter of the vaudeville star Lew…
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 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 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 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’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 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’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 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 9
1856 Comedian Eddie Foy was born. He plays in vaudeville and on Broadway, notably in…
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…
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: 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’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: December 17
1926 Beatrice Lily and Charles Winner are featured in the musical review Oh please at…
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: September 16
1892 Songwriter and producer Earl Carroll was born. His best-known contribution to the theater is…
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: November 17
1901 Birthday of actor/director/producer/teacher/coach Lee Strasberg in Austria-Hungary. As the founder of the Group Theater…
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…
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: March 2
1900 Composer Kurt Weill was born in Dessau, Germany. He composes the scores of Bertolt…
The musical – The racket press
The University of Wisconsin – La Crosse Department of Theater Arts is proud to present…
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: August 31
1897 John Drew and Billie Burke (in her Broadway debut) star in the new play,…
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: May 14
1931 Playwright and producer David Belasco dies in New York. He began his theatrical life…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: December 12
1902 There are two beginnings in Each man: Edith Wynne Matthison makes her American debut,…
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: May 12
1905 Theater producer Sam S. Shubert dies in a train accident. His brothers Lee and…
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…
School of Theater Arts
The School of Theater Arts proudly presents four stage productions at the Jerome Mirza Theater…