Monday, May 25, 2015
1893 Birthday of playwright and producer Russel Crouse (1893-1966), whose prodigious output of scripts, many in partnership with Howard Lindsay, includes State of the Union and The Great Seb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM1879 John Wellington Wells deals his magic and spells for the first time on Broadway with the American premiere of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Sorcerer at the old Broadway Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM1933 Maxwell Anderson indicts Both Your Houses, a political story at the Royale Theatre. Morris Carnovsky is in the cast of this Theatre Guild production. It will go on to win the Pulitzer P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMDogged by talk of a curse, "Spider-Man" producers vowed Tuesday the star-crossed show would go on despite a shocking fall that could have killed its top stunt man. Christopher Tierney wasn't…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 05:58PM"Taymor is out. She's left the building," the source told The News.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 05:58PMThe curse of "Spider-Man" struck again Monday night when a stunt double in the star-crossed show was injured as he plunged from a platform into a pit below the stage.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 05:58PMSunday, May 24, 2015
1925 Godfrey Tearle is Hamlet in the Fellowship Players production at the Prince of Wales Theatre. The Fellowship offers Sunday performances so these employed professionals have the chance t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, May 20, 2015
1919 Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse call this Kissing Time at London's Winter Garden Theatre. Ivan Caryll provides the music for this tale of complications arising when French ladies carr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, May 18, 2015
Stage Door Canteen, NY. Photograph by Florence Vandamm. Image ID: ps_the_4036
We have received many questions recently about this, the secondary key image for the exhibition. In t…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 10:53AM1923 Sweet Nell of Old Drury runs beyond the season at the 48th Street Theatre in New York. Alfred Lunt stars as Charles II and Laurette Taylor as his mistress Nell Gwynne. Lynn Fontanne and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, May 14, 2015
1931 Playwright, producer David Belasco dies today in New York City. He began his theatrical life as a child actor in California and started writing plays in his twenties. He adapted the Joh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, May 12, 2015
1905 Theatrical producer Sam S. Shubert dies today in a train accident. His brothers Lee and J.J. will honor him by naming many of the theaters they are to build after him, including their f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, May 10, 2015
1838 John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865), perhaps the most infamous actor in American history, is born today. The son of actor Junius Brutus Booth, and brother of actors Junius Brutus Booth Jr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, May 3, 2015
1919 Birthday of Betty Comden, Broadway lyricist and librettist, mainly in collaboration with Adolph Green. Her works include On the Town, Wonderful Town, Peter Pan, On the Twentieth Century…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, May 1, 2015
1922 Comedy team Potash and Perlmutter are Partners Again. The show plays 31 weeks at the Selwyn Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, April 28, 2015
Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth, who missed performances of her Broadway musical On the Twentieth Century April 24-26 due to illness, was well enough to return to the show …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:25PMWhat made Monica declare she saw the 'worst show ever'? Is comedy the last battleground for sexism? And will documentaries always play second fiddle to features? Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:01AMWednesday, April 22, 2015
To make tickets more affordable to students and other theatregoers on a budget, many Off-Broadway shows have implemented rush, lottery and inexpensive ticket policies.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMTuesday, April 21, 2015
After the wildly successful 2013 edition of Across A Crowded Room, we are about to launch a second edition that is more exciting than ever before.
If you are a musical theater...
...com…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 01:26PMSunday, April 19, 2015
1946 Actor Tim Curry is born in Cheshire, England. He will create memorable Broadway roles including Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Show, Mozart in Amadeus, Dada artist Tristan Tzara in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, April 17, 2015
Irving Berlin. Photograph by Vandamm Studio.
Frank Sinatra was, as the Library for the Performing Arts exhibition attests, an American icon. The project, a collaboration of LPA and the …
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 01:55PMThursday, April 16, 2015
The Jerome Robbins Dance Division is proud to announce that the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Inc, records, Additions is now open. This collection is 141.44 linear feet comprising 315 bo…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 02:53PM1906 John Philip Sousa supplies the music for The Free Lance. Herbert Gresham stage this 35 performance run at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, April 14, 2015
1865 Our American Cousin starring Laura Keene is in performance tonight when John Wilkes Booth shoots President Abraham Lincoln at the Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C. Booth's broth…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, April 13, 2015
Louis Moreau Gottschalk cover caricature in Vanity Fair (October 11, 1862)
This week marks the 150th anniversary of the final battles of the Civil War, followed all too closely by the anniv…
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