Thursday, December 19, 2013
Lori Wolter Hudson remembers having a nervous breakdown in middle school in Indiana when her teacher assigned her to recite … Read More →
SOURCE: nytheatremag.com at 04:14PMIn his Tony Award acceptance speech this year for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Tracy Letts gave special thanks to the Chicago storefront scene that nurtured him. "We are the ones who sa…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:00AMWednesday, December 18, 2013
It was March of this year when I first heard from Amanda Belantera, who had begun her initial search for a New York City home for Kinokophonography Night. Amanda, along with the Kinokophone …
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 09:33AMWednesday, December 4, 2013
1860 Birthday of Lillian Russell (1860-1922), who became the epitome of Gilded Age female sex appeal and stage presence starting in vaudeville at Tony Pastor's Theatre and graduating to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, November 30, 2013
1924 Henry Oscar and Esme Biddle are the leads of Byron by Alice Law, at the Century Theatre in Bayswater, England. In a very small role is someone named Laurence Olivier.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMFriday, November 29, 2013
1895 Birthday of legendary film choreographer Busby Berkeley (1895-1976), whose career will be launched with a 12-show burst of creativity on Broadway between the end of 1926 and the beginni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, November 11, 2013
1872 Birthday of Maude Adams (1872-1953), Broadway's first Peter Pan, who originated the role in 1904, and returned at least three times through 1915.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, November 10, 2013
1900 Opening night of legendary musical Floradora at the Casino Theatre for a 553-performance run the first major hit of the 20th century. The production is remembered principally for the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, November 8, 2013
1913 Birthday of June Hovik, better known as June Havoc, even better known as namesake of Baby June, the character based on her in the musical Gypsy. The show pretty accurately sums up her c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, November 7, 2013
The Rep Theatre, Birmingham: The unwritten rule of translating comedy, according to Chris Campbell, is that if you lose a laugh here and there, you are allowed to add one elsewhere. His witt…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:48AMTuesday, November 5, 2013
1895 Birthday of Charles MacArthur (1895-1956), newsman-turned-playwright, whose wisecracking oeuvre includes The Front Page, Twentieth Century (the play on which the musical On the Twentiet…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, November 4, 2013
1787 Birthday of British actor Edmund Kean (1787-1833), considered one of the finest actors of the early 18th century. Among his greatest roles was Shakespeare's Richard III. He will be …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, November 3, 2013
1916 A new play by a new playwright opens at the Provincetown Playhouse in New York's Greenwich Village, far from Broadway and Times Square, but the play and the author will soon revolut…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, November 2, 2013
1903 Daniel Frohman opens the New Lyceum Theatre on Manhattan's West 45th Street with E. H. Sothern in The Proud Prince. Designed by Herts & Tallant, the theatre was later rechristen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, November 1, 2013
1920 Opening night for Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones, starring Charles S. Gilpin as a onetime railway porter who goes to Africa and rises to become the corrupt head of a new empire ther…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, October 31, 2013
1896 Birthday of Ethel Waters (1896-1977), Broadway star of musicals and plays including The Member of the Wedding, As Thousands Cheer, Cabin in the Sky and Lew Leslie's Blackbirds.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, October 30, 2013
1896 Birthday of Ruth Gordon, later to star on Broadway in dozens of plays, including Ethan Frome, The Country Wife and her own Years Ago; also in Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker (sour…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, October 29, 2013
1882 Birth of French playwright Jean Giraudoux, author of The Madwoman of Chaillot, Ondine, Intermezzo, Tiger at the Gates and Amphitryon 38. He lives to 1944.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, October 28, 2013
1928 Six-time Tony-winning costume designer Florence Klotz is born today. Her designs will be worn by the original casts of Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, On the Twentieth…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, October 17, 2013
As you enter that narrow, dark hallway leading to some horrific chamber where something sick and awful has happened, or is happening, is it worse to have someone jump out at you when you exp…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:29PMSunday, October 13, 2013
1903 Victor Herbert's Babes in Toyland opens on Broadway, introducing the songs "I Can't Do the Sum," "Go To Sleep," "Toyland" and "The March of th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, October 12, 2013
1914 Broadway premiere of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, with Mrs. Patrick Campbell as Eliza Doolittle. The drama will serve as the basis of the 1956 musical My Fair Lady.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, September 5, 2013
1881 Birthday of B. Iden Payne (1881-1976) a producer and playwright, who, as a professor at the University of Texas, inspired three generations of Broadway artists, including Tommy Tune and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, August 8, 2013
From the immense lineup of shows in the New York International Fringe Festival, staff members at The Times play some hunches and make some picks to see.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36PMThursday, August 1, 2013
Indian folk dance is a very broad term used to describe South Indian dance styles. There are many websites that give information about Indian folk dances and their interpretations.
Bhaskar R…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 08:58AMFriday, July 12, 2013
Thursday, June 27, 2013
The Capital Fringe Festival, D.C.’s most consistent dispenser of kooky theater and performance, recently announced its full 2013 lineup. The annual gathering starts July 11 with 129 plays …
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 10:00AMThursday, June 20, 2013
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Picture this: it is April 1963, and you are in Stockholm at the Moderna Museet. Currently on display is the American Pop Art Show.…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 09:23AMFriday, May 24, 2013
On Days 5 and 6 of Directors Lab West, the Labbies spoke to Elizabeth Doran, Janet Roston, Diane Rodriguez, Luis Alfaro and Vincent Paterson, among others.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:13PMThursday, May 23, 2013
Today, the word adagio is rarely used to describe ballroom dancing. If you told someone that you were going adagio dancing, most likely, this would draw a blank stare. Substitute the words a…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 08:50AMWednesday, May 22, 2013
Directors Lab West continued with two days of dance, masks, myths, site-specificity, stage managing, social media, young audience taboos and a preview of Scottsboro Boys.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:20PM 
