Thursday, 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…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 03:47PMFriday, April 10, 2015
1868 Birthday of master actor George Arliss, who starred in a series of historical vehicles, including Hamilton and Disraeli.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, April 9, 2015
1926 Actor-manager Henry Miller, 66, dies today in New York. He acted opposite many of the leading ladies of the time, including Helena Modjeska. As a leading man with the Empire Stock C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, April 8, 2015
1904 New York City bids adieu to Longacre Square, which had no particular reputation, and says hello to Times Square, which soon develops quite a reputation indeed. Mayor George B. McClellan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, April 7, 2015
Three National Youth Dance Company students describe having their minds opened and their skills tested while working with choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui ahead of a UK-wide tourA group of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, April 5, 2015
1906 Britain's first actor-M.P., A.E.W. Mason, delivers his first speech. The theatre community sees this as a victory, hoping it will have an advocate in the House of Commons.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, April 4, 2015
1921 Sarah Bernhardt, who recently had one leg amputated, comes to London to play the title role in Louis Verneuil's Daniel at the Prince's Theatre. When she found a wooden leg unwie…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12AMWednesday, April 1, 2015
1918 Actor-manager Henry Miller opens his theatre in New York City. It's designed to seat 1,000 spectators and capable of handling the latest staging innovations. In 1998 the theatre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, March 31, 2015
1922 Birthday of actor Richard Kiley (1922-1999), who will create memorable roles in mid-20th century musicals, including Kismet, Redhead, No Strings and his signature role, the titl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, March 30, 2015
(This post is part of the Audience (R)Evolution online salon curated by Caridad Svich for the TCG Audience (R)Evolution Convening in Kansas City, MO in 2015.) PearlDamour has built our b…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:58AMSunday, March 29, 2015
1950 Joshua Logan transports the action of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard to 19th century Louisiana for his adaptation, The Wisteria Trees. It will run 165 performances at the Martin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:24PMFriday, March 27, 2015
RCA Victor catalogue promoting Mexican early sound film star Libertad Lamarque. Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
As well as being a research center for The New York Public…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 01:47PMThursday, March 26, 2015
1905 Actor Maurice Barrymore dies today. He was father to Lionel Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore and John Barrymore. He was 57 years old.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, March 25, 2015
We salute the star of film and television on her 50th birthday with a nod to her much under-appreciated singing chops Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:38PMTuesday, March 24, 2015
1909 Irish poet and playwright John Millington Synge dies today. He penned numerous plays including Riders to the Sea and The Playboy of the Western World. For the latter he traveled to the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, March 23, 2015
1940 It's Separate Rooms for an actress who'd rather sleep with her pet Chihuahua than her playwright husband. Glenda Farrell and Lyle Talbot are the twosome. This comedy by Alan Din…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, March 21, 2015
1867 Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. is born today in Chicago, Illinois. He will go on to become one of the most powerful showmen ever. His Follies, filled with beautiful women and exciting variety ac…
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