Sunday, 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 06:20PMMonday, May 20, 2013
Several participants in Directors Lab West write impressions of the event's opening weekend.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:36PMThursday, May 9, 2013
The Place
In 1963, a small not-for-profit theater called the American Place Theatre was founded in St. Clements Church, a Victorian Gothic church tucked away in Manhattan's Theater District.…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:10AMFriday, April 26, 2013
Shana Dowdeswell, 23 — who has acted onstage alongside Cynthia Nixon and appears in the new Robert De Niro movie “The Big Wedding” — died five days after downing several whiskey shot…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 09:07AMTuesday, April 9, 2013
Last night's untricked-out Helen Hayes Awards at the Warner Theatre began almost immediately with prize-giving, and that was mostly what we got: Few distractions, and lots of people talking …
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 02:16PMMonday, April 1, 2013
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 is …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02AMSunday, March 31, 2013
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 title charac…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, March 26, 2013
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 12:00AM1905 Actor Maurice Barrymore dies today. He was father to Lionel Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore and John Barrymore. He was 57 years old.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, March 24, 2013
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 12:00AMSaturday, March 23, 2013
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 12:00AMTuesday, March 19, 2013
1872 Birthday of singer/actress Anna Held, future wife of Florenz Ziegfeld, and the classic sexy French flirt of her era. She will play this role in a series of musical vehicles including La…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, March 11, 2013
1930 Edward Franklin Albee, vaudeville producer and theatre owner, dies today in Palm Beach, Florida. He joined B.F. Keith in the presentation of variety shows and by 1920 had a vaudeville c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, March 6, 2013
1933 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 12:00AMTuesday, March 5, 2013
1908 Actor Rex Harrison is born today. He will make his London debut in Florence Kilpatrick's Getting George Married. He will star in the London production of Noël Coward's Design f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, March 4, 2013
1922 Eugene O'Neill's drama The First Man describes the strange tale of a scientist who curses the unborn child in his wife's womb. The wife dies in childbirth and the child thrives.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, March 3, 2013
1930 Bert Lahr is a Flying High mechanic who breaks an aeronautical record because he doesn't know how to land the plane. The writing team of Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, February 28, 2013
1894 Birthday of playwright Ben Hecht (1894-1964) , author or co-author of The Front Page, Twentieth Century, Jumbo, The Egoist and The Great Magoo.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, February 27, 2013
"The Death of Klinghoffer," the controversial 1991 opera by John Adams, is scheduled to make its much-belated Los Angeles-area debut in 2014. But the producing company won't be L.A. Opera, w…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30AMSunday, February 24, 2013
1876 Birthday of Broadway comedian Victor Moore (1876-1962), who starred or co-starred in the original casts of many musical comedies, notably Of Thee I Sing, Anything Goes, Louisiana Purcha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, February 22, 2013
1930 Birthday of Marni Nixon, singer whose voice will be dubbed into the mouths of better-known performers, including Natalie Wood in the film of West Side Story. She will make her Broadway …
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