Thursday, November 17, 2011
1836 Birthday of satirist William S. Gilbert, later to achieve immortality as the lyricist half of the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta-writing team that produced The Mikado, The Pirates of P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00PMMonday, November 14, 2011
1905 Blanche Bates is Minnie, sweetheart of the mines in Girl of the Golden West. She tends a saloon, fugitive lover and pursuing sheriff. Writer, director, producer David Belasco was no str…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, November 13, 2011
1833 Birthday of master actor Edwin Booth (1833-1893), a major interpreter of Shakespeare and brother to actor Junius Brutus Booth and presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth. Broadway's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, October 28, 2011
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 12:00AMTuesday, October 25, 2011
To film, or not to film, that is the question. Time Out New York ranks the answers.
SOURCE: Time Out New York at 03:03PMFriday, October 21, 2011
1933 Trying to follow-up the success of their Pulitzer-winning musical Of Thee I Sing, George and Ira Gershwin, George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind bring back President John Wintergreen and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, October 14, 2011
1893 Lillian Gish, film acting pioneer whose Broadway career lasted from 1913 to 1976, is born today. Her stage shows will include Camille, The Trip to Bountiful and several versions of Uncl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, October 13, 2011
The Museum of Fine Arts announced yesterday that it has raised the more than $1 million needed to buy the piece, which will remain in the MFA’s Shapiro Family Courtyard. In July, the M…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 03:17AMMonday, October 10, 2011
Reports on Date of a Lifetime, Jack Perry Is Alive (And Dating), and My History Of Marriage.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMFriday, October 7, 2011
1907 The Gay White Way, a musical revue whose title meant something quite different in that innocent era, opens at the Casino Theatre for a then-healthy run of 105 performances. Blanche Ring…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, October 2, 2011
Reports on Crazy, Just Like Me, The Big Bank, and Ghostlight.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMSaturday, October 1, 2011
1928 Mae West's controversial play Pleasure Man opens at the Biltmore Theatre. It's the story of an actor who has impregnated so many women that the brother of one of them takes up a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, September 30, 2011
Reports on Outlaws: The Ballad of Billy the Kid, Ennio: The Living Paper Cartoon, and F**king Hipsters!
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AM1915 The huge Hippodrome Theatre opens one of its most successful extravaganzas, Hip! Hip! Hooray!, with lyrics by John L. Golden, and starring Marjory Bentley and Dippy Diers. It will run 4…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, September 29, 2011
Taye Diggs is known as a Hollywood hunk, but the actor says he wasn't always comfortable in his own skin.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:21AMThose who take an interest in patents will have heard by now; the U.S. has a new patent law, the "Leahy-Smith America Invents Act." It's too early to tell whether the changes that …
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 08:09AMMonday, September 26, 2011
The Miscellaneous Personal Name Collection consists of over 12,000 files on 18th, 19th, and 20th century American and European historical and literary figures. This collection has served as …
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 06:30AMThursday, September 22, 2011
We're just starting to get the word out — November 8, 2011 will be a day to explore Intellectual Property protection when the Science, Industry and Business Library hosts a visit from …
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 08:10AMHave you heard? Library books are now available to borrow on Kindle devices and other devices with Kindle reading software (Windows, Mac, Blackberry, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Android, Windo…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:14AMTuesday, September 13, 2011
1894 Birthday of British playwright J.B. Priestley (1894-1984), author of plays An Inspector Calls, When We Are Married, Laburnum Grove and A Severed Head.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, September 7, 2011
1909 Director Elia Kazan is born. Kazan would go on to direct the award-winning plays Death of a Salesman and A Streetcar Named Desire. His success reached to the silver screen as well. He w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, August 25, 2011
Reports on You Only Shoot the Ones You Love, Bongani, and Jersey Shoresical: A Frickin' Rock Opera.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:30AMWednesday, August 24, 2011
Reports on The Apartment: A Play with Four Sides, Recovery, and Elysian Fields.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:39AMTuesday, August 23, 2011
Reports on Bella and the Pool Boy, What The Sparrow Said, Sanyasi2011, and Carnival Knowledge.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:42AMMonday, August 22, 2011
Reports on The Bardy Bunch, Leonard Cohen Koans, The Mountain Song, Paper Cut, and The Rubber Room.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:23PMFriday, August 19, 2011
Reports on Yeast Nation (the triumph of life), Noir, and Sammy Gets Mugged!
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMWednesday, August 17, 2011
Reports on Dreamplay, 2 Burn, and The Legend of Julie Taymor, or The Musical That Killed Everybody!
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMTuesday, August 16, 2011
Reports on Nils' F*cked Up Day, Before Placing Me On Your Shelf, and American Vaudeville Theatre 15th Anniversary ExTRAVaganza.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PMMonday, August 15, 2011
Reports on Winner Take All (A Rock Opera), Parker & Dizzy's Fabulous Journey To the End Of the Rainbow, I Will Be Good, and Happy Worst Day Ever.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AMFriday, August 5, 2011
1977 All Broadway marquee lights are dimmed tonight in honor of actor Alfred Lunt who died two days earlier. This is only the third time up to that point that such an action has been taken.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, August 1, 2011
Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Casey Nicholaw, Robert Lopez, Josh Gad, Andrew Rannells, Nikki M. James, Rory O'Malley, and Michael Potts discuss the controversial new Broadway musical, The Book of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM 
