More than 150 of the hottest male and female dancers in New York City will take the stage of the Hammerstein Ballroom on June 21 for the 25th edition of Broadway Bares, called Broadway Bares…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33PM1866 Birthday of playwright and producer George Broadhurst (1866-1952), responsible for dozens of plays and musicals, including the first stage adaptation of Tarzan of the Apes. Also, na…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMChita Rivera has returned to Broadway in The Visit, reuniting the Broadway legend with her Chicago, The Rink and Kiss of the Spider Woman collaborators John Kander and Fred Ebb. Here are nev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1954 Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's Carousel is revived for a ten-week run at the New York City Center. In the cast are Barbara Cook and Jo Sullivan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAll data provided by The Broadway League View Broadway Grosses in a sortable table or view by show at the Playbill Vault
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:09PM1914 The Ziegfeld Follies of 1914 stars Ed Wynn. Leon Errol dances and co-directs with Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. There will be 112 performances at the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00AM1946 Orson Welles circumnavigated the stage in Around The World, a musical he adapted from the Jules Verne novel, “Around the World in Eighty Days,” Cole Porter provided …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlaybill.com offers a look at the nominees for the 69th Annual Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards in the categories of Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play and Musical and B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1868 Birthday of producer/director/manager Charles Dillingham (1868-1934), whose productions included As Good as New, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, Sunny, Bulldog Drummond, The Red Mill and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1951 Performer Fanny Brice dies today in Hollywood at age 60. She started in showbiz by winning a series of amateur nights at vaudeville theatres in Brooklyn, then graduated to Burlesque as …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe new Broadway comedy An Act of God, starring Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Jim Parsons in the role of God, officially opens on Broadway May 28 at Studio 54.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:42AMSpend a day at the Broadway revival of On the Twentieth Century! Mamie Parris, who plays Agnes in the musical, takes us through her day, from waking to the sound of the alarm clock to the e…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PM1953 John Mills is The Uninvited Guest at London's St. James's Theatre. Written by his wife, Mary Hayley Bell, and co-starring Cathleen Nesbitt and Joan Greenwood, this story of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMIn celebration of The New-York Historical Society's special exhibition "The Hirschfeld Century: The Art of Al Hirschfeld" and the new book "The Hirschfeld Century: Po…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:48PMAll data provided by The Broadway League View Broadway Grosses in a sortable table or view by show at the Playbill Vault
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:09PM1908 J. Lucifer Mephisto tempts a sculptor to be unfaithful in The Soul Kiss. Produced by Florenz Ziegfeld, this musical comedy stars Ralph Herz, Adeline Genee, and Cecil Lean. Harry B. Smit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM1900 A week-long engagement at Dublin's Gaiety Theatre by the Irish Literary Theatre does not cause much of a stir. The company stages The Bending of the Bough by George Moore, Maeve by Edwa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM1922 Arthur Wing Pinero's The Enchanted Cottage constructs the story of a couple who find themselves transformed by their love for one another. Owen Nares and Laura Cowie are the lucky pair.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM1873 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 05:58PM1856 Comedian Eddie Foy is born today. He'll star in vaudeville and on Broadway, notably in Mr. Hamlet of Broadway, The Earl and the Girl and Piff! Paff!! Pouf!!!. His son, Eddie Foy Jr., wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM1911 Constance Collier, Tyrone Power (father of the future film star), and Sidney Greenstreet are in the cast of Thais. Paul Wilstach bases his play on the Anatole France story.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM1926 Sean O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock has its U.S. premiere at Broadway's Mayfair Theatre. It runs 74 performances.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM1848 English actress Ellen Terry is born today. She will make her American debut in 1883 with Henry Irving's company. She will go on to star in classic and contemporary works. The Terry fami…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM1894 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 05:58PM1930 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 05:58PM1900 The scandalous Sapho [sic] is staged at Wallack's Theatre in New York. Based on Alphonse Daudet's novel, it stars Olga Nethersole as an evil woman who seduces a pure young man to keep a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM1946 Mary Martin and Yul Brynner play a Chinese couple who separate when the husband goes off on a quest in Lute Song. Raymond Scott composed the score, and Sidney Howard and Will Irwin wrot…
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