1946 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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM1912 Stop in at the Liberty Theatre in New York and see just what it takes when you're Elevating a Husband. Edward Everett Horton, Conway Tearle and Jessie Carter are among the cast of this …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM1903 Dorothy, The Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion are first seen on Broadway today in the original musical The Wizard of Oz, with music by Paul Tietjens and book and lyrics by L…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM1915 It'll be 90 in the Shade for only 40 performances. The unpaid actors will refuse to go on in this musical with a Jerome Kern score and book by Guy Bolton. Richard Carle and Marie Cahill…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM1911 Hugh Herbert Hipple is born today in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After dropping two H's, he will become suave actor Hugh Marlowe. In 1940 he will appear in Elmer Rice's Flight To the We…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM1882 Birthday of John Barrymore (1882-1942), actor in the grand style, and scion of the Barrymore acting clan. Though he began as a light comedian, he became identified with the classics, no…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM1893 Birthday of playwright and producer Russel Crouse (1893-1966), whose prodigious output of scripts, many in partnership with Howard Lindsay, includes State of the Union and The Great Seb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM1879 John Wellington Wells deals his magic and spells for the first time on Broadway with the American premiere of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Sorcerer at the old Broadway Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM1933 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 05:58PMIn anticipation of the 2015 Tony Awards, here's a look back at the last year's Tony winners, including Audra McDonald, Neil Patrick Harris and Jessie Mueller.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMIn celebration of its 2015 Tony nomination for Best Revival of a Musical, Playbill presents a look back at The King and I on stage, from the original Broadway production with Gertrude Lawren…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMPlaybill presents an exclusive look at the models and sketches created by this year's Tony Award nominated set and costume designers.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1925 Godfrey Tearle is Hamlet in the Fellowship Players production at the Prince of Wales Theatre. The Fellowship offers Sunday performances so these employed professionals have the chance t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Public Theater celebrated two opening nights this week: The Mobile Shakespeare Unit’s Macbeth opened on May 20, and Elevator Repair Service’s The Sound and the Fury opened on May 21.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMEarlier this week it was announced that the nine original cast members of the hit Broadway musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee will reunite for a special one-night-onl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1907 Birthday of Laurence Olivier (1907-1989), preeminent British actor of his generation. His dozens of notable appearances included Romeo and Juliet, The Entertainer, Becket, Private L…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57PMAn intimate revival of Maury Yeston and Peter Stone's Tony Award-winning musical Titanic, featuring opera tenor Ben Heppner in the role of Isidor Straus, is now playing at Toronto…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:05AMThe world premiere of Sense and Sensibility, Paul Gordon's musical adaptation of the beloved Jane Austen beloved novel, is now playing at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Megan McGinnis, Wa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PM1929 Some of the highlights of A Night in Venice are Ted Healy wrestling bears and the choreography of Busby Berkeley. This revue will run at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway for 22 weeks.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLaura Osnes, Liliane Montevecchi, Melba Moore, Linda Lavin and Lauren Worsham will offer concerts at the intimate nightspot 54 Below in the coming weeks. They offered a preview May 20.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:42PMAfter 22 years of hosting "The Late Show," David Letterman will retire following tonight's final episode. Here is a look back at some of the Broadway musicals that performed on…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:05PM1919 Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse call this Kissing Time at London's Winter Garden Theatre. Ivan Caryll provides the music for this tale of complications arising when French ladies carr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA revival of two haunting short plays by David Mamet, Ghost Stories: The Shawl and Prairie du Chien, is currently in rehearsal at Off-Broadway's Atlantic Theater Company. The product…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:13PMOn May 17, dancers from Broadway shows including The King and I, Aladdin, Kinky Boots, Something Rotten, Wicked, An American in Paris, The Lion King and Chita Rivera: A Dancer's Life ce…
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SOURCE: Playbill at 03:11PM1923 Sweet Nell of Old Drury runs beyond the season at the 48th Street Theatre in New York. Alfred Lunt stars as Charles II and Laurette Taylor as his mistress Nell Gwynne. Lynn Fontanne and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1907 The new Hippodrome Theatre opens in Portsmouth, England.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1922 Father and son playwriting team J. C. Nugent and Elliott Nugent come up with Kempy. They also star in this comedy of mixed-up lovers, staged by Augustin Duncan. Performances will ru…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1931 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 12:00AM1907 Writer-playwright Daphne du Maurier is born to actor Gerald and actress Muriel du Maurier. Daphne will later adapt her novel Rebecca into a play.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1905 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…
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