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Luck? Coincidence? Good sight lines? Short ladies' room lines? Outsized orchestra sections that can be sold at a premium price?
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:42PMMonday, March 3, 2014
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SOURCE: Playbill at 03:47PMFriday, February 14, 2014
Woody Allen's new musical Bullets Over Broadway begins previews March 11, 2014 at Broadway's St. James Theatre. The cast offered a sneak peek to the press the morning of Feb. 13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:59PMTACT/The Actors Company Theatre will present the first New York revival of Christopher Durang's 1982 comedy Beyond Therapy. Now in rehearsals, the production will begin performances March 11…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PMTuesday, February 11, 2014
Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, starring Tony and Academy Award nominee Kathleen Turner, opened at Arena Stage Feb. 6.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:10PMThomas F. Flynn's Bikeman: A 9/11 Play, starring Robert Cuccioli, officially opens Off-Broadway Feb. 18 at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:20PMTuesday, February 4, 2014
Jackie Burns, Kristy Cates, Autumn Hurlbert, Andrew Kober and many more took to the stage of Joe's Pub on Jan. 27 to perform Bros and Dolls: The Music of Ewalt and Walker, featuring new musi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMThursday, January 30, 2014
1911 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 T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, January 28, 2014
1908 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 12:00AMSaturday, January 25, 2014
1915 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 Ca…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, January 22, 2014
1912 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 t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, January 21, 2014
1903 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 12:00AMSaturday, January 18, 2014
1882 Birthday of A. A. Milne (1882-1956), best-known as creator of the Winnie-the-Pooh books, but also a prolific Broadway playwright, author of Mr. Pim Passes By, The Truth About Blayds, Be…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, January 17, 2014
1911 Love is never easy, especially when a woman is the object of affection for The Scarecrow. Percy MacKaye used "Feathertop," Nathaniel Hawthorne's tale as a starting point f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, January 14, 2014
1903 Opening night of The Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett play about a child, much in the same vein as her The Secret Garden. Little Princess will run just 34 performances.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, January 13, 2014
1925 Birthday of one of Broadway's all-time greatest leading ladies, Gwen Verdon (1925-2000). She was nominated for the Tony Award as Best Actress or Featured Actress in a Musical six ti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, January 12, 2014
1878 Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnár (1878-1952) is born today in Budapest. He will write The Good Fairy, The Play's the Thing, The Guardsman, The Swan and Liliom, the latter of which wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, January 6, 2014
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SOURCE: Playbill at 03:23PMThursday, January 2, 2014
1910 American actress Agnes Booth dies today at age of 63. She was the wife of Junius Brutus Booth, Jr. and the sister-in-law of Edwin Booth.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, December 23, 2013
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SOURCE: Playbill at 03:18PMWednesday, December 4, 2013
1860 Birthday of Lillian Russell (1860-1922), who became the epitome of Gilded Age female sex appeal and stage presence starting in vaudeville at Tony Pastor's Theatre and graduating to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, December 2, 2013
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SOURCE: Playbill at 03:10PMSaturday, November 30, 2013
1924 Henry Oscar and Esme Biddle are the leads of Byron by Alice Law, at the Century Theatre in Bayswater, England. In a very small role is someone named Laurence Olivier.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMFriday, November 29, 2013
1895 Birthday of legendary film choreographer Busby Berkeley (1895-1976), whose career will be launched with a 12-show burst of creativity on Broadway between the end of 1926 and the beginni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, November 21, 2013
The Playbill Vault introduces 100 opening-night Playbills into the archives. These Playbills from 1985-1989 include such notable productions as the following:
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:08PMMonday, November 11, 2013
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SOURCE: Playbill at 03:20PM1872 Birthday of Maude Adams (1872-1953), Broadway's first Peter Pan, who originated the role in 1904, and returned at least three times through 1915.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, November 10, 2013
1900 Opening night of legendary musical Floradora at the Casino Theatre for a 553-performance run the first major hit of the 20th century. The production is remembered principally for the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, November 8, 2013
1913 Birthday of June Hovik, better known as June Havoc, even better known as namesake of Baby June, the character based on her in the musical Gypsy. The show pretty accurately sums up her c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, November 5, 2013
1895 Birthday of Charles MacArthur (1895-1956), newsman-turned-playwright, whose wisecracking oeuvre includes The Front Page, Twentieth Century (the play on which the musical On the Twentiet…
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