Monday, April 18, 2011
1936 In Irwin Shaw's Bury the Dead the task becomes impossible as the six dead soldiers refuse the grave. This one-act protest against the war will run three months at the Ethel Barrymor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, April 17, 2011
1917 John Barrymore stars in Gerald DuMaurier's Peter Ibbetson at Broadway's Republic Theatre. Lionel Barrymore, Constance Collier, Madge Evans, and Laura Hope Crews are also in the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, April 16, 2011
1906 John Philip Sousa supplies the music for The Free Lance. Herbert Gresham stage this 35 performance run at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, April 15, 2011
1929 In Camel Through the Needle's Eye, Miriam Hopkins plays a poor woman who discovers the hard way that money can't buy happiness. This drama will run six months.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, April 14, 2011
1865 Our American Cousin starring Laura Keene is in performance tonight when John Wilkes Booth shoots President Abraham Lincoln at the Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C. Booth's broth…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, April 13, 2011
1886 Birthday of Willie Howard (1886-1949), half of the comedy team of Willie and Eugene Howard, who will appear in vaudeville, in musicals Sally and Girl Crazy, and in various editions of r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, April 11, 2011
1914 Mrs. Patrick Campbell and Herbert Beerbohm Tree are the very first Eliza Doolittle and Professor Higgins. George Bernard Shaw's tale of class and character, Pygmalion, wins 118 perf…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, April 10, 2011
1868 Birthday of master actor George Arliss, who starred in a series of historical vehicles, including Hamilton and Disraeli.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, April 9, 2011
1926 Actor-manager Henry Miller, 66, dies today in New York. He acted opposite many of the leading ladies of the time, including Helena Modjeska. As a leading man with the Empire Stock Compa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, April 8, 2011
1904 The New York Times moves its editorial offices to Long Acre Square, prompting a name change to Times Square.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, April 7, 2011
1913 On The Purple Road there's a disguised Napoleon waiting to woo an unsuspecting girl named Wanda. Valli Valli is the innocent soon to meet her Waterloo at the Liberty Theatre in New …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, April 6, 2011
1947 The first Tony Awards ceremony is held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. Thirteen awards are presented to the likes of Helen Hayes, Ingrid Bergman, Fredric March, Jose Ferrer, A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, April 5, 2011
1906 Britain's first actor-M.P., A.E.W. Mason, delivers his first speech. The theatre community sees this as a victory, hoping it will have an advocate in the House of Commons.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, April 4, 2011
1921 Sarah Bernhardt, who recently had one leg amputated, comes to London to play the title role in Louis Verneuil's Daniel at the Prince's Theatre. When she found a wooden leg unwie…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, April 3, 2011
1911 Minnie Maddern Fiske stars as Mrs. Bumpstead-Leigh, a woman anxious to conceal her mid-continent past under a veneer of British manners. Harry James Smith's comedy runs at the Lyceu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, April 2, 2011
1923 There's trouble At Mrs. Beam's -- this boardinghouse keeper thinks one of her guests is a killer. There will be 280 performances at London's Royalty Theatre of this C.K. Mun…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, April 1, 2011
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. This will ring true wel…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, March 31, 2011
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 29, 2011
1950 Joshua Logan transports the action of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard to 19th century Louisiana for his adaptation, The Wisteria Trees. It will run 165 performances at the martin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, March 28, 2011
1939 Philip Barry tells The Philadelphia Story at the Shubert Theatre in New York. Katharine Hepburn, Van Heflin, Shirley Booth, and Joseph Cotten star. Robert Edmond Jones designs the sets …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, March 26, 2011
1905 Actor Maurice Barrymore dies today. He was father to Lionel, Ethel and John. He was 57 years old.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, March 24, 2011
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 12:00AMWednesday, March 23, 2011
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 Di…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, March 22, 2011
1913 Karl Malden is born in Chicago, Illinois today. He will appear in numerous Broadway productions, most memorably as Mitch in the original A Streetcar Named Desire.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, March 21, 2011
1867 Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. is born today in Chicago, Illinois. He will go on to become one of the most powerful showmen ever. His Follies, filled with beautiful women and exciting variety act…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, March 20, 2011
1828 Birth of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), who will revolutionize world theatre with his realistic dramas A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, Rosmersholm and Peer Gyn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, March 19, 2011
1901 Birthday of groundbreaking set designer Jo Mielziner (1901-1976) who will win five Tony Awards for his designs, which included sets for original productions of Death of a Salesman, Guys…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, October 13, 2010
The actors are acting as actors but a momentary glimpse of the actors themselves — T.R. Knight and Patrick Stewart — poked through at the Oct. 13th evening performance of David Mamet's A…
SOURCE: stagedoornews.blogspot.com at 11:54PMTuesday, June 16, 2009
The New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC) has announced more than 200 titles for its upcoming 13th annual summer theatre smorgasbord (Aug. 14-30). There's just no way to catch …
SOURCE: stagedoornews.blogspot.com at 07:49PMWednesday, June 3, 2009
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SOURCE: stagedoornews.blogspot.com at 10:44PMMonday, January 5, 2009
'Twas the nights just after Christmas and all through Broadway houses, not a showtune was stirring not even Gypsy.A slew of shows have closed and a few more are set to lower their final curt…
SOURCE: stagedoornews.blogspot.com at 10:36PM 
