Friday, May 8, 2015
1892 Birthday of opera singer Ezio Pinza (1892-1957) who made two memorable Broadway appearances, in Fanny and South Pacific, the latter creating the role of Emile deBecque and singing &…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, May 7, 2015
1915 Among the dead after the sinking of the Lusitania are producer-manager Charles Frohman and playwright Charles Klein. Frohman's first success was Shenandoah. In 1893 he opened th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, May 6, 2015
1912 Richard Le Gallienne's Orestes stars Edyth Olive and Rathmel Wilson. It plays at London's Boudoir Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, May 5, 2015
1955 Baseball, ballet and Gwen Verdon provide the slugging power in Damn Yankees. Adapted from Douglass Wallop's book, "The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant," by Wallop and Ge…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, May 4, 2015
1859 Birthday of A.L. Erlanger (1859-1930), who, as half of the team of Klaw and Erlanger, produced dozens of Broadway shows during the first three decades of the 20th century, including…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe 'First Lady of British Musical Theater', Elaine Paige is bona fide musical theater royalty. Best known for having originated the roles of Eva Peron (yes, she did it before Patti) in 'Ev…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMSunday, May 3, 2015
1919 Birthday of Betty Comden, Broadway lyricist and librettist, mainly in collaboration with Adolph Green. Her works include On the Town, Wonderful Town, Peter Pan, On the Twentieth Century…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, May 2, 2015
After US movie star John Goodman praised British theatre-goers following his UK stage debut last week, two leading critics discuss whether you get a better class of punter on one side of the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00AM1887 Birthday of Vernon Castle who, with wife and dancing partner Irene Castle, would redefine not just what dancing represented on Broadway, but the kind of music used for that dancing. He …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, May 1, 2015
The Las Vegas stage production of The Duck Commander Musical, based on the popular, yet controversial family from the A&E series "Duck Dynasty," will end its run a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:21PM1922 Comedy team Potash and Perlmutter are Partners Again. The show plays 31 weeks at the Selwyn Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, April 30, 2015
Roundabout Theatre Company's Tony-nominated revival of On the Twentieth Century, starring 2015 Tony nominee Kristin Chenoweth, has extended its run by two weeks.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:16AM1924 Birthday of Sheldon Harnick, who will go on to write lyrics to musicals including Fiorello!, She Loves Me, The Apple Tree and Fiddler on the Roof.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, April 29, 2015
PS Classics' two-CD cast recording of the Roundabout Theatre Company's critically acclaimed revival of On the Twentieth Century, starring Kristin Chenoweth, will be available i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AMTuesday, April 28, 2015
Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth, who missed performances of her Broadway musical On the Twentieth Century April 24-26 due to illness, was well enough to return to the show …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:25PMThis morning, Broadway-bound Bruce Willis and Mary-Louise Parker announced the nominees for the 2015 Tony Awards. While for us there weren’t a lot of surprises (our pre-nominations were pr…
SOURCE: Time Out at 02:35PMWhat made Monica declare she saw the 'worst show ever'? Is comedy the last battleground for sexism? And will documentaries always play second fiddle to features? Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:01AM1900 Cho-Cho San and her passionate and tragic love illuminate David Belasco's adaptation of John Luther Long's story, Madame Butterfly. It is oddly paired on a double bill at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThree-time Tony nominee, Emmy winner, and Patrick's favorite movie star, the great Martha Plimpton discusses her important work as an activist for women's reproductive rights and stories fro…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMMonday, April 27, 2015
A holiday tour of Irving Berlin's White Christmas, based on the classic film of the same name, is scheduled to launch Nov. 6 and continue through Dec. 27, according to an Actors' Eq…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:37AM1903 The Cohan family is Running for Office. Son George M. Cohan wrote the book and the music at the 14th Street Theatre. It will run for six weeks.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00AMThe cast album of the Imelda Staunton London production of Gypsy is released by First Night Records April 27.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, April 26, 2015
Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth will be out of the Sunday, April 26 at 2 PM matinee of On the Twentieth Century due to illness, a show spokesperson confirmed to Playbil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AM1926 Sex. It's a comedy. Mae West plays a Canadian woman with no time for those mountees; it's the British navy for her. It runs through one season, but the following it is raided as…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, April 25, 2015
Off-Broadway mainstay “The Fantasticks” was scheduled to close in May.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:02PMTony Award winner Hugh Jackman, who was seen on Broadway earlier this season in Jez Butterworth's The River, attended the April 25 matinee performance of the critically acclaimed new mus…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:08PMTony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth will be out of the Saturday, April 25 matinee and evening performances of On the Twentieth Century due to illness, a show spokesperson c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:31PMTony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth will be out of the Saturday, April 25 at 2 PM matinee performance of On the Twentieth Century due to illness, a show spokesperson confir…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:04AM1927 When a woman loves sailors so much she follows them all around the world, it's time to Hit the Deck. Vincent Youmans provides the score for Herbert Fields' book adapted from the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, April 24, 2015
1905 Sir Henry Irving's production of The Merchant of Venice was to have opened the annual Shakespeare Festival at Stratford-upon-Avon. But Irving was taken ill and Frank Benson …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, April 23, 2015
A dialogue on dance, theater, and intuitive responses centered around David Neumann / Advanced Beginner Group's 'I Understand Everything Better' at Abrons Art Center through April 25.
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