Monday, March 30, 2015
1858 Birthday of DeWolf Hopper (1858-1935), vaudeville comedian and musical comedy star, who was featured in Wang, Hoity-Toity and many early Gilbert & Sullivan productions. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:14AMSunday, March 29, 2015
The Culture Ministry said Boris Mezdrich had failed to mitigate an outcry among the Russian Orthodox Church who were offended by various aspects of the production of “Tannhauser.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:16PM1939 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 09:24PM1950 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 09:24PMSaturday, March 28, 2015
The words “tuneful” and “energetic” only begin to describe Our Lady of Good Counsel High School’s production of the Tony Award-winning musical Hairspray. Based on the 1988 John Wat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:36PMFriday, March 27, 2015
RCA Victor catalogue promoting Mexican early sound film star Libertad Lamarque. Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
As well as being a research center for The New York Public…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 01:47PMSony Picture Home Entertainment has announced details of the special features that will be included in the April 2 Blu-ray release of its hit 1972 film adaptation of the Tony-winning…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:18AM1924 Long before Madonna sang about Vogueing, there were the Vogues of 1924. This revue at the Shubert Theatre stars Fred Allen and Jimmy Savo. It will run for almost three months.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, March 26, 2015
The rush policy has been announced for the Broadway premiere of the new musical Doctor Zhivago, which stars Tam Mutu, Kelli Barrett, Tom Hewitt and Paul Nolan and begins performances March 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AM1905 Actor Maurice Barrymore dies today. He was father to Lionel Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore and John Barrymore. He was 57 years old.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCelebrating its anniversary today, Funny Girl, starring Barbra Streisand in her star-making turn, opened on March 26, 1964. The musical production played 1,348 performances and received …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, March 25, 2015
We salute the star of film and television on her 50th birthday with a nod to her much under-appreciated singing chops Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:38PM1871 Birthday of Lee Shubert, one of the three legendary Shubert brothers who will found the theatre-owning and producing empire, the Shubert Organization.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, March 24, 2015
“Too much sanity is madness!” This counterintuitive declaration is made by Don Quixote, the iconic lead character in the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s current production of Man of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:09PMPlaybill.com has learned that the retooled production of the musical spectacle King Kong, which is looking towards a New York run, will be directed by Eric Schaeffer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:28AM1909 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 12:00AMThe Blu-ray, DVD and digital releases of the hit film adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical Into the Woods, starring Meryl Streep, Anna Kendrick and James Corden, i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, March 23, 2015
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 Din…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, March 22, 2015
1912 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 12:00AMSaturday, March 21, 2015
DMI Records will release the cast recording of the Broadway revival of Gigi, which is currently in previews at the Neil Simon Theatre prior to an official opening April 8, in June.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:39PM1867 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 ac…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, March 20, 2015
(This post is part of the Audience (R)Evolution online salon curated by Caridad Svich for the TCG Audience (R)Evolution Convening in Kansas City, MO in 2015.) Tricklock [http://www.trick…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 05:31PMThe following is an excerpt from a conversation between Jim Hart, regular TCG Blog Salon contributor and Director of Arts Entrepreneurship at SMU and American and international theatre artis…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 04:58PM1828 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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00AMThursday, March 19, 2015
The Lincoln Center Theater will present Kill Floor by award-winning new playwright Abe Koogler and to be directed by Lila Neugebauer (4000 Miles), the first LCT3 world premiere productio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30PMWith a glorious mélange of words and music, Freedom’s Song: Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War tells the story of America’s struggle to keep our nation together and abolish the wretched …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:06PM1872 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 12:00AMWednesday, March 18, 2015
I got to talk to the FANTASTIC Ryan Scott Oliver while he was at the Writers Colony (for a second consecutive year!). I talked with him all about his new show, greatest inspirations, …
SOURCE: backstagebloggers.wordpress.com at 09:06PMThe Jerome Robbins Dance Division is pleased to announce that the five interviews documented with the Mertz Gilmore Foundation grant to record African choreographers and teachers are now on…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 05:12PMA mini-cast album of the Broadway-aimed musical Allegiance, starring Tony Award winner Lea Salonga, George Takei and Telly Leung, is available for digital download.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AM1927 Birthday of composer John Kander, who will compose scores for Broadway's Cabaret, Chicago, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Woman of the Year, Zorba and other musicals.
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