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Thursday, November 20, 2014

PLAYBILL VAULT’S Today in Theatre History: NOVEMBER 20 by David Gewirtzman and Robert Viagas, Sam Maher, Steve Luber and Anne Bradley

1922 The Lucky One is the brother who doesn't get the girl in this A. A. Milne play. Staged at the Theatre Guild by Theodore Komisarjevsky with a cast including Dennis King, Romney Brent…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30AM
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

PLAYBILL VAULT’S Today in Theatre History: NOVEMBER 19 by David Gewirtzman and Robert Viagas, Sam Maher, Steve Luber and Anne Bradley

1906 George Arliss and Mrs. Fiske star in The New York Idea, Langdon Mitchell's play which runs 66 performances at the Lyric Theatre.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

PLAYBILL VAULT’S Today In Theatre History: NOVEMBER 18 by David Gewirtzman and Robert Viagas, Sam Maher, Steve Luber, Anne Bradley

1836 Birthday of satirist William S. Gilbert, later to achieve immortality as the lyricist half of the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta-writing team that produced The Mikado, The Pira…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Monday, November 17, 2014

PLAYBILL VAULT’S Today In Theatre History: NOVEMBER 17 by David Gewirtzman and Robert Viagas, Sam Maher, Steve Luber and Anne Bradley

1901 Birthday of actor/director/producer/teacher/acting coach Lee Strasberg (1901-1982) in Austria-Hungary. As a founder of the Group Theatre and Artistic Director of the Actors Stud…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Sunday, November 16, 2014

PLAYBILL VAULT’S Today In Theatre History: NOVEMBER 16 by David Gewirtzman and Robert Viagas, Sam Maher, Steve Luber and Anne Bradley

1889 Playwright and director George S. Kaufman (1889-1961) is born today in Pittsburgh. A former newsman, Kaufman will make his mark with the comedy Dulcy in 1921, and will go on to writ…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Saturday, November 15, 2014

PLAYBILL VAULT’S Today In Theatre History: NOVEMBER 15 by David Gewirtzman and Robert Viagas, Sam Maher, Steve Luber and Anne Bradley

1875 British comic operetta titans W. S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan make their U.S. debut today with Trial by Jury at the Eagle Variety Theatre, where it runs 8 performances.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Friday, November 14, 2014

PLAYBILL VAULT’S Today in Theatre History: NOVEMBER 14 by David Gewirtzman and Robert Viagas, Sam Maher, Steve Luber and Anne Bradley

1905 Blanche Bates is Minnie, sweetheart of the mines in Girl of the Golden West. She tends a saloon, fugitive lover and pursuing sheriff. Writer, director, producer David Belasco was no str…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Thursday, November 13, 2014

PLAYBILL VAULT’S Today In Theatre History: NOVEMBER 13 by David Gewirtzman and Robert Viagas, Sam Maher, Steve Luber and Anne Bradley

1833 Birthday of master actor Edwin Booth (1833-1893), a major interpreter of Shakespeare and brother to actor Junius Brutus Booth and presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth. Broadway&#…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

PLAYBILL VAULT’S Today In Theatre History: NOVEMBER 12 by David Gewirtzman and Robert Viagas, Sam Maher, Steve Luber and Anne Bradley

1874 Birthday of pioneering African-American performer-composer Bert Williams (1874-1922), who wrote music for Broadway's In Dahomey (1903) and Abyssinia (1906), but achieved…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

PLAYBILL VAULT’S Today In Theatre History: NOVEMBER 11 by David Gewirtzman and Robert Viagas, Sam Maher, Steve Luber and Anne Bradley

1872 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 12:00AM
Monday, November 11, 2013

PLAYBILL VAULT'S Today In Theatre History: NOVEMBER 11 by David Gewirtzman and Robert Viagas, Sam Maher, Steve Luber and Anne Bradley

1872 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 12:00AM
Tuesday, November 20, 2012

PLAYBILL VAULT'S Today in Theatre History: NOVEMBER 20 by David Gewirtzman and Robert Viagas, Sam Maher, Steve Luber and Anne Bradley

1922 The Lucky One is the brother who doesn't get the girl in this A. A. Milne play. Staged at the Theatre Guild by Theodore Komisarjevsky with a cast including Dennis King, Romney Brent…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Monday, November 19, 2012

PLAYBILL VAULT'S Today in Theatre History: NOVEMBER 19 by David Gewirtzman and Robert Viagas, Sam Maher, Steve Luber and Anne Bradley

1906 George Arliss and Mrs. Fiske star in The New York Idea, Langdon Mitchell's play which runs 66 performances at the Lyric Theatre.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Sunday, November 18, 2012

PLAYBILL VAULT'S Today In Theatre History: NOVEMBER 18 by David Gewirtzman and Robert Viagas, Sam Maher, Steve Luber, Anne Bradley

1836 Birthday of satirist William S. Gilbert, later to achieve immortality as the lyricist half of the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta-writing team that produced The Mikado, The Pirates of P…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Saturday, November 17, 2012

PLAYBILL VAULT'S Today In Theatre History: NOVEMBER 17 by David Gewirtzman and Robert Viagas, Sam Maher, Steve Luber and Anne Bradley

1901 Birthday of actor/director/producer/teacher/acting coach Lee Strasberg (1901-1982) in Austria-Hungary. As a founder of the Group Theatre and Artistic Director of the Actors Studio, he w…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Friday, November 16, 2012

PLAYBILL VAULT'S Today In Theatre History: NOVEMBER 16 by Robert Viagas and Sam Maher, Steve Luber and Anne Bradley

1889 Playwright and director George S. Kaufman (1889-1961) is born today in Pittsburgh. A former newsman, Kaufman will make his mark with the comedy Dulcy in 1921, and will go on to write do…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Thursday, November 15, 2012

PLAYBILL VAULT'S Today In Theatre History: NOVEMBER 15 by David Gewirtzman and Robert Viagas, Sam Maher, Steve Luber and Anne Bradley

1875 British comic operetta titans W. S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan make their U.S. debut today with Trial by Jury at the Eagle Variety Theatre, where it runs 8 performances.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Wednesday, November 14, 2012

PLAYBILL VAULT'S Today in Theatre History: NOVEMBER 14 by David Gewirtzman and Robert Viagas, Sam Maher, Steve Luber and Anne Bradley

1905 Blanche Bates is Minnie, sweetheart of the mines in Girl of the Golden West. She tends a saloon, fugitive lover and pursuing sheriff. Writer, director, producer David Belasco was no str…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

PLAYBILL VAULT'S Today In Theatre History: NOVEMBER 13 by David Gewirtzman and Robert Viagas, Sam Maher, Steve Luber and Anne Bradley

1833 Birthday of master actor Edwin Booth (1833-1893), a major interpreter of Shakespeare and brother to actor Junius Brutus Booth and presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth. Broadway's…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Monday, November 12, 2012

PLAYBILL VAULT'S Today In Theatre History: NOVEMBER 12 by Robert Viagas and Sam Maher, Steve Luber and Anne Bradley

1874 Birthday of pioneering African-American performer-composer Bert Williams (1874-1922), who wrote music for Broadway's In Dahomey (1903) and Abyssinia (1906), but achieved even greate…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Thursday, November 17, 2011

Today In Theatre History: NOVEMBER 18 by David Gewirtzman and Robert Viagas, Sam Maher, Steve Luber, Anne Bradley

1836 Birthday of satirist William S. Gilbert, later to achieve immortality as the lyricist half of the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta-writing team that produced The Mikado, The Pirates of P…

SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00PM
Monday, November 14, 2011

Today in Theatre History: NOVEMBER 14 by David Gewirtzman and Robert Viagas, Sam Maher, Steve Luber and Anne Bradley

1905 Blanche Bates is Minnie, sweetheart of the mines in Girl of the Golden West. She tends a saloon, fugitive lover and pursuing sheriff. Writer, director, producer David Belasco was no str…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Sunday, November 13, 2011

Today In Theatre History: NOVEMBER 13 by David Gewirtzman and Robert Viagas, Sam Maher, Steve Luber and Anne Bradley

1833 Birthday of master actor Edwin Booth (1833-1893), a major interpreter of Shakespeare and brother to actor Junius Brutus Booth and presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth. Broadway's…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM

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