Saturday, March 3, 2012
1930 Bert Lahr is a Flying High mechanic who breaks an aeronautical record because he doesn't know how to land the plane. The writing team of DeSylva,Brown and Henderson provide the lyri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, February 29, 2012
1932 - Denis Johnston's drama, The Moon in the Yellow River, opens at the Guild Theatre. Egon Brecher stars as a German electrical engineer caught in the Troubles of rural Ireland.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, January 25, 2012
From Ethel Merman to Patti LuPone to Kristin Chenoweth, TONY's theater critics give you the rundown on who are the top Broadway divas—ever.
SOURCE: Time Out New York at 02:54PMSunday, January 22, 2012
Musical? Opera? Rapture? Travesty? Two critics on the remade Porgy and Bess.
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 09:41PMSaturday, January 14, 2012
1903 Opening night of The Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett play about a child, much in the same vein as her Secret Garden. Little Princess will run just 34 performances.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, January 13, 2012
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 12:00AMMonday, January 9, 2012
The playwright-filmmaker known for his oft-disturbing and provocative works has applied his subversive wit to a new collaboration with photographer Gerald Slota.The playwright-filmmaker know…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:24PMThe New York Times presented its 11th annual Arts & Leisure Weekend, at The TimesCenter, January 5-8. The event featured TimesTalks interviews between New York Times journalists and cele…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:19AMThursday, December 22, 2011
Critics and writers for The New York Times recall their favorite moments onstage in 2011, some of them happening in the smallest and most offbeat of places.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:25PMTuesday, December 13, 2011
Time Out New York's theater critics weigh in on the year's highlights—and lowlights.
SOURCE: Time Out New York at 01:41PMThursday, November 17, 2011
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 07:00PMMonday, November 14, 2011
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 12:00AMSunday, November 13, 2011
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 12:00AMWednesday, November 9, 2011
The cast of the Public Theater's production of William Shakespeare's King Lear celebrated the show's opening on November 7 with a party at Chinatown Brasserie.
The company …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:39AMFriday, October 28, 2011
1928 Six-time Tony-winning costume designer Florence Klotz is born today. Her designs will be worn by the original casts of Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, On the Twentieth…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, October 25, 2011
To film, or not to film, that is the question. Time Out New York ranks the answers.
SOURCE: Time Out New York at 03:03PMFriday, October 21, 2011
1933 Trying to follow-up the success of their Pulitzer-winning musical Of Thee I Sing, George and Ira Gershwin, George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind bring back President John Wintergreen and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, October 14, 2011
1893 Lillian Gish, film acting pioneer whose Broadway career lasted from 1913 to 1976, is born today. Her stage shows will include Camille, The Trip to Bountiful and several versions of Uncl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, October 11, 2011
1918 Jerome Robbins born today. The choreographer spent most of his early career moving easily between the worlds of classical ballet and Broadway, choreographing and/or directing classics i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, October 7, 2011
1907 The Gay White Way, a musical revue whose title meant something quite different in that innocent era, opens at the Casino Theatre for a then-healthy run of 105 performances. Blanche Ring…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, October 3, 2011
Reports on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Man of Rock, and Madame X.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PMSunday, October 2, 2011
Reports on Crazy, Just Like Me, The Big Bank, and Ghostlight.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMSaturday, October 1, 2011
1928 Mae West's controversial play Pleasure Man opens at the Biltmore Theatre. It's the story of an actor who has impregnated so many women that the brother of one of them takes up a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, September 30, 2011
1915 The huge Hippodrome Theatre opens one of its most successful extravaganzas, Hip! Hip! Hooray!, with lyrics by John L. Golden, and starring Marjory Bentley and Dippy Diers. It will run 4…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, September 14, 2011
Playwrights Horizons' production of Itamar Moses' Completeness opened on Tuesday, September 13 at the company's Mainstage Theatre. Pam MacKinnon has directed the production.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:57AMTuesday, September 13, 2011
1894 Birthday of British playwright J.B. Priestley (1894-1984), author of plays An Inspector Calls, When We Are Married, Laburnum Grove and A Severed Head.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, September 8, 2011
1914 A farce about selling soap called It Pays to Advertise, by Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter Hackett, opens at the Cohan Theatre. It stars Grant Mitchell and Ruth Shepley.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, September 7, 2011
1909 Director Elia Kazan is born. Kazan would go on to direct the award-winning plays Death of a Salesman and A Streetcar Named Desire. His success reached to the silver screen as well. He w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, August 25, 2011
Reports on You Only Shoot the Ones You Love, Bongani, and Jersey Shoresical: A Frickin' Rock Opera.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:30AMWednesday, August 24, 2011
Reports on The Apartment: A Play with Four Sides, Recovery, and Elysian Fields.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:39AM 
