Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Reports on The Apartment: A Play with Four Sides, Recovery, and Elysian Fields.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:39AM1985 Morrie Ryskind dies in his home in Washington, DC. The playwright who collaborated with George Kaufman, Ira Gershwin, and George Gershwin on three musicals, Strike Up the Band, Let '…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, August 22, 2011
Reports on The Bardy Bunch, Leonard Cohen Koans, The Mountain Song, Paper Cut, and The Rubber Room.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:23PMFriday, August 19, 2011
Reports on Yeast Nation (the triumph of life), Noir, and Sammy Gets Mugged!
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMWednesday, August 10, 2011
1911 Birthday of playwright Jerome Chodorov, who wrote the play, My Sister Eileen, which he later adapted as the book for the musical Wonderful Town, which won him a Tony Award. Other plays …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, August 5, 2011
1977 All Broadway marquee lights are dimmed tonight in honor of actor Alfred Lunt who died two days earlier. This is only the third time up to that point that such an action has been taken.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, August 2, 2011
1900 Birthday of actress and singer Helen Morgan, who rose to fame as a nightclub performer. She had a show at Billy Rose's Backstage Club, where the crowded conditions made her perch on…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, August 1, 2011
Reports on Just In Time: The Judy Holliday Story, Picking Palin, and A Matter of Choice.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM1921 Opening night of the popular farce Getting Gertie's Garter. about a man who gives a young woman a jeweled garter, then schemes to get it back before his fiance finds out.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, July 31, 2011
1969 Talk about a writer's revenge! Josef Bush, who has adapted De Sade Illustrated at Off-Broadway's Bouwerie Theatre, wreaks havoc on the set, spreading white paint all over it. Hi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, July 30, 2011
1983 Broadway lyricist Howard Dietz dies today at age 87. With composer Arthur Schwartz, Dietz wrote the score for The Band Wagon. Other songs by the duo include "Dancing in the Dark,&q…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, July 29, 2011
1981 An ad in Variety today accuses theatre critic John Simon of being "racist, anti-Semitic, misogynist, vicious, and derisive." Included in the ad/protest are excerpts from Simon…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, July 27, 2011
1982 Little Shop of Horrors begins a 2,209-performance run today at Off-Broadway's Orpheum Theatre. Based on the Roger Corman cult classic about a man-eating plant, this Alan Menken-Howa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, July 26, 2011
1856 A Dramatic genius is born today in the person of George Bernard Shaw. Among Shaw's many playwriting credits will be Pygmalion, Man and Superman and Saint Joan. The former play, a co…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, July 25, 2011
1853 Birthday of Broadway impresario David Belasco, namesake of the Belasco Theatre, who wrote and/or produced dozens of plays including DuBarry, Zaza and Laugh, Clown, Laugh!, and two that …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, July 22, 2011
1912 The Shubert Brothers present the first of their annual Passing Show installments tonight. Passing Show of 1912 features Charlotte Greenwood, Trixie Friganza, and Eugene and Willie Howar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, July 19, 2011
1938 Stage and film actor Burgess Meredith divorces Margaret Perry today. Perry, an actress, is the daughter of Antoinette Perry, after whom the Tony Awards are named. The union was rather s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, July 17, 2011
1953 Actress Maude Adams dies today. Born in 1873, Adams, at the age of 32, played the title role in James M. Barrie's Peter Pan when it had its American premiere at the Empire Theatre i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSaturday, July 16, 2011
1924 Broadway premiere of George Dibdin-Pitt's Sweeney Todd, one of numerous adaptations of the penny-dreadful tale of murder and cannibalism that would later be adapted as a musical of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, July 15, 2011
1905 Birthday of lyricist and librettist Dorothy Fields (1905-1974), daughter of vaudeville star Lew Fields of Weber & Fields. Among her numerous credits over six decades from the 1920s …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, July 14, 2011
1918 Birthday of playwright Arthur Laurents, who will write numerous plays including The Time of the Cuckoo and Invitation to a March, but who is best known as librettist for musical classic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, July 13, 2011
1940 Actor Patrick Stewart is born today. Stewart, a Shakespearean-trained actor, will appear on Broadway in his solo production of A Christmas Carol, in the Public Theater production of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, July 11, 2011
Nick Adams, Reeve Carney, Jennifer Damiano, Mary Tyler Moore, Bebe Neuwirth, Bernadette Peters, Andrew Rannells, Aaron Tveit, and a host of stars take part in Broadway's annual pet adopt-a-t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:16AMSunday, July 10, 2011
1931 "It's Today" -- that Jerry Herman is born. Herman will become one of Broadway's great musical theatre composers. Among his esteemed credits are the hits Hello, Dolly!,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, July 8, 2011
Nina Arianda, Norm Lewis, Jan Maxwell, Jennifer Morrison, Donna Murphy, David Hyde Pierce, Doris Roberts, Swoosie Kurtz, and more stars join Tyne Daly and the company of Broadway's Master Cl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:48AMFriday, July 1, 2011
1930 Comedian Jack Benny makes his Broadway debut in Earl Carroll's Vanities of 1930. The revue also featured Patsy Kelly, Jimmy Savo and the Collette Sisters.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, June 26, 2011
1894 (probably) Actress Jeanne Eagels, best known for playing Miss Thompson in Rain, is born today.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, June 25, 2011
1887 Birthday of legendary director George Abbott (1887-1995) whose long life (107 years) and colossal catalog (more than 110 Broadway shows, sometimes also as producer, writer or even actor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, June 18, 2011
1956 The Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario kicks off its season with productions of Henry V, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia. Also include…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, June 12, 2011
The 2011 Tony Awards are being presented live from the Beacon Theatre June 12. Playbill.com is on site, and will be posting photos as the night progresses.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:49PMFriday, June 3, 2011
1866 Birthday of playwright and producer George Broadhurst (1866-1952), responsible for dozens of plays and musicals, including the first stage adaptation of Tarzan of the Apes. Also, namesa…
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