Wednesday, September 10, 2014
1915 Fanny Brice is reviewed in Variety for her performance at the Palace. Variety says that when she "learns to refrain from starting to disrobe before she is out of sight of the audie…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 9, 2014
A day after Broadway League executive director Charlotte St. Martin stated that the lights of Broadway theatres would not be dimmed in memory of Joan Rivers, representatives for the trade or…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:03PM[SHARE]1873 Birthday of influential director Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) in Austria-Hungary. He will stage innovative productions of The Eternal Road, Sumurun and A Midsummer Night's Drea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 7, 2014
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. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 6, 2014
1919 The Actors' Equity strike is settled at 3 AM, and some shows reopen today.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 5, 2014
The box office for the Booth Theatre, home to the revival of The Elephant Man starring Bradley Cooper, opens for business Sept. 5.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AM[SHARE]1881 Birthday of B. Iden Payne (1881-1976) a producer and playwright, who, as a professor at the University of Texas, inspired three generations of Broadway artists, including Tommy Tune…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Saturday, August 2, 2014
Famous for playing Danish detective Sarah Lund, Gråbøl tackles roles of two powerful women a queen and a governor in TV thriller Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM[SHARE]Monday, July 28, 2014
Iford Manor, Bradford-upon-Avon: Baroque opera used to be regarded as a specialist taste, but it can be extremely immediate in its impact when done well. Sung in Christopher Cowell's En…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:49AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 26, 2014
Clothes make the comedian at this year's fringe as acts seem to have fallen under the spell of Downton Abbey Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 17, 2014
Elaine Stritch, the brassy, tart-tongued Broadway actress and singer who became a living emblem of show business durability and perhaps the leading interpreter of Stephen Sondheim's wryly ac…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:16PM[SHARE]Friday, June 20, 2014
Three acts explain how chocolate biscuits, Ke$ha and trying to act cool inspired their routinesReading on mobile? Click to view Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 29, 2014
In these diary extracts, actors Peter Rylands, Rebecca Todd and Alan Suri record what it's like to switch from Dracula to Jez Butterworth at Keswick's Theatre by the LakeEvery year after Eas…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 20, 2014
When did Michael Gambon discover that he could act? What was his first role? And what did he learn from working with Laurence Olivier, Alan Ayckbourn and Harold Pinter? The great actor talks…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Palace Theatre, Watford: A smart two-hander, An Intervention begins with a drink-fuelled confrontation between A, a young woman who has just been on an anti-war protest, and her best friend,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 22, 2014
At last night's boozier, extra-festive, less-emphasis-on-the-awards-part Helen Hayes Awards at the National Building Museum, Signature Theatre walked away with the most trophies, a lot of pe…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 01:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 16, 2014
The event featured a performance by iLUMINATE, dancers who perform in the dark to create illuminated characters -- including 737s. A United Airlines airplane formed the stage's backdrop, as …
SOURCE: www.boeing.com at 05:25PM[SHARE]Three acts on where they got the inspiration for their jokes about a dad's best friend, emailing cheese and elephants with accentsReading on mobile? Watch Rubberbandits here Continue reading…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Friday, March 14, 2014
You are invited to join us here at the Library for the Performing Arts for a Kinokophone Recording Workshop on Thursday, May 15th at 6 p.m. in the 3rd Floor Screening Room. We will explore i…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 10:47AM[SHARE]You are invited to join us here at the Library for the Performing Arts for a Kinokophone Recording Workshop on Thursday, May 15th at 6 p.m. in the 3rd Floor Screening Room. We will explore i…
SOURCE: nypl.org at 10:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 4, 2014
In the summer of 1963, The Beatles were huge in Britain. But this was not the case in America. Two earlier singles that had done well in their home country—"Please Please Me"…
SOURCE: nypl.org at 11:07AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Continuing our series on the art of standup, three comedians take apart their routines Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 30, 2014
The New York State Department of Labor and the New York City Police Department will present On-Site Recruitment Information Sessions for School Safety Officer, Traffic Enforcement Agent and …
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 03:44PM[SHARE]1911 Hugh Herbert Hipple is born today in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After dropping two H's, he will become suave actor Hugh Marlowe. In 1940 he will appear in Elmer Rice's Flight T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 29, 2014
The following information is prepared by John Ladd, administrator of the Office of Apprenticeship within the Labor Department's Employment and Training Administration.How would you like…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 06:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 28, 2014
The New York State Department of Labor and New Partners Inc. will present an On-Site Recruitment for Bilingual Home Health Aides on Friday, January 31, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. sharp (Appointment…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 01:44PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 25, 2014
1915 It'll be 90 in the Shade for only 40 performances. The unpaid actors will refuse to go on in this musical with a Jerome Kern score and book by Guy Bolton. Richard Carle and Marie Ca…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 22, 2014
1912 Stop in at the Liberty Theatre in New York and see just what it takes when you're Elevating a Husband. Edward Everett Horton, Conway Tearle and Jessie Carter are among the cast of t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 21, 2014
1903 Dorothy, The Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion are first seen on Broadway today in the original musical The Wizard of Oz, with music by Paul Tietjens and book and lyrics by L…
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