Monday, May 25, 2015
1901 A man marries his fiancee On the Quiet because his parents want him to finish Yale. Playwright Augustus Thomas based this comedy on a real incident. It unfolds at the Madison Square The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]1905 Birthday of composer Harold Arlen (1905-1986) a cantor's son who cut his musical teeth in 1920s Harlem, and went on to write music for Broadway shows, Star and Garter. Jamaica, House of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]1898 Birthday of Broadway leading lady and producer Katharine Cornell (1898-1974), who starred in and/or produced A Bill of Divorcement, The Age of Innocence, The Barretts of Wimpole Street,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]1930 Birthday of Marni Nixon, singer whose voice will be dubbed into the mouths of better-known performers, including Natalie Wood in the film of West Side Story. She will make her Broadway …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]1876 Birthday of Broadway comedian Victor Moore (1876-1962), who starred or co-starred in the original casts of many musical comedies, notably Of Thee I Sing, Anything Goes, Louisiana Purcha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]1911 Chicago's Columbia Theatre opens its doors today. Architect J.E.O. Pridmore designed this house which seats 1,550. In 1923 it will become the Adelphi. In 1974 its doors will close for d…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]1907 The Herald Square Theatre in New York hosts the American premiere of Widower's Houses. George Bernard Shaw's comedy is offered by the Shuberts in 16 special matinee performances. Effie …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]1925 Ernest Truex is The Fall Guy for a group of dope dealers. This James Gleason-George Abbott comedy will run at the Eltinge Theatre for almost three months.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]1928 Birthday of playwright Edward Albee, who will go on to write Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? and Pulitzer-winners, A Delicate Balance, Seascape and Three Ta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]1928 It's one for all, and all for almost 10 months of The Three Musketeers. William A. McGuire stages his book based on the Dumas novel. P.G. Wodehouse and Clifford Grey write the lyrics fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]1878 Birthday of legendary dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (1878-1949), whose Broadway appearances will include Memphis Bound!, The Hot Mikado and Blackbirds of 1928.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]What happens backstage at Broadway shows is supposed to be secret, private and not really important compared with what is happening onstage. But try telling that to the public.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 24, 2015
Anne Meara, actress, playwright and half of the comedy team of Stiller & Meara, died May 23 at age 85. The cause of death was not immediately reported.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:47PM[SHARE]Anne Meara, actress, playwright and half of the comedy team of Stiller & Meara, died May 23 at age 85. The cause of death was not immediately reported.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:47PM[SHARE]Anne Meara, actress, playwright and half of the comedy team of Stiller & Meara, died May 23 at age 85. The cause of death was not immediately reported.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:47PM[SHARE]1925 Godfrey Tearle is Hamlet in the Fellowship Players production at the Prince of Wales Theatre. The Fellowship offers Sunday performances so these employed professionals have the chance t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 23, 2015
The new film musical "Pitch Perfect 2" grossed more than $135 million in the first week of release in the U.S., making it the fastest-breaking musical film in history.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:04PM[SHARE]Friday, May 22, 2015
1907 Birthday of Laurence Olivier (1907-1989), preeminent British actor of his generation. His dozens of notable appearances included Romeo and Juliet, The Entertainer, Becket, Private L…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57PM[SHARE]A Broadway musical based on the HBO series "Games of Thrones"? Sounds crazy, no?
Actually, yes, it's a spoof created by the British rock band Coldplay as part of the Red Nose…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:02AM[SHARE]A Broadway musical based on the HBO series "Games of Thrones"? Sounds crazy, no?
Actually, yes, it's a spoof created by the British rock band Coldplay as part of the Red Nose…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 21, 2015
P.J. Paparelli, director of the innovative American Theater Company in Chicago, died May 21 of injuries suffered earlier this week in a car crash in Scotland, where he was vacationing, accor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Precocious child theatre critic Iain Armitage, known for his video reviews of musicals and plays in Washington, D.C. and on Broadway, stopped by the stage door of the musical Gigi to intervi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:50PM[SHARE]Kate Shindle, who has appeared on Broadway in productions as diverse as Jekyll & Hyde, Cabaret (as Sally Bowles) and Wonderland (as the Mad Hatter), has been elected new president of Act…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:36PM[SHARE]Nine-time (and soon ten-time) Tony Award winner Tommy Tune made a surprise appearance May 20 during the curtain calls of the Broadway show It's Only a Play to offer good wishes &…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:06AM[SHARE]Late-night talk-show host (and Tony winner) James Corden found an unusual way to bid farewell to fellow host David Letterman, who taped his last show from the Ed Sullivan Theatre in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28AM[SHARE]1929 Some of the highlights of A Night in Venice are Ted Healy wrestling bears and the choreography of Busby Berkeley. This revue will run at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway for 22 weeks.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has come up with a lot of innovative and unusual ways to raise money in the last half century, from Broadway Bears (an auction of teddy bears dressed up lik…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:49PM[SHARE]Two more of the spring season's new Broadway musicals announced national tours May 20: Fun Home and Something Rotten!
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:40PM[SHARE]Co-host Kristin Chenoweth as well as Chita Rivera, Christian Borle, Brian d'Arcy James, Kelli O'Hara, Tyne Daly and Ken Watanabe will be among performers on the 2015 Tony Award b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:42PM[SHARE]Co-host Kristin Chenoweth as well as Chita Rivera, Christian Borle, Brian d'Arcy James, Kelli O'Hara, Tyne Daly and Ken Watanabe will be among performers on the 2015 Tony Award b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:42PM[SHARE]Co-host Kristin Chenoweth as well as Chita Rivera, Christian Borle, Brian d'Arcy James, Kelli O'Hara, Tyne Daly and Ken Watanabe will be among performers on the 2015 Tony Award b…
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