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Article | By Playbill Staff | October 26, 2021
Playbill Vault's Today in Theatre History: October 26
In 2000, the musical The Full Monty opens on Broadway.
Article | October 26, 2001
Today in Theatre History: OCTOBER 26
1946 A revival of Playboy of the Western World, by J.M. Synge, opens tonight at the Booth Theatre. Maureen Stapleton and Julie Harris are both making their Broadway debut in this production. The show has Burgess Meredith as its star, and the staging is done by Guthrie McClintic. The show will run 10 weeks.
Article | By Marc J. Franklin | April 8, 2020
Step Inside Broadway’s Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
While audiences wait for Company to resume performances, revisit the Jacobs Theatre and get a closer look at the details you might miss before the show—plus a deep dive into the theatre's history.
Article | By Marc J. Franklin | March 27, 2020
Step Inside Broadway’s Ambassador Theatre
While theatres remain dark, revisit some of your favorites with Inside the Theatre, and get a closer look at the details you might miss before the show.
Article | By Margaret Hall, Marc J. Franklin | November 11, 2024
Today, Broadway’s Al Hirschfeld Theatre Turns 100
Originally named the Martin Beck, the theatre is the western outpost of the Broadway theatre district.
Article | By Marc J. Franklin | March 25, 2020
Step Inside Broadway’s Al Hirschfeld Theatre
While theatres remain dark, revisit some of your favorites with Inside the Theatre, and get a closer look at the details you might miss before the show.
Article | July 19, 1999
Spring-Summer 1999 Broadway Season Schedule
Here is a list of shows announced to open on Broadway during the 1998-99 season and beyond. (Information as of July 14, 1999.) Schedule subject to change. For more details, please see separate news stories on each show. The 1998-99 Tony season officially ended April 28, 1999; the 1998-99 theatre season ended May 31, 1999.
Article | September 21, 1999
Summer-Fall 1999 Broadway Season Schedule
Here is a list of shows announced to open on Broadway during the 1999 2000 season and beyond. (Information as of Sept. 20, 1999.) Schedule subject to change. For more details, please see separate news stories on each show. The 1999-00 Tony season officially began April 29, 1999; the 1999-00 theatre season began June 1, 1999.
Article | December 3, 1999
Fall-Winter 1999-2000 Broadway Season Schedule
Here is a list of shows announced to open on Broadway during the 1999-2000 season and beyond. (Information as of Nov. 25, 1999.) Schedule subject to change. For more details, please see separate news stories on each show. The 1999-00 Tony season officially began April 29, 1999; the 1999-00 theatre season began June 1, 1999.
Article | By Robert Simonson | January 6, 2010
Donal Donnelly, Lifelong Interpreter of Friel Roles, Dies at 78
Donal Donnelly, who created roles in several plays by his fellow Irishman, Brian Friel, died Jan. 4 in Chicago, where he had lived recently. The cause was cancer. He was 78.
Article | January 14, 1998
IL's Steppenwolf Ensemble Lands Landau
Not only is author/director Tina Landau flying high with Space at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, she's just landed a spot in the company's Ensemble. Said artistic director Martha Lavey (Jan. 14), "This is an enormous resource to Steppenwolf; a gifted director and writer, [Landau] has worked with a wide range of texts, both dramatic and musical...Tina is an artist of vision with a developed and deftly-executed aesthetic, and yet she is highly collaborative." Landau joins a group of 30 other writers, directors and adapters.
Article | December 7, 1997
Space, About Alien Abductions, Opens at Steppenwolf Dec. 7
David Hare, Tina Landau, Frank Galati, Frank Mahoney and TV producer/director James Burrows are among the noted theatre artists participating in Steppenwolf Theatre Company's 1997-98 Mainstage season. Says artistic director Martha Lavey, "Steppenwolf is proud to be a home to so many talented artists, and we look forward to a season of their inspired work."
Article | By David Lefkowitz, Blair Glaser | September 22, 1997
Steppenwolf Season Opens With Skylight, Sept. 21
David Hare, Tina Landau, Frank Galati, Frank Mahoney and TV producer/director James Burrows are among the noted theatre artists who will participate in Steppenwolf Theatre Company's 1997-98 Mainstage season. Says artistic director Martha Lavey, "Steppenwolf is proud to be a home to so many talented artists, and we look forward to a season of their inspired work."
Article | September 2, 1997
TV's Burrows To Have Dinner At IL's Steppenwolf
David Hare, Tina Landau, Frank Galati, Frank Mahoney and TV producer/director James Burrows are among the noted theatre artists who will participate in Steppenwolf Theatre Company's 1997-98 Mainstage season. Says artistic director Martha Lavey, "Steppenwolf is proud to be a home to so many talented artists, and we look forward to a season of their inspired work."
Article | September 8, 1998
Martha Plimpton Becomes Steppenwolf Member, to Star in IL Menagerie, Dec. 3
Film and stage star Martha Plimpton has been made an ensemble member of the storied Chicago troupe, the Steppenwolf Theatre Ensemble. Plimpton recently appeared at the theatre at Pegeen Mike in Synge's The Playboy of the Western World. That production will open at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, CT, this fall.
Article | August 1, 1997
Guthrie Comedy Gets Two Grandpas: Prosky & Margulies
Seven mainstage plays and one lab production are on the July-May schedule, of Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, with You Can't Take It With You first up, running through Aug. 17.
Article | July 21, 1997
Hume Cronyn To Speak At MN's Guthrie, Tonight, July 21
Tonight, July 21, 5:30 PM, Minnesotans can hear the wit and wisdom of one of the theatre's great elders, Hume Cronyn. He'll be the honored guest speaker at the Guthrie Theatre's annual meeting, wherein new officers and board members of the theatre will also be annonced.
Article | July 11, 1997
Guthrie Season Opens July 11 With Kaufman/Hart Comedy
A Demon, a Spirit and a Playboy are all on tap for the Guthrie Theatre's 1997-98 season. Seven mainstage plays and one lab production comprise the Minneapolis theatre's July-May schedule, with You Can't Take It With You first up, beginning July 11.
Article | August 28, 2001
Long Wharf Has Serio-Comic Hearts in 2002
After the 2001-02 season got off to a rocky start with the loss of artistic director Douglas Hughes and the scuttling of several planned productions, the Long Wharf Theatre of New Haven, CT, has recovered somewhat, naming Hearts to fill its previously-unannounced slot at the C. Newton Schenck Mainstage.
Article | July 11, 2001
Long Wharf Searches for New AD; Adds Good Thief, Waverly to Season
With former artistic director Douglas Hughes departure from Connecticut's Long Wharf Theatre in early June, the thirty-six year old theatre company has decided to reexamine their internal structure while searching for a replacement.

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