This Month in Theatre History
A non-theatrical venture by John Wilkes Booth, a Tupac musical, the founding of a legendary Off-Broadway company, a global Latin festival, and more.
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A non-theatrical venture by John Wilkes Booth, a Tupac musical, the founding of a legendary Off-Broadway company, a global Latin festival, and more.
June looks back on Frederick Douglass’s criticisms of blackface, Uta Hagen’s legacy, Eugene O’Neill’s nine-act ‘Interlude,’ Steppenwolf’s ‘Menagerie,’ and a Lynne Nottage premiere.
May recalls the Astor Place Riot, a vaudeville women’s rights advocate, the Moscow Art Theatre, a pioneer of Asian American drama, a Chicano performance troupe, and a beloved Tesori-Kushner musical.
April recalls the Hyers sisters, a prolific lyricist, a federal musical revue, a busy book writer, an August Wilson premiere, and an Anna Deavere Smith classic.
March looks back on a musical comedy duo, a Carolina laureate, A Cherry Lane icon, the Living Theatre, and a Fornés tetralogy.
February recalls the comedic duo Williams and Walker, a Gertrude Stein opera, a ‘Death of a Salesman’ debut, and more.
The legendary Broadway and Hollywood director mounted some of his final productions at a Nebraska dinner theatre more than 40 years ago.
January looks back on the first female theatre manager, a new-play producer, a groundbreaking Black theatre artist, peak Broadway, and more.
The first production to use electric lighting, a tragic theatre fire, a Broadway landmark, an Asian American icon, and a James Baldwin musical adaptation.
November recalls the play Lincoln first saw Booth in, Kern’s Princess Theatre musicals, a Puerto Rican literary godfather, a gospel Oedipus musical, and a century-defining epic.