History Hop Tags - Theatre

1570-05-22

1st atlas 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' (Theatre of the World), published by Abraham Ortelius in Antwerp with 70 maps

1585-03-03

The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza.

1611-04-20

First known performance of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth at the Globe Theatre, London recorded by Simon Forman

1613-06-29

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre burns down

1663-05-07

Theatre Royal in Drury Lane London opens

1711-02-24

Handel's opera "Rinaldo" premieres at Haymarket theatre in London

1723-01-12

Handel's opera "Ottone" premieres at the King's Theatre London

1749-01-21

The Verona Philharmonic Theatre was destroyed by fire. It was rebuilt in 1754.

1783-12-07

Theatre Royal opens in Covent Garden, London

1794-03-12

Theatre Royal in London's Dury Lane opens after being rebuilt

1804-02-24

London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.

1808-09-30

Covent Garden Theatre Royal destroyed by fire

1824-07-30

Gioacchino Rossini becomes manager of Theatre Italian, Paris

1843-12-25

1st theatre matinee (Olympic Theatre, NYC)

1870-04-16

Vaudeville Theatre Strand opens in London

1882-12-11

Boston's Bijou Theatre, 1st American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity, 1st performance, Gilbert & Sullivan's "Iolanthe"

1883-06-16

The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England kills 183 children

1887-09-05

Gas lamp at Theatre Royal in Exeter catches fire killing about 200

1888-08-11

California Theatre closed (now a Pac Tel Phone Store)

1888-09-25

Royal Court Theatre, London, opens

1896-04-13

John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan" premieres at the Tremont Theatre in Boston,

1899-05-08

The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin opens.

1902-04-02

"Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California.

1904-12-27

Duke of York Theatre opens in London (1st musical Peter Pan)

1911-05-09

Fire breaks out at Empire Theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland

1913-03-25

Home of vaudeville, Palace Theatre, opens (NYC) starring Ed Wynn

1920-11-08

Actress Edna Lewis Thomas debuts at Putnam Theatre Brooklyn

1922-12-30

Creation of the USSR formally proclaimed in Moscow from the Bolshoi Theatre

1924-11-08

Fortune Theatre opens in London

1926-08-05

1st talkie movie "Don Juan" at Warner Theatre, NY

1926-10-24

Harry Houdini's last performance, which was at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.

1927-02-24

John Golden Theater (Theatre Masque) opens at 252 W 45th St NYC

1930-09-04

Cambridge Theatre opens in London

1932-04-23

Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens at Stratford-on-Avon

1934-07-22

Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.

1934-10-14

"Lux Radio Theatre" premieres

1937-12-21

The first full-length cel animated feature film and the earliest in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre

1939-08-15

"The Wizard of Oz", premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, stars Judy Garland (Dorothy), Ray Bolger (Scarecrow), Jack Haley (Tin Man), Bert Lahr (Cowardly Lion), Frank Morgan (Wizard), Billie Burke (Glinda), and Margaret Hamilton (Wicked Witch).

1941-05-10

British House of Commons & Holborn Theatre damaged in an air raid

1942-11-19

Joseph Goebbels visits "German Theatre in the Niederlanden"

1942-11-26

"Casablanca" premieres at Hollywood Theatre, NYC

1943-09-13

The Municipal Theatre of Corfu is destroyed during an aerial bombardment by Luftwaffe.

1965-12-12

Beatles' last concert in Great Britain (Capitol Theatre in Cardiff, Wales)

1966-01-07

Dance Theatre of Harlem debuts

1968-09-26

Theatre censorship ends in Britain

1971-08-01

CBS presents Masterpiece Theatre's 6 Wives of Henry VIII

1973-02-25

Steven Sondheim's musical "Little Night Music," premieres at Shubert Theatre in NYC (601 performances)

1980-09-23

Bob Marley's last concert at Stanley Theatre Pittsburgh

1985-12-03

7th ACE Cable Awards: Shelley Duvall wins the Golden CableACE for "Faerie Tale Theatre"

1985-12-04

"Les Miserables" opens at Palace Theatre, London

1987-07-17

"Les Miserables" opens at Imperial Theatre, Tokyo

1987-08-09

"Les Miserables" opens at Cameri Theatre, Tel Aviv

1987-08-14

"Les Miserables," opens at Rock Theatre, Szeged Hungary

1987-09-14

'Les Miserables' opens at Rock Theatre, Vigzinhaz Budapest

1987-11-27

"Les Miserables" opens at Theatre Royal, Sydney

1987-12-15

"Les Miserables" opens at Shubert Theatre, Boston

1987-12-26

"Les Miserables" opens at National Theatre of Iceland, Reykjavik

1988-03-25

"Les Miserables" opens at Chunichi Theatre, Nagoya Japan

1988-04-09

"Les Miserables" opens at Umeda-Koma Theatre, Osaka

1988-06-01

"Les Miserables" opens at Shubert Theatre, LA

1988-09-15

"Les Miserables," opens at Raimund Theatre, Vienna

1988-10-20

"Les Miserables," opens at Forrest Theatre, Phila

1989-03-15

"Les Miserables" opens at Royal Alexandra Theatre Toronto

1989-03-25

"Les Miserables" opens at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago

1989-06-30

"Les Miserables" opens at Theatre Muzyczyny, Gdynia

1989-09-13

"Les Miserables" opens at Fisher Theatre, Detroit

1989-11-01

"Les Miserables" opens at Curran Theatre, SF

1989-12-09

"Les Miserables" opens at Princess Theatre, Melbourne

1990-01-10

"Les Miserables," opens at Mechanic Theatre, Baltimore

1990-03-22

"Les Miserables" opens at Shubert Theatre, Boston

1990-07-12

"Les Miserables," opens at National Theatre, Washington

1990-07-25

"Les Miserables" opens at Princess Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver

1990-09-25

"Les Miserables" opens at Forrest Theatre, Phila

1990-10-17

"Les Miserables," opens at Imperial Theatre, NY & His Majesty's Theatre, Perth

1991-01-01

Les Miserables opens at Festival Theatre, Adelaide

1991-01-20

"Les Miserables," opens at Pantages Theatre, LA

1991-01-24

"Les Miserables," opens at Theatre St Denis, Montreal

1991-02-28

"Les Miserables" opens at Theatre Carre, Amsterdam

1991-03-09

"Les Miserables" opens at Lyric Theatre, Brisbane

1991-03-24

"Les Miserables" opens at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago

1991-05-29

"Les Miserables" opens at Aotea Theatre in Auckland, New Zealand

1991-10-23

"Les Miserables" opens at Mogador Theatre, Paris

1992-04-14

"Les Miserables" opens at Palace Theatre, Manchester

1992-06-25

"Les Miserables" opens at Vinorhady Theatre, Prague

1993-06-30

"Les Miserables" opens at Point Theatre, Dublin

1993-10-07

"Les Miserables," opens at Meralco Theatre, Philippines

1994-02-03

"Les Miserables," opens at Kallang Theatre, Singapore

1994-02-22

"Les Miserables," opens at Chunichi Theatre, Nagoya

1994-04-10

"Les Miserables" opens at Hiten Theatre, Osaka

1994-07-07

"Les Miserables" opens at Imperial Theatre, Tokyo

1995-06-03

1st Blockbuster Entertainment Awards held at Pantages Theatre, Hollywood

1995-11-02

"Busker Alley" premieres at St James Theatre, NY

1996-01-26

"Les Miserables," opens at Musichall Theatre, Duisburg

2002-10-23

Moscow Theatre Siege begins: Chechen rebels seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage.

2002-10-26

Moscow Theatre Siege: Approximately 50 Chechen rebels and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the rebels during a musical performance three days before.

2003-06-10

"Wicked", starring Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth, officially opens at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco

2003-10-30

"Wicked" premieres on Broadway at the Gershwin Theatre starring Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth,

2012-04-04

Somalia's National Theatre is struck by a suicide bomber killing ten people including the presidents of the Somali Olympic Committee and Football Federation

2012-06-07

16th century archaeology remains of the Curtain Theatre, where some of Shakespeare's plays were first performed, were found under a pub in London

2013-12-19

81 people are injured after part of the ceiling caved in at London's Apollo Theatre

2014-02-11

11 people are killed after a grenade was tossed into a movie theatre in Peshawar, Pakistan

1812-11-02

Abraham I van Lier, theater director (Gran Theatre-van Lier)

1847-02-27

Ellen Alice Terry, Coventry Engl, actress/director (Imperial Theatre)

1858-06-30

Andre Antoine, French stage manager (Theatre Libre) [or 7/31]

1858-12-11

Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian theatre director (d. 1943)

1860-07-19

Lizzie Andrew Borden, Dance Theatre of Harlem: Fall River Legend

1860-10-03

Annie EF Horniman, England, theater owner (Abbey Theatre, Dublin)

1870-08-01

Georges Millandy, The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir

1872-01-16

Edward G Craig, actor/director (On the art of theatre)

1872-11-11

Maude K Adams, US, actress (Baldwin's Theatre)

1879-10-18

Brandon Beach, This Theatre and You

1887-03-04

Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre actress (d. 1953)

1896-09-04

Antonin Artaud, Marseilles France, songwriter/dir (Theatre Seraphin)

1897-07-24

Elmar Berkovich, Hungarian/Dutch designer (Eindhoven Theatre)

1898-02-02

Josephina J "Fien" de la Mar, Dutch actress (Theatre De la Mar)

1903-01-20

Sybil Marion Rosenfeld, theatre historian

1904-10-16

Reginald Dixon, Sheffield, Britain, theatre organist, (d. 1985)

1906-03-16

Jiver Hutchinson, Theatre Royal

1906-12-02

Louisette Rousseau, Mr. and Mrs. Kabal's Theatre

1907-09-27

Bernard Miles, British actor (In Which We Serve, Mermaid Theatre)

1908-11-20

Alistair Cooke, Manchester England, TV host (Masterpiece Theatre)

1909-06-22

Mike Todd, [Avrom Goldbogen], Minneapolis Minnesota, US theatre and film director ("Around the World in 80 Days") Died 1958

1910-07-16

Hayes Pagel, Science Fiction Theatre

1913-03-30

Gottfried Reinhardt, theatre producer

1917-12-21

Alicia Alonso, Havana Cuba, ballerina (American Ballet Theatre)

1918-05-16

George Wallace, Theatre Royal

1919-12-07

Ellen Stewart, actress/founder (La Mama Theatre Group)

1920-03-07

Anthony Greville-Bell, Theatre of Blood

1921-07-02

Ben Kapen, Theatre of the Absurd: Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author

1921-08-14

Giorgio Strehler, theatre director

1921-12-17

Naomi Capon, Twentieth Century Theatre: The Elder Statesman

1922-03-04

Dina Pathak (Deena Pathak), Veteran Gujarati theatre and film actress (d. 2002)

1923-03-28

Ronald Bishop, A Christmas Carol at Ford's Theatre

1924-05-13

Theodore Mann, American theatre producer and director

1925-05-02

John Neville, English theatre and film actor

1926-12-24

Paul Buissonneau, French-born Quebec theatre director

1927-11-18

Paul Sills, Story Theatre

1929-01-10

Douglas Hickox, Theatre of Blood

1929-02-17

Nicholas Ridley, Saving the Rose Theatre

1930-02-10

John Gilpin, Theatre of Blood

1930-06-24

William Gaskill, The National Theatre: Part One - The Dream

1932-04-13

Barney Simon, theatre director/writer

1934-02-19

Julian Belfrage, theatre Agent

1935-05-12

Gary Peacock, The Keith Jarrett Trio: Live at Open Theatre East

1935-10-15

Hans Croiset, Dutch theatre director/actor (Witte Waan)

1936-03-21

William Carter, American Ballet Theatre: Swan Lake

1936-08-03

Jerry G. Bishop, Screaming Yellow Theatre

1936-12-06

David Ossman, Santa Monica, California, American writer and comedian (The Firesign Theatre)

1937-06-18

Varbara Ann Teer, US actress/director (Natl Black Theatre Company)

1939-01-11

Michael J. Lewis, Theatre of Blood

1940-11-21

Natalia Makarova, Variety and Virtuosity: American Ballet Theatre Now

1941-04-17

Max Stafford-Clark, artistic director (Royal Court Theatre)

1942-04-12

Bill Bryden, theatre director

1942-05-12

Timothy Hugh Brown, theatre critic

1943-03-12

Terry Orr, American Ballet Theatre: Swan Lake

1943-03-28

Richard Eyre, British director (National Theatre)

1943-09-17

Sarah Lucas, theatre administrator

1943-11-24

Richard Tee, Paul Simon: Live at the Tower Theatre 1980

1944-11-18

Gary Lycan, Macabre Theatre

1946-03-29

Jean-Pierre Putters, The Theatre Bizarre

1948-02-23

Bill Alexander, theatre director

1949-03-30

Leslie Joan Corn, theatre producer/director/writer

1950-02-09

Terry Hawkins, theatre administrator

1950-04-19

Raymond Serrano, American Ballet Theatre: Giselle

1953-01-25

Mark Weil, Uzbek theatre director (d. 2007)

1953-07-11

Bramwell Tovey, American Classics with Audra McDonald & American Ballet Theatre

1954-04-29

Kevin McKenzie, Variety and Virtuosity: American Ballet Theatre Now

1955-11-01

Beth Leavel, American musical theatre actress

1955-12-23

Carol Ann Duffy, National Theatre Live: Everyman

1956-08-03

Kirk Brandon, rocker (Theatre of Hate, Spear of Destiny-Outland)

1957-12-01

Patrick Bissell, American Ballet Theatre at the Met

1960-04-02

James Cochrane, Blood Theatre

1960-06-28

Addison Cresswell, Dara O'Briain: Live at the Theatre Royal

1961-9-24

Jack Dee, Jack Dee Live at the Duke of York's Theatre

1962-08-22

Melly Still, National Theatre Live: Nation

1963-02-23

Reza Abdoh, theatre director

1966-04-09

Angus Mackechnie, The National Theatre: Part Two - War and Peace

1967-03-06

Julio Bocca, Variety and Virtuosity: American Ballet Theatre Now

1967-07-07

Tim Smith, The Summer Drive-In Theatre

1968-01-05

Roy Williams, The Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2003

1968-08-30

Vladimir Malakhov, Variety and Virtuosity: American Ballet Theatre Now

1971-04-26

Tricia Cooper, Royal Liechtenstein Comedy Theatre

1971-9-24

Es Devlin, National Theatre Live: Hamlet

1972-08-15

Jennifer Alexander, 'Swan Lake' with American Ballet Theatre

1972-12-14

Eric Anderson, American musical theatre actor

1973-02-25

Peter J. Storms, Sacred Stages: A Church, a Theatre, and a Story

1973-04-15

Christopher Hall, Macabre Theatre

1974-02-18

Susan DiBona, The Theatre Bizarre

1974-05-24

Scott Montgomery, Royal Liechtenstein Comedy Theatre

1974-07-10

Chiwetel Ejiofor, English film and theatre actor ("Twelve Years a Slave")

1976-03-13

Joe Knetter, Monsterpiece Theatre Volume 1

1976-08-12

Mikko Lindström, HIM: Digital Versatile Doom: Live at the Orpheum Theatre: XXXVII A.S.

1978-11-04

Ethan Terra, Monsterpiece Theatre Volume 1

1979-01-01

Julio Bragado-Young, 'Swan Lake' with American Ballet Theatre

1979-04-26

Joshua Kuchta, A Haunting on Washington Avenue: The Temple Theatre

1979-07-15

Laura Benanti, American musical theatre actress

1981-02-21

Kristen Ryan, Amber Leigh Live at the Crest Theatre

1981-9-19

Chip Joyce, Corn Stock Theatre

1982-04-01

Daniel Millar, National Theatre Live: Frankenstein

1983-03-29

Rita Neri, Pirate Fetish Machine 14: Theatre of Lust

1983-07-25

Alexandre Hammoudi, 'Swan Lake' with American Ballet Theatre

1984-01-17

Kirsty Hill, Theatre of the Deranged

1990-02-19

Kirsten Haussmann, Theatre of the Dead

1990-08-29

Kenzi Parker, Tell 'Em Steve-Dave Puppet Theatre

1991-06-04

Logan C. Thomas, Tell 'Em Steve-Dave Puppet Theatre

1992-06-16

Magnus William Hansen, Haunted 2: Theatre of Blood

1994-12-22

Syrene Taylor, Monsterpiece Theatre Volume 1

1997-04-16

Spaz Roeck, Monsterpiece Theatre Volume 1

1932-08-03

Austro-Hungarian-American theatre and film director Otto Preminger (26) weds Marion Mill

1959-09-25

Cosmopolitan founder Helen Gurley Brown and film (37) weds theatre producer David Brown (43)

1989-06-16

Actor Hugh Laurie (30) weds theatre administrator Jo Green in Camden, London

1998-10-25

"Punky Brewster" actress Soleil Moon Frye (22) weds television producer and actor Jason Goldberg (26) at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles, California

2011-06-22

British actor best known as British secret agent "James Bond" Daniel Craig (43) weds film and theatre actress Rachel Weisz (41) at a private ceremony in New York

1814-01-27

Philip Astley, theatre manager, dies

1887-01-07

Abraham I van Lier, Dutch actor/director (Gran Theatre), dies at 74

1927-06-01

Lizzie Andrew Borden, Dance Theatre of Harlem: Fall River Legend

1928-07-21

Ellen A Terry, Brits actress/dir (Imperial Theatre), dies at 81

1932-07-08

Florenz Ziegfeld, US theatre producer (Ziegfeld Follies), dies

1937-08-06

Annie E F Horniman, England, theater owner (Abbey Theatre), dies at 76

1943-11-19

Andre Antoine, French stage manager (Theatre Antoine), dies at 85

1953-12-29

Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre actress(b. 1887)

1958-03-22

Mike Todd, US film and theatre producer and 3rd husband of Elizabeth Taylor dies in a plane crash aged 48

1959-11-22

Jiver Hutchinson, Theatre Royal

1959-12-04

Rosetta Duncan, Great Ladies in Theatre Tribute

1960-10-15

Edmund L. Cashman, Texaco Star Theatre

1964-02-13

Georges Millandy, The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir

1966-07-30

Edward G Craig, English actor/dir (On Art of Theatre), dies at 94

1974-08-10

Ivor Dean, British actor (Theatre of Death), dies at 57

1983-09-05

John Gilpin, Theatre of Blood

1985-05-09

Reginald Dixon, British theatre organist, dies at 80

1986-09-19

Vivian Duncan, Great Ladies in Theatre Tribute

1987-12-28

Patrick Bissell, American Ballet Theatre at the Met

1988-07-25

Douglas Hickox, Theatre of Blood

1988-07-28

William Carter, American Ballet Theatre: Swan Lake

1989-05-23

Georgy Tovstonogov, Russian theatre director (b. 1915)

1991-08-11

Jef Contryn, Flemish pioneer puppet theatre, dies at 89

1992-12-23

Hayes Pagel, Science Fiction Theatre

1993-03-04

Nicholas Ridley, Saving the Rose Theatre

1993-06-21

Richard Tee, Paul Simon: Live at the Tower Theatre 1980

1993-07-04

Felix White, choreographer (Black Vibrations Theatre), dies at 65

1994-07-19

Gottfried Reinhardt, theatre Producer, dies at 81

1994-12-28

Julian Belfrage, theatre agent, dies at 60

1995-02-17

Timothy Hugh Brown, theatre critic, dies at 52

1995-05-12

Reza Abdoh, theatre Director, dies at 32

1995-06-30

Barney Simon, theatre director/writer, dies at 63

1995-10-08

Terry Hawkins, theatre administrator, dies at 45

1996-10-02

Sybil Marion Rosenfeld, theatre historian, dies at 93

1997-01-26

Sarah Lucas, theatre Administrator, dies at 53

1997-12-25

Giorgio Strehler, theatre director, dies at 76

1998-11-15

Jean Dalrymple, The Children of Theatre Street

1999-01-14

Jerzy Grotowski, Polish theatre director (b. 1933)

2001-10-01

Guy Beaulne, French-Canadian actor and theatre director (b. 1921)

2004-02-03

Jason Raize, American musical theatre actor (b. 1975)

2006-12-21

Ben Kapen, Theatre of the Absurd: Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author

2007-01-04

Ben Gannon, Australian theatre film and television producer (b. 1952)

2007-12-02

Jennifer Alexander, 'Swan Lake' with American Ballet Theatre

2008-03-04

Anthony Greville-Bell, Theatre of Blood

2008-06-02

Paul Sills, Story Theatre

2009-07-30

Peter Zadek, German theatre director (b. 1926)

2010-07-26

Raymond Serrano, American Ballet Theatre: Giselle

2010-11-03

Jerry Bock, American musical theatre composer (b. 1928)

2010-12-01

Hillard Elkins, American theatre and film producer (b. 1929)

2012-01-24

Patricia Neway, American opera and musical theatre singer, dies at 83

2013-04-09

Gary Lycan, Macabre Theatre

2013-09-15

Jerry G. Bishop, Screaming Yellow Theatre

2013-12-23

Addison Cresswell, Dara O'Briain: Live at the Theatre Royal

2016-07-08

Theatre actress Anita Reeves dies aged 67

2016-10-27

Howard Davies, theatre director, dies aged 71