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Theatre Season Planner
Compiled and edited by Richard Finkelstein (Reprint
if credited)
Available online at: http://www.artslynx.org/themile.htm
Comments / corrections graciously
accepted See also . . .This Month in
Theatre History for ALL the anniversaries to celebrate
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Current: 2008 | 2009
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Archives: 2005 |
2006 | 2007
2008
| January 7 |
50th Anniversary of the world premiere of
Suddenly Last Summer |
| January 9 |
100th Anniversary of the death of Abraham Goldfaden who founded the first professional
Yiddish theatre in 1876 |
| January 12 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of playwright
Ruth Goodman Goetz (The Heiress) |
| January 16 |
50th Anniversary of the Broadway Premiere of William Gibson's
Two for the Seesaw |
| January 21 |
50th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of
Marcel Marceau and his Partners |
| January 21 |
100th Anniversary of the world premiere of of
The Ghost Sonata, by Ibsen |
| January 30 |
50th Anniversary of the New York premiere of Dore Schary's play,
Sunrise at Campobello |
| January 30 |
150th Anniversary of the first black drama, William Wells Brown's Leap to Freedom |
| January 31 |
150th Anniversary of the birth of French actor, director, manager,
André Antoine |
| February 12 |
50th Anniversary of The Broadway Premiere of the play,
The Entertainer |
| March 1 |
50th Anniversary of the death of actor and
pioneer of Futurism, Giacomo Balla |
| March 4 |
50th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of the play,
The Waltz of the Toreadors |
| March 5 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of Sir Rex Harrison |
| March 30 |
150th anniversary of the birth of musical theatre star,
De Wolf William Hopper |
| April 2 |
100th anniversary of the birth of of Buddy Ebsen |
| May 8 |
50th Anniversary of the death of designer,
Norman Bel Geddes (Norman Melancton Geddes) |
| May 15 |
150th Anniversary of the fire that destroyed the second
Covent Garden Theatre |
| May 26 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of Robert Morley |
| May 27 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of Harold Rome
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| July 17 |
50th Anniversary of the London premiere of
Peter Schaffer's Five Finger Exercise |
| July 21 |
150th anniversary of the birth of German painter and set/costume designer,
Lovis Corinth |
| August 26 |
100th Anniversary of the death of "the father of American Vaudeville",
Tony Pastor
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| August 31 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of William Saroyan |
| September 1 |
400th Anniversary of the birth of designer,
Giacomo Torelli |
| September 3 |
100th Anniversary of the world premiere in London of James Barrie's,
What Every Woman Knows |
| September 23 |
50th Anniversary of the granting of a
patent for the oval beam fresnel lens (2,853,599) |
| September 30 |
100th Anniversary of the Moscow premiere of Maurice Maeterlinck's
The Blue Bird |
| October 3 |
150th Anniversary of the birth of Eleonora Duse |
| October 5 |
100th anniversary of the birth of director
Joshua Logan |
| October 14 |
50th Anniversary of the birth of Irish actor,manager (Esmé Stuart)
Lennox Robinson
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| October 14 |
50th Anniversary of the New York premiere of
Paul Osborn's World of Suzie Wong |
| October 28 |
50th Anniversary of the world premiere in London of
Beckett's play,
Krapp's Last Tape |
| November 4 |
100th Anniversary of the opening of The
Brooklyn Academy of Music |
| December 1 |
50th Anniversary of The Broadway premiere of Rodgers & Hammerstein's
The Flower Drum Song |
| December 14 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of Morey Amsterdam |
| December 23 |
150th Anniversary of the birth (new style) of
Moscow Art Theatre Co-founder, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko |
2009
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50th Anniversary of the founding of
Second City in Chicago |
| January 16 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of
Ethel Merman (Zimmerman) |
| January 24 |
350th Anniversary of the premiere in Paris of
Corneille's Oedipus |
| January 24 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of French designer,director,
André Barsacq |
| February 1 |
150th Anniversary of the birth of composer
Victor Herbert |
| February 2 |
200th Anniversary of the opening of the
Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia |
| February 5 |
50th Anniversary of Bob Fosse's debut as a Broadway director with the musical, Redhead |
| February 9 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of Carmen Miranda |
| February 18 |
150th Anniversary of the birth of
Sholem Aleichem |
| February 24 |
200th Anniversary of the destruction by fire of London's 3rd Drury Lane Theatre |
| February 28 |
50th Anniversary of the death of playwright
Maxwell Anderson |
| March 11 |
50th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of the
Lorraine Hansberry play, A Raisin in the Sun |
| March 16 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of
Robert (Bobbie) Lewis |
| March 24 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of playwright,
John Millington Synge |
| March 31 |
200th Anniversary of the birth of of
Nikolay Gogol (new) |
| April 9 |
50th Anniversary of the death of theatre architect,
Frank Lloyd Wright |
| May 11 |
50th Anniversary of the New York premiere of the Mary Rodgers musical,
Once Upon a Mattress |
| May 21 |
50th Anniversary of the Broadway debut of Jule Styne's musical,
Gypsy |
| May 22 |
150th Anniversary of the birth of
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| June 7 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of
Jessica Tandy |
| June 14 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of Burl Ives |
| June 18 |
50th Anniversary of the
passing of actress, Ethel Barymore |
| June 27 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of lighting designer,
Abe Feder |
| August 21 |
400th anniversary of the baptism of
Jean de Rotrou |
| September 5 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of designer,
Charles Elson |
| September 7 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of
Elia Kazan |
| September 13 |
100th Anniversary of the debut in New York of the European Operetta,
The Chocolate Soldier |
| September 28 |
50th Anniversary of the world premiere of Edward Albee's play,
Zoo Story |
| September 30 |
50th Anniversary of the death of John Kliegl |
| October 19 |
50th Anniversary of the NY premiere of William Gibson's play, The
Miracle Worker |
| October 22 |
50th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of the Bob Merrill musical,
Take Me Along |
| October 29 |
50th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of The
Marriage-Go-Round |
| November 8 |
100th Anniversary of the opening of
The Boston Opera House |
| November 10 |
50th anniversary of the death of Hilda Trevelyan who originated the role of Wendy in Peter Pan |
| November 11 |
100th Anniversary of the death of
J.M. Synge |
| November 16 |
150th Anniversary of the world premiere of
Ostrovsky's The Storm |
| December 2 |
150th Anniversary of the birth of
Georges Seurat |
| December 5 |
150th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of
Dion Boucicault’s Octaroon |
| December 7 |
100th Anniversary of the World Premiere in Budapest of
Molnár’s Liliom |
| December 8 |
100th Anniversary of the London premiere of
Maurice Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird |
| December 10 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of choreographer,
Hermes Pan |
| December 13 |
50th Anniversary of the death of designer, Carl Kent
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| December 26 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of
Norris Houghton |
2010
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150th Anniversary of the opening of The
Maryinsky Theatre in St. Petersburgh |
| January 4 |
50th Anniversary of the death of French playwright,
Albert Camus |
| January 14 |
50th Anniversary of the US premiere of Edward Albee's play,
Zoo Story |
| January 17 |
150th Anniversary of the birth of
Chekhov |
| January 20 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of Abram Hill, founder of the American Negro Theater |
| January 22 |
50th Anniversary of the world premiere of Ionesco's play,
Rhinoceros |
| January 25 |
50th Anniversary of the death of lighting designer,inventor,
Bassett Jones |
| February 4 |
50th Anniversary of the birth of of
Jonathan Larson |
| February 7 |
100th Anniversary of the Paris world premiere of Rostand's
Chantecler |
| February 9 |
50th Anniversary of the death of
Alexander Benois |
| February 10 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of designer,
Wolfgang Roth |
| February 23 |
100th Anniversary of the premiere in Paris of Shaw’s
Misalliance |
| February 26 |
50th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of
Thurber Carnival |
| March 8 |
50th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of the Frank Loesser musical,
Greenwillow |
| May 3 |
50th Anniversary of the premiere of the Schmidt and Jones musical The
Fantasticks at The Sullivan Street Playhouse in New York |
| May 9 |
150th Anniversary of the birth of
James Barrie |
| June 16 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of
Jack Albertson |
| June 18 |
100th anniversary of the birth of stage and screen actor, E. G. Marshall |
| June 23 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of
Jean Anouilh |
| June 29 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of
Frank Loesser |
| July 1 |
50th Anniversary of the world premiere (London) of Robert Bolt's
A Man for All Seasons |
| July 5 |
200th Anniversary of the birth of
Phineas T. Barnum |
| July 15 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of Lyricist,
Dorothy Fields |
| July 17 |
150th Anniversary of the birth of
Charles Frohman |
| July 24 |
100th anniversary of the birth of designer,
Harry Horner |
| August 13 |
150th Anniversary of the birth of Annie Oakley |
| August 23 |
50th Anniversary of the death of
Oscar Hammerstein II |
| August 30 |
100th Anniversary of the Broadway debut of the musical
Madame Sherry, with song titles including Every Little Movement and Put Your Arms Around Me Honey |
| September 8 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of French actor, Jean-Louis Barrault |
| October 1 |
100th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of Maurice Maeterlinck's
The Blue Bird |
| October 17 |
50th Anniversary of the Broadway debut of the musical,
Tenderloin |
| October 19 |
50th anniversary of the founding of The United States Institute for Theatre Technology |
| November 19 |
100th Anniversary of the World Premiere in Hungary of Molnar’s
The Guardsman |
| December 3 |
50th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of the Lerner and Loewe musical, Camelot |
| December 7 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of set designer,
Samuel Levy |
| December 10 |
50th Anniversary of the birth of
Kenneth Branagh |
| December 11 |
200th Anniversary of the birth of French playwright,
Alfred de Musset |
| December 16 |
50th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of
Wildcat with Lucille Ball |
| December 18 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of playwright,librettist
Abe Burrows |
| December 19 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of playwright Jean Genet |
| December 26 |
100th Anniversary of the opening of the
London Palladium |
January 4, 2005
January 5, 2005
January 10, 2005
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50th Anniversary of the world premiere in Dallas, of the Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee play,
Inherit the Wind
January 26, 2005
January 27, 2005
February 15, 2005
February 23, 2005
February 24, 2005
March 2, 2005
March 7, 2005
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50th Anniversary of the first full-length color TV broadcast of a Broadway Play, Peter
Pan, with Mary Martin. (at the time, US homes sported only 15,000 color TV sets) (The show was not set on videotape until 1960, 5 years later)
March 9, 2005
March 24, 2005
March 26, 2005
March 30, 2005
May 5, 2005
May 9, 2005
May 12, 2005
May 17, 2005
May 21, 2005
May 24, 2005
June 21, 2005
July 5, 2005
July 10, 2005
July 14, 2005
July 25, 2005
August 3, 2005
August 18, 2005
August 25, 2005
August 30, 2005
August 31, 2005
September 7, 2005
September 18, 2005
September 20, 2005
September 24, 2005
September 30, 2005
2006
January 1, 2006
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100th Anniversary of the Broadway debut of George M. Cohan's
Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway
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400th Anniversary of the birth of British actor, William Cartwright
January 23, 2006
February 5, 2006
February 12, 2006
March 9, 2006
March 15, 2006
March 29, 2006
May 3, 2006
May 8, 2006
May 11, 2006
May 18, 2006
May 23, 2006
June 4, 2006
June 6, 2006
July 1, 2006
July 9, 2006
July 18, 2006
July 26, 2006
August 14, 2006
August 20, 2006
September 11, 2006
September 24, 2006
December 1, 2006
December 6, 2006
December 20, 2006
December 26, 2006
2007
| January 4 |
100th Anniversary of the world premiere in London of George Bernard Shaw's
Don Juan in Hell |
| January 26 |
100th Anniversary of the Abbey Theatre debut of
Playboy of the Western World |
| February 1 |
250th Anniversary of the birth of British actor,
John Philip Kemble |
| February 21 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of playwright W. H. Auden |
| February 25 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of playwright,
Mary Chase |
| February 25 |
300th Anniversary of the birth of Carlo Goldoni |
| February 27 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of Lotte Gaslar |
| March 2 |
100th Anniversary of the premiere in Paris of Georges Feydeau's play,
A Flea in Her Ear |
| March 21 |
50th Anniversary of the Broadway Premiere of Orpheus Descending |
| March 31 |
50th Anniversary of the debut of Rodgers & Hammerstein's made for television musical,
Cinderella (CBS) |
| May 2 |
150th Anniversary of the death of French playwright, Alfred de Musset |
| May 8 |
100th Ianniversary of the publication of Irving Berlin's first song . |
| May 22 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of Sir Laurence Olivier (Baron Olivier Of Brighton |
| June 4 |
100th anniversary of the birth of actress, Rosalind Russell |
| June 20 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of Lillian Hellman
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| July 8 |
100th Anniversary of the debut on Broadway of Florenz Zigfeld's
first edition of The Follies (1907) |
| July 25 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of Jack Gilford |
| August 15 |
950th Anniversary of the death of the real
Macbeth |
| August 30 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of Shirley Booth |
| September 7 |
300th Anniversary of the birth of George-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, the REAL developer of what later was called the "Fresnel" lens. |
| September 13 |
350th Anniversary of the death of Dutch theatre architect, Jacob van Campen
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| September 26 |
50th Anniversary of the arrival on Broadway of the musical,
West Side Story |
| October 1 |
50th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of the play,
Look Back in Anger |
| October 15 |
50th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of the play,
Under Milk Wood |
| October 21 |
100th Anniversary of the New York presentation of Franz Lehar's operetta,
The Merry Widow |
| December 5 |
50th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of the play,
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs |
| December 18 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of playwright,
Christopher Fry |
| December 19 |
50th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of Meredith Wilson's,
The Music Man |
| December 22 |
100th Anniversary of the birth of Dame Peggy Ashcroft |
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