Ain’t No Mo Ain’t No Mo‘ is a play consisting of a series of vignettes written by Jordan Cooper. The vignettes takes a sketch comedy look at racism by imagining descendants of enslaved persons being voluntarily repatriated on Flight 1619. [1][2] Ain’t No Mo‘  is a vibrant satirical odyssey portraying the great exodus of black Americans out of a country…

The Collaboration – Play The Collaboration is a play written by Anthony McCarten and directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah. The play originated on the West End at the The Young Vic in London. The play stars Paul Bettany as Andy Warhol and Jeremy Pope as Jean-Michel Basquiat. The story, set in New York in 1984, centers around the collaboration between Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat and their new exhibition.[1] The production…

  Between Riverside and Crazy – Play Between Riverside and Crazy is a 2014 play by playwright, screenwriter, director, and actor Stephen Adly Guirgis. The play won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the 2015 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, the 2015 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, the 2015 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play and the 2015…

  Angela Lansbury Dame Angela Lansbury DBE Born Angela Brigid Lansbury (16 October 1925 – 11 October 2022) Regent’s Park, London, England[1] Nationality British, American, and Irish[2](multiple citizenship) Occupation Actress, singer, songwriter, producer, writer Years active 1943–present Spouse(s) Richard Cromwell (m. 1945; div. 1946) Peter Shaw (m. 1949; his death 2003) Children 2 Parent(s) Moyna Macgill (mother) Edgar Lansbury (father)…

Liev Schreiber – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Isaac Liev Schreiber born October 4, 1967) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and narrator. He became known during the late 1990s and early 2000s after appearing in several independent films, and later mainstream Hollywood films, including the first three Scream horror films (1996-2000), Ransom (1996), Phantoms (1998), The Hurricane (1999), The Sum of All Fears (2002), The Manchurian Candidate (2004), The…

Good Night Oscar – Play A New play by Doug Wright, Doug is an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2004 for his play I Am My Own Wife. Plot It’s 1958, and Jack Paar hosts the hottest late-night talk-show on television. His favourite guest? Character actor, pianist and wild card Oscar Levant. Famous…

  Jonathan Bailey – Bio Jonathan Stuart Bailey (born 25 April 1988) is an English actor. Known for his comedic, dramatic, and musical roles on stage and screen, he is the recipient of a Laurence Olivier Award as well as nominations for Evening Standard Theatre and Screen Actor Guild Awards. [1] Bailey began his career as a child actor in Royal Shakespeare Company productions when…

  The Man Who Came to Dinner – Play TheatreGold Memorabilia Here The Man Who Came to Dinner is a comedy play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. It debuted on October 16, 1939, at the Music Box Theatre in New York City, where it ran until 1941, closing after 739 performances. It then enjoyed a number of New York and London revivals. The first…

  Topdog/Underdog – Play Memorabilia Available Here Topdog/Underdog is a play by American playwright Suzan-Lori Parks which premiered in 2001 off-Broadway in New York City. The next year it opened on Broadway, at the Ambassador Theatre, where it played for several months. In 2002, Parks received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Outer Critics Circle Award for the play; it received…

  The Doctor – Play The Doctor is a 2019 play by Robert Icke. It is a reimagining the 1912 play Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler.   Plot The play follows Dr. Ruth Wolff, the Executive Director of the Elizabeth Institute, who refuses to let a Catholic priest into the operating room where a girl is dying from a botched…

  Fourteen – Play Shannon Molloy is a year 9 student at an all-boys rugby-mad Catholic school in regional Queensland, with a secret that no one can ever find out. Shannon is gay. Based on the best-selling memoir by award-winning journalist Shannon Molloy, Fourteen is the inspirational true story of growing up gay in central Queensland, transformed into a…

Betsy Wolfe – Bio Betsy Wolfe (born Elizabeth Marie Wolfe; June 1, 1982) is an American actress, singer, and entrepreneur. Betsy Wolfe is currently starring in the North American Premiere of & Juliet as Anne. Previously, Wolfe starred as Jenna Hunterson, the title role in the Tony Awards nominated musical Waitress. Prior to that, played Cordelia, one of the lovable “lesbians from…

The Collaboration – Play The Collaboration is a play written by Anthony McCarten and directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah. The play originated on the West End at the The Young Vic in London. The play stars Paul Bettany as Andy Warhol and Jeremy Pope as Jean-Michel Basquiat. The story set in New York in 1984 centres around the collaboration between Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat and their new exhibition.[1] The production…

Irena’s Vow – Play Memorabilia Available Here Irena’s Vow is a Broadway play recounting the story of Irena Gut, a Polish nurse who, at the risk of her life, saved twelve Jews during World War II in German-occupied Poland.     Production History The play opened at Broadway’s Walter Kerr Theatre at 219 West 48th Street (between Broadway and 8th Avenue) on 29 March 2009,[2] after having…

Cost of Living – Play Broadway 2022 Cost of Living is a 2016 play by playwright Martyna Majok. It premiered in Williamstown, Massachusetts at the Williamstown Theatre Festival on June 29, 2016, and had an Off-Broadway engagement in 2017. The play won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as two Lucille Lortel Awards, including Outstanding Play.     Plot The play examines two pairs…

Raul Julia – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Raúl Rafael Carlos Juliá Arcelay (March 9, 1940 – October 24, 1994) was a Puerto Rican actor. Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, he took an interest in acting while still in school and pursued the career upon completion of his studies.[1][2] After performing locally for some time, he was convinced by…

Lotte Lenya – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Lotte Lenya (born Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer; 18 October 1898 – 27 November 1981) was an Austrian-American singer, diseuse, and actress, long based in the United States.[1][2] In the German-speaking and classical music world, she is best remembered for her performances of the songs of her first husband, Kurt Weill. In English-language cinema, she was nominated…

  Cruise – Play by Jack Holden Productions Cruise had its West End London premiere at the Duchess Theatre 18 May – 13 June. Producers Katy Lipson of Aria Entertainment, Jamie Lambert and Eliza Jackson of Lambert Jackson said: “For our first West End run, we are so excited to be bringing this innovative, new…

The Threepenny Opera – Play The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper is a “play with music” by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay‘s 18th-century English ballad opera, The Beggar’s Opera, and four ballads by François Villon, with music by Kurt Weill. Although there is debate as to how much, if any, Hauptmann might have contributed to the text, Brecht…

Swoosie Kurtz – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Swoosie Kurtz born September 6, 1944)  is an American actress. She is the recipient of an Emmy Award and two Tony Awards. [1] Kurtz made her Broadway debut in the 1975 revival of Ah, Wilderness. She has received five Tony Award nominations, winning for both Fifth of July (1981) and The House of Blue Leaves (1986); her other nominations…

  Christine Baranski – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Christine Jane Baranski (born May 2, 1952) is an American actress, comedian, producer, and singer. Known for her appearances on stage and screen, she has received a Primetime Emmy Award, two Tony Awards and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. [1] Baranski started her career on stage at The Public Theatre in 1972’s production of William…

  Kimberly Akimbo – Play Kimberly Akimbo is a play written in 2000 by David Lindsay-Abaire. Its title character is a lonely teenage girl suffering from a disease similar to progeria, that causes her to age four and a half times as fast as normal, thus trapping her inside the frail physical body of an elderly woman. She meets…

Leopoldstadt – Play Leopoldstadt is a play by Sir Tom Stoppard, originally directed by Patrick Marber, which premiered on 25 January 2020 at Wyndham’s Theatre in London’s West End. The play is set among the Jewish community of Vienna in the first half of the 20th century and follows the lives of “a prosperous Jewish family who had fled the pogroms in the East”.[1] According to…

Death of a Salesman – Play Memorabilia Available Here Death of a Salesman is a 1949 stage play written by American playwright Arthur Miller. The play premiered on Broadway in February 1949, running for 742 performances. It is a two-act tragedy set in 1940s New York told through a montage of memories, dreams, and arguments of the protagonist Willy Loman, a travelling salesman who is…

  The Killing of Sister George – Play Memorabilia Available Here The Killing of Sister George is a 1964 play by Frank Marcus that was later adapted into a 1968 film directed by Robert Aldrich. It was one of the first plays to depict a lesbian relationship, and questioned major institutions like the BBC, at a time when they had a…

The Piano Lesson – Play The Piano Lesson is a 1987 play by American playwright August Wilson. It is the fourth play in Wilson’s The Pittsburgh Cycle. Wilson began writing this play by playing with the various answers regarding the possibility of “acquir[ing] a sense of self-worth by denying one’s past”.[1] The Piano Lesson received the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Drama….

Jerry Orbach – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Jerome Bernard Orbach (October 20, 1935 – December 28, 2004) was an American actor and singer, described at the time of his death as “one of the last bona fide leading men of the Broadway musical and global celebrity on television”[1] and a “versatile stage and film actor”.[2] Orbach’s professional career began on the New…

Ohio State Murders – Play by Adrienne Kennedy From Obie-winning dramatist Adrienne Kennedy comes a deeply personal, searing fable of self-discovery and loss. When a young student arrives at Ohio State University, she little suspects that the academic sanctuary harbors dark forces of hatred, even death. The Ohio State Murders is a haunting study of lost innocence…

  Entertaining Mr Sloane – Play  Memorabilia Available Here Entertaining Mr Sloane is a three-act play written in 1963 by the English playwright Joe Orton.[1] It was first produced in London at the New Arts Theatre on 6 May 1964 and transferred to the West End’s Wyndham’s Theatre on 29 June 1964.[2] Plot Act 1 Mr Sloane is a young man looking for…

  A Few Good Men – Database Memorabilia Available Here A Few Good Men is a play by Aaron Sorkin, first produced on Broadway by David Brown in 1989. It tells the story of military lawyers at a court-martial who uncover a high-level conspiracy in the course of defending their clients, two United States Marines accused of murder. It opened on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre in New…

  The Kite Runner – Play The Kite Runner is a stage adaption of Afghan novelist’s Khaled Hosseini‘s 2003 book, The Kite Runner. Aside from sharing the 2003 book as a source, it is unrelated to the 2007 film The Kite Runner.[1] The play was adapted for the stage by Matthew Spangler and premiered at San Jose Repertory Theatre in 2009 and on…

Pygmalion – Play Memorabilia Available Here Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after the Greek mythological figure. It premiered at the Hofburg Theatre in Vienna on 16 October 1913 and was first presented in English on stage to the public in 1913. Its English-language premiere took place at Her Majesty’s Theatre in the West End in April 1914 and starred Herbert Beerbohm Tree as phonetics…

Streamers – Play Memorabilia Available Here Streamers is a play by David Rabe. The title is a reference to parachutes that fail to open. Streamers originally was a one-act play entitled Knives Rabe completed in the late 1960s prior to writing the first two-thirds of his trilogy. [1] Hale Appleman, Axel Avin Jr., EJ Cantu, Larry Clarke, Ato Essandoh,Brad Fleischer, Charlie…

  A Streetcar Named Desire Memorabilia Available Here A Streetcar Named Desire is a play written by Tennessee Williams first performed on Broadway on December 3, 1947.[1] The play dramatizes the experiences of Blanche DuBois, a former Southern belle who, after encountering a series of personal losses, leaves her privileged background to move into a shabby apartment in New Orleans rented by her younger sister and brother-in-law. Williams’…

The Skin of Our Teeth – Play Memorabilia Available Here The Skin of Our Teeth is a play by Thornton Wilder that won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It opened on October 15, 1942, at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, before moving to the Plymouth Theatre on Broadway on November 18, 1942. It was produced by Michael Myerberg and directed by Elia Kazan with costumes by Mary Percy Schenck….

The Minutes – Play by Tracy Letts Memorabilia Available   In The Minutes, Tracy Letts’s scathing new comedy about small-town politics and real-world power, the writer who brought you August: Osage County exposes the ugliness behind some of our most closely-held American narratives while asking each of us what we would do to keep from…

  Present Laughter – Play Memorabilia Available Here Present Laughter is a comic play written by Noël Coward in 1939 but not produced until 1942 because the Second World War began while it was in rehearsal, and the British theatres closed. The title is drawn from a song in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night that urges carpe diem (“present mirth hath present laughter”). The play has…

Chichester Festival Theatre – Theatre Memorabilia Available Here Chichester Festival Theatre is a theatre and Grade II* listed building situated in Oaklands Park in the city of Chichester, West Sussex, England.[1] Designed by Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya, it was opened by its founder Leslie Evershed-Martin in 1962. The smaller and more intimate Minerva Theatre was built nearby in 1989. The inaugural Artistic Director was Sir Laurence Olivier, and it was at Chichester that the first…

Andrea McArdle – Bio Andrea McArdle (born November 5, 1963) is an American singer and actress best known for originating the role of Annie in the Broadway musical Annie. McArdle was born in Philadelphia. While studying dance as a child, she was spotted by a talent agent who got her work in a number of television commercials, which led to…

 For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide – Play Memorabilia Available Here For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf is Ntozake Shange’s first work and most acclaimed theater piece, which premiered in 1976. It consists of a series of poetic monologues to be accompanied by dance movements and music, a form Shange…

  Alex Timbers – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Alex Timbers (born August 7, 1978) is an American writer and director and the recipient of Tony, Golden Globe, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and London Evening Standard Awards, as well as two OBIE and Lucile Lortel Awards. He is the recipient of the 2019 Drama League Founder’s…

  Joanne Woodward – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27, 1930) is an American actress, producer, and philanthropist. One of the last major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood, having made her career breakthrough in the 1950s, Woodward is the earliest surviving Academy Award winner in a leading category. One of the…

Ben Whishaw – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Benjamin John Whishaw (born 14 October 1980) is an English film, television, and stage actor. After winning a British Independent Film Award for his performance in My Brother Tom (2001), he was nominated for an Olivier Award for his portrayal of the title role in a 2004 production of Hamlet. This was followed by television roles in Nathan Barley (2005), Criminal…

  Come Back Little Sheba – Play Memorabilia Available Here Come Back, Little Sheba is a 1950 play by the American dramatist William Inge. The play was Inge’s first, written while he was a teacher at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. The title refers to Lola’s missing dog, who disappeared before the play’s opening and remains gone throughout the story. Lola hopes…

Darren Criss Darren Criss Born Darren Everett Criss (1987-02-05) February 5, 1987 (age 30) San Francisco, California, U.S. Alma mater University of Michigan Occupation Actor, singer, songwriter, co-owner of StarKid Productions Years active 1997 – present Musical career Genres Pop, Contemporary, Musical theater Instruments Vocals, piano, guitar, drums, violin, mandolin, harmonica Years active 2005–present Labels…

  Williamstown Theatre Festival Winner of a 2002 Tony Award and a 2011 Massachusetts Cultural Council Commonwealth Award, the Williamstown Theatre Festival is a resident summer theater on the campus of Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, founded in 1954 by Williams College news director, Ralph Renzi, and drama program chairman, David C. Bryant.[1] The theatre festival was conceived as a way to use…

Ian McKellen – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Sir Ian Murray McKellen CH CBE (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor. His career spans seven decades, having performed in genres ranging from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. Over his career he has received numerous awards including seven Laurence Olivier Awards, a Tony Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He…

The Elephant Man – Play Memorabilia Available Here The Elephant Man is a play by Bernard Pomerance. It premiered at the Hampstead Theatre in London on 7 November 1977. It later played in repertory at the National Theatre in London.[1] It ran Off-Broadway from 14 January to 18 March 1979, at The Theatre at St. Peter’s.[2] The production’s Broadway debut in 1979 at the Booth Theatre was produced by Richmond Crinkley…

  Lincoln Center – Theatre Company Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a 16.3-acre (6.6-hectare) complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.[1] It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5 million visitors annually.[1] It houses nationally and internationally renowned performing arts organizations including the New York Philharmonic,…

  Macbeth – Play Memorabilia Available Here Macbeth, full title The Tragedie of Macbeth) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is thought to have been first performed in 1606.[a] It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power. Of all the plays that Shakespeare wrote during the reign of James I, Macbeth most clearly reflects his…

  Brian J. Smith – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Brian Jacob Smith (born October 12, 1981) is an American actor, known for his role as Will Gorski in the Netflix-produced series Sense8,[1] Lieutenant Matthew Scott in the military science fiction television series Stargate Universe, and his Tony Award-nominated role as Jim O’Connor (The Gentleman Caller) in the 2013 revival of The Glass Menagerie.[2] Brian J Smith…

Zachary Quinto – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Zachary John Quinto (born June 2, 1977) is an American actor and film producer. He is known for his roles as Sylar, the primary antagonist from the science fiction drama series Heroes (2006–2010); Spock in the film Star Trek (2009) and its sequels Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) and Star Trek Beyond (2016); Charlie Manx in the AMC series NOS4A2, and Dr….

  Journey’s End – Play Memorabilia Available Here Journey’s End is a 1928 dramatic play by English playwright R. C. Sherriff, set in the trenches near Saint-Quentin, Aisne, towards the end of the First World War. The story plays out in the officers’ dugout of a British Army infantry company from 18 March 1918 to 21 March 1918, providing a glimpse of the officers’…

  Playwrights Horizons – Theatre Company Memorabilia Available Here Playwrights Horizons is a not-for-profit Off-Broadway theater located in New York City dedicated to the support and development of contemporary American playwrights, composers, and lyricists, and to the production of their new work. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Adam Greenfield[1] and Managing Director Leslie Marcus, Playwrights Horizons encourages the new work of veteran writers while…

  Rabbit Hole – Play Memorabilia Available Here Rabbit Hole is a play written by David Lindsay-Abaire. It was the recipient of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play premiered on Broadway in 2006, and it has also been produced by regional theatres in cities such as Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The play had its Spanish language premiere in San Juan,…

Stephen Bogardus – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Stephen Bogardus (born March 11, 1954) is an American actor. Born in Norfolk, Virginia, Bogardus graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in 1972 and Princeton University in 1976, where he was a member of the Princeton Nassoons and the Princeton Triangle Club.[1] Stephen Bogardus and Michael Rupert in Falsettoland, 1990. Life Bogardus is married to dancer Dana…

  Oslo – Play Memorabilia Available Here Oslo is a Tony award-winning play by J. T. Rogers, recounting (in dramatized, partially fictional form) the true-life, previously secret, back-channel negotiations in the development of the pivotal 1990s Oslo Peace Accords between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization. The play premiered Off-Broadway in June 2016 and then transferred to Broadway in April 2017.[1][2] In May 2017, Oslo won the Lucille Lortel Award for Best…

Judy Holliday – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Judy Holliday (born Judith Tuvim, June 21, 1921 – June 7, 1965) was an American actress, comedian and singer.[1] She began her career as part of a nightclub act before working in Broadway plays and musicals. Her success as Billie Dawn in the 1946 stage production of Born Yesterday led to her being cast…

  I Am My Own Wife – Play Memorabilia Available Here I Am My Own Wife is a play by Doug Wright based on his conversations with the German antiquarian Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. The one-man play premiered Off-Broadway in 2003 at Playwrights Horizons. It opened on Broadway later that year. The play was developed with Moisés Kaufman and his Tectonic Theater Project, and Kaufman also acted as director. Jefferson Mays starred…

  Jefferson Mays – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Lewis Jefferson Mays (born June 8, 1965) is an American actor. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including a Tony Award, a Helen Hayes Award, a Lucille Lortel Award, two Drama Desk Awards, two Outer Critics Circle Awards and three Obie Awards. Life Mays was raised in Clinton, Connecticut, with his parents, a naval intelligence officer and…

  David Lindsay-Abaire – Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire (born November 14, 1969) is an American playwright, lyricist and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2007 for his play Rabbit Hole, which also earned several Tony Award nominations. Life David Lindsay-Abaire was born David Abaire in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in South Boston. He attended Milton Academy and concentrated in theatre at Sarah Lawrence College, from which he graduated…

Hugh Panaro – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Hugh Panaro (born February 19, 1964) is an American actor known for his work on Broadway. Panaro was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and resided in the East Oak Lane section of the city with his family. As a schoolchild, he attended St. Helena’s parochial school in the adjoining Philadelphia neighborhood of Olney. He…

  Carolee Carmello – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Carolee Ann Carmello (born September 1, 1962) is an American actress best known for her performances in Broadway musicals and for playing the role of Maple LaMarsh on the television series Remember WENN (1996–1998). She is a three-time Tony Award nominee and a five-time Drama Desk nominee, winning the 1999 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a…

  Marcia Gay Harden – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Marcia Gay Harden (born August 14, 1959) is an American actress. Her film breakthrough was in the 1990 Coen brothers-directed Miller’s Crossing. She followed this with roles in films including Used People (1992), The First Wives Club (1996), and Flubber (1997). For her performance as artist Lee Krasner in the 2000 film Pollock, she won the Academy Award…

A Raisin in the Sun – Play Memorabilia Available Here A Raisin in the Sun is a play by Lorraine Hansberry that debuted on Broadway in 1959. The title comes from the poem “Harlem” (also known as “A Dream Deferred”) by Langston Hughes.[1][2] The story tells of a Black family’s experiences in south Chicago, as they attempt to improve their financial…

  Stark Sands – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Stark Bunker Sands (born September 30, 1978) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Tunny in the original Broadway cast of American Idiot, and originating the role of Charlie Price in Kinky Boots on Broadway. He is a two-time Tony Award nominee. He is also known for the roles…

  Plaza Suite – Play Memorabilia Available Here Plaza Suite is a comedy play by Neil Simon. The play originally had four acts, one of which was cut during pre-production. Simon later expanded it for the 1970 feature film The Out-of-Towners.[1] Plot The play is composed of three acts, each involving different characters but all set in Suite 719…

  Take Me Out – Play By Richard Greenberg Memorabilia Available Take Me Out is a play by American playwright Richard Greenberg. After a staging at the Donmar Warehouse in London, it premiered Off-Broadway on September 5, 2002 at the Joseph Papp Public Theater. It made its Broadway debut on February 27, 2003 at the Walter Kerr Theatre, where it ran for 355 performances and won…

Peter and the Starcatcher – Play Peter and the Starcatcher is a play based on the 2004 novel Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, adapted for the stage by Rick Elice. The play provides a backstory for the characters of Peter Pan, Mrs Darling, Tinker Bell and Hook, and serves as a prequel to J. M. Barrie‘s Peter and Wendy.[1] After a premiere in California at the La Jolla Playhouse, the play transferred…

John Guare – Bio Memorabilia Available Here John Guare ( born February 5, 1938) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He is best known as the author of The House of Blue Leaves and Six Degrees of Separation. He was an original member in 1965 of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut and Resident Playwright at the New York Shakespeare Festival, during which time he wrote Landscape…

Laura Osnes – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Born Laura Ann Osnes (1985-11-19) November 19, 1985 (age 31)[1] Burnsville, Minnesota, U.S. Occupation Singer, actress Spouse(s) Nathan Johnson (m. 2007)   Laura Ann Osnes – Bio (born November 19, 1985)[1] is an American actress and singer known for her work on the Broadway stage. She has played starring roles in Grease as…

  Cynthia Nixon – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Cynthia Ellen Nixon (born April 9, 1966) is an American actress and liberal activist. For her portrayal of Miranda Hobbes in the HBO series Sex and the City (1998–2004), she won the 2004 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She reprised the role in the films Sex and the City (2008) and Sex…

Love! Valour! Compassion! – Play Memorabilia Available Here Love! Valour! Compassion! is a play by Terrence McNally. The play opened Off-Broadway in 1994 and transferred to Broadway in 1995. It won the Tony Award for Best Play and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play. Productions Love! Valour! Compassion! premiered Off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club on October 11, 1994, running for 72 performances. The production transferred to…

Celia Keenan-Bolger – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Celia Keenan-Bolger (born January 26, 1978) is an American actress and singer. She is known for portraying Scout Finch in the play To Kill a Mockingbird (2018), which earned her a Tony Award. She has also won three Drama Desk Awards and an Outer Critics Circle Award. Life Keenan-Bolger was born in Detroit, Michigan, the eldest of three children….

Wit – Play Wit  is a one-act play written by American playwright Margaret Edson, which won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Edson used her work experience in a hospital as part of the inspiration for her play.[1][2] Productions Wit received its world premiere at South Coast Repertory (SCR), Costa Mesa, California, in 1995.[3] Edson had sent the play to many theatres, with SCR dramaturg…

Biloxi Blues – Play Memorabilia Available Here Biloxi Blues is a semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon. It portrays the conflict of Sergeant Merwin J. Toomey and Arnold Epstein, one of many privates enlisted in the military stationed in Biloxi, Mississippi, seen through the eyes of Eugene Jerome, one of the other soldiers. This play is the second chapter in…

Norm Lewis – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Norm Lewis (born June 2, 1963) is an American actor and singer. He has appeared in Europe, on Broadway, in film, television, recordings and regional theatre.[2] Productions that he has been involved in include Dessa Rose, Miss Saigon, The Wild Party, and several others.[3] Lewis was the first African-American actor to perform in the title role in…

Edward Albee – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Edward Franklin Albee III (March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966), and Three Tall Women (1994). Some critics have argued that some of his work constitutes an American variant of what Martin…

Frank Langella – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Frank A. Langella Jr. ( born January 1, 1938) is an American stage and film actor. He has won four Tony Awards: two for Best Leading Actor in a Play for his performance as Richard Nixon in Peter Morgan’s Frost/Nixon  and as André in Florian Zeller’s The Father, and two for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performances…

Blackbird – Play Memorabilia Available Here Blackbird is a play written in 2005 by Scottish playwright David Harrower. It was inspired in part by the crimes of sex offender Toby Studebaker, and depicts a young woman meeting a middle-aged man fifteen years after being sexually abused by him when she was twelve. Plot At his workplace, 55-year-old Ray is…

God of Carnage – Play Memorabilia Available Here The God of Carnage (originally in French Le Dieu du carnage) is a play by Yasmina Reza and was first published in 2008. It is about two sets of parents, one of whose child has hurt the other at a public park. They agree to meet to discuss the matter in a…

  Jeff Daniels – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Jeffrey Warren Daniels (born February 19, 1955) is an American actor, musician, and playwright. Known for his work in television, film, and multiple stage productions, he is the recipient of various accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for three Tony Awards, five Screen Actors Guild Awards, and five Golden Globe…

  Janet McTeer – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Janet McTeer OBE (born 5 August 1961) is an English actress. In 1997, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, the Olivier Award for Best Actress, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play for her role as Nora in A Doll’s House (1996–1997). She also won…

  As Bees In Honey Drown – Play Memorabilia Available Here As Bees In Honey Drown is a satirical comedy by Douglas Carter Beane. Douglas is an American playwright and screenwriter. Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, Beane now lives in New York. Repertory Theatre St. Louis (1999) Link Productions The play premiered Off-Broadway in a…

George Abbott – Bio Memorabilia Available Here George Francis Abbott (June 25, 1887 – January 31, 1995) was an American theater producer and director, playwright, screenwriter, and film director and producer whose career spanned eight decades. In addition to his wife, who died in 2020 at 88, Abbott was survived by a sister, Isabel Juergens,…

  James Monroe Iglehart – Bio Memorabilia Available Here James Monroe Iglehart (born September 4, 1974) is an American stage actor and singer. [1][4] Iglehart is perhaps best known for his Tony Award-winning performance as the Genie in the original Broadway production of Aladdin. Iglehart assumed the role of Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson in the Broadway company of Hamilton in April 2017 and can be…

  Phylicia Rashad – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Phylicia Rashād  (née Ayers-Allen; born June 19, 1948) is an American actress, singer and stage director. She is known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the NBC sitcom The Cosby Show (1984–92) which earned her Emmy Award nominations in 1985 and 1986. She was dubbed “The Mother Of The Black Community” at the 2010 NAACP Image…

  New York City Center New York City Center (previously known as the Mecca Temple, City Center of Music and Drama,[2] and the New York City Center 55th Street Theater[3]) is a 2,257-seat Moorish Revival theater at 131 West 55th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, one block south of Carnegie Hall. City Center is a performing home for several major dance companies as well…

  Broadway Bound – Play Memorabilia Available Here Broadway Bound is a semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon. It is the last chapter in his Eugene trilogy, following Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues. Plot The play is about Eugene and his older brother, Stanley, dealing with their parents’ relationship falling apart as the brothers work together toward being comedy writers for the…

  Noel Coward – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 – 26 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called “a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise”.[1] Coward attended a dance academy in…

  August Wilson – Bio Memorabilia Available Here August Wilson (April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright. He has been referred to as the “theater’s poet of Black America”.[1] He is best known for a series of ten plays, collectively called The Pittsburgh Cycle, which chronicle the experiences and heritage of the African-American community…

  Dana H – Play Written by Lucas Hnath   A harrowing true story, Dana was held captive — trapped in a series of Florida motels, disoriented and terrified — for five months. Told in Dana’s own words and reconstructed for the stage by her son Lucas Hnath (A Doll’s House Part 2, The Christians), this innovative work…

  Chicken & Biscuits – Play by Douglas Lyons     Plot The Jenkins family is coming together to celebrate the life of their father—hopefully without killing each other! Eldest daughter, Baneatta, wants everything to be perfect for her father’s funeral. “Favorite” daughter, Beverly, would rather honor her daddy dressed to show the entire congregation…

  Andy Karl – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Andy Karl (born August 28, 1974 as Andrew Karl Cesewski) is an American actor and singer, best known for performing in musical theatre. He appeared on Broadway in the original productions of the musical version of Groundhog Day (for which he won the Olivier Award, Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award), Legally Blonde, 9 to 5, Rocky the Musical and Pretty Woman:…

  Stephen Karam – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Stephen Karam is an American playwright and screenwriter. His plays Sons of the Prophet, a comedy-drama about a Lebanese-American family, and The Humans were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2012 and 2016, respectively. The Humans won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play.     Life Karam grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in a Lebanese-American family of…

  Same Time Next Year – Play Memorabilia Available Here Same Time, Next Year is a 1975 romantic comedy play by Bernard Slade. The plot focuses on two people, married to others, who meet for a romantic tryst once a year for two dozen years. Bernard Slade Newbound (May 2, 1930 – October 30, 2019) was a Canadian playwright and screenwriter….

  Gene Saks – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Gene Saks (born Jean Michael Saks; November 8, 1921 – March 28, 2015) was an American director and actor. An inductee of the American Theater Hall of Fame, his acting career began with a Broadway debut in 1949. As a director, he was nominated for seven Tony Awards, winning three for…

  The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Play The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, a play by Jay Presson Allen. The story is based in Edinburgh Scotland in the 1930’s, first produced in 1967. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a novel by Muriel Spark, the best known of her works. It was…

  Sarah Jessica Parker – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Sarah Jessica Parker (born March 25, 1965) is an American actress and producer. She is known for her role as Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO television series Sex and the City (1998–2004), for which she won two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Comedy Series and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. The character was…

  Tony Kushner – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Anthony Robert Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an American playwright, author, and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993 for his play Angels in America, then adapted it into a 2003 miniseries. He also wrote the Steven Spielberg-directed films Munich (2005), Lincoln (2012), and The Fabelmans (2022), receiving critical acclaim and Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nominations…

  The Price – Play Memorabilia Available Here The Price is a two-act play written in 1967 by Arthur Miller.[1] It is about family dynamics, the price of furniture and the price of one’s decisions. The play premiered on Broadway in 1968, and has been revived four times on Broadway. It was nominated for two 1968 Tony Awards. Miller stated that he…

  Brighton Beach Memoirs Memorabilia Available Here Brighton Beach Memoirs is a semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon, the first chapter in what is known as his Eugene trilogy. It precedes Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound. Productions Brighton Beach Memoirs had a pre-Broadway engagement at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles on December 10, 1982, and following an additional pre-Broadway engagement at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco,[1] the…

  Robert Preston Memorabilia Available Here Robert Preston Meservey (June 8, 1918 – March 21, 1987) was an American stage and film actor and singer of Broadway and cinema, best known for his collaboration with composer Meredith Willson and originating the role of Professor Harold Hill in the 1957 musical The Music Man and the 1962 film adaptation; the film earned…

  Mary Stuart Memorabilia Available Here Mary Stuart  is a verse play by Friedrich Schiller that depicts the last days of Mary, Queen of Scots. The play consists of five acts, each divided into several scenes. The play had its première in Weimar, Germany on 14 June 1800. The play formed the basis for Donizetti‘s opera Maria Stuarda (1835). Harriet Walter and Janet McTeer…

  A View from the Bridge Memorabilia Available Here A View from the Bridge is a play by American playwright Arthur Miller. It was first staged on September 29, 1955, as a one-act verse drama with A Memory of Two Mondays at the Coronet Theatre on Broadway. The run was unsuccessful, and Miller subsequently revised the play to contain two acts; this version is the…

  Dada Woof Papa Hot By Peter Parnell Memorabilia Available Here “We have rules, Scott and me,” Jason says. He’s a hunky painter, married to Scott, a private-equity guy, and he’s talking to Alan, half of another, slightly older gay couple, people they know as fellow parents. Alan has invited Jason for coffee after school…

  David Cromer David Cromer (born October 17, 1964) is an American theatre director, and stage, film, and TV actor. He has received recognition for his work on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and in his native Chicago. Cromer has won or been nominated for numerous awards, including winning the Lucille Lortel Award and Obie Award for his direction of Our Town.[1] He was nominated for the Drama Desk Award and the Outer…

  The Crucible Memorabilia Available Here The Crucible is a 1953 play by American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692–93. Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government persecuted people accused of being communists.[1] Miller was questioned by the House…

  John Benjamin Hickey Memorabilia Available Here John Benjamin Hickey (born June 25, 1963) is an American actor with a career in stage, film and television. He won the 2011 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play for his performance as Felix Turner in The Normal Heart. Life Hickey was born in Plano, Texas,…

  The Nance  Memorabilia Available Here The Nance is a play written by Douglas Carter Beane. It involves the lives of burlesque performers during the 1930s. A “nance” was a camp stock character in vaudeville and burlesque.[1] The play is a production of Lincoln Center Theater that premiered on Broadway in 2013. It received five Tony Award nominations, and won three awards. It starred Nathan Lane…

  Arthur Miller Memorabilia Available Here Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist in the 20th-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), and A View from the Bridge (1955, revised 1956). He wrote several screenplays and was most noted for his work on The Misfits (1961). The drama Death of a Salesman has been…

  Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Memorabilia Available Here Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is a 1982 play – one of the ten-play Pittsburgh Cycle by August Wilson – that chronicles the 20th-century African-American experience. The play is set in a recording studio in 1920s Chicago, and deals with issues of race, art, religion, and the historic exploitation of Black recording artists by white producers….

Douglas Carter Beane Douglas Carter Beane is an American playwright and screenwriter. Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, Beane now lives in New York.[1][2][3] His works include the screenplay of To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, and several plays including The Country Club and The Little Dog Laughed, which was nominated for the 2007 Tony Award for Best Play and As Bees in Honey…

The Little Dog Laughed Memorabilia Available Here The Little Dog Laughed is a 2006 comedy play by Douglas Carter Beane. The four characters are an actor, Mitchell, his acerbic agent Diane, a hustler named Alex, and Alex’s girlfriend Ellen. When Mitchell and Alex become involved in a physical relationship, Diane is concerned that what she describes as…

Amadeus A play by Peter Shaffer. Memorabilia Available Here It is based on the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, highly fictionalized. Amadeus was first performed in 1979. It was inspired by Mozart and Salieri, a short play by Aleksandr Pushkin which was later adapted into an opera of the same…

  Andrew Garfield  Memorabilia Available Here Andrew Russell Garfield (born 20 August 1983)[2] is an American-British actor.[3][4][5][6] An alumnus of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, he is the recipient of various accolades, including a Tony Award and a British Academy Television Award, and has been nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award, an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and three British Academy Film…

Robin de Jesús Memorabilia Available Here Robin de Jesús (born August 21, 1984) is an American film and theater actor of Puerto Rican descent. He was born in Norwalk, Connecticut.[1] Robin de Jesús’s first major role was as Michael in the independent film Camp (2003), where he plays a gay teen who gets beat up for wearing a dress to his prom. While the film (which…

Miguel Cervantes Miguel Cervantes is an American actor, singer and activist best known for originating the role of Alexander Hamilton in the Chicago production Hamilton, a role he played from September 2016 until the production closed in January 2020. He currently plays the role in the Broadway production.[2]   Life Cervantes and his family relocated to Chicago in the years following his casting in Hamilton. They…

Chicken & Biscuits – Play Written by Douglas Lyons Chicken & Biscuits, a brand new comedy written by Black playwright Douglas Lyons, with a largely Black cast and directed by Zhailon Levingston, who at 27 turns into the youngest Black director in Broadway historical past, could have its Broadway premiere this Fall. Plot The Jenkins family is…

Pass Over By Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu Productions Pass Over first opened at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago in 2017, and then moved to the Claire Tow Theater Off Broadway June 2018 Directed by Danya Taymor and Starring Gabriel Ebert, Jon Michael Hill, Namir Smallwood with 50 performances. Pass Over opening on Broadway at the August…

Lackawanna Blues – Database Lackawanna Blues is an American play written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson that premiered in 2001. It was later adapted as a television movie that aired in 2005. The play dramatizes the character of the author’s primary caregiver when he was growing up in Lackawanna, New York, during the 1950s and 1960s. 2005 Movie Starring S. Epatha Merkerson The Play The play…

  The Closet by Douglas Carter Beane At Williamstown Theatre Festival 2018 Main stage Inspired by Francis Veber’s play Le Placard Directed by Mark Brokaw   Tony Award winner and Golden Globe and Emmy nominee Matthew Broderick stars in this world premiere comedy by Douglas Carter Beane, inspired by Le Placard, the French comedy by Academy Award nominee Francis Veber.  Martin O’Reilly…

  Master Class Memorabilia Available Here Master Class is a 1995 play by American playwright Terrence McNally, presented as a fictional master class by opera singer Maria Callas near the end of her life, in the 1970s. The play features incidental vocal music by Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, and Vincenzo Bellini. The play opened on Broadway in 1995, with stars Zoe Caldwell and Audra McDonald winning Tony Awards.     Plot The opera diva Maria…

  The Glass Menagerie – Database Memorabilia Available Here The Glass Menagerie[1] is a memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame. The play has strong autobiographical elements, featuring characters based on its author, his histrionic mother, and his mentally fragile sister Laura. In writing the play, Williams drew on an earlier short story,…

  Barefoot in the Park – Database Memorabilia Available Click Here Barefoot in the Park is a romantic comedy by Neil Simon. The play premiered on Broadway in 1963, starring Robert Redford and Elizabeth Ashley. It was made into a film in 1967, which starred Redford and Jane Fonda. Productions Barefoot in the Park had a pre-Broadway production under the title Nobody Loves Me at the Bucks County Playhouse in…

  Stockard Channing – Database Memorabilia Available Here   Stockard Channing (born Susan Williams Antonia Stockard; February 13, 1944) is an American actress. She is known for playing Betty Rizzo in the film Grease (1978) and First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the NBC television series The West Wing (1999–2006). She is also known for originating the role of Ouisa Kittredge in the stage and film versions of Six Degrees of Separation. Channing won…

  Norbert Leo Butz – Database Memorabilia Available Norbert Leo Butz (born January 30, 1967) is an American actor and singer, best known for his work in Broadway theatre. He is a two-time winner of the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, and is one of only nine actors ever to have won the award twice…

  Patrick Wilson – Database Memorabilia Available Here Patrick Joseph Wilson (born July 3, 1973) is an American actor, singer, and director. He spent his early career starring in Broadway musicals, beginning in 1995. He is a two-time Tony Award nominee for his roles in The Full Monty (2000–2001) and Oklahoma! (2002). In 2003, he co-starred in the acclaimed HBO miniseries Angels in America for which he was…

  Lauren Bacall – Database Memorabilia Available   Lauren Bacall ( born Betty Joan Perske; September 16, 1924 – August 12, 2014) was an American actress. She was named the 20th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute and received an Academy Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2009 in recognition of her contribution to the…

  Barbara Barrie – Database   Barbara Barrie (born Barbara Ann Berman; May 23, 1931) is an American actress of film, stage and television. She is also an author. Her film breakthrough came in 1964 with her performance as Julie in the landmark film One Potato, Two Potato, for which she won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival….

  Significant Other – Database Memorabilia Available Here Significant Other is an American play written by Joshua Harmon, which premiered Off-Broadway in 2015, followed by a Broadway production at the Booth Theatre in Spring 2017.  Starring Gideon Glick as Jordan, with John Behlmann, Sas Goldberg, Lindsay Mendez, Carra Paterson, Luke Smith, and Academy Award nominee Barbara Barrie.     Plot The play concerns the lives of…

  The Real Thing – Database by Tom Stoppard Memorabilia Available Here   The Real Thing is a play by Tom Stoppard that was first performed in 1982. The play focuses on the relationship between Henry and Annie, an actress and member of a group fighting to free Brodie, a Scottish soldier imprisoned for burning a memorial wreath…

  Bobby Steggert – Database  Memorabilia Available Here Bobby Steggert (born March 2, 1981) is a former American actor of theatre, television and film on Broadway Bobby appeared in many productions including Mothers and Sons, Boy, Yanks. He currently works in the mental health field. Life He was born in Frederick, Maryland. Steggart attended Frederick High School, and…

  Mothers and Sons BY Terrence McNally Memorabilia Available Here Sheryl Kaller directed the play’s world premiere at Bucks County Playhouse in Pennsylvania earlier this summer. The work is an expanded update of McNally’s 1990 teleplay Andre’s Mother, which aired under the PBS American Playhouse banner. Mothers and Sons marks McNally’s 20th Broadway production. He has won Tony Awards for…

  Fred Weller – Database Memorabilia Available Here Frederick Weller (born April 18, 1966) is an American stage and film actor from Take Me Out on Broadway to Law and Order on television.     Life Weller was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of lawyers Carole and Francis Weller.[1] He is a 1984 graduate of Jesuit High…

  Daniel Sunjata – Database Memorabilia Available Daniel Sunjata Condon (born December 30, 1971) is an American actor who performs in film, television and theater. He is known for his role as Franco Rivera in the FX television series Rescue Me.[1][2] Life Sunjata was born and grew up in Chicago, the adopted son of Bill and Catherine Condon, a police…

  Sam Shepard – Database Memorabilia Available Here   Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017), known professionally as Sam Shepard, was an American playwright, actor, author, screenwriter, and director. His body of work spanned over half a century. He was the author of forty-four plays as well as several books of short…

  Atlantic Theatre Company – Database   Atlantic Theater Company is an Off-Broadway non-profit theater, whose mission is to produce great plays “simply and truthfully utilizing an artistic ensemble.”[1] The company was founded in 1985 by David Mamet, William H. Macy, and 30 of their acting students from New York University, inspired by the historical examples of the Group Theatre and Stanislavski. Atlantic believes that the…

  Tennessee Williams – Database Memorabilia Available Here Thomas Lanier “Tennessee” Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American playwright and author of many stage classics. Along with Eugene O’Neill and Arthur Miller he is considered among the three foremost playwrights in 20th century American drama. After years of obscurity, he became…

  Donmar Warehouse London – Database   The Donmar Warehouse is a 251-seat, not-for-profit theatre in Covent Garden, London, England. It first opened on 18 July 1977. Sam Mendes, Michael Grandage and Josie Rourke have all served as artistic director, a post held since 2019 by Michael Longhurst. The theatre has a diverse artistic policy that includes new writing, contemporary reappraisals of European classics, British and American…

  Lillian Hellman – Database Memorabilia Available Here   Lillian Florence Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984) was an American playwright, author, and screenwriter known for her success on Broadway, as well as her communist sympathies and political activism. She was blacklisted after her appearance before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) at the height of the anti-communist…

  Trevor Nunn – Database Memorabilia Available Here   Sir Trevor Robert Nunn CBE (born 14 January 1940) is a British theatre director. Nunn has been the Artistic Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre, and, currently, the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. He has directed dramas for the stage, like Macbeth, as well as opera and musicals, such as Cats (1981)…

  Peter Shaffer – Database English playwright 1926 – 2016 Memorabilia Available Here   Sir Peter Levin Shaffer, CBE (15 May 1926 – 6 June 2016) was an English playwright and screenwriter of numerous award-winning plays, several of which have been turned into films.   LIFE Shaffer was born to a Jewish family in Liverpool,…

  Max Crumm – Database Memorabilia Available Here Aaron Maximillian “Max” Crumm (born October 8, 1985)  is an American actor and singer known for their work on the New York stage. They have originated starring roles on Broadway in both the revival of Grease as Danny Zuko, after winning NBC’s talent search competition, Grease: You’re the One That I Want!, and in Seth Rudetsky’s Disaster! as Scott, after…

  Scott Ellis – Database Memorabilia Available Here Scott Ellis (born April 19, 1957) is an American stage director, actor, and television director. Life Ellis graduated from Goodman School of Drama at the Art Institute of Chicago (now at DePaul University) in Chicago.[1] He also graduated from James W. Robinson Secondary School, Fairfax, VA, in 1975. He studied acting at HB Studio[2] in New York City. Ellis has a…

  David Merrick – Database Memorabilia Available David Merrick (November 27, 1911 – April 25, 2000) was a prolific Tony Award-winning American theatrical producer. In 1965, Merrick received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. In 2001, Merrick was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame.[4][5] Life and Career Born David Lee Margulois to Jewish parents in St. Louis, Missouri, Merrick graduated from Washington…

  Liza Minnelli – Database Memorabilia Available   Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946) is an American actress, dancer, and singer. She is best known for her performance in Cabaret (1972), the film Arthur (1981), several hit albums and many other film and television appearances. She is famous for her stage presence and her powerful alto singing voice.[1] She is the daughter of…

  Lonny Price – Database Memorabilia Available Lonny Price (born March 9, 1959) is an American director, actor, and writer, primarily in theatre. He is perhaps best known for his creation of the role of Charley Kringas in the Broadway musical Merrily We Roll Along and for his New York directing work including Sunset Boulevard, Sweeney Todd, Company, and Sondheim! The Birthday Concert. Life Price was…

  Ramin Karimloo – Database Ramin Karimloo (born September 19, 1978) is an Iranian-Canadian actor, singer and composer recognised mainly for his work in London’s West End. He has played the leading male roles in both of the West End’s longest running musicals: the Phantom and Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny in The Phantom of the Opera, and Jean Valjean, Enjolras, and Marius Pontmercy in Les Misérables….

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA) is an American nonprofit organization that raises funds for AIDS-related causes across the United States, headquartered in New York City. It is the theatre community’s response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. By drawing upon the talents, resources and generosity of the American theatre community, BC/EFA has raised over $300 million for critically needed…

  Nancye Hayes – Database Memorabilia Available Nancye Lee Bertles (née Hayes) AM (born 1943) is an Australian actress, dancer, singer and choreographer/director. She has been a leading figure in Australian musical theatre since the 1960s. Although her roles have been almost exclusively in theatre, she has briefly worked in television in series and mini-series,…

  Imelda Staunton – Database   Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton, CBE (born 9 January 1956)[1] is an English actress and singer. After training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Staunton began her career in repertory theatre in the 1970s before appearing in various theatre productions in the United Kingdom. Staunton has performed in a variety of plays and musicals…

  Tyne Daly – Database Memorabilia Available Ellen Tyne Daly (born February 21, 1946) is an American actress and singer. She has won six Emmy Awards for her television work and a Tony Award, and is a 2011 American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee. [1] Daly began her career on stage in summer stock in…

  Bernadette Peters – Database Memorabilia Available   Bernadette Peters (née Lazzara; born February 28, 1948) is an American actress, singer, and children’s book author. Over a career spanning five decades, she has starred in musical theatre, television and film, performed in solo concerts and released recordings. She is a critically acclaimed Broadway performer, having received seven nominations for Tony Awards,…

  Chip Zien   Jerome Herbert “Chip” Zien (born March 20, 1947) is an American actor. He is best known for playing the lead role of the Baker in the original Broadway production of Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim. He has appeared in all of the “Marvin Stories” musicals by William Finn: In Trousers, March of the Falsettos, Falsettoland and Falsettos. He played the role of…

  Marin Mazzie Memorabilia Available   Marin Joy Mazzie (October 9, 1960 – September 13, 2018) was an American actress and singer known for her work in musical theater. (1) Mazzie was a three-time Tony Award nominee, for her performances as Clara in Passion (1994), Mother in Ragtime (1998), and Lilli Vanessi/Katherine in Kiss Me,…

  Michael Xavier –  Database Michael D. Xavier (born 27 November 1978) is an English actor and singer. Xavier attended Liverpool college and ultimately completed his professional acting training at the Liverpool arts university [1] in 1999. His first professional role was in the musical comedy in 2000.[2][3] Stage Work Xavier has worked in lead roles on stage…

  Denis O’Hare – Database Memorabilia Available Denis Patrick Seamus O’Hare (born January 16, 1962) is an American actor, singer, and author noted for his award-winning performances in the plays Take Me Out and Sweet Charity, as well as portraying vampire king Russell Edgington on HBO’s fantasy series True Blood. He is also known for…

  Golden Boy – Database   Golden Boy Golden Boy is a drama by Clifford Odets. The play was initially produced on Broadway by The Group Theatre in 1937. Odets’ biggest hit was made into a 1939 film of the same name, starring William Holden in his breakthrough role, and also served as the basis for…

  Bartlett Sher – Database Bartlett B. Sher (born March 27, 1959) is an American theatre director. The New York Times has described him as “one of the most original and exciting directors, not only in the American theater but also in the international world of opera”.[1][2] Sher has been nominated for nine Tony Awards,…

  The Picture of Dorian Gray – Database   The Picture of Dorian Gray is a 100-minute adaptation of Oscar Wilde‘s 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by John Osborne, it was first broadcast on 19 September 1976. In 2009 The Times called it the “most Wildean” adaptation of the novel, boasting “perhaps the best Dorian” and mentioning that John…

  Meteor Shower – Database by Steve Martin Meteor Shower is a 2016 play written by Steve Martin. The play, a comedy, is set in 1993 in Ojai, California.[1] It premiered on Broadway in 2017, where Amy Schumer received the production’s sole Tony Award nomination. Productions The play had its world premiere at the Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, California in August 2016. The director was Gordon Edelstein with…

  Latin History For Morons by John Leguizamo Memorabilia Available After a sold-out run at The Public Theater and a record-breaking engagement at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, John Leguizamo brought LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS to STUDIO 54 on Broadway in previews from Oct 19 2017 Opening night – Nov 15 2017  Closing – Feb 25 2018…

  Junk: The Golden Age of Debt by Ayad Akhtar Memorabilia Available Junk: The Golden Age of Debt is a 2016 play by Ayad Akhtar. It premiered at the La Jolla Playhouse in July 2016 and then on Broadway in 2017 and centers on a corporate takeover. Back Story Described as a mix between a…

  M. Butterfly – Database Memorabilia Available M. Butterfly is a play by David Henry Hwang. The story, while entwined with that of the opera Madama Butterfly, is based most directly on the relationship between French diplomat Bernard Boursicot and Shi Pei Pu, a Peking opera singer. The play premiered on Broadway in 1988 and won the 1988 Tony Award for Best Play.   Productions M. Butterfly…

  Time and the Conways – Database by JB Priestley Time and the Conways is a British play written by J. B. Priestley in 1937 illustrating J. W. Dunne‘s Theory of Time through the experience of a moneyed Yorkshire family, the Conways, over a period of nineteen years from 1919 to 1937. Widely regarded as one of the best of Priestley’s Time…

  Len Cariou Memorabilia Available Leonard Joseph Cariou OC OM (born September 30, 1939) is a Canadian actor and stage director, best known for his portrayal of Sweeney Todd in the original cast of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical,…

  Adam Godley – Database Memorabilia Available Adam Godley (born 22 July 1964) is an English actor. He is a Tony Award nominee and has been nominated four times for the Olivier Award. Godley was born to Jewish parents in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. His father was a solicitor, and his mother was a magistrate. He grew up near Watford, Hertfordshire, and went to Rickmansworth School.[1] Life He…

  F**king Men – Database   by Joe DiPietro   Fucking Men is a play by Joe DiPietro. Schnitzler’s La Ronde has been remade dozens of times and is back into fashion again.  Joe DiPietro’s Fucking Men follows Schnitzler’s format but sets the 2008 story in gay New York. It premiered at the King’s Head Theatre…

  Angels in America – Database by Tony Kushner Memorabilia Available   Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a two-part play by American playwright Tony Kushner. The work won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award for Best Play, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play….

Sierra Boggess – Database Memorabilia Available Sierra Marjory Boggess (born May 20, 1982) is an American theater actress and singer. She is best known for originating the role of Ariel in The Little Mermaid on Broadway and for her multiple appearances as Christine Daaé in The Phantom of the Opera. She is known to many…

  Scott McPherson – Playwright Scott McPherson (October 13, 1959 Columbus, Ohio – November 7, 1992 Chicago) was an American playwright.[1] Life He graduated from Ohio University.[2] In 1981, he moved to Chicago, where he acted in The Normal Heart, and The House of Blue Leaves. He joined the play writing group Chicago New Plays. His partner was activist and…

  Marvin’s Room – Database  By Scott McPherson Memorabilia Available Marvin’s Room is a play by the American writer Scott McPherson. It tells the story of Bessie and her estranged sister, Lee, who confront a family crisis. Back Story The play is based upon McPherson’s experiences with older relatives who lived in Florida. McPherson cared…

  1984 – Database Memorabilia Available 1984 is a 2013 play by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan based on the 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Production History The production premiered at the Nottingham Playhouse on Friday 13 September 2013 in a co-production with the Almeida Theatre and Headlong. It was created and directed…

To Kill a Mockingbird – Videos ADAPTED AS A PLAY BY CHRISTOPHER SERGEL Memorabilia Available To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. To Kill a Mockingbird is now a 2018 play based on the…

Network – Videos Network Memorabilia Available Network is a play by Lee Hall, adapted from the 1976 film of the same name which had a Academy Award-winning screenplay by Paddy Chayefsky and was directed by Sidney Lumet. The plot closely follows that of the 1976 film but uses stage devices and audio visual technology to…

American Son – Videos BY CHRISTOPHER DEMOS-BROWN Memorabilia Available A Florida police station in the middle of the night. Two parents searching for answers. Kerry Washington (“Scandal”, Race) returned to the Broadway stage alongside Steven Pasquale (“American Crime Story,” Junk), Eugene Lee (Gem of the Ocean), and Jeremy Jordan (“Supergirl,” Newsies), in the riveting new…

Torch Song Trilogy – Videos BY HARVEY FIERSTEIN Memorabilia Available    Torch Song Trilogy is a collection of three plays by Harvey Fierstein rendered in three acts: International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, and Widows and Children First! The story centers on Arnold Beckoff, a Jewish homosexual, drag queen, and torch singer who lives in…

  The Ferryman – Videos The Ferryman BY JEZ BUTTERWORTH Memorabilia Available Timeline : The Ferryman opened at the Royal Court Theatre London 24 Apr 2017 and then Broadway, Previews from 02 Oct 2018 with opening night 21 Oct 2018 at the Bernard B Jacobs Theatre. The Ferryman is a 2017 play by Jez Butterworth. Set…

  The Lifespan of a Fact – Videos The Lifespan of a Fact BY JEREMY KAREKEN & DAVID MURRELL AND GORDON FARRELL BASED ON THE ESSAY/BOOK BY JOHN D’AGATA & JIM FINGAL Memorabilia Available Timeline: Broadway opened with previews Sept 20 2018 with opening night Oct 18, 2018 – Closed 13 Jan, 2019 The Lifespan…

The Nap Videos THE NAP By the author of the rollicking, award-winning Broadway comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, The Nap is a very funny look at the world of snooker – the British version of pool. Dylan Spokes, a fast-rising young star arrives for a championship tournament only to be confronted by the authorities warning…

  Bernhardt Hamlet Videos   Bernhardt/Hamlet   BY THERESA REBECK Bernhardt/Hamlet, The story set in 1899 in that temple of chauvinism, the French popular theater. Sarah Bernhardt, playing in her mid-50s and aging out of the dying courtesan roles that made her world-famous. As far as Shakespeare is concerned, she is caught in the gap…

  The Boys in the Band – The Videos   MEMORABILIA AVAILABLE    The Boys in the Band is a play by Mart Crowley. The play premiered Off-Broadway in 1968, and was revived on Broadway for its 50th anniversary in 2018. The play revolves around a group of gay men who gather for a birthday…

  Tracy Letts – Playwright     Tracy S. Letts (born July 4, 1965) is an American actor, playwright and screenwriter. He received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play August: Osage County and a Tony Award for his portrayal of George in the revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2013).[1] He…

Linda Vista – Database by Tracy Letts Wheeler is 50. His marriage is over, his job is mundane, and the best years of his life appear to be behind him. A move from the cot in his ex-wife’s garage to his own apartment opens up new possibilities for love and sex—complicated, painful and hilarious. Full…

The Great Society – Database by Robert Schenkkan From the producer, writer, and director of the Tony Award®-winning Broadway production, All The Way, comes a thrilling new play about the LBJ legacy: THE GREAT SOCIETY. This striking production features a brilliant cast portraying over fifty characters, including Emmy® and Olivier Award winner Brian Cox (“Succession,”…

Betrayal by Harold Pinter Memorabilia Available  Betrayal is a play written by Harold Pinter in 1978. Critically regarded as one of the English playwright’s major dramatic works, it features his characteristically economical dialogue, characters’ hidden emotions and veiled motivations, and their self-absorbed competitive one-upmanship, face-saving, dishonesty, and (self-)deceptions.[1] Inspired by Pinter’s clandestine extramarital affair with…

  Matt Doyle  – Database Memorabilia Available Matthew Finnen “Matt” Doyle (born May 13, 1987) is an American actor and singer-songwriter. He is perhaps best known for his work in Spring Awakening, War Horse and The Book of Mormon on Broadway and as Glenn Mangan / Juliet in 2011 Shakespeare film adaptation Private Romeo directed…

David Mamet – Database David Alan Mamet born November 30, 1947 is an American playwright, film director, screenwriter and author. He won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for his plays Glengarry Glen Ross (1984) and Speed-the-Plow (1988). He first gained critical acclaim for a trio of off-Broadway 1970s plays: The Duck Variations, Sexual…

Straight White Men – Videos Straight White Men is a 2014 American play by Young Jean Lee. Lee was called “the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation” by Charles Isherwood in The New York Times and “one of the best experimental playwrights in America” by David Cote in Time Out New York. With the…

Ink – Database by James Graham Memorabilia Available Ink is a 2017 play by James Graham which premiered in London in 2017. The play takes place in London in 1969. Rupert Murdoch buys a struggling newspaper, The Sun, intending to make the paper a must-read news source and hires editor Larry Lamb. Productions Almeida Production…

  Hillary and Clinton – Database  by Lucas Hnath Memorabilia Available   Hillary and Clinton is a play written by Lucas Hnath that premiered in 2016 at the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago. The play is set in an alternate universe[1] and tells a story centering on Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign. After one month of previews,…

  What the Constitution Means to Me – Database What the Constitution Means to Me is a 2017 American play by Heidi Schreck.[1] The play premiered on Broadway on March 31, 2019 at the Hayes Theater, with Schreck herself in the leading role.[2] Over the course of the play, Schreck addresses themes such as women’s…

  Straight White Men – Database Straight White Men is a 2014 American play by Young Jean Lee. Lee was called “the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation” by Charles Isherwood in The New York Times and “one of the best experimental playwrights in America” by David Cote in Time Out New York. With the 2018…

  Glengarry Glen Ross – Database by David Mamet Memorabilia Available Glengarry Glen Ross is a play by David Mamet that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984. The play shows parts of two days in the lives of four desperate Chicago real estate agents who are prepared to engage in any number of unethical, illegal…

  Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune – Database by Terrence McNally Memorabilia Available   Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune is a two-character play by Terrence McNally that was first performed off-Broadway in 1987. Plot The play focuses on two lonely, middle-aged people whose first date ends with their tumbling into…

  The Humans – Database by Stephen Karam Memorabilia Available  The Humans is a one-act play written by Stephen Karam. The play opened on Broadway in 2016 after an engagement Off-Broadway in 2015. The Humans was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play. Plot…

  The Normal Heart Video Gallery   The Normal Heart is a largely autobiographical play by Larry Kramer. ( The Normal Heart Video Gallery) The play’s title comes from W.H. Auden’s “September 1, 1939”. It focuses on the rise of the HIV/AIDS crisis in New York City between 1981 and 1984, as seen through the…

  November – Database by David Mamet Memorabilia Available November is a play written by David Mamet which premiered on Broadway in 2008. Directed by Joe Mantello  Productions November premiered on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on December 20, 2007 (previews), officially on January 17, 2008 and closed on July 13, 2008 after 205 performances and 33 previews. The…

The Odd Couple – Database by Neil Simon Memorabilia Available The Odd Couple is a play by Neil Simon. Following its premiere on Broadway in 1965, the characters were revived in a successful 1968 film and 1970s television series, as well as several other derivative works and spin-offs. The plot concerns two mismatched roommates: the…

Jon Robin Baitz – Database Jon Robin Baitz (born November 4, 1961) is an American playwright, screenwriter and television producer. He is a two time Pulitzer Prize finalist, as well as a Guggenheim, American Academy of Arts and Letters, and National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. Life Baitz was born to a Jewish family[1] in…

Other Desert Cities – Database by Jon Robin Baitz Memorabilia Available Other Desert Cities is a play by Jon Robin Baitz. The play premiered Off-Broadway in January 2011 and transferred to Broadway in November 2011, marking the Broadway debut of a Baitz play.[1] The play was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama….

Three Days of Rain – Database Memorabilia Available  Three Days of Rain is a play by Richard Greenberg that was commissioned and produced by South Coast Repertory in 1997. The title comes from a line from W. S. Merwin’s poem, “For the Anniversary of My Death” (1967). The play has often been called Stoppardian but…

The Vagina Monologues – Database Memorabilia Available The Vagina Monologues is an episodic play written by Eve Ensler which developed and premiered at HERE Arts Center, Off-Off-Broadway in New York and was followed by an Off-Broadway run in 1996 at Westside Theatre. The play explores consensual and nonconsensual sexual experiences, body image, genital mutilation, direct…

  Joe Mantello – Database Memorabilia Available Joseph Mantello (born December 27, 1962) is an American actor and director best known for his work on Broadway productions of Wicked, Take Me Out and Assassins, The Boys in the Band as well as earlier in his career being one of the original Broadway cast members of…

The Normal Heart – Database by Larry Kramer The Normal Heart is a largely autobiographical play by Larry Kramer. The play’s title comes from W.H. Auden’s “September 1, 1939”.[1] It focuses on the rise of the HIV/AIDS crisis in New York City between 1981 and 1984, as seen through the eyes of writer/activist Ned Weeks,…

  A. R. Gurney – Database Memorabilia Available    Albert Ramsdell Gurney, Jr. Born (1930-11-01) November 1, 1930 – June 13, 2017 Buffalo, New York Occupation Playwright, novelist, screenwriter Education Nichols School St. Paul’s School (1948) Alma mater Williams College (1952) Yale School of Drama (1958) Genre Theatre Spouse Mary Forman Goodyear Children 4   Albert…

  Rebecca Luker Memorabilia Available    Rebecca Luker (April 17, 1961 – December 23, 2020) was an American actress, singer, and recording artist noted for her “crystal clear operatic soprano” and for maintaining long runs in Broadway musicals over the course of her three decade long career.[1][2] The New York Times compared her to actresses…

All My Sons – Database by Arthur Miller Memorabilia Available  All My Sons is a three-act play written in 1946 by Arthur Miller.[1] It opened on Broadway at the Coronet Theatre in New York City on January 29, 1947, closed on November 8, 1949, and ran for 328 performances.[2] It was directed by Elia Kazan (to…

  My Name is Lucy Barton Book by Elizabeth Strout adapted for the theatre by Rona Munro My Name is Lucy Barton is a 2016 New York Times bestselling novel and the fifth novel by the American writer Elizabeth Strout.[1] It was first published in the United States on January 12, 2016 through Random House….

Hangmen – Database By Martin McDonagh Memorabilia Available Hangmen is a play by the British-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh. It received its world premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in September 2015, before transferring to the West End’s Wyndham’s Theatre.[1] The play was directed by Matthew Dunster, designed by Anna Fleischle, and featured David Morrissey…

Lanford Wilson Playwright Lanford Wilson (April 13, 1937 – March 24, 2011) was an American playwright. His work, as described by The New York Times, was “earthy, realist, greatly admired [and] widely performed.”[1] Wilson helped to advance the Off-Off-Broadway theater movement with his earliest plays, which were first produced at the Caffe Cino beginning in…

  Burn This by Lanford Wilson Memorabilia Available Burn This is a play by Lanford Wilson. Like much of Wilson’s work, the play includes themes of gay identity and relationships. The Story The play begins shortly after the funeral of Robbie, a young, gay dancer who drowned in a boating accident with his lover Dom. In attendance were…

Sal Mineo Salvatore Mineo Jr. (January 10, 1939 – February 12, 1976) was an American actor, singer, and director. He is best known for his role as John “Plato” Crawford in the drama film Rebel Without a Cause (1955), which earned the 17 year old actor a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting…

Andrew Duggan Andrew Duggan (December 28, 1923 – May 15, 1988) was an American character actor of film, Theatre and television.   Life In 1954, he married Broadway dancer and actress Elizabeth Logue,[10] whom he called Betty.[11] The couple had three children, Richard, Nancy, and Melissa. Duggan died[12] of throat cancer on May 15, 1988….

The Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Williams Memorabilia Available Here The Rose Tattoo is a three-act play written by Tennessee Williams in 1949 and 1950; after its Chicago premiere on December 29, 1950, he made further revisions to the play for its Broadway premiere on February 2, 1951, and its publication by New Directions the following…

The Sound Inside By Adam Rapp The Sound Inside: We meet Yale creative writing professor Bella Baird and her brilliant, guarded, challenging student Christopher Dunn. Bella starts by addressing the audience in direct, brutally open narration. She is his professor, his mentor, alone by choice, supremely confident. She is drawn to him, somehow compelled to…

Slave Play Slave Play is a three-act play by Jeremy O. Harris.[1] The play is about race, sex, power relations, trauma, and interracial relationships.[2][3] It follows three interracial couples undergoing “Antebellum Sexual Performance Therapy” because the black partners no longer feel sexual attraction to their white partners. The title refers to sexual slavery role-play. Harris…

Seawall / A Life by Simon Stephens & Nick Payne Sea Wall (2008) premiered in the Broken Space Season at Bush Theatre, directed by George Perrin and starring Andrew Scott Things for Alex are good. He loves his wife, his daughter, his city, his job. But sometimes the force of life can crash against you….

Grand Horizons by Bess Wohl   Plot Bill and Nancy have spent fifty full years as husband and wife. They practically breathe in unison, and can anticipate each other’s every sigh, snore and sneeze. But just as they settle comfortably into their new home in Grand Horizons, the unthinkable happens: Nancy suddenly wants out. As…

Peter and Alice by John Logan Peter and Alice is a play by American writer John Logan based on the meeting of 80-year-old Alice Liddell and Peter Llewelyn Davies, then in his thirties, in a London bookshop in 1932, at the opening of a Lewis Carroll exhibition. The production was directed by Michael Grandage and…

Money and Friends by David Williamson Memorabilia Available   Money and Friends is a 1991 Australian play written by David Williamson. Its world premiere was at the Queensland Theatre Company directed by artistic director Aubrey Mellor.[1] Cast for QTC 1991 Production – Robyn Nevin, John Gaden, Don Barker, Caroline Kennison, Peter Carroll, Barbara Stephens, Brandon Burke, Sally…

The Taming of the Shrew by  William Shakespeare   Memorabilia Available   The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592. The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the induction,[a] in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named…

  Shadow and Splendour by Jim Sharman   Memorabilia Available   A spy drama set in pre-World war II Tokyo. International espionage involving Japan, Russia and Germany in the 1930s and 1940s explores the conflicting loyalites of love and patriotism. James David Sharman (born 12 March 1945) is an Australian director and writer for film…

A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev Memorabilia Available   A Month in the Country is a play in five acts by Ivan Turgenev, his only well-known work for the theatre.[1] Originally titled The Student, it was written in France between 1848 and 1850 and first published in 1855 as Two Women. The play was…

  The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare Memorabilia Available   The Winter’s Tale is a play by William Shakespeare originally published in the First Folio of 1623. Although it was grouped among the comedies,[1] many modern editors have relabelled the play as one of Shakespeare’s late romances. Some critics consider it to be one of…

  Falling from Grace by Hannie Rayson Memorabilia Available    Hannie Rayson, one of Australia’s most prolific, successful and beloved writers, has created a contemporary story about the deep friendship between three women. Suzannah, Maggie and Janet have been colleagues and best friends for years. But their relationship is about to be severely challenged by…

The Beau Stratagem Memorabilia Available     The Beaux’ Stratagem is a comedy by George Farquhar, first produced at the Theatre Royal, now the site of Her Majesty’s Theatre, in the Haymarket, London, on March 8, 1707.[1] In the play, Archer and Aimwell, two young gentlemen who have fallen on hard times, plan to travel through…

  Blithe Spirit Memorabilia Available   Blithe Spirit is a comic play by Noël Coward. The play concerns the socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to gather material for his next book. The scheme backfires when he is haunted by the ghost of his annoying…

  Private Fears in Public Places Private Fears in Public Places is a 2004 play by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn. The bleakest play written by Ayckbourn for many years, it intimately follows a few days in the lives of six characters, in four tightly-interwoven stories through 54 scenes. In 2006, it was made into a film Cœurs, directed…

  Scenes from a Separation Memorabilia Available by Andrew Bovell and Hannie Rayson Scenes from a Separation presents the breakdown of a marriage and is a collaboration between two renowned Australian playwrights Andrew Bovell, writing from the husband’s perspective in the first act and Hannie Rayson from the wife’s point of view in the second….

Andrew Bovell Andrew Bovell (born 23 November 1962) is an Australian writer for theatre, film and television.[1] Memorabilia Available Life Bovell was born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia and completed his secondary school education in Perth. He graduated from the University of Western Australia with a BA and followed that with a Diploma in Dramatic Arts at the Victorian College of Arts, in…

Hannie Rayson Hannie Rayson (born 1957) is an Australian playwright and newspaper columnist. She is recognised as one of Australia’s most significant playwrights. Memorabilia Available Life Rayson was born in Melbourne, Victoria and graduated from the University of Melbourne and the Victorian College of Arts. She has worked as a freelance journalist and editor in addition to her primary career as playwright and screenwriter. Rayson…

Piaf – Database by Pam Gems   Memorabilia Available   Piaf is a play by Pam Gems that focuses on the life and career of French chanteuse Edith Piaf. The biographical drama with music portrays the singer in a most unflattering light. She is presented as a self-destructive, promiscuous alcoholic and junkie who, in one…

Sleep No More – Database Sleep No More is the New York City production of a site-specific, interactive work of theatre created by British theatre company Punchdrunk, based on their original 2003 London incarnation (at the Beafoy Building), their Brookline, Massachusetts 2009 collaboration with Boston’s American Repertory Theatre (at the Old Lincoln School), and William…

Sticks and Bones by David Rabe Sticks and Bones is a 1971 play by David Rabe. The black comedy focuses on David, a blind Vietnam War veteran who finds himself unable to come to terms with his actions on the battlefield and alienated from his family because they neither can accept his disability nor understand his…

  The Audience – Database BY DAVID HARE Memorabilia Available The Audience is a play by the British playwright and screenwriter Peter Morgan.[1] The play centers around weekly meetings called audiences, between Queen Elizabeth II and her prime ministers and premiered in the West End in 2013, at the Gielgud Theatre. A Broadway production opened…

The Commons of Pensacola – Database by Amanda Peet Memorabilia Available   Sarah Jessica Parker and Blythe Danner star in the world premiere of Amanda Peet’s play The Commons of Pensacola. MTC’s award-winning Artistic Director Lynne Meadow directs the production, Ms. Peet’s playwriting debut. Judith (Blythe Danner) has been divested of her assets and forced…

  The Cripple of Inishmann – Database by Martin McDonagh Memorabilia Available     The Cripple of Inishmaan is a dark comedy by Martin McDonagh who links the story to the real life filming of the documentary Man of Aran. Set on the small Aran Islands community of Inis Meáin off the Western Coast of…

  The Heidi Chronicles – Database Memorabilia Available   The Heidi Chronicles is a 1988 play by Wendy Wasserstein. The play won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Heidi Chronicles opened off Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in November 1988, Starring Joan Allen, Joanne Camp, Peter Friedman, Boyd Gains, Drew McVety, Ellen Parker and Sarah…

  The Mousetrap – Database   Memorabilia Available The Mousetrap is a murder mystery play by Agatha Christie. The Mousetrap opened in the West End of London in 1952, and has been running continuously since then. It has by far the longest initial run of any play in history, with its 25,000th performance taking place…

The Wake of Jamey Foster by Beth Henley Memorabilia Available The scene is a small town in Mississippi, where the family of Jamey Foster, a failed poet and would-be historian, who was kicked in the head by a cow while consorting with his mistress in a pasture, have gathered for his wake. The mourners, who…

  The Waters Edge – Database by Theresa Rebeck Memorabilia Available   Deep in the Massachusetts woods, a lakeside mansion slides slowly into disrepair, all change halted after a terrible tragedy many years before. Rich and successful, Richard returns to reclaim it, model girlfriend in tow. But his family still live there, and as he…

  The Way We Get By – Database by Neil LaBute Memorabilia Available The Way We Get By is a 2015 play written by Neil LaBute, directed by Leigh Silverman and produced by Second Stage Theatre, starring Thomas Sadoski and Amanda Seyfried. Neil N. LaBute (born March 19, 1963)  is an American playwright, film director,…

  The Women in Black – Database Memorabilia Available The Woman in Black is a 1987 stage play, adapted by Stephen Mallatratt. The play is based on the book of the same name, which was written in 1983 by Susan Hill. It is notable for only having two actors perform the whole play. It was…

  Voices – Database by Richard Lortz Memorabilia Available   The primary characters are a troubled couple caught in an old dark house trapped by a snowstorm. They hear voices, a ball bounces down a stairway, and ghosts may or may not be in attendance. I recall a plot twist at play’s end indicating that…

  Waiting For Godot Memorabilia Available By Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot (pronounced /ˈɡɒdoʊ/, GAH-doh) is an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait for someone named Godot. Godot’s absence, as well as numerous other aspects of the play, have led to many different interpretations since the play’s premiere….

  War Horse – Database Memorabilia Available   War Horse is a play based on the book of the same name by children’s writer Michael Morpurgo, adapted for stage by Nick Stafford. Originally Morpurgo thought “they must be mad” to try to make a play from his best-selling 1982 novel; nonetheless, the play was a…

  Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf – Database Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a play by Edward Albee that opened on Broadway at the Billy Rose Theater on October 13, 1962. The original cast featured Uta Hagen as Martha, Arthur Hill as George, Melinda Dillon as Honey and George Grizzard as Nick. It was…

  Wolf Hall/Bring Up the Bodies – Database By Hilary Mantel Memorabilia Available Wolf Hall (2009) is a historical novel/Play/TV Mini Series by English author Hilary Mantel, published by Fourth Estate, named after the Seymour family seat of Wolfhall or Wulfhall in Wiltshire. Set in the period from 1500 to 1535, Wolf Hall is a…

  Wild Animals You Should Know – Database Tony Award-winner Alice Ripley (Next to Normal) and MCC Theater founding member Patrick Breen (The Normal Heart) round out the ensemble cast under the direction of Trip Cullman (A Small Fire, Bachelorette). Playwright Thomas Higgins makes his New York debut with this tale of ruin and redemption…

  A Delicate Balance – Database Written by Edward Albee Characters Agnes Tobias Claire Edna Harry Julia Date premiered September 22, 1966 Place premiered Martin Beck Theatre New York City Original language English Subject Dysfunction in suburbia Genre Drama Setting An upper-middle-class home Memorabilia Available  A Delicate Balance is a play by Edward Albee. It…

  Six Degrees of Separation – Database Written by John Guare Date premiered 1990 Place premiered Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater New York City Original language English Genre Drama Setting New York City Memorabilia Available   Six Degrees of Separation is a play written by American playwright John Guare that premiered in 1990. The play was…

  Fences – Database Fences is a 1985 play by American playwright August Wilson. Set in the 1950s, it is the sixth in Wilson’s ten-part “Pittsburgh Cycle”. Like all of the “Pittsburgh” plays, Fences explores the evolving African-American experience and examines race relations, among other themes. The play won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama…

  The Iceman Cometh – Database The Iceman Cometh is a play written by American playwright Eugene O’Neill[1] in 1939. First published in 1946,[1] the play premiered on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on October 9, 1946, directed by Eddie Dowling, where it ran for 136 performances before closing on March 15, 1947. Memorabilia…

  Richard III – Database Richard III is a historical play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1592. It depicts the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of King Richard III of England.[1] The play is grouped among the histories in the First Folio and is most often classified…

  Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike – Database Janie Dee and Lewis Reeves in the play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at Ustinov, Bath   Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is a comedy play written by Christopher Durang. The story revolves around the relationships of three middle-aged single siblings,…

  My Night with Reg – Database My Night with Reg is a play by British playwright Kevin Elyot which was produced in 1994 by the Royal Court Theatre, London, directed by Roger Michell. The production later transferred to the West End. Entirely set among London’s gay community in the mid-1980s against the background of…

A Doll’s House, Part 2 – Database A Doll’s House, Part 2 is a 2017 play written by Lucas Hnath. The play “picks up after Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House concludes”.[1] Memorabilia Available 2017 Production Productions The play was commissioned by South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California where it was directed by Shelley Butler…

The Little Foxes – Database by Lillian Hellman The Little Foxes is a 1939 play by Lillian Hellman, considered a classic of 20th century drama. Its title comes from Chapter 2, Verse 15 of the Song of Solomon in the King James version of the Bible, which reads, “Take us the foxes, the little foxes,…

  Daniel’s Husband By Michael McKeever In Michael McKeever’s compelling play, Daniel’s Husband, we see Daniel and Mitchell enjoying life as the Perfect Couple. Perfect house, perfect friends, even a mother who wants them to wed. What isn’t perfect is that Daniel longs to be married and Mitchell does not. A turn of events forces…

  Sweat – Database Sweat is a 2015 play by Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright Lynn Nottage.[1] Set in 2008, it has been described as reminiscent of the “working-class naturalism” of Clifford Odets.[2] It won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.[3] Memorabilia Available   Background Lynn Nottage began working on the play in 2011 by interviewing…

  Clockwork Orange – Database by Anthony Burgess Memorabilia Available     A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian novel by Anthony Burgess published in 1962. Set in a near future English society featuring a subculture of extreme youth violence, the teenage protagonist, Alex, narrates his violent exploits and his experiences with state authorities intent on…

The Boys in the Band – Database Memorabilia Available    The Boys in the Band is a play by Mart Crowley.[1] The play premiered Off-Broadway in 1968, and was revived on Broadway for its 50th anniversary in 2018. The play revolves around a group of gay men who gather for a birthday party in New…

Lobby Hero Memorabilia Available is a play by Kenneth Lonergan. It premiered Off-Broadway in 2001 and on Broadway with previews from March 1, 2018 and opening night March 26, 2018 and closed on May 13, 2018 after 56 performances at the Hayes Theatre Production History Lobby Hero premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons, on March 13,…

Saint Joan Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw about 15th-century French military figure Joan of Arc. Premiering in 1923, three years after her canonization by the Roman Catholic Church, the play reflects Shaw’s belief that the people involved in Joan’s trial acted according to what they thought was right. He wrote in…

Memorabilia Available Afterglow by S Asher Gelman Midnight Theatricals presents the this gay drama that explores the complexities of polyamory. “Afterglow” is a raw, one-act play exploring the emotional, intellectual, and physical connections between three men and the broader implications within their relationships. Josh and Alex, a married couple in an open relationship, invite Darius…

The Height of the Storm – Database The Height of the Storm is a play by Florian Zeller. The play follows a couple looking back at 50 years of marriage, and realising their relationship may not be as perfect as they expected.  The Height of the Storm is a compelling family drama revolving around André…

The Inheritance The Inheritance is a play by Matthew Lopez that is inspired by the novel Howards End by E. M. Forster. The play premiered in London at the Young Vic in March 2018, and transferred to Broadway in November 2019.   Productions Original London Production The play was commissioned by Hartford Stage in Hartford, Connecticut.[1] The play was produced in London…

The Lehman Trilogy The Lehman Trilogy is a three-act play by Italian novelist and playwright Stefano Massini. Is the story of a family and a company that changed the world. It have been translated into 24 languages and staged by such directors as Luca Ronconi and Sam Mendes.[1] Productions The Lehman Trilogy opened at Comédie de…

  American Buffalo by David Mamet American Buffalo is a 1975 play by American playwright David Mamet which had its premiere in a showcase production at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago. After two more showcase productions, it opened on Broadway on February 16, 1977.[1] Critic Frank Rich called it “one of the best American plays of…

Birthday Candles by Noah Haidle Roundabout production with Debra Messing 2020 The Roundabout Theater Company Broadway debut of  playwright Noah Haidle’s play Birthday Candles production, was to open for previews at the American Airlines Theatre however was pushed back due to corona virus shut down in March 2020 – The play  takes the audience on…

Indecent Indecent is a play by Paula Vogel. It recounts the controversy surrounding the play God of Vengeance by Sholem Asch, which was produced on Broadway in 1923, and for which the producer and cast were arrested and convicted on the grounds of obscenity.[1] Indecent was first produced in 2015. It had an Off-Broadway run in 2016, followed by a Broadway run in 2017 at…

Therese Raquin Thérèse Raquin is a novel (first published in 1867) and a play (first performed in 1873) by the French writer Émile Zola. The novel was originally published in serial format in the journal L’Artiste and in book format in December of the same year. Memorabilia Available Keira Knightley and Judith Light – Broadway 2015 Plot Introduction…

The Boys in the Band A Nite at “The Boys in the Band” Background Celebrating its 50th Anniversary, the ground breaking comic drama THE BOYS IN THE BAND is on Broadway for the first time ever in a strictly limited 15-week engagement. MART CROWLEY’s landmark 1968 play centre’s on a group of gay men who…

The Hothouse by Harold Pinter Memorabilia Available    The Hothouse (1958/1980) is a full-length tragicomedy written by Harold Pinter in the winter of 1958 between The Birthday Party (1957) and The Caretaker (1959). After writing The Hothouse in the winter of 1958 and following the initial commercial failure of The Birthday Party, Pinter put the…

The Caretaker by Harold Pinter The Caretaker is a play in three acts by Harold Pinter. Although it was the sixth of his major works for stage and television, this psychological study of the confluence of power, allegiance, innocence, and corruption among two brothers and a tramp, became Pinter’s first significant commercial success.[1][2] It premiered…

  Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus by Taylor Mac Gary, Taylor Mac’s singular world view intersects with Shakespeare’s first tragedy, Titus Andronicus. In Mac’s extraordinary new play, set during the fall of the Roman Empire, the years of bloody battles are over. The civil war has ended. The country has been stolen by madmen,…

Equus Equus is a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973, telling the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses.[1] Memorabilia Available      Shaffer was inspired to write Equus when he heard of a crime involving a 17-year-old who blinded six horses…

Terrence McNally Terrence McNally (November 3, 1938 – March 24, 2020) was an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter. Having survived the AIDS epidemic and lung cancer, he died of complications from coronavirus on Tuesday at age 81.   Described as “the bard of American theater”[1] and “one of the greatest contemporary playwrights the theater world…

Shirley MacLaine Memorabilia Available Shirley MacLaine (born April 24, 1934) is an American film and theater actress, dancer, activist, and author, well-known for her beliefs in new age spirituality and reincarnation. She has written a large number of autobiographical works, many dealing with her spiritual beliefs as well as her Hollywood career. In 1983, she…

Ruth Gordon Ruth Gordon Jones (October 30, 1896 – August 28, 1985)   Better known as Ruth Gordon, was an American actress and writer.[1] She was perhaps best known for her film roles such as Minnie Castevet, Rosemary’s overly solicitous neighbor in Rosemary’s Baby, as the eccentric Maude in Harold and Maude and as the…

Russell Tovey Russell George Tovey (born 14 November 1981)[1] is an English actor.[2] He is known for playing the role of werewolf George Sands in the BBC’s supernatural drama Being Human,[3] Rudge in both the stage and film versions of The History Boys, Steve in the BBC Three sitcom Him & Her, Kevin Matheson in…

Matthew Broderick Matthew John Broderick (born March 21, 1962)[1] is an American actor, comedian and singer. His roles include the Golden Globe-nominated portrayal of the title character in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986), the voice of the adult Simba in Disney’s The Lion King (1994), and Leo Bloom in both the Broadway musical The Producers…

Martin Short Martin Hayter Short, CM (born March 26, 1950), is a Canadian comedian, actor, writer, singer and producer. Memorabilia Available Early Life Short, youngest of five children, was born into an Irish Canadian family in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, the son of Olive (née Hayter), a violinist, and Charles Patrick Short, a corporate executive with…

  Laura Linney Memorabilia Available  Laura Leggett Linney (born February 5, 1964) is an American actress and singer. She is the recipient of several awards, including two Golden Globe Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards, and has been nominated for three Academy Awards and four Tony Awards. Linney made her Broadway debut in 1990 before…

Jonny Orsini Jonny Orsini Born : 1986 made his Broadway debut in Douglas Carter Beane’s burlesque dramedy The Nance, opposite Nathan Lane. He previously appeared off-Broadway in David Rabe’s An Early History of Fire. He started his journalism major at Suffolk University in Boston, he fell in with a theater crowd and found that performing…

John Glover John Soursby Glover, Jr. (born August 7, 1944) is an American actor, known for a range of villainous roles in films and television, including Lionel Luthor on the Superman-inspired television series Smallville.   Life   Glover was born in Salisbury, Maryland, the son of Cade (née Mullins) and John Soursby Glover Sr., a…

John Cariani John Edward Cariani (born July 23, 1969) is an award-winning American actor and an accomplished playwright. Cariani is best known to television viewers as the unwavering forensic expert Julian Beck in Law & Order. On stage, he earned a Tony Award nomination for his role as Motel the Tailor in the 2004 Broadway…

Joe Orton John Kingsley Orton (1 January 1933 – 9 August 1967), known under the pen name of Joe Orton, was an English playwright, author and diarist. His public career—from 1964 until his death in 1967—was short but highly influential.[1][2][3][4][5] During this brief period he shocked, outraged, and amused audiences with his scandalous black comedies….

Joan Marcus Joan Marcus is a Theatrical Photographer living in Manhattan New York, USA. During her extraordinary career, Marcus has also trained her camera on hundreds of Off-Broadway shows, regional theatre productions, and national tours. Her inimitable work has been featured in countless magazines, newspapers, websites, theatre programs, and billboards — bringing these shows, and…

Jessica Tandy Jessica Alice Tandy (7 June 1909 – 11 September 1994) was a British-American stage and film actress, who spent most of her 67-year career[1] in the United States. She appeared in over 100 stage productions and had more than 60 roles in film and TV.[1][2] Born in London to a headmistress and a…

Jeremy Jordan Jeremy Michael Jordan (born November 20, 1984) is a Tony-nominated American actor and singer. He has performed on Broadway, in television and film, as well as in other theatrical productions. He is known for his role of ‘Jamie’ in the 2014 movie adaptation of the musical, ‘The Last Five Years’. He has played…

Jackie Mason Jackie Mason (born June 9, 1931) is an American stand-up comedian, Performer, Director, Writer, Conception. Memorabilia Available  Early Life Born Yacov Moshe Maza in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, he grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City. Mason graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the City College of New…

I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers Written by John Logan Characters Sue Mengers Date premiered 24 April 2013 Place premiered Booth Theatre, New York Original language English Subject Sue Mengers Hollywood Genre biographical I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers is…

Imelda Staunton   Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton, OBE (born (1956-01-09)9 January 1956) is a British actress of stage and screen. A 1976 graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), she is a BAFTA Award winner and three-time Olivier Award winner. Staunton began her career in repertory theatre, before joining the National Theatre…

Hume Cronyn Hume Blake Cronyn, Jr., OC (July 18, 1911 – June 15, 2003) was a Canadian-American actor of stage and screen, who enjoyed a long career, often appearing professionally alongside Jessica Tandy, his wife for over fifty years.[2]   Early Life   Cronyn, one of five children, was born in London, Ontario, Canada. His…

Gore Vidal Eugene Luther Gore Vidal born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer known for his essays, novels, screenplays, and Broadway plays. As a well-known public intellectual, he was known for his patrician manner and witty aphorisms. Vidal’s grandfather was the U.S. Senator Thomas Gore of Oklahoma….

Glen Close   Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American film, television and stage actress. Throughout her long and varied career, she has been consistently acclaimed for her versatility and is widely regarded as one of the finest actresses of her generation. She has won three Emmy Awards, three Tony Awards and received…

George Hearn   George Hearn (born June 18, 1934) is an American actor and singer, primarily in Broadway musical theatre. Hearn’s spouses include Susan Babel, Mary Harrell, with whom he had one son; Dixie Carter (1977–1979), girlfriend Betsy Joslyn (1979–1984), and current wife Leslie Simons. Hearn and Simons have two sons.[1][12][13] He is currently residing…

Elaine Stritch   Elaine Bawson Stritch (born February 2, 1925 – July 17, 2014) [1] was an American actress and vocalist. She has appeared in numerous stage plays and musicals, feature films, and many television programs. She is known for her performance of “The Ladies Who Lunch” in Stephen Sondheim’s 1970 musical Company, her 2001…

Ed Harris Edward Allen “Ed” Harris (born November 28, 1950) is an American actor, screenwriter, and director. He is best known for his performances in The Rock, The Abyss, A Beautiful Mind, A History of Violence, Enemy at the Gates, Gone Baby Gone, Radio, and Game Change. Harris has also narrated commercials for Home Depot…

Dorothy Loudon   Dorothy Loudon (September 17, 1925 – November 15, 2003)[3] was an American actress and singer. She won the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical in 1977 for her performance as Miss Hannigan in Annie. Loudon was also nominated for Tony Awards for her lead performances in the musicals The…

Danny Burstein   Memorabilia Available   Danny Burstein (born June 16, 1964) is an American actor of stage and screen, who made his Broadway debut in 1992. He is a six-time Tony Award nominee; for The Drowsy Chaperone (2006), South Pacific (2008), Follies (2012), Golden Boy (2013), Cabaret (2014), and Fiddler on the Roof (2016)….

Dame Edna Everage Memorabilia Available   Dame Edna Everage is a character played by Australian dadaist-comedian Barry Humphries. As Dame Edna, Humphries has written several books including an autobiography, My Gorgeous Life, appeared in several films and hosted various television shows (on which Humphries has also appeared as himself and other alter-egos). Humphries has regularly…

Coral Browne   Coral Browne (23 July 1913 – 29 May 1991) was an Australian stage and screen actress. Her extensive theatre credits included Broadway productions of Macbeth (1956), The Rehearsal (1963) and The Right Honourable Gentleman (1965). She won the 1984 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the BBC TV film An Englishman…

Christopher Isherwood Memorabilia Available     Christopher Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist.[2][3][4] His best-known works include Goodbye to Berlin (1939), a semi-autobiographical novel which inspired the musical Cabaret, A Single Man (1964) adapted as a film by Tom Ford in 2009, and Christopher…

Chita Rivera Memorabilia Available   Chita Rivera (born January 23, 1933) is an American actress, dancer, and singer best known for her roles in musical theater. She is the first Hispanic woman and the first Latino American [1] to receive a Kennedy Center Honors award (December 2002). She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom…

Cheyenne Jackson Memorabilia Available   Cheyenne David Jackson – born July 12, 1975 is an American actor and singer. His credits include leading roles in Broadway musicals and other stage roles, as well as film and television roles, concert singing, and music recordings. After beginning his acting career in regional theatre in Seattle, he moved…

Carmen Cusack   Memorabilia Available   Carmen Cusack (born April 25, 1971) is an American musical theater actress and singer. She is known for playing Elphaba in the Chicago, North American Tour and Melbourne productions of the musical Wicked, as well as for originating the role of Alice Murphy in the Broadway musical, Bright Star….

  Carey Mulligan   Carey Hannah Mulligan (born 28 May 1985) is an English actress. She made her professional acting debut on stage in the Kevin Elyot play Forty Winks at the Royal Court Theatre in 2004. Her film debut was with a supporting role in Pride & Prejudice (2005), followed by roles in television,…

  Beryl Reid Memorabilia Available Beryl Elizabeth Reid, OBE (17 June 1919 – 13 October 1996), was an English actress of stage and screen. She won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for The Killing of Sister George, the 1980 Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance for Born in the Gardens, and the 1982 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for Smiley’s…

Anthony Warlow   Anthony Warlow (born 18 November 1961 in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian opera and musical theatre performer, noted for his character acting and considerable vocal range. He is a classically trained lyric baritone. Memorabilia Available   Performances Musical Notable musical roles include lead roles in The Phantom of the Opera (as “The…

Alan Cumming Alan Cumming OBE Born 27 January 1965 (age 52) Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland Residence Manhattan, New York Citizenship British (1965–present) American (2008–present) Alma mater Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Occupation Actor, director, producer, writer, activist Years active 1980–present Known for The Good Wife; Cabaret (Tony Award) Notable work Not My Father’s Son Spouse(s) Hilary Lyon (m. 1985; div. 1993) Grant…

  How I Learned to Drive   How I Learned to Drive is a play written by the American playwright Paula Vogel. The play premiered on March 16, 1997, Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre. Vogel received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the work. It was written and developed at the Perseverance Theatre in…

Company – Musical Memorabilia Available Company is a 1970 musical comedy with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by George Furth. The original production was nominated for a record-setting fourteen Tony Awards and won six. Originally titled Threes, its plot revolves around Robert (a single man unable to commit fully to a steady…

A Soldier’s Play by Charles Fuller A Soldier’s Play is a drama by Charles Fuller. The play uses a murder mystery to explore the complicated feelings of anger and resentment that some African Americans have toward one another, and the ways in which many black Americans have absorbed white racist attitudes. This play is loosely…

Charles Fuller – Playwright   Charles H. Fuller Jr. (born March 5, 1939) is an African American playwright, best known for his play A Soldier’s Play, for which he received the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Fuller was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1939, the son of Charles H. Fuller, Sr. and Lillian Anderson. He attended…

Valerie Harper     Valerie Kathryn Harper Born August 22, 1939 – August 30, 2019 was an American actress. She began her career as a dancer on Broadway, making her debut in the musical Take Me Along in 1959. Harper is best remembered for her role as Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show…

Memorabilia Available  Trip Cullman   Trip Cullman Raised in New York City, with a BA and MFA from Yale University, Cullman first made a name for himself directing new plays by the likes of Adam Bock and Leslye Headland.     Broadway Work The Rose Tattoo – Play – Directed by Trip Cukkman – Oct 15,…

  Memorabilia Available Walter Bobbie   Walter Bobbie b November 18, 1945 – is an American theatre director, choreographer, and occasional actor and dancer. Bobbie has directed both musicals and plays on Broadway and Off-Broadway, and was the Artistic Director of the New York City Center Encores! concert series. He directed the long-running revival of…

  Memorabilia Available  Marc Bruni – Theatre Director Marc Bruni made his Broadway directorial debut with the big HIT Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, currently playing at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre and also this Spring directed The Sound of Music for the Chicago Lyric Opera. Bruni’s directing credits include well received revivals of Pipe Dream…

Michael Cera Memorabilia Available  Born Michael Austin Cera (1988-06-07) June 7, 1988 (age 29) Brampton, Ontario, Canada Residence Brooklyn, New York, U.S. Occupation Actor, musician Years active 1999–present   Michael Austin Cera B 1988 [1] is a Canadian actor and musician. He started his career as a child actor, most notably portraying a young Chuck…

Glenda Jackson Memorabilia Available  Glenda May Jackson, CBE (born 9 May 1936) is a British actress and former Labour Party politician. As a professional actress from the late 1950s, she spent four years as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1964, being particularly associated with the work of director Peter Brook. During her…

  True West – Database Memorabilia Available     True West is a play by American playwright Sam Shepard. Some critics consider it the third of a Family Trilogy which includes Curse of the Starving Class (1976) and Buried Child (1979).[1] Others consider it part of a quintet which includes Fool for Love (1983) and A…

  Network Network is a play by Lee Hall, adapted from the 1976 film of the same name which had a Academy Award-winning screenplay by Paddy Chayefsky and was directed by Sidney Lumet. Memorabilia Available   Production The play premiered in the Lyttleton Theatre at the National Theatre in London on 13 November 2017 (following previews…

Choir Boy Memorabilia Available  Choir Boy is a play by American playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney. The play premiered in June 2013, at New York City Center before going on to play productions at Alliance Theatre and Studio Theatre. The show is set to open on Broadway on January 8, 2019, after entering previews on December…

  Max von Essen – Actor   Photo by Davy Mack   Max von Essen (born January 11, 1974) is an American stage and screen actor, and vocalist. Life & Work Raised on Long Island, von Essen is a graduate of South Side High School in Rockville Centre, New York. He attended the University of…

Stephanie J Block   Stephanie Janette Block star of Wicked, Falsettos, Mystery of Edwin Drood and The Cher Show Memorabilia Available  Stephanie Janette Block (born September 19, 1972) is an American actress and singer, known for her work in Broadway musicals. A two-time Tony Award nominee, she was nominated for Best Actress in a Musical…

  Anthony Shalhoub Best Actor Leading Role of A Musical – The Band’s Visit Memorabilia Available Anthony Marcus Shalhoub (born October 9, 1953) is an American actor. His television work includes Antonio Scarpacci in NBC sitcom Wings and detective Adrian Monk in the USA TV series Monk, for which he has won a Golden Globe…

  Three Tall Women Memorabilia Available    Three Tall Women is a play by Edward Albee, which won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Albee’s third. Three Tall Women premiered June 14, 1991 at Vienna’s English Theatre Vienna Austria.   Edward Albee   Edward Albee III who is known for works such as The Zoo…

  Laurie Metcalf b June 16, 1955 Best Actress in a Featured Role in a Play – Tony’s Laura Elizabeth “Laurie” Metcalf (born June 16, 1955) is an American actress. The recipient of numerous acting awards and nominations, she has won three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, and has been nominated at the Golden…

Harold Prince Harold Smith Prince (born January 30, 1928 – July 31, 2019)  was an American theatrical producer and director associated with many of the best-known Broadway musical productions of the 20th century Follies, Company, Phantom of the Opera . He has garnered twenty-one Tony Awards, more than any other individual, including eight for directing,…

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  To Kill a Mockingbird Adapted as a play by Christopher Sergel Memorabilia Available To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. To Kill a Mockingbird is now a 2018 play based on…

The Play That Goes Wrong   Memorabilia Available The Play That Goes Wrong   Official artwork for the West End production transfer to the Duchess Theatre Written by Henry Lewis Jonathan Sayer Henry Sheilds Date premiered 2012 (2012) Place premiered Old Red Lion Theatre Original language English Genre Comedy   The Play That Goes Wrong…

Kenneth Lonergan – Playwright Memorabilia Available  Kenneth Lonergan (born October 16, 1962) is an American film director, playwright, and screenwriter. He is best known for co-writing Gangs of New York (2002), and for writing and directing You Can Count On Me (2000), Margaret (2011), and Manchester by the Sea (2016). Lonergan earned an Academy Award…

The Nap By Richard Bean   The Nap By the author of the rollicking, award-winning Broadway comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, The Nap is a very funny look at the world of snooker – the British version of pool. Dylan Spokes, a fast-rising young star arrives for a championship tournament only to be confronted by…

The Lifespan of a Fact by Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell and Gordon Farrell Based on the Essay/Book by John D’agata & Jim Fingal Memorabilia Available    Timeline: Broadway opened with previews Sept 20 2018 with opening night Oct 18, 2018 – Closed 13 Jan, 2019 The Lifespan of a Fact is a book co-written…

The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth Memorabilia Available   Timeline : The Ferryman opened at the Royal Court Theatre London 24 Apr 2017 and then Broadway, Previews from 02 Oct 2018 with opening night 21 Oct 2018 at the Bernard B Jacobs Theatre. The Ferryman is a 2017 play by Jez Butterworth. Set during The Troubles, it…

Bernhardt/Hamlet by Theresa Rebeck Bernhardt/Hamlet, The story set in 1899 in that temple of chauvinism, the French popular theater. Sarah Bernhardt, playing in her mid-50s and aging out of the dying courtesan roles that made her world-famous. As far as Shakespeare is concerned, she is caught in the gap between Ophelia and Gertrude. Edmond Rostand, one…

American Son  By Christopher Demos-Brown Memorabilia Available A Florida police station in the middle of the night. Two parents searching for answers. Kerry Washington (“Scandal”, Race) returned to the Broadway stage alongside Steven Pasquale (“American Crime Story,” Junk), Eugene Lee (Gem of the Ocean), and Jeremy Jordan (“Supergirl,” Newsies), in the riveting new play, American…

The Waverly Gallery  by Kenneth Lonergan Memorabilia Available   The Waverly Gallery is a play by Kenneth Lonergan. It is considered a “memory play”. The show, first produced Off-Broadway in 2000, follows a grandson watching his grandmother slowly die from Alzheimer’s disease. The play was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2001. Timeline…

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by Jack Thorne based on an original story by Thorne, J. K. Rowling and John Tiffany Memorabilia Available     Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a two-part stage play written by Jack Thorne based on an original story by Thorne, J. K. Rowling and John Tiffany.[1] Previews of…

Airline Highway – Play by Lisa D’Amour Memorabilia Available Click  The play takes place over the course of one long day and night—the day of community matriarch Miss Ruby’s “living funeral.” With her passing imminent, the former burlesque queen wants her life celebrated while she can hear it. World Premiere at Steppenwolf Chicago December 2014…

Casa Valentina By Harvey Fierstein Memorabilia Available  Casa Valentina is a play written by Harvey Fierstein which premiered on Broadway in April 2014 and opened in London in September 2015. It tells the story of men who spend weekends at a resort in the Catskill mountains, dressed as women. With “Torch Song Trilogy,” “La Cage aux…

Safe Sex By Harvey Fierstein The last one act play in Harvey Fierstein’s “Safe Sex” is called “On Tidy Endings” The play focuses on a man whose lover left his wife five years ago. The lover has now died, and the ex-wife comes over to his apartment with a sense of entitlement, a sense of…

Michael Hus Rosen Memorabilia Available    Michael Rosen is an American actor, dancer, and singer. He was born and raised in New York City on the Upper West Side. Starred in the off Broadway and then Broadway Transfer of Harvey Fierstein‘s “Torch Song“. Life His on screen credits include Jimmy in Looking: The Movie on…

Ward Horton   Ward Kirby Horton (born January 14, 1976) is an American actor and stunt person. He is known for playing the role of John Form in Annabelle.[1] Annabelle is a 2014 American supernatural horror film directed by John R. Leonetti, written by Gary Dauberman and produced by Peter Safran and James Wan. It…

Jack DiFalco   Life American actor who is best known for his role as Randy in the 2018 HBO TV movie Paterno. He has also acted in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and The OA.  Jack attended John Jay High School (Hopewell Junction, New York) then at Denver Center for the Performing Arts and is from…

Mercedes Ruehl Memorabilia Available   Mercedes J. Ruehl (born February 28, 1948) is an American theater, television, and film actor. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1992 for The Fisher King and a Tony Award for her performance in Lost in Yonkers in 1991.   TORCH SONG – MERCEDES RUEHL &…

Michael Urie Michael Lorenzo Urie (born August 8, 1980) is an American actor, presenter, director, and producer. He is known for his portrayal of Marc St. James on the ABC dramedy television series Ugly Betty. Memorabilia Available   Timeline and Life Michael Urie was born in Houston, Texas, and raised in Plano. He is of…

  Harvey Fierstein Harvey Forbes Fierstein (born June 6, 1954)[1] is an American actor, playwright, and voice actor. Fierstein has won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his own play Torch Song Trilogy (about a gay drag-performer and his quest for true love and family) and the Tony Award for Best…

Torch Song Trilogy – Database by Harvey Fierstein Memorabilia Available    Torch Song Trilogy is a collection of three plays by Harvey Fierstein rendered in three acts: International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, and Widows and Children First! The story centers on Arnold Beckoff, a Jewish homosexual, drag queen, and torch singer who lives in…

39 Steps by Simon Corble   Memorabilia Available   The 39 Steps is a farce adapted from the 1915 novel by John Buchan and the 1935 film by Alfred Hitchcock.[1] Patrick Barlow wrote the adaptation, based on the original concept by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon of a two-actor version of the play. Barlow had…

    Susannah York passed away at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London from advanced bone marrow cancer on 15 January 2011, six days after her 72nd birthday. An English rose with her blonde hair, blue eyes and fresh-faced complexion, she became one of the most recognisable actresses in the 1960s, winning a swathe of…

The Boys in the Band is a play by Mart Crowley.[1] The play premiered Off-Broadway in 1968, and was revived on Broadway for its 50th anniversary in 2018. The play revolves around a group of gay men who gather for a birthday party in New York City and was groundbreaking for its portrayal of gay...