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Also today on the blog, #TheatreThursday takes a look back at all the live theater I saw in 2025.

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Theatre Thursday: 2025 RoundUp — ANTHONY R. CARDNO
I saw 11 theatrical productions in 2025. Eight musicals and three dramas. The fall got quite busy with work travel combined with a planned surgery and then a hospital stay to conspire against seeing a...
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January 9, 2026 at 2:33 AM
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December 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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December 18, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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I don’t usually keep the old portraits in old frames, but this one 😳

Can’t decide whether this group is a normal everyday family gathering, or a stage production of some sort…

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Old monochrome photograph of five people.
December 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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December 11, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Today we’re adding another tribute to the great playwright Tom Stoppard, who passed away this past weekend at the age of 88. This letter was sent to the Artistic Director of Arena Stage on January 27, 1984.
📸 From the Zelda Fichandler papers, C0010.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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December 4, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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It’s almost Thanksgiving, so today we’re highlighting C. Albert Scholin’s arrangement for “Sing to the Lord of Harvest by Joseph Haydn, subtitled “Anthem for Thanksgiving or General Use” and based on an 1866 song written by John S.B. Monsell.
📸 C0155
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November 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Happy almost Halloween 🎃 Today we’re featuring this playbill from the 1988 Broadway production of the musical 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘦. Based on Stephen King’s 1974 novel and now a cult classic, the musical is infamous for being one of Broadway’s biggest flops.
📸 C0184
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October 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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#TheatreThursday

If you’d like to join us at @breadrosestheatre.bsky.social tonight for “Lucifer” by Roger Goldsmith you still can.

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A new play, based on a true story, with a vital message on the London Fringe.

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October 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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controversial a play to open, and Republicans charged that the date for the show's mass opening had been selected to help the Democrats in an election year.
#WPA #FederalTheatreProject #WPA #theatre #TheatreThursday #SinclairLewis #ItCantHappenHere ‘
October 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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The Corn Exchange, aka The Palace Theatre, aka The Hippodrome Cinema, Kettering.

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October 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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It’s Hispanic Heritage Month so today we’re featuring modern dancer and choreographer José Limón, known for his Limón technique based on large emotive movements, developed with his Limón Dance Company.

📸 Mary Lavigne programs collection, C0417.

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September 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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September 11, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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This past Monday was Labor Day, so this week seemed like a good time to highlight this working draft of Stephen Schwartz’s musical 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 sent to the one and only Zelda Fichandler.

📸 From the currently in process Zelda Fichandler papers, C0010

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September 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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September 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Costume and set designer Robert Davison’s work spanned a range of performance genres including opera, ballet, plays, and musicals. These four original costume designs are selected from a personal scrapbook. Which is your outfit of choice?
📸C0513
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August 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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August 7, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Oooo... Which to do next... The Drama Bookshop or A Midsummer Night's Dream....

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August 1, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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July 31, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Leslie Howard, Gertrude Lawrence, and Reginald Owen in Candle-light, at the Empire Theatre in New York in 1929. Gilbert Miller directed. #TheatreThursday 🎭
July 31, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Thur 7/31 @ 2:15 AM ET on @TCM:

Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller star in Pygmalion (1938). Each was #Oscar-nominated for their leading role. Based on George Bernard Shaw‘s 1913 play, he won for Best Screenplay and the film was a Best Picture nominee.
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July 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Today we’re highlighting this 1975 libretto for the Hirson and Schwartz musical 𝘗𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯, which features images from German and Australian productions and presents the show without an intermission as performed in the original Broadway run.
📸 ML50.S417 P5
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July 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Today on theblog, #TheatreThursday shines "God's BLUE spotlight" on @roundaboutnyc.bsky.social 's Pirates! The Penzance Musical.

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Review: PIRATES! THE PENZANCE MUSICAL — ANTHONY R. CARDNO
To say I never stopped smiling throughout Roundabout Theatre Company’s Pirates! The Penzance Musical is not an over-statement or hyperbole. The show is just that much fun. The cast is clearly having...
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July 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM