New York Adult Entertainment: Today In Theatre History: MARCH 10
Today In Theatre History: MARCH 10
By Robert Viagas and Ernio Hernandez and Anne Bradley
10 Mar 2010
1925 Ernest Truex is The Fall Guy for a group of dope dealers. This James Gleason-George Abbott comedy will run at the Eltinge Theatre for almost three months.
1926 East Lynne, based on the popular novel of the same title, opens at the Greenwich Village Theatre. It will run only 35 performances, but a 1930s film adaptation will win the Oscar for Best Picture.
1933 Sophie Treadwell’s unlikely story of a prostitute who inherits a ranch lasts just three performances. It’s a very Lone Valley at the Plymouth Theatre in New York.
1940 Birthday of playwright David Rabe, who will chronicle Vietnam-era angst in Streamers and The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, and will come back in the 1980s with a searing vision of Hollywood’s periphery in Hurlyburly.
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