Moss Hart

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![]() Date of Birth:
October 24, 1904
Date of Death:
December 20, 1961 (57)
Birth Place: New York, NY, USA
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Moss Hart was an American playwright, librettist, and theatre director. Hart was known for his work with George S. Kaufman. Together they produced popular comedies such as You Can't Take it With You and The Man Who Came to Dinner. Hart also wrote the books of musicals by Irving Berlin and Cole ...
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The Grand Duchess Olga Katrina (Leigh Trifari) requests the pleasure of your company for Brewster Theater Company's production of You Can't Take it With You (Moss Hart/George S. Kaufman). Remaining shows November 2,3,4 at 7:30 PM. Tickets and info
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Moss Hart Biography
Moss Hart was an American playwright, librettist, and theatre director. Hart was known for his work with George S. Kaufman. Together they produced popular comedies such as You Can't Take it With You and The Man Who Came to Dinner. Hart also wrote the books of musicals by Irving Berlin and Cole Porter.Moss Hart Awards and Nominations
Olivier Awards - 1998 - The American Express Award for Best New Musical | ||
Moss Hart, Lady In The Dark | ||
Tony Awards - 1957 - Best Direction ![]() |
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Moss Hart, My Fair Lady |
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by Chloe Rabinowitz - Aug 17, 2022
Jonathan Groff will star as “Franklin” and Lindsay Mendez will star as “Mary” in Merrily We Roll Along at New York Theatre Workshop. Merrily We Roll Along features music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by George Furth. They join the previously announced Daniel Radcliffe, who will star as “Charley”.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - Aug 17, 2022
The New London Barn Playhouse takes you down to the town of Bomont with Footloose running August 17th-August 21st!

by Stephi Wild - Aug 11, 2022
54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club, again presents a cast of (mostly) Harvard and Yale grads and current students in The Seventh Annual Harvard-Yale Cantata: A New Chapter. Come join us as the Harvard-Yale Cantata goes on a new path!

by Stephi Wild - Aug 10, 2022
New York Theatre Workshop and Theater Mitu announced the full cast and creative team for the World Premiere of american (tele)visions by NYTW Tow Playwright-in-Residence Victor I. Cazares (Pinching Pennies with Penny Marshall), directed by NYTW Usual Suspect Rubén Polendo ().

by A.A. Cristi - Aug 9, 2022
International City Theatre has announced an “Embracing the Future” season of music, comedy, drama and thrills for 2023.

by Stephen Mosher - Jul 23, 2022
Mark Nadler's HART'S DESIRE comes straight from the heart, and it's a work of art.

by Stephen Mosher - Jun 21, 2022
Cabaret icon Mark Nadler has an all-new show and an all-new concept that will open on Gay Pride and celebrate two gay legends of the past with a new trajectory for their art.

by Roy Berko - Jun 9, 2022
What did our critic think of My Fair Lady at Connor Palace? What do Rogers and Hammerstein, Irving Berlin, Frank Loesser and Cole Porter all have in common? Yes, they are all composers of American musicals, but they are also just some of those who attempted, and failed, to make George Bernard Shaw's classical PYGMALION into a musical.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 19, 2022
Pasadena Playhouse has announced the 2022/2023 Season featuring a six-month-long celebration of the works and impact of Stephen Sondheim. The State Theater of California’s Sondheim Celebration will begin in January 2023 and extend into June. Find out what shows are included and the full schedule.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 16, 2022
Following a successful return to live theater in 2021 after the COVID-19 crisis darkened stages around the world, Good Theater has announced the schedule for the 2022/2023 season. This season marks Good Theater’s 20th anniversary, and promises to be a yearlong celebration with plenty of laughter, music, and, of course, good theater.
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by BroadwayWorld TV - Feb 21, 2021
Santino Fontana joins Seth Rudetsky for a very special concert, which premiered on Sunday, February 21 (8pm). The concert re-airs today, Monday, February 22 (3pm).

by Backstage With Richard Ridge - Feb 21, 2021
Watch as Richard chats with Tony winner Santino Fontana who will soon join Seth Rudetsky for two very special concerts on Sunday, February 21 (8pm) and Monday, February 22 (3pm).

by Stage Tube - Nov 13, 2019
Ben Platt was a guest on Tuesday's episode of Live with Kelly and Ryan. During the interview, Platt talks about getting cast in Richard Linklater's adaptation of 'Merrily We Roll Along' which will be filmed over the next 18 years.

by BroadwayWorld TV - Jun 9, 2019
Santino Fontana has won the 2019 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical for Tootsie.

by Alan Henry - Apr 1, 2019
'It was 1981, we were stoned out of our mind...' said Sondheim. For the first time, instead of being presented backward, the show will be re-worked to be staged in chronological order. Check out the video below for more information!

by A.A. Cristi - Sep 28, 2018
Today we celebrate the Broadway revival of Kaufman and Hart's You Can't Take It with You, which opened on this day in 2014.

by Stage Tube - Jul 13, 2018
PETER PAN, the high-flying Tony© Award-winning musical, follows the adventures of Peter Pan and his mischievous fairy sidekick, Tinkerbell, as they visit the nursery of the Darling children late one night. Watch clips from the production in the video below!

by Stage Tube - Jun 8, 2018
MAME starring Paige Davis is now playing at North Shore Music Theatre thru June 17, 2018. Check out the cast in action below!

by Stage Tube - Sep 28, 2017
Today we celebrate the Broadway revival of Kaufman and Hart's You Can't Take It with You, which opened on this day in 2014.
by Stage Tube - Mar 15, 2017
On this day in 1956, Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison took to the Broadway stage for opening night of a musical retelling of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. Under the tutelage of linguist, Henry Higgins, a poor Cockney flower girl is transformed into a woman of society in this Lerner and Loewe musical theatre gem aptly titled, My Fair Lady.