| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | THE THEATER $1000: Teatro Astor Piazzolla, named for the composer & musician seen here, is in this South American capital city Buenos Aires |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | MUSICAL THEATER $600: The Tony-winning Best Musical of 2011, it features the songs "Two by Two" & "Joseph Smith American Moses" The Book of Mormon |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $800: The American Ballet Theater's first black female principal dancer, she was also the first to dance "Swan Lake" for the ABT (Misty) Copeland |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | THEATER COMPANIES $400: With members like Randall Park & Ali Wong, LCC is an Asian-American Theater Company at this SoCal university UCLA |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | MOVIE THEATERS $800: As an "American Werewolf" in this city, David Naughton is beckoned into a theater where he's confronted by his zombified victims London |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | THE NON-OPERATING THEATER $1600: In 1849 this showman turned the lecture room of his American museum into a full-scale theater but it all burned down in 1865 P.T. Barnum |
| #8035, aired 2019-07-12 | LET'S MAKE A NEW DEAL $400: The Federal Theater Project mounted an all-African-American version of this Shakespeare play set in Haiti instead of Scotland Macbeth |
| #7904, aired 2019-01-10 | THEATER $800: When it premiered in 1968, it was subtitled "The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" Hair |
| #7760, aired 2018-05-11 | SHE DID IT! $800: In 2015 she made history as the first African-American female principal dancer with the American Ballet Theater Misty Copeland |
| #7702, aired 2018-02-20 | DEATH, AMERICAN STYLE $1000: After March 6, 1935 this "Jr." Supreme Court justice no longer cared if you shouted "Fire!" in a crowded theater Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: This NYC venue where Ella Fitzgerald was discovered opened in 1914 as Hurtig & Seamon's New Burlesque Theater the Apollo |
| #7340, aired 2016-07-08 | AMERICAN DRAMATISTS $2000: Every year Independence, Kansas honors this native son & author of "Picnic" with a 3-day theater festival William Inge |
| #7083, aired 2015-06-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERFORMERS $400: In 1962 James Brown recorded a live album in this NYC theater opened in 1914 the Apollo |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | SPECIAL ED $2000: "Silent Theater" is a book of art by this American painter Edward Hopper |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: It's Showtime at this Harlem theater that began hosting its amateur night in 1934 the Apollo |
| #6572, aired 2013-03-26 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: (Alex gives us the clue from the stage of the Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C.) I'm on the set of a Sherman Edwards musical set in this very significant year in American history 1776 |
| #6490, aired 2012-11-30 | DANCE COMPANIES $1600: This company's present artistic director is, fittingly, Kevin McKenzie from the good old United States the American Ballet Theater |
| #5896, aired 2010-04-12 | IF YOU BUILD IT... $1000: Hollywood's American Cinematheque is based at this theater built during the 1920s King Tut craze the Egyptian |
| #5650, aired 2009-03-13 | BUSINESS LETTERS $200: Movie theater chain AMC is "American" this "Cinema"--a prefix often found in front of "plex" Multi |
| #5511, aired 2008-07-21 | AMERICAN GANGSTER $400: In 1934 he caught "Manhattan Melodrama" at the Biograph Theater; then he caught some government bullets (John) Dillinger |
| #5202, aired 2007-04-03 | AMERICAN FACES $800: One time artistic director of the American Ballet Theater seen here Baryshnikov |
| #5197, aired 2007-03-27 | MY KIND OF TOWN $1000: In 2006 Dick Clark's American Bandstand Theater opened in this entertainment capital in Missouri Branson |
| #5060, aired 2006-09-15 | AMERICAN LIT $600: He won National Book Awards for "Goodbye, Columbus" & "Sabbath's Theater" Philip Roth |
| #4613, aired 2004-09-29 | THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK $1200: Dorothy Fields, the most successful female theater lyricist of the 20th century, wrote the words to this classic "A Fine Romance" |
| #4565, aired 2004-06-11 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $400: Playwright Langston Hughes formed the Suitcase Theater in Harlem & the New Negro Theater in this Calif. city L.A. (Los Angeles) |
| #4358, aired 2003-07-09 | OLD AMERICAN THEATER $200: In a 1902 production of this musical, Imogene the Cow was Dorothy Gale's playmate The Wizard of Oz |
| #4358, aired 2003-07-09 | OLD AMERICAN THEATER $400: In 1891's "Sensation in Paradise" Carrie Rogers was Tootsie & Clara Gilbert was this rhyming character Wootsie |
| #4358, aired 2003-07-09 | OLD AMERICAN THEATER $600: As one of these performers in the 1890s, Herrmann the Great set all nature's laws aside magician |
| #4358, aired 2003-07-09 | OLD AMERICAN THEATER $1,000 (Daily Double): Back in 1903 "Rip Van Winkle" turned up as a song in a musical based on this fairy tale Sleeping Beauty |
| #4358, aired 2003-07-09 | OLD AMERICAN THEATER $1000: Scene III of 1916's "The Century Girl" was "The Toy Soldiers", with music by this composer Victor Herbert |
| #4261, aired 2003-02-24 | NOT REALLY MARRIED $600: This soul star would never tell this First Lady of the American Theater, "Shut Your Mouth" Isaac & Helen Hayes |
| #4204, aired 2002-12-05 | THEATER $1200: This famous New York dance company is abbreviated the ABT American Ballet Theatre |
| #3870, aired 2001-06-01 | TONY WINNERS OF THE '40s $600: For her role in "Happy Birthday", this first lady of the American theater picked up a Tony in the award's first year Helen Hayes |
| #3541, aired 2000-01-17 | ROYAL NICKNAMES $500: George M. Cohan reigned as the Prince of the American Theater, but was the king of this place Broadway |
| #3281, aired 1998-12-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS $400: In 1997 this "Fences" playwright debated the state of black theater with critic Robert Brustein August Wilson |
| #2579, aired 1995-11-16 | DANCE $1,000 (Daily Double): He began with the Lester Horton Dance Theater before founding his own American Dance Theater in 1958 Alvin Ailey |
| #2536, aired 1995-09-18 | THEATRE $600: William Ball founded the ACT in Pittsburgh in 1965 but moved it to this Northern California city in 1967 San Francisco |
| #2532, aired 1995-09-12 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: Stage designer Jo Mielziner worked with this Finnish-American architect on NYC's Vivian Beaumont theater Eero Saarinen |
| #2313, aired 1994-09-28 | DANCERS $800: This late Black dancer & choreographer founded his American dance theater in 1958 (Alvin) Ailey |
| #1661, aired 1991-11-18 | DANCERS $1,000 (Daily Double): Judith Jamison succeeded this late Black choreographer as director of his American dance theater Alvin Ailey |
| #1604, aired 1991-07-18 | MIDDLE NAMES $400: Middle name of "First Lady of the American Theater" Helen Brown Hayes |
| #1308, aired 1990-04-18 | THEATER $300: In the 1800s side whiskers were called "Dundrearies", for a character in this play seen by Lincoln Our American Cousin |
| #1272, aired 1990-02-27 | MUSICAL THEATER $400: It was billed as "The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" "Hair" |
| #1176, aired 1989-10-16 | THEATERS $400: In the 1950s, NYCs Fulton Theater was renamed for this "First Lady of the American theater" Helen Hayes |
| #1124, aired 1989-06-22 | THEATER $2,000 (Daily Double): This 1953 John Patrick play is set in an American-occupied town in Okinawa The Teahouse of the August Moon |
| #1084, aired 1989-04-27 | THEATER $400: The American Theatre Wing publishes a history of these awards, which it gives out every year Tonys |
| #854, aired 1988-04-28 | ACTORS OF THE PAST $600: Herbert Blythe & Georgiana Drew begat this preeminent family of the American theater the Barrymores |
| #758, aired 1987-12-16 | PLAYWRIGHTS $600: Ben Hecht's partner, Chas. MacArthur, was married to this "First Lady of the American Theater" Helen Hayes |
| #707, aired 1987-10-06 | THEATER $800: It's said an actress in "The Beggar's Opera" caused the duel between this historic American pair (Aaron) Burr & (Alexander) Hamilton |
| #534, aired 1986-12-25 | ODD COUPLES $500: The 19th president & the first lady--not his, the American theater's Rutherford B. & Helen Hayes |
| #310, aired 1985-11-15 | BRITISH TV $500: Scooter's uncle “owned” the theater from which this American group did their “Show” shot in London Muppets |
| #293, aired 1985-10-23 | SHAKESPEARE $500: American Shakespeare Festival Theater is in Stratford "on Housatonic", a river in this state Connecticut |
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