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1918 Actor-manager Henry Miller opens in New York City. It's designed to seat 1,000 spectators and capable of handling the latest staging innovations. In 1998 the theatre is renamed the Kit Kat Klub for a revival of , and in 2010 it is renamed the Stephen Sondheim Theatre.

1932 Birthday of actor , who stars in the film musical Singin' in the Rain, and makes her Broadway debut in 1973 with .

1941 Eight months before Pearl Harbor, predicts that America will be drawn into World War II in her drama , which runs 378 performances at the Martin Beck Theatre.

1943 The is buoyed by the antics of . The revue runs 553 performances at the Winter Garden in New York.

1975 In a bit of theatre verite, enacts the seizure of a Broadway theatre by terrorists. 's drama runs just 7 performances at the Ambassador Theatre.

1993 Putting It Together, a revue based on Stephen Sondheim's work by and the composer himself, plays at the Manhattan Theatre Club at City Center. , , , , and help sell out the house. A few years later, Broadway sees , with starring.

1999 The Broadway production of 's ghost-haunted opens at the Walter Kerr Theatre. The Olivier Award-winning Irish drama plays 277 performances on Broadway, but is absent from the Tony Awards nominations.

2001 London import opens on Broadway. In it, two Irish actors embody an entire Irish town as an American film company arrives to capture local color for a movie.

2001 At first, all we knew was the odd title: future Broadway smash makes its Off-Off-Broadway debut in a 120-seat space at the American Theatre of Actors.

2004 April Fool's Day ushers in one of the great prankster stories in theatre literature. stars in a revival of 's comedy based on 's Volpone.

2010 , 's biographical play that frames a moment in the life of abstract-impressionist painter Mark Rothko, opens on Broadway at the Golden Theatre. and star.

2012 The second Broadway revival of , 's 1960 play about two candidates seeking their party's nomination for the U.S. presidential election, opens at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. directs an ensemble that includes , , , , , , , and .

2013 portrays late Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Mike McAlary in the Broadway premiere of 's . directs the fast-paced drama that takes audiences into the newsrooms of New York City's tabloid newspapers.

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