1868 Birthday of master actor , who stars in a series of historical vehicles, including the dramas and .
1957 is The Entertainer. 's drama exposing the final turns of a song-and-dance man plays at London's Royal Court Theatre.
1968 is The , , and musical about the life of showman runs 427 performances. choreographs and directs.
1974 The Other Place is inaugurated by the in Stratford-upon-Avon. It is dedicated as a space for developing new scripts and experimental versions of classics. One of the newer works of the season is Mike Leigh's Babies Grow Old.
1974 Actor dies at the age of 81. She was one of the original performers in The Players, the acting troupe founded by . In 1939, she starred opposite in .
1980 A Broadway revival of 's opens at the Lyceum Theatre, gets surprise rave reviews, and goes on to run more than 500 performances and win Tony Awards for Best Revival, Best Director (), and Best Featured Actor (). The cast includes , , , , and .
1995 Diamonds are Broadway's best friend once again as a revival of opens at the Lyceum Theatre. The musical based on the novel by returns to the stage with as Lorelei Lee.
2000 In London in 1965, three one-act plays by played under the title No毛l Coward's Suite in Three Keys. On Broadway in 1974, the show (minus one play) became . Tonight, Hayley Mills, , and open Off-Broadway in No毛l Coward's Suite in Two Keys at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.
2003 Broadway gets to "Be Italian!" again as a revival of the - musical , opens at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. leads a cast of more than a dozen women, including , , , and . The production wins the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical.
2010 , the stage and television actor who played the tempestuous and fiercely dignified Julia Sugarbaker for seven seasons on television's Designing Women, and carved out a late career as a nightclub singer, dies at age 70. Her Broadway credits included the roles of Melba Snyder in , Maria Callas in , and Mrs. Meers in .
2011 is a young con man with the golden touch in , the new musical by songwriters and and playwright that opens at the Neil Simon Theatre. directs a cast that also includes , , and .
2012 A new production of 's Long Day's Journey Into Night opens at the West End's Apollo Theatre. Directed by , it stars as James Tyrone, as his wife Mary, and and Trevor White as their sons Edmund and Jamie.
2014 , based on the 1994 film comedy about an aspiring playwright who gets a shot at the big time when a wealthy gangster takes a sudden interest in producing, opens on Broadway at the St. James Theatre. and star as playwright David Shayne and stage diva Helen Sinclair. directs and choreographs.
2015 Judith Malina, the co-founder, with her husband Julian Beck, of The Living Theatre, and a central figure in the New York avant garde theatre during its most vital time, in the 1960s and '70s, dies at age 88.
More of Today's Birthdays: (1896-1971). (1929-2020). Loni Ackerman (b. 1949). (b. 1981). Harry Hadden-Paton (b. 1981). Alexandra Socha (b. 1990).
