1923 There's trouble At Mrs. Beam's鈥攖he boardinghouse keeper thinks one of her guests is a killer. The play runs 280 performances at London's Royalty Theatre.
1963 stars in an Off-Broadway revival of Best Foot Forward at Stage 73. stages the 224 performances.
1966 Theatre critic and scholar John Gassner dies at age 64. He was head of the 's play department and instrumental in bringing playwrights and into public attention.
1969 The opens its annual Stratford-upon-Avon season with Pericles. stages. stars.
1986 's The Perfect Party opens Off-Broadway at . The comedy about a professor who sets out to throw the perfect party under the scrutiny of a newspaper columnist runs 70 performances under the direction of .
1999 The syncopated siblings reach Broadway once more, but not for long, as the revue begins previews. Boasting songs by composer and his lyricist brother , it stars , , , , , and . Officially opening April 25, the production plays only 27 previews and 17 performances.
2002 Some 150 years after it was written, 's makes its Broadway debut. and earn Tony Award nominations, and 's translation is nominated for Best Play.
2009 makes his debut as a Broadway playwright when 's production of , which played an acclaimed Off-Broadway run, opens at the Lyceum Theatre. directs , , , and in the examination of people鈥檚 obsession with physical beauty.
2012 , 's music-studded drama about the final months in the life of , opens at the Belasco Theatre. , who stars as the tempestuous and triumphant icon, performs such Garland signatures as "The Man That Got Away," "Come Rain or Come Shine," and "The Trolley Song."
2013 Tony Award-winning actor , a celebrated icon of the stage and New York City itself, begins performances of Elaine Stritch at the Carlyle: Movin' Over and Out. The "freeform evening of story and song" marks her final engagement at the Caf茅 Carlyle before retiring from performing and moving to Michigan.
2015 A revival of David Hare's , starring , , and , opens on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre. The -directed production wins a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play.
2017 , a comedy about an amateur production of a murder mystery that goes hopelessly awry, opens at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre. The production began life in 2012 as a fringe production in a London pub, later transferring to the West End and winning the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy.
Today's Birthdays: (1805-1875). (1908-2003). (1914-2000). (1927-1980). (b. 1945). Clark Gregg (b. 1962). Amber Gray (b. 1981).
