1903 The Cohan family is Running for Office. Son wrote the book and the music at the 14th Street Theatre. It runs for six weeks.
1911 The Folies Bergere Theatre in New York hosts a triple-bill. Hell, described as "a profane burlesque"; Temptation, a ballet by Alfredo Curti; and Gaby, "a satirical revuette in three acts." It runs for 92 performances.
1937 Birthday of actor , who stars as a quirky ingenue in 1960s comedies and , and is famously called "critics' darling" in 's 1968 book, The Season.
1945 Birthday of playwright , whose massive cycle of plays about African-American life in each decade of the 20th century includes two Pulitzer winners: and .
1963 American author, historian, and film producer dies at the age of 74. From 1919 to 1925 he was editor of Theatre Arts Magazine. It was also during this time that he was associated with the Provincetown Playhouse. He is the author of many books including A Theatre of Tomorrow and Footlights Across America.
1978 's Fifth of July plays Off-Broadway at the Circle Repertory Theatre. stars as disabled Vietnam veteran Kenneth Talley. The play two years later, starring Christopher Reeve.
1981 returns to Broadway for the first time in more than a decade with the play , about a young would-be magician growing up amid comic family problems. It runs 62 performances a the Vivian Beaumont Theater, starring and .
1986 stars as in a revival of the -- musical at the Minskoff Theatre. and win Tony Awards for their featured roles; the show itself takes home the Best Revival award.
2000 Just months after moving to Broadway, director/choreographer opens a revival of with and . It runs 699 performances.
2008 , , and head the cast of a Broadway revival of ' , which officially opens at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. The production is directed by .
2009 The 's acclaimed production of 's , the 1924 tale of lust, promises, property, and familial betrayal, opens at Broadway's St. James Theatre. directs the production, which stars , , and . It runs only 32 performances.
2010 The acclaimed London production of 's , a docudrama that uses song, movement, projections, video, masks鈥攁nd naturalistic workplace scenes鈥攖o tell the real-life American corporate crime story, opens on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre. For the U.S. debut, , , , and play the four principal wrongdoers at the top of the Enron foodchain in Houston. The production does not repeat its London success, and closes 12 days later.
2011 Utilizing elements from a reading that was seen in October 2010, 's groundbreaking, emotionally powerful makes its Broadway debut at the John Golden Theatre. The drama about fear in the early days of the AIDS crisis stars , , and . Barkin and Hickey both win Tony Awards for their performances, and the play wins Best Revival.
2011 , a jukebox musical about record producer Florence Greenberg, opens on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre. plays Greenberg, the New Jersey housewife who launched the 1960s girl-group The Shirelles and created Scepter Records.
2011 , who won a Tony Award for her performance as Marge MacDougall in the hit 1960s musical , dies at age 75. Mercer's other Broadway appearances included , , , , , and .
2016 plays Mary Tyrone in a Broadway revival of 's at the 's American Airlines Theatre. The cast also includes as James Tyrone, as James Tyrone Jr., and as Edmund Tyrone. At the Tony Awards, Lange wins for Best Actress in a Play.
2017 15 years after she walked out the door at the end of Ibsen's A Doll's House, Nora returns home in 's . , , , and star in the new play opening at the John Golden Theatre. Metcalf wins a Tony Award for her performance as Nora.
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Watch highlights from Jessica Lange's Tony Award-winning performance in the 2016 Broadway revival of Long Day's Journey Into Night:
