1906 Britain's first actor-MP, A.E.W. Mason, delivers his first speech. The theatre community sees this as a victory, hoping it will have an advocate in the House of Commons.
1947 Hoping to keep their American Repertory Theatre subscription season alive, , , and revive . It has an extended run of 100 performances.
1956 London's Phoenix Theatre hosts The Power and the Glory. It is the second production of the -staged, -starred season. There are 68 performances of 's adaptation of the story.
1962 and make a run for it in the comedy. Robards plays a nonconformist caring for his nephew and fighting the Welfare Department.
1998 and open a Broadway revival of the 1966 thriller by . Tarantino, director/actor of cult classics Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, plays the psychotic stalker who preys on a blind woman, played by Tomei (Oscar winner for My Cousin Vinny). Playwright Knott made revisions for the production at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.
2001 A long-awaited Broadway revival of and 's musical brings on those beautiful girls at the Belasco Theatre. The cast includes , , , , and (the original Laurey in ).
2007 and 's windswept romantic epic opens on Broadway at the Hilton Theatre. stars as Grace O'Malley, opposite as Tiernan.
2012 The first Broadway revival of and 's opens at the Marquis Theatre. The cast is headed by as Che, as Eva Per贸n and as Juan Per贸n.
2017 returns to Broadway after a 10-year absence to star in a revival of 's , opening at the St. James Theatre. Kline's performance as Garry Essendine, a self-obsessed actor in the midst of a mid-life crisis, wins him his third Tony Award.
Today's Birthdays: Walter Huston (1883-1950), (1900-1967). (1901-1981), (1908-1989), Joseph Kipness (1911-1982), (1911-1977), (1916-2003), (1922-2001), (1929-2001), (1933-2005), (b. 1941), Victoria Hamilton (b. 1971), Todrick D. Hall (b. 1985)
Relive Kevin Kline's Tony-winning turn in Present Laughter:
Matt Bittner, Sandra Shipley, Peter Francis James, Tedra Millan, Kate Burton, Kevin Kline, Kristine Nielsen, Cobie Smulders, Bhavesh Patel, and Reg Rogers on opening night of Present Laughter
