1922 , one of Broadway's foremost costume designers of the late 20th century, is born in Greece. Her dozens of Broadway projects include , , , , , , and .
1983 stars with as a tutor in rural Wales in a revival of ' at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
1989 's Love Letters opens at the Promenade Theatre Off-Broadway. The play is written as a series of love letters between one Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and one Melissa Gardner from the time of their childhood up to her death. Due to the simplicity in the staging of the piece (two actors sitting at tables reading letters back and forth), the cast changes from one set of stars to another, week by week. This first week, is Andrew and is Melissa. Other pairings during the initial run are and , and , and , and and . The production on October 31, 1989, with and starring in the 96-performance run.
1989 A British Military Entertainment troupe circa the late 1940s parks Off-Broadway at the Roundabout Theatre Company for a 64-performance run of Privates on Parade. The cast includes and .
1996 directs himself in 's at the Circle in the Square Theatre. The production runs for 56 sold-out performances.
2011 returns to the New York stage in the U.S. premiere of ' Bluebird, in which he plays a London cabbie listening to the woes of his eclectic passengers. Presented by the at its intimate Atlantic Stage 2, the cast also includes , , John Sharian, , , , and .
2021 Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu's Pass Over becomes the first play to open on Broadway since COVID-19 shutdown most live theatre worldwide in March 2020. Jon Michael Hill, Namir Smallwood, and Gabriel Ebert star in this riff on Waiting For Godot that centers on two Black men killing time on a street corner until a white man enters their space.
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