1852 Broadway premiere of Uncle Tom's Cabin, based on the novel about slavery by .
1920 , the hugely popular thriller by and , opens at the Morosco Theatre and goes on to run 867 performances.
1926 and make their vaudeville bow at the Palace in New York.
1928 Birthday of actor , who appears in nearly two dozen Broadway plays including , , , , and several plays by , including and . Her performance as Julia in A Delicate Balance wins her the 1967 Tony Award as Best Feature Actress in a Play. In 2010, she is honored with a Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement.
1937 is Hamlet in a new production of Shakespeare's tragedy, opening at the Cape Playhouse in Massachusetts. Also in the cast is future stage legend , making her professional debut as Ophelia.
1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning stage and screen writer is killed in a tractor accident. Howard, approximately 48 years old, won the Pulitzer for his 1924 play, . That play would later be made into the musical, . Just before his death, Howard had completed the screenplay for the film, Gone With the Wind.
1996 Landmark New York theatre company declares bankruptcy and goes through years of legal wrangling before reopening in 1999 with the rediscovered, and critically lauded, drama, .
1999 Ten years and 10 Phantoms down as becomes Broadway's 11th . , the preceding Phantom, exits to take the title role in and 's Martin Guerre. The musical, which opened at the Majestic Theatre in 1988, has also featured , the originator of the role, , , and .
Today's Birthdays: (1905鈥�1946), (1912鈥�1996), (b. 1942), (b. 1954), (b. 1978).
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