1889 Beatrice Cameron stars as Nora Helmer in the U.S. premiere of 's groundbreaking drama, A Doll's House at Palmer's Theatre.
1909 On the opening night of 's play The City, the author (or someone closely resembling him) startles the opening night audience by coming on the stage and taking a bow. Why is the audience startled? Because Fitch had died some three months earlier. It goes down as one of the best-documented apparent mass ghost sightings in Broadway history. It isn't the first shock the audience gets that night. The play's themes of drugs, incest, and corruption don't cause the biggest stir; it's the line "You're a goddamn liar!" When the play tried out in New Haven, two women fainted upon hearing it.
1920 triumphs in the title role of the musical , setting off a decade of musicals about put-upon maidens. Various parts of the score are written by , , , , and . Produced by , the mixture runs at the New Amsterdam Theatre.
1933 W. Graham-Browne and are The Old Folks at Home. The drama runs at the Queen's Theatre in London.
1934 stars helping a Communist who has shot at Hitler. This comedy features and runs for nine weeks.
1942 opens a wartime revival of 's with herself as Masha, as Olga, and as Natalya. Making his Broadway debut in the tiny role of The Orderly is future Hollywood star .
1950 Trying to repeat the success of , composer reassembles most of the Kate production/creative team for , based on the Amphitryon legend.
1961 and star in and 's family comedy , which runs 404 performances at the Biltmore Theatre.
1966 's slightest comedy of the 1960s, opens at the Plymouth Theatre. and play roommates alternately in love with and repelled by their pretty but jingoistic neighbor, played by .
1974 , Patricia Cox, Steven Schachter, and found the St. Nicholas Theatre in Chicago. The christening show is the wold premiere production of Mamet's American Buffalo.
1980 Crimes of the Heart by , about a reunion of three sisters, opens Off-Broadway at . , , Julie Nesbitt, and are in the cast. The following year, the play wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and .
1983 plays a father trying to keep his talented son out of show business in the musical . Replacing as the title character in mid-run is , making his Broadway debut at age 10.
2008 The Druid Theatre production of 's The Cripple of Inishmaan鈥攁bout star-struck dreamers on an Irish island鈥攐pens Off-Broadway at the 's Linda Gross Theater. The staging by Tony Award-winning director proves to be extremely popular, with the limited run extended twice.
2017 's Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Hamilton opens in London at the Victoria Palace Theatre. The London company includes Jamael Westman as Alexander Hamilton, Giles Terera as Aaron Burr, as Eliza Hamilton, and Michael Jibson as King George. The production wins seven Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical.
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