1960 The Dublin Gate Theatre hears Chimes at Midnight. directs the play, which he adapted from works by and Raphael Holinshed.
1966 and Athene Seyler are sisters who poison their house guests in a revival of 's Arsenic and Old Lace at London's Vaudeville Theatre.
1967 Fortune and Men's Eyes exposes the violence in prison. John Herbert's forthright play runs at the Actors Playhouse for 382 performances. and star.
1974 It's a Total Eclipse at the Chelsea Theatre Center in Brooklyn, New York. 's play runs four weeks.
1997 The Broadway revival of closes at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre . . . kind of. The production was slated to close to make way for an revival. But, when 's Whistle Down the Wind postponed its Martin Beck Theatre engagement, Annie opted for the larger theatre. Grease goes on hiatus as scheduled, but reopens April 8 before finally closing January 25, 1998.
2005 Tom Patterson, 84, the visionary Canadian who had the idea to create , dies in Toronto after a long illness.
2006 and star in a revival of at the American Airlines Theatre. The limited engagement runs for 129 performances and wins the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical.
2012 's production of 's Galileo, starring as the persecuted scientist, opens Off-Broadway.
2017 and star in a revival of and 's . The production reopens the , which first opened its doors in 1903 but had not housed a Broadway production since 1968.
Today's Birthdays: (1873-1952). (1939-2019). Denis Arndt (b. 1939). (b. 1942). (b. 1975). (b. 1981). Patricia Richardson (b. 1951). Paul Anthony Stewart (b. 1970).
Flip through photos from the 2017 Broadway revival of Sunday in the Park with George:
