1900 Birthday of Broadway producer and director , who presents , , , , and . He is said to be the model for Oscar Jaffe in .
1936 Opening night of 's steamy melodrama, , which runs just 72 performances at the Lyceum and Golden Theatres but goes on to become a popular film.
1953 Wouldn't you just guess that moved into a ? Based on 's short stories, the musical comedy stars . The book is by and , with a score by and lyrics provided by and . It runs 559 performances and wins the Tony Award for Best Musical.
1969 makes his Broadway debut as a defiant young drug addict in , which runs 39 performances at the Belasco Theatre.
1973 fills the air of the Shubert Theatre. The musical by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler is based on Ingmar Bergman's film Smiles of a Summer Night and stars , , and . directs. It wins the Tony Award for Best Musical and runs 601 performances.
1999 One of 's earliest works, The Hothouse, opens at . The comedic revival is about a nameless government institution and its sometimes bumbling, sometimes sinister bureaucrats. It stars several Atlantic Theater Company members, including , , and , alongside guest artists , , and . Founding company member Karen Kohlhaas directs.
1999 The premiere of a new Tennessee Williams play is definitely an event鈥攅specially when the play remained unproduced since its writing in 1938. premieres at the in London in 1998, followed by an American premiere later that year at the Alley Theatre in Houston. Written early in Williams' career, the expos茅 of brutal prison life stars as Warden Boss Whalen. directs the production's Broadway debut at the Circle in the Square Theatre.
2015 stars in a new production of 's Man and Superman at the National Theatre in London.
2016 Oscar winner makes his Broadway debut in a revival of 's at the Booth Theatre. It runs 37 performances.
2019 Jackie Sibblies Drury鈥檚 play Marys Seacole opens at Lincoln Center Theater鈥檚 Claire Tow Theater. Directed by Obie winner Lileana Blain-Cruz, the drama follows the story of a passionate and driven Jamaican woman, Mary, and her adventures across the globe and across time鈥攆rom the Crimean War zone to a modern-day nursing home.
2019 The Signature Theatre鈥檚 revival of Boesman and Lena by Athol Fugard opens, directed by Ya毛l Farber. Fugard's 1969 play follows a husband and wife as they wander the South African wastelands and stars Sahr Ngaujah as Boesman and Zainab Jah as Lena, with Thomas Silcott as Old African.
2020 Young Jean Lee's play-concert We're Gonna Die, which weaves together a series of songs and stories to celebrate the ways in which we live our lives, opens Off-Broadway at Second Stgae's Tony Kiser Theater.
2020 The stage adaptation of the animated musical The Prince of Egypt, featuring a score by Stephen Schwartz, opens at London's Dominion Theatre. His son Scott Schwartz directs the production, having previously helmed the 2017 world premiere at the TheatreWorks Silicon Valley in a co-production with Fredericia Teater Denmark.
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