1894 Birthday of playwright , author or co-author of , , , , and .
1915 Birthday of comedian , who originates the roles of Tevye in , Pseudolus in , and Max Bialystock in the original movie version of The Producers.
1916 Novelist dies in London at age 73. Several of his novels become the basis for plays. Washington Square, which comes to life as , is the most successful.
1939 Dancer-choreographer-director is born. He performs in shows such as and and directs and choreographs , , and .
1955 's Shoestring Revue has a big name cast. , , and head the cast at the President Theatre in New York.
1959 Playwright dies in Stamford, Connecticut. Among his many plays are , , , and . He was 71 years old.
1979 's late-in-life drama , which premiered Off-Broadway September 13, 1978 at the Hudson Guild Theatre, transfers to Broadway. The play, starring and , runs 126 performances at the New Apollo Theatre. The play three months after closing at the New Apollo and runs for an additional 252 performances at the smaller Century Theatre.
1988 and play Russian and American negotiators trying to pull the world back from nuclear confrontation in 's Pulitzer finalist , which opens a 137-performance run at the Booth Theatre.
1999 The -- musical , which opened at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater December 17, 1998, closes after 85 performances. and starred in the show based on the real-life Leo Frank case and tragic events that followed.
2002 Off-Broadway opening for 's drama Necessary Targets, a play about sexual violence against women during the early 1990s war in Yugoslavia.
2005 Jilline Ringle, a Barrymore Award-nominated actor-singer who was a bright spot in theatres and cabarets in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Cape May, New Jersey, dies at age 40 after an illness.
2008 opens at the Belasco Theatre after a successful Off-Broadway run at . A young Black Californian who feels trapped by his suburban upbringing goes on a coming-of-age odyssey to Bohemian Amsterdam and Berlin in the musical narrated by the rock musician , who co-composed the score with . It runs 165 performances.
2013 and star in the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater world premiere of The Revisionist at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Written by Eisenberg, the play is about an antsy young novelist seeking refuge at a distant relative's flat in Poland.
2018 , who earned his shining spot in theatre history as composer of the world's longest-running musical, The Fantasticks, dies at age 88. Along with lyricist , he also wrote the scores for , , and .
2019 The world premiere of and 's Superhero opens Off-Broadway at . , Kyle McArthur, and star in the musical about a widowed mother, her comic book-loving son, and the mysterious stranger who lives in their building.
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