1887 Birthday of , actor, author, radio personality, theatre critic of The New York Times, and one of the original members of the Algonquin Round Table. He appeared as an actor in several Broadway shows, and serves as the model for the character of Sheridan Whiteside in Kaufman and Hart's comedy .
1909 What is The Easiest Way? 's play explores the lengths women of the time went to in order to support themselves. The controversial drama is produced and directed by .
1932 and are at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The melodramatic farce by and deals with a novelist being held captive by bandits who want him to work out the perfect murder plot.
1942 Birthday of British musical theatre star , who stars on Broadway in two gothic musicals: the blockbuster and the short-lived .
1956 directs in 's 16th century epic at the Winter Garden Theatre. It runs only 20 performances, but gives one thing to posterity: It's the Broadway debut of , later Captain Kirk on TV's Star Trek.
1965 London's Old Vic Theatre houses 's The Crucible. Produced by the and directed by , the cast is led by and Colin Blakely.
1978 portrays at the Lunt Fontanne Theatre. The drama by plays 45 performances before moving to the Booth Theatre. At the Booth, it runs in repertory with 's .
1984 opens at the Ritz Theater in . He receives a 1984 Tony Award nomination for his performance.
2006 , the volatile Method actor who came to fame through his Tony-nominated work in , and was once married to , dies at age 77 following a stroke.
2016 The world premiere of 's Skeleton Crew, directed by , opens Off-Broadway at the . The play, centered on a makeshift family of workers at an auto plant, features and .
2017 's 1979 drama has its Broadway debut at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. The play is the only work from the late two-time Pulitzer Prize winner's American Century Cycle that had never previously previously been seen on Broadway. Directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, the production wins the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play.
2020 Jeremy O. Harris鈥� Slave Play closes its initial run at the John Golden Theatre on Broadway. The show would go on to receive 12 nominations at the 74th annual Tony Awards and return to Broadway in a limited run in December, 2021.
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Michael Potts, Anthony Chisholm, and Keith Randolph Smith in Jitney
