1776 is born. His stories form the basis of the ballets Coppelia and The Nutcracker.
1905 Buster Brown, based on Richard F. Outcault's comic strip about a kid and his dog, opens at the old Majectic Theatre.
1929 stars as Florence Nightingale in The Lady With a Lamp. The drama by runs at the Garrick Theatre in London for 22 weeks.
1933 's has its U.S. premiere at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Coward co-stars in it with and . Depression-era audiences are scandalized and titillated by the story of a m茅nage 脿 trois.
1944 Standing in the shadows is . 's tale of a duke who feigns blindness while imprisoned runs for three weeks at the Playhouse Theatre in New York.
1971 Irish playwright and critic dies in London. Among his numerous plays are , , and . He was 88 years old.
1979 , a stage veteran of numerous shows including , dies at age 91.
2000 and star in 's A Moon for the Misbegotten at Chicago's , to be followed by . The production receives four 2000 Tony Award nominations and one win for (Best Featured Actor in a Play).
2006 reunites with co-star for the first of four special performances of her show .
2006 , the surviving half of the athletic tap duo of stage and screen known as The Nicholas Brothers and a Tony Award winning choreographer for , dies at age 91.
2008 plays a woman trying to cope with loneliness, longing, and an alcoholic husband () in a revival of 's 1950 drama at the Biltmore Theatre.
2010 and star in a Broadway revival of 鈥檚 . Johansson wins the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role.
2019 and play two brothers holed up in their mother's California house in a revival of 's Pulitzer Prize-nominated drama .
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