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Stage to Page °ëµºÌåÓý Vault's Today in Theatre History: July 11 In 2016, Oslo opens Off-Broadway.
Michael Aronov, Anthony Azizi, and Jefferson Mays in Oslo. T. Charles Erickson

1985 's Season's Greetings, a comedy about a family's reunion for a traditional English Christmas, opens Off-Broadway at the Joyce Theatre. The American Theatre Exchange production is helmed by Pat Brown. The play ran previously in London and then made its American premiere at the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas before making its way to New York.

1998 After playing 12 previews and 240 regular performances in 's Broadway bio of at the Music Box Theatre, actor kicks off an eight-city tour of . The Broadway production closed November 2, 1997, but Plummer took some time off to rest from the role which won him the 1997 Best Actor Tony Award, as well as a Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award.

2002 Comedian hones a new standup act in , which plays a 3-performance limited run at the Broadway Theatre.

2012 Heads turn at the as 's adaptation of William Peter Blatty's horror novel The Exorcist opens in Los Angeles. stages the production, which stars as the mother of a girl possessed by the devil, and as the priest called in to perform the exorcism.

2016 The world premiere of � Oslo, a political thriller about the secret talks that led to the 1993 peace agreement between Israel and the PLO, opens Off-Broadway at Lincoln Center Theater's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. directs a cast led by and . The production the following year, and wins Tony Awards for Best Play and Featured Actor in a Play ().

More of Today's Birthdays: (1856-1893). (1905-1967). (1920-1985). (1931-2018). (b. 1950). (b. 1952). (b. 1960). Sydney Lucas (b. 2003).

First Look at Jennifer Ehle and Jefferson Mays in Oslo on Broadway

 
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