1935 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the bill, calling for a self-supporting national theatre. ANTA gets off to a slow start but eventually is responsible for raising money for both the American Repertory Theatre and the Experimental Theatre. It also hosts an annual "ANTA Album" revue, highlighting the best of Broadway theatre and beyond.
1962 Aspiring playwright arrives in New York, determined to start a career. Wilson has nowhere to stay and finds himself sleeping in Central Park. Fortunately, he does not remain homeless forever, as Wilson soon becomes a highly successful, Pulitzer-winning playwright. He immortalizes the date of his New York arrival as the title of his 1978 play, .
2012 is a psychiatric patient reliving the story of Macbeth in a one-man adaptation of the Shakespeare tragedy, presented at the Rose Theater as part of the 2012 Lincoln Center Festival. and direct the National Theatre of Scotland production, which returns to New York the following year for .
More of Today's Birthdays: (1889鈥�1963), Alvin Colt (1916-2008), Ben Edwards (1916-1999), (1928鈥�2019), (1936鈥�2020), Stanley Silverman (b. 1938), Nicholas Wright (b. 1940), (b. 1960), (b. 1963), Kathryn Erbe (b. 1965), Michael Stuhlbarg (b. 1968), Jonathan Kaplan (b. 1980).
