1961 American ideals and and practices are put on trial as The Red Eye of Love opens at New York's Living Theatre. The satire by lasts 169 performances.
1967 stages his final season as artistic director of Canada's . His final production with the Festival is a new staging of Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra.
1970 Parliamentary history is made as becomes the first actor to be seated in Britain's House of Lords when he is named a life peer. At the time, he is playing Shylock in a production of The Merchant of Venice.
1981 and 's comedy opens on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, where it runs for 12 performances. and star as a New Jersey couple that open a roadside caf茅 in the California desert, with as an aspiring actor who is hired as their waitress.
1996 The world of pornography enters the theatre as Ronnie Larsen's Making Porn plays at the Actor's Playhouse. The erotic comedy-drama, in which a straight man becomes a porn star in the gay adult video industry, stars Rex Chandler. Larsen also directs and co-stars in the production, which runs 395 performances.
1998 The Jello Is Always Red, a musical revue of songs and sketches by , who created , plays Off-Broadway at the . directs the production starring Celia Gentry, Neal Young, and Gesner himself.
2012 The world premiere of Gina Gionfriddo's Rapture, Blister, Burn opens Off-Broadway at . Amy Brenneman, , , , and Lee Tergesen star in the comedy-drama about the fallout from choices made by two women of the generation that followed the modern women's movement. The play is nominated as a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
2017 A wanted woman goes on an epic adventure through the Wild West in ' new musical Bella: An American Tale, opening at Playwrights Horizons. directs a cast that includes , , , and .
2018 The world premiere of Mike Lew鈥檚 Teenage Dick begins preview at the Public Theater Off-Broadway in a production from Ma-Yi Theater Company. The re-imagining of Richard III starred Gregg Mozgala a 16-year-old outsider in the deepest winter of his discontent: his junior year. Picked on because of his cerebral palsy (as well as his sometimes-creepy Shakespearean way of speaking), Richard is determined to have his revenge and make his name by becoming president of the senior class. The cast also features Marinda Anderson, Alex Breaux, Shannon DeVido, Sasha Diamond, and Tiffany Villarin.
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