1978 's , starring , opens on Broadway at the 46th Street Theatre. The musical directed by and garners seven Tony nominations and wins two, for Glynn and co-star .
1987 's smalltown drama Steel Magnolias transfers from Off-Broadway's WPA Theatre to Off-Broadway's Lucille Lortel Theatre where it plays 1,126 performances. The play features Betsy Aidem, Mary Fogarty, Margo Martindale, Rosemary Prinz, Constance Schulman, and Kate Wilkinson under the direction of .
1997 officially becomes the longest-running musical in Broadway history when it plays its record-breaking 6,138th performance. The record is later surpassed by another musical, , in 2006.
2002 and 's Bombay Dreams, a musical about a love story set in India, opens at London's Apollo Victoria. The producer is . It
2004 The musical Children's Letters to God, inspired by the bestselling book of the same name, makes its Off -Broadway debut at the black box space of the Lamb's Theatre. directs the new musical by David Evans (music), Douglas Cohen (lyrics) and Children's Letters to God author Stuart Hample (book).
2007 Husband-and-wife actors Harry Hamlin and Lisa Rinna join the Broadway company of the Tony-winning revival of Kander and Ebb's Chicago as Billy Flynn and Roxie Hart.
2011 Nilaja Sun's portrait of New York City public schools, No Child鈥�, which played 311 performances at the Barrow Street Theatre in 2006, returns to that venue for 40 performances only.
2013 The Off-Broadway premiere of ' rarely-seen The Two-Character Play opens at New World Stages. and Brad Dourif star as two actors on tour who find themselves deserted by their troupe.
2014 , a non-biographical musical inspired by the music and lyrics of , opens on Broadway at the Palace Theatre. Directed by , the cast includes , , , , and . It closes a month later, after 38 performances.
2018 Donja R. Love's drama Sugar in Our Wounds opens Off-Broadway in a Manhattan Theatre Club production. Saheem Ali directs a cast led by Sheldon Best, Stephanie Berry, Fern Cozine, Tiffany Rachelle Stewart, and Chinaza Uche as Henry. In the play, a mystical tree stretches toward heaven and protects James (Best), who reads newspapers about the imminent possibility of freedom. When a brooding stranger arrives, James and his makeshift family take the man in鈥攖he start of an unexpected bond and striking romance.
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