1909 Irish poet and playwright dies at age 38. He penned numerous plays including and . For the latter he traveled to the Aran Islands to capture the speech and customs of the local people.
1936 and star in 's , opening at the Shubert Theatre for a run of 300 performances. The play receives the 1936 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and is later turned into a film starring and Norma Shearer.
1941 , adapted by and from Wright's novel, plays at the St. James Theatre in New York. The drama, concerning the accidental killing of a white woman by a black man, stars and . It runs 114 performances.
1955 Secrets and sorrows run deep in . ' drama stars , , and . It runs for 694 performances. Future Broadway productions see Maggie played by , , , , and .
1977 is at the Biltmore Theatre. The solo play runs for 84 evenings.
1992 The Neil Simon Theatre presents 's 26th play, . stars as the unhappy writer, and his women include , , , and .
1994 and 's takes another spin as it opens at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater. The production stars as Julie Jordan, as Billy Bigelow, and a young actor named as Carrie Pipperidge. The supporting cast includes future stars (in his Broadway debut) and . Audra McDonald wins her first Tony Award for her performance, and the production also wins for Best Revival.
2002 Hillary Clinton appears Off-Broadway in a post-show panel discussion of 's Necessary Targets, about the treatment of women in the 1990s war in Bosnia.
2003 's song cycle Elegies opens at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center. Presented for nine performances, on Sunday and Monday nights, the work includes songs about people Finn had personally known but who had since passed away. It stars , , , , and .
2005 The King meets the Bard at the Palace. makes his posthumous debut on Broadway with the musical , using his familiar pop hits to tell a story freely adapted from 's Twelfth Night. It runs nine months at the Palace Theatre.
2009 ' , a new play about an art gallery owner and a photojournalist鈥擳ony Award winners and , respectively鈥攚ho swap stories at their workplace, opens at Broadway's Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. It runs only 56 performances.
2011 Broadway answers the door to 鈥撵谤辞尘 South Park creators and and co-creator 鈥攚hen the irreverent musical opens at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. and star as an unlikely pair of Mormon missionaries who venture from Salt Lake City to AIDS-ravaged Uganda in the hopes of converting villagers with the story of Joseph Smith and the founding of the Mormon Church. The production wins nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical.
2011 , a playwright who emerged out of the scrappy Off-Off-Broadway scene to compose humane, lyrical dramas of American life that played on Broadway and in theatres around the world, dies at age 73. His plays included Lemon Sky, The Hot l Baltimore, , , and .
2014 's opens on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre. stars as a mother who pays a surprise visit to her late son鈥檚 ex-partner, who is now married to another man and has a young son.
2016 makes her Broadway debut in . and wrote the original musical about a literary editor whose relationship with a young soldier inspires her to confront her past. It runs for 109 performances at the Cort Theatre.
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