1871 Birthday of , one of the three legendary Shubert brothers who founded the theatre-owning and producing juggernaut the Shubert Organization.
1901 Character actor is born. He stars in the original Broadway production of and wins a Tony Award for his performance as Matthew Harrison Brady in .
1940 makes her Broadway debut opposite in a revival of 's . Five years later, the play serves as the source for Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical .
1976 is revived at the St. James Theatre in New York. and play Henry Higgins and Eliza. stages the 377-performance run.
1984 and spout the F word aplenty in new play . Covering the intense world of real estate sales, Glengarry opens at the John Golden Theatre and wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It runs 378 performances.
1997 becomes "The Great Profile" as he stars in 's at Broadway's Music Box Theatre.
1999 Broadway gets . directs his play of desire and dissection at the Music Box Theatre. The British cast includes Tony Award winner , , , and . It runs for 172 performances.
2004 plays flamboyant and desperate producer Oscar Jaffe in 's art deco revival of the 1932 comedy . Movie star costars as film diva Lily Garland.
2010 , 's dance musical that moves to the music of , opens on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre. Following four couples as they fall in and out of love during an evening at a crowded nightclub, the show uses original masters of Sinatra's voice with a live, onstage band.
2013 and star in the world premiere of 's Peter and Alice at the West End's No毛l Coward Theatre. The play revolves around the meeting of Alice Liddell Hargreaves (Dench) and Peter Llewelyn Davies (Whishaw) at the opening of a Lewis Carroll exhibition in 1932, when the original Alice in Wonderland came face to face with the original Peter Pan.
2018 The National Theatre revival of 's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece opens at Broadway鈥檚 Neil Simon Theatre. and win Tony Awards for their respective performances as Prior Walter and Roy Cohn, and the production wins Best Revival of a Play.
2019 Performer and playwright Maddie Corman shares her story of perseverance in the wake of the unthinkable with the world premiere of her solo show Accidentally Brave, opening at the DR2 Theatre.
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James McArdle and Andrew Garfield in Angels in America on Broadway
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