1905 Actor Maurice Barrymore dies at age 57. He was father to , , and .
1911 is born in Columbus, Mississippi. In 1940, a play opens in Boston titled Battle of Angels by "Tennessee" Williams, and theatre changes forever. He goes on to write , , , and other plays.
1923 Actor , 79, dies in Paris. She began her stage training at the age of 13 and had her first stage success at the age of 28. It was a double triumph as she played the roles of Cordelia in King Lear and the queen in Ruy Blas at the Comedie-Francaise. She also acted the lead in Hamlet. She toured Europe and America with her own companies.
1964 becomes "the greatest star" when she stars in her signature show, , on Broadway and debuts her signature song, "People" by and .
1970 Broadway gets the backstory on The Marx Brothers鈥攁nd their indomitable mother鈥攁s Minnie's Boys opens at Broadway's Imperial Theatre. Shelly Winters stars as Minnie, singing a score by Larry Grossman and Hal Hackady that introduces the song "Mama, A Rainbow."
1970 is born in Camberwell, London, and after a childhood spent in Ireland, writes a series of lauded plays set mostly in County Galway. His first trilogy of plays consists of , A Skull in Connemara, and . McDonagh goes on to write , , , , and Hangmen.
1973 Playwright, composer, and actor dies in Jamaica. He made his Broadway debut in , which he also wrote and directed. A prolific writer and composer, his style set and captured the wit and elegance of the time. He was 74 years old.
1987 comes out swinging with his new play, , which opens at the 46th Street Theatre. The drama about a family in the 1950s wins the Tony, Drama Desk, New York Drama Critics Circle, and Outer Critics Circle Awards, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Stars and also go home with Tonys.
1997 The 20th anniversary revival of , starring as Miss Hannigan, opens at the Martin Beck Theatre. In the weeks prior to its opening, the show made headlines after replacing star Joanna Pacitti, the young actor chosen via a nationwide contest, with .
2001 The meaning of the phrase "Nuremberg Defense" is explored for a new generation in a stage adaptation of 's about postwar Nazi trials. It opens on Broadway with , , and .
2008 makes his London debut in Howard Brenton's play Never So Good, playing British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
2009 holds court in a Broadway revival of 's absurdist comedy at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. directs a cast that also includes , , and .
2017 鈥檚 opens on Broadway at Studio 54 following a sold-out Off-Broadway engagement at the Public Theater. directs the play about a group of friends who work together on the line of a factory floor and are pitted against each other by layoffs and picket lines. A few weeks later, the play is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
2018 Four New Yorkers are involved in a murder investigation in the lobby of a Manhattan apartment complex in , 's 2001 play which makes its Broadway debut at the Hayes Theater. , , , and star.
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