1939 tells at the Shubert Theatre in New York. , , , and star. designs the sets and lighting, and stages. It runs a year.
1956 The Comedy of Errors is presented at London's Art Theatre as a comic operetta. Juilan Slade composes the score.
1963 stars in the first Broadway production of 's , opening at the Martin Beck Theatre. directs a cast that also includes and .
1964 makes his Broadway debut in the comedy , directed by . It runs only 9 performances, but Sheen is quickly cast in another Broadway play that begins performances less than two months later: . Director Marre also moves on to bigger things and reunites with Pretzel Factory's incidental music composer the following year on the musical .
1967 , a musical adaptation of the play , opens to dismissive reviews and closes 72 performances later. The score is not recorded until 2004, when librettist , now host of Bravo's Actors Studio series, brings together , , , and Mike Myers for a studio cast album.
1968 plays a would-be inventor who has a chance to Enter a Free Man at London's St. Martin's Theatre. 's drama runs just 44 performances. stages.
1971 A man's family, mistress, and doctor run their relationships with him as he awaits death. stages the drama. and lead the cast. It plays 40 performances at the Martin Beck Theatre in New York.
1985 Two years and a day later, Eugene Jerome returns to the Neil Simon Theatre in 's sequel to , . Now 1943, six years after the end of Memoirs, Eugene is on his way to boot camp during World War II. once again dons the duds of the character, then hands off the role to , who stars in the third part of the trilogy, .
1994 , the playwright of , The Bald Soprano, , and , dies at age 84. Known as the father of Absurd Theatre, he said, "It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind."
1997 Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Viola Davis, Roger Robinson, and Michele Stay star in August Wilson's Seven Guitars as it opens at Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre. All four performers will go on to receive Tony Award nominations for their performances in this entry from Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle about an aspiring blues musician that returns home for the woman he loves, an ailing old man hoping for an heir to carry on his name, and three women coping with betrayal and disappointment.
2004 , the actor-playwright known for her solo shows, includes other actors and characters in her latest work, Well, which opens at New York's . Two years later, the production for a 52-performance run.
2004 , the portly, bearded Renaissance Man of British Theatre (and an Oscar-winner in films) dies at age 82. His Broadway plays (as both author and performer) include , , and , the last of which had him playing the ghost of Ludwig von Beethoven.
2010 , a show-business legend whose hard-knocks childhood as a stage performer was depicted in the classic musical , dies at age 96. Following an early vaudeville career as "Baby June" and later "Dainty June," Havoc appeared in a number of Broadway shows (including , , and ) and films (including My Sister Eileen and Gentleman's Agreement), and wrote two autobiographies.
2012 Now. Here. This., a new work from the creators and cast of the cult-hit Broadway musical , opens in its world premiere at Off-Broadway's . The highly personal revue, which includes autobiographical elements from the players, is a collaboration by , , , , , and .
2013 , the Tony- and Olivier Award-winning British character actor whose career bloomed late in life with numerous successes on the London and Broadway stages dies at age 65. Among his most memorable performances were the roles of Uncle Monty in Withnail and I, Uncle Vernon in the Harry Potter movie series, and Hector in .
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