1933 indicts , a political story at the Royale Theatre. is in the cast of the Theatre Guild production. The play wins the 1933 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
1940 details the Spanish Civil War in . The Theatre Guild production re-worked by stars and .
1948 Composer is born in New York. He writes music and lyrics for Broadway musicals including , , and . He also writes the songs for the animated film The Prince of Egypt, and lyrics to 's music for The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Pocahontas.
1962 There was vaudeville, but This Was Burlesque. stars in the revue, which runs Off-Broadway for over 1,500 performances.
1969 The morality of the creation of the hydrogen bomb is explored in 's , opening at the Vivian Beaumont Theater for a run of 162 performances. The cast includes , , , and .
1974 The two surviving members of the Andrews Sisters, and , are featured in , a musical set in the world of USO shows during World War II. The supporting cast includes future stars , , , , and .
1978 ponders Whose Life Is It, Anyway? His drama stars as a paralyzed man eager to end his life. After a run at London's Mermaid Theatre, it transfers to the Savoy for a run of 672 performances. The following year, Conti wins a Tony for the role . changes the lead character's gender for .
1978 Micheal MacLiammoir dies. Co-founder of Dublin's , he is remembered as an actor, director, designer, and playwright. He employed a young who had traveled to Ireland. He later appeared as Iago in Welles' film version of Othello.
1983 The "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" ballet comes to life once more as the and musical is revived on Broadway at the Virginia Theatre. The revival outruns its predecessor to play 505 performances.
1989 "Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to find he's been turned into a giant cockroach." It was a punchline in , but 's story becomes an actual Broadway drama, starring as Gregor. It runs 96 performances at the Barrymore Theatre.
1993 Jeffrey, 's "AIDS comedy," as one reviewer calls it, opens Off-Broadway at the Minetta Lane Theatre. It stars , and runs through January 16, 1994.
2002 , one of the longest-running Off-Broadway revues of the 1980s, opens on Broadway, but does not enjoy a repeat of its success. It closes after a month's run.
2003 From Britain's comes , a portrait of artist Vincent Van Gogh as a young man (), struggling to support himself as an art dealer, falling in love with an older woman (), and absorbing images that he will someday turn into masterpieces.
2008 's all-black revival of , starring as Maggie and as Big Daddy, opens at the Broadhurst Theatre. The production also features as Big Mama and as Brick.
2011 A Broadway revival of 's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning 1972 drama opens on Broadway at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. , , , (whose late father wrote the play), and star in the Scranton, Pennsylvania-set drama about a team of high school basketball players who reunite to hash out the past on the anniversary of their winning game.
2014 's political drama , starring as U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, opens on Broadway at the Neil Simon Theatre. It wins Tony Awards for Best Play, and for Cranston's performance.
2016 makes her Broadway debut in 's , about a group of women being held captive in the African nation of Liberia. The production was first seen Off-Broadway at in 2015.
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