1907 The Herald Square Theatre in New York hosts the American premiere of George Bernard Shaw's Widower's Houses. Effie Shannon and Herbert Kelcey star.
1940 's drama Cousin Muriel plays the Globe Theatre in London. The powerhouse cast includes , , and .
1959 is born in Queens, New York. She wins Tony awards for her portrayals of Fosca in and Anna in . Other notable roles include Dolly Levi in , Ruth Sherwood in , and Lotte Lenya in .
1967 This is the first time someone says You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Cartoonist 's characters come to life in the Clark Gesner musical, which runs 1,597 performances Off-Broadway at Theatre 80 St. Marks.
1972 After years as a radio studio, television studio, and pornographic movie house, the officially returns to life as a legitimate Broadway theatre with the opening of starring . The play closes the same night, but the theatre鈥攔enamed the Walter Kerr Theatre in 1990鈥攔emains in use to this day.
1983 's , about workers who are responsible for kneading ground pigments into smooth paint for designers, opens at the Playhouse Theatre on Broadway.
1999 In 1930s Nazi Germany, a popular musical group with three Jewish members is the . The sextet Hudson Shad portray the Comedian Harmonists in the musical. Written and co-conceived by , it runs on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theatre for 17 performances.
2003 At midnight, Local 802 of the musicians union goes on strike against nearly all Broadway musicals, shutting them down in a dispute over the minimum number of musicians required at Broadway theatres. In the afternoon, actors and stagehands announce they will not cross picket lines.
2004 New York City Police remove a body from the East River subsequently identified as that of actor and monologuist , who had been missing since January 10. His death is later ruled a suicide. On March 9, Broadway theatres dim their lights to salute the author of Swimming to Cambodia, , , , and other solo shows.
2013 , actor-writer 's solo play about Texas Governor Ann Richards, opens at 's Vivian Beaumont Theater. The production runs for 132 performances and earns Taylor a Tony nomination.
2017 Daniel Radcliffe, Joshua McGuire, and David Haig star in a 50th anniversary staging of Tom Stoppard鈥檚 Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. The David Leveaux-helmed production runs at the Old Vic Theatre in London.
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