1856 Comedian is born. He stars in vaudeville and on Broadway, notably in Mr. Hamlet of Broadway, The Earl and the Girl, and Piff! Paff!! Pouf!!! His son, , was also a Broadway actor.
1922 's drama , the story of a stoker brutalized by his work, opens at the Provincetown Playhouse.
1959 , 's musical adaptation of Juno and the Paycock, opens at the Winter Garden Theatre with and . It runs only 16 performances.
1961 adapts and directs Morris West's novel . stars in the drama that runs 116 performances at the Billy Rose Theatre.
1966 The English Stage Company is served 18 summonses as a result of William Gaskill's production of 's controversial play Saved. Lord Chamberlain had demanded certain changes be made; the company did not comply. Bond and the company are forced to pay costs.
1978 Moliere in Spite of Himself plays at the Colonnades Theatre Lab in New York. The drama is adapted and staged by Michel Lessac and runs for 100 performances.
1978 Encompass Theatre, an Off-Off-Broadway group, launches a series of plays titled Hear Their Voices: Women Founders of the American Theatre, 1910-1945.
1986 At the 's production of Hamlet, inhabits the "distracted globe" of the Bard's immortal counterpart. play runs at 's Public Theater through May 11.
1989 's opens at the Plymouth Theatre. The Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning drama stars and becomes a landmark American play.
2002 , author of the play , the 1969 Broadway comedy that launched the career of , dies at 79.
2008 Following a 2007 Off-Broadway run at 37 Arts, opens at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. cowrote and stars in the show about life among the Latino residents of Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood, along with , , and . The production wins four Tony Awards, including Best Musical.
2009 , writer-director 's music-infused play that lured back to Broadway after a 46-year absence, opens at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
2010 Love Never Dies, 's sequel to , opens at the West End's Adelphi Theatre. Set at the Coney Island fairgrounds 10 years after the Phantom disappeared from the Paris Opera House, the musical stars and as the Phantom and Christine.
2017 and star in a revival of ' e at the Belasco Theatre. This is Field's second time playing Southern matriarch Amanda Wingfield after previously playing the role in a 2004 production at the Kennedy Center.
2019 The world premiere of Daddy by Jeremy O. Harris officially opens Off-Broadway at the Pershing Square Signature Center March 5. With direction by Danya Taymor, the new drama is an exploration of intimacy and identity in which Basquiats, gospel, and fantasy collide around a Bel Air swimming pool. Leading the cast are Ronald Peet, Alan Cumming, and Charlayne Woodard.
2020 The Conor McPherson-Bob Dylan musical Girl From the North Country opens at Broadway's Belasco Theatre. Featuring a book and direction by McPherson, the Great Depression-era set musical offers a slice-of-life look at a small community in Duluth, Minnesota, where the Laine family operates a rundown guesthouse. The show would later go on hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic and reopen in October 2021.
More of Today's Birthdays: Will Geer (1902-1978). (1940-1994). Jerry Ross (1926-1955). (b. 1930). (b. 1934). Martin P. Robinson (b. 1954). (b. 1959). Juliette Binoche (b. 1964).
