1906 and star in The New York Idea, 's play which runs 66 performances at the Lyric Theatre.
1919 Producer-playwright installs a 223-performance hit at the theatre that bears his name. Sexy is featured in his play about China, The Son-Daughter.
1923 and are . There are only five weeks of performances at the Garrick Theatre of 's play. In the story "She," out of desperation, takes up the world's oldest profession, while "He" struggles at the second oldest (playwriting).
1936 writes his first Broadway score since immigrating to the United States. , which has a book by and direction by , is an antiwar musical about a young soldier. Produced by the Group Theatre at its height, the show features an enviable cast: , , , , , and . It runs 68 performances at the 44th Street Theatre.
1961 American playwright dies at the age of 81. She wrote (later adapted for ) and with her husband , and with .
1962 stars in at the Royale Theatre. adapted his The Days of Duveen specifically for Boyer. The cast of the comedy includes a young , , , and . It runs for 175 performances.
1971 officially opens at the Clark Center for the Performing Arts in New York City with a staged reading of Margaret Power's Victims Anonymous. Robert Moss is founder and producing director of the venture to support and encourage new American playwrights.
1973 Birthday of , tap prodigy who stars on Broadway in , , and before the age of 20, and wins the Tony Award for Best Choreography for , in which he also co-stars.
1981 makes her final Broadway appearance in 's drama, , opposite . The show runs 126 performances at the Barrymore Theatre.
1985 's opens at the Booth Theatre with a cast that includes and . The New York Times' Frank Rich pans Rappaport, but it goes on to win the 1986 Tony Awards for Best Play and Best Actor in a Play (Hirsch), and run 891 performances. Gardner calls this "proof that there's life after Frank Rich." The 1996 movie version, directed by Gardner himself, stars and .
1997 , , and star in 's new play , which opens at the Booth Theatre. The show, which is a trio of scenes, follows a divorced, middle-aged man's emotion-generating visit to his old Chicago neighborhood. The show runs for 197 performances.
2003 , a burlesque musical starring , opens at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre and hands the comedian the shortest Broadway run of his career鈥�14 performances.
2008 Clive Barnes, who covered the New York theatre and dance worlds for four decades, first as a critic for The New York Times and then for the New York Post, dies at age 81.
2009 's opens at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre. and star in the seriocomic period play about a 19th century doctor whose experiments with the latest electronic invention鈥攖he vibrator鈥攔evolutionizes his practice and transforms his marriage in an unexpected way.
2012 Songwriters and make their Broadway debuts with , opening at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Despite a limited holiday run, the musical is not forgotten at Tony time, earning nominations for Best Musical, as well as for Pasek and Paul's score, and 's book. Pasek and Paul return to Broadway four years later with the Tony Award-winning musical .
2014 , who first as a performer, and then as a successful director of stage and film, cast a long shadow over Broadway and Hollywood for more than 50 years, dies at age 83. Nichols directed more than 20 Broadway shows, including the original productions of , , , , , , and . He was the winner of nine Tony Awards, including a record six for Direction of a Play.
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