1895 Birthday of , newsman-turned-playwright, whose wisecracking oeuvre includes , (the play on which the musical is based), , , , and the libretto to the and musical . He was also married to .
1918 Miss 1917 opens at the Century Theatre featuring comedian performing a score by , , and . It runs 48 performances.
1931 stars as for 28 performances at the Broadhurst Theatre.
1941 Summoned by a medium, the spirit of a wife returns in ghost form to flirt with her still-living husband, and bedevil his new wife in 's sparkling comedy, , which opens at the Morosco Theatre, and brightens wartime Broadway for 650 performances.
1943 Birthday of playwright , one of the cornerstones of the Off-Off-Broadway movement in the 1960s, with plays like The Unseen Hand and The Tooth of Crime, who goes slightly more mainstream with works including , All for Love, and Pulitzer-winner . He also contributes a sketch to the long-running revue
1951 appears on the cover of Life, "Back On Broadway" in . However, the show, plagued by feuding in its tryout period, plays only 51 performances, losing about $30,000.
1952 stars in 's play , which opens at the Morosco Theatre and stays for 132 performances.
1959 's supernatural thriller , opens at the Booth Theatre, beginning a 623-performance run.
1963 Birthday of , who creates the title role in the musical , and goes on to play roles in musicals including , , and .
1973 succeeds as director of the English National Theatre, leading the company through many successful years and a Queen-appointed change of name to the Royal National Theatre.
1980 , , and are the stars in by , which opens at the New Apollo Theatre. The show was a success Off-Broadway as a Circle Rep production in 1978, and repeats its success on Broadway, running for 511 performances and winning Kurtz a Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award.
1987 and James Lapine's elaborate interweaving of multiple fairy tales, , opens on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre. The fan-favorite score includes "No One Is Alone" and "Children Will Listen," along with the title song. , who also wrote the book, directs a cast that includes , , and . It runs 765 performances.
1995 , 's play about opera diva Maria Callas, opens on Broadway at the Golden Theatre. stars as Callas, with playing one of her students. It goes on to win Tony Awards for Caldwell, McDonald, and Best Play. and take on the role of Callas later in the 598 performance run.
2003 The Landmark Conservancy names actor and composing duo and "Living Landmarks."
2012 The New York City premiere of Samuel D. Hunter's The Whale, a harrowing character study of the roots of dysfunction in the life of a morbidly-obese 600-pound man, opens Off-Broadway at ' Peter Jay Sharp Theater. stars as Charlie, the mentally vibrant but emotionally (and mostly couch-bound) lost soul.
2015 , the musical based on the lives of Gloria and , opens on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre, where it runs for 746 performances. and star as Gloria and Emilio.
2018 Christopher Demos-Brown's American Son opens at Broadway's Booth Theatre. Kerry Washington, Steven Pasquale, Jeremy Jordan, and Eugene Lee star in the drama, about a separated, interracial couple reuniting in a police station and grappling with the disappearance of their teenage son. Director Kenny Leon later helms a filmed version for Netflix as well, with the four reprising their performances.
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