1928 Mae West's controversial play opens at the Biltmore Theatre. It's the story of an actor who has impregnated so many women that the brother of one of them takes up a knife to put a permanent end to the culprit's love life. Police shut it down after 2 performances.
1935 Birthday of Broadway leading lady , who stars in , , , and 鈥攂ut never wins a Tony Award (she famously renounces her nomination for Victor/Victoria when the rest of the cast was "egregiously overlooked"). She wins an Oscar for playing the title role in the Disney movie musical Mary Poppins.
1936 , , and star in the musical comedy , which runs for 223 performances.
1957 , , and star in 's drama , which wins the 1958 Tony Award as Best Play.
1962 signs her first recording contract with Columbia. The Barbra Streisand Album, her first, wins her two 1963 Grammy Awards. One of the honors is Album of the Year, and at the time she held the distinction of being the youngest artist to win that category.
1995 After three decades' absence, returns to Broadway co-starring with in the comedy at the Martin Beck. The critically-acclaimed performances of Burnett and Bosco help the show run 308 performances.
1999 James Joyce's The Dead, by Irish composer , begins previews at Playwrights Horizons to a sold-out crowd. The show starring and features a book by co-conceiver , who also directs with . The cast also includes Daisy Egan, Sally Ann Howes, Marni Nxon, Stephen Spinella, and, fresh off of Side Show, Alice Ripley and Emily Skinner. The production subsequently January 11, 2000, at the Belasco Theatre and is nominated for a Tony Award for Best Musical.
2009 plays the stuck proprietor of a Chicago doughnut shop who is shaken loose with the arrival of a brash new employee in Tracy Letts' , opening at Broadway's Music Box Theatre.
2018 Girl From the North Country, 's play set to the songs of , opens its North American premiere Off-Broadway at . The show, about a community on the brink of change in Duluth, Minnesota, was previously seen at London's and in the West End. The New York cast includes , , , and . The production in February 2020, running up until the coronavirus shutdown.
2019 Harvey Fierstein plays women's rights leader Bella Abzug in Bella Bella, his new solo show opening Off-Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club. The late representative is depicted the following year in two projects: the FX limited series Mrs. America (played by Margo Martindale) and the Julie Taymor-led The Glorias (played by Bette Midler).
2019 Robert Schenkkan鈥檚 The Great Society opens on Broadway at Lincoln Center Theater's Vivian Beaumont Theater. Brian Cox stars as Lyndon B. Johnson in the All the Way follow-up, which follows the president's landslide victory but devolving term as the Vietnam War takes hold.
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