1928 Six-time Tony-winning costume designer is born. Her designs are worn by the original casts of , , , , , , , and dozens more Broadway shows.
1954 's play about a con-man's visit to a small Western town, , opens at the Cort Theatre. stars in the 125-performance Broadway run and then goes on to do the London production in 1956. The critically-acclaimed play is made into a movie in 1956 and is the basis for the 1963 stage musical, . and star in a for the .
1985 's Aunt Dan and Lemon opens at , with Shawn and in the cast. It runs 191 shows.
2001 and 's revised musical confection, , opens at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre, some 27 years after it opened in Great Britain as simply Jeeves. Broadway audiences don't take to this musical version of 's Bertie Wooster stories, however, and it closes after just 73 performances, the shortest run ever for a Lloyd Webber show in its Broadway debut.
2003 plays Falstaff in 's production of 's . Also in the cast are , , , , , and . The production wins the 2004 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play.
2010 The first New York City revival of 's two-part Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes opens Off-Broadway at the . Directed by , the groundbreaking Reagan-era-set epic about fictional and historical characters commingling in the time of AIDS features , , , , , , , and .
2012 All Broadway shows are canceled as New York prepares for the arrival of Hurricane Sandy. In the wake of the widespread flooding and blackouts caused by the storm, performances do not resume until October 31.
2013 Wallace Shawn stars in the American premiere of his Grasses of a Thousand Colors, opening Off-Broadway at the Public Theater. The play is about a doctor who tries to solve world hunger by rejiggering the metabolisms of animals to tolerate eating their own kind. It also stars , Emily Cass McDonnell, Kristina Mueller, and .
2019 Ra煤l Esparza stars in Theresa Rebeck's Seared, opening at Off-Broadway's MCC Theater. The cast also includes W. Tr茅 Davis, , and David Mason.
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