1881 Birthday of , a producer and playwright who, as a professor at the University of Texas, inspires three generations of Broadway artists, including and the songwriting team of & , who dedicate The Fantasticks to him and model the role of the Old Actor after him.
1897 Birthday of master actor , who originates roles in , , , , (U.S. premiere), , , and .
1901 is born as Florence McKechnie. She marries actor , and they star together in the Pulitzer-winning dramas and , in which she originates the roles of Mrs. Antrobus and Mary Tyrone, respectively.
1905 U.S. premiere of 's Man and Superman, which runs 192 performances at the Hudson Theatre.
1919 Shubert theatres across the country close when stagehands and musicians join the Actors' Equity strike.
1934 gets a black eye when she steps between two women fighting over her autograph outside the Empire Theatre in London.
1946 Presented as a fundraiser for the American League for a Free Palestine, 's pageant , featuring music by , opens on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre. The production stars and as an aging, dispossessed Jewish couple that journeys from post-World War II Europe to Palestine. The cast also includes journalist and World War II war correspondent , opera singer , and actor .
1996 An American pianist and his elderly Viennese teacher argue over Schumann's "Dichterliebe" in Jon Marans' Old Wicked Songs at Off-Broadway's Promenade Theatre. The drama starring and plays for 210 performances before closing March 9 of the following year.
2002 Previews begin at The Public Theater for 's baseball drama Take Me Out, which wins the 2003 Tony Award as Best Play after .
2002 Continuing the sports-related night in New York, a huge evening rally in Times Square to kick off the pro football season causes Broadway producers to push back their curtain time to 8:30 PM.
2003 Film star Heather Graham plays a woman who decides to go through with a blind date the day following the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 's play Recent Tragic Events, beginning performances at Off-Broadway's .
2019 The Broadway revival of Harold Pinter鈥檚 opens at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre September 5. The Jamie Lloyd-helmed production, previously seen in the West End, stars Zawe Ashton, Charlie Cox, and Tom Hiddleston.
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