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1933<\/b> Maxwell Anderson<\/a> indicts Both Your Houses<\/i><\/a>, a political story at the Royale Theatre. Morris Carnovsky<\/a> is in the cast of the Theatre Guild production. The play wins the 1933 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.<\/p>\n 1940<\/b> Ernest Hemingway<\/a> details the Spanish Civil War in The Fifth Column<\/a><\/i>. The Theatre Guild production re-worked by Benjamin Glazer<\/a> stars Franchot Tone<\/a> and Katherine Locke<\/a>.<\/p>\n 1948 <\/b>Composer Stephen Schwartz<\/a> is born in New York. He writes music and lyrics for Broadway musicals including Godspell<\/i><\/a>, Pippin<\/i><\/a>, and Wicked<\/i><\/a>. He also writes the songs for the animated film The Prince of Egypt<\/i>, and lyrics to Alan Menken<\/a>‘s music for The Hunchback of Notre Dame <\/i>and Pocahontas.<\/i><\/p>\n 1962<\/b> There was vaudeville, but This Was Burlesque<\/i>. Ann Corio<\/a> stars in the revue, which runs Off-Broadway for over 1,500 performances.<\/p>\n 1969<\/b> The morality of the creation of the hydrogen bomb is explored in Heinar Kipphardt<\/a>‘s In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer<\/a><\/i>, opening at the Vivian Beaumont Theater for a run of 162 performances. The cast includes Joseph Wiseman<\/a>, Philip Bosco<\/a>, Herbert Berghof<\/a>, and Paul Rudd<\/a>.<\/p>\n 1974<\/b> The two surviving members of the Andrews Sisters, Patty Andrews<\/a> and Maxene Andrews<\/a>, are featured in Over Here!<\/a><\/i>, a musical set in the world of USO shows during World War II. The supporting cast includes future stars John Travolta<\/a>, Janie Sell<\/a>, Ann Reinking<\/a>, Treat Williams<\/a>, and Samuel E. Wright<\/a>.<\/p>\n 1978<\/b> Brian Clark<\/a> ponders Whose Life Is It, Anyway?<\/i> His drama stars Tom Conti<\/a> as a paralyzed man eager to end his life. After a run at London’s Mermaid Theatre, it transfers to the Savoy for a run of 672 performances. The following year, Conti wins a Tony for the role on Broadway<\/a>. A return engagement in 1980<\/a> changes the lead character’s gender for Mary Tyler Moore<\/a>.<\/p>\n 1978<\/b> Micheal MacLiammoir dies. Co-founder of Dublin’s Gate Theatre<\/a>, he is remembered as an actor, director, designer, and playwright. He employed a young Orson Welles<\/a> who had traveled to Ireland. He later appeared as Iago in Welles’ film version of Othello<\/i>. <\/p>\n 1983<\/b> The “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue” ballet comes to life once more as the Richard Rodgers<\/a> and Lorenz Hart<\/a> musical On Your Toes<\/a><\/i> is revived on Broadway at the Virginia Theatre. The revival outruns its predecessor to play 505 performances.<\/p>\n 1989<\/b> “Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to find he’s been turned into a giant cockroach.” It was a punchline in The Producers<\/a><\/i>, but Franz Kafka<\/a>‘s story Metamorphosis<\/a><\/i> becomes an actual Broadway drama, starring Mikhail Baryshnikov<\/a> as Gregor. It runs 96 performances at the Barrymore Theatre.<\/p>\n 1993<\/b> Jeffrey<\/i>, Paul Rudnick<\/a>‘s “AIDS comedy,” as one reviewer calls it, opens Off-Broadway at the Minetta Lane Theatre. It stars John Michael Higgins<\/a>, and runs through January 16, 1994.<\/p>\n 2002<\/b> One Mo’ Time<\/a><\/i>, one of the longest-running Off-Broadway revues of the 1980s, opens on Broadway, but does not enjoy a repeat of its success. It closes after a month’s run.<\/p>\n 2003<\/b> From Britain’s National Theatre<\/a> comes Vincent in Brixton<\/a><\/i>, a portrait of artist Vincent Van Gogh as a young man (Jochum ten Haaf<\/a>), struggling to support himself as an art dealer, falling in love with an older woman (Clare Higgins<\/a>), and absorbing images that he will someday turn into masterpieces.<\/p>\n 2008<\/b> Debbie Allen<\/a>‘s all-black revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof<\/a><\/i>, starring Anika Noni Rose<\/a> as Maggie and James Earl Jones<\/a> as Big Daddy, opens at the Broadhurst Theatre. The production also features Phylicia Rashad<\/a> as Big Mama and Terrence Howard<\/a> as Brick.<\/p>\n 2011<\/b> A Broadway revival of Jason Miller<\/a>‘s Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning 1972 drama That Championship Season<\/a><\/i> opens on Broadway at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. Brian Cox<\/a>, Jim Gaffigan<\/a>, Chris Noth<\/a>, Jason Patric<\/a> (whose late father wrote the play), and Kiefer Sutherland<\/a> star in the Scranton, Pennsylvania-set drama about a team of high school basketball players who reunite to hash out the past on the anniversary of their winning game.<\/p>\n 2014<\/b> Robert Schenkkan<\/a>‘s political drama All the Way<\/a><\/i>, starring Bryan Cranston<\/a> as U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, opens on Broadway at the Neil Simon Theatre. It wins Tony Awards for Best Play, and for Cranston’s performance. <\/p>\n 2016 <\/b>Lupita Nyong’o<\/a> makes her Broadway debut in Danai Gurira<\/a>‘s Eclipsed<\/i><\/a>, about a group of women being held captive in the African nation of Liberia. The production was first seen Off-Broadway at The Public Theater<\/a> in 2015.<\/p>\n Today’s Birthdays:<\/b> Oscar Strauss<\/a> 1870. Ring Lardner<\/a> 1885. Lou Costello<\/a> 1906. Ella Logan<\/a> 1913. Shuler Hensley<\/a> 1967.<\/p>\n Watch highlights from a 2013 New York Pops concert celebrating the music of Stephen Schwartz, featuring Jeremy Jordan<\/a>, Norm Lewis<\/a>, Julia Murney<\/a>, and Jennifer Laura Thompson<\/a>:<\/b><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n