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By Playbill Staff | 07/14/2020The birthday of late playwright and West Side Story and Gypsy librettist Arthur Laurents. -
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By Playbill Staff | 07/13/2020Oscar Isaac stars in the Sam Gold-directed Hamlet at The Public Theater in 2017.
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By Playbill Staff | 07/12/2020Fela! returns to Broadway in 2012.
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By Nathan Skethway | 07/12/2020The stage and screen star celebrates his birthday July 12.
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By Playbill Staff | 07/11/2020The future Tony Award-winning production of Oslo opens Off-Broadway in 2016.
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By Playbill Staff | 07/10/2020Dominique Morisseau’s Pipeline premieres Off-Broadway, Jerry Herman is born, and more.
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By Playbill Staff | 07/09/2020Today's birthdays include Brandon Uranowitz, Quentin Earl Darrington, and Brian Dennehy.
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By Playbill Staff | 07/08/2020In 1980, Richard Burton and Christine Ebersole star in a revival of Camelot.
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By Playbill Staff | 07/07/2020South Pacific Tony winner Paulo Szot celebrates his birthday.
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By Playbill Staff | 07/06/2020Happy birthday to Les Misérables and Miss Saigon composer Claude-Michel Schönberg.
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By Playbill Staff | 07/05/2020Landford Wilson arrives in New York City in 1962, and Alan Cumming stars in Macbeth at the Lincoln Center Festival in 2012.
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By Playbill Staff | 07/04/2020Today's birthdays include Gertrude Lawrence, Neil Simon, and Edie Falco.
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By Playbill Staff | 07/03/2020Today's birthdays include Audra McDonald, Betty Buckley, Tom Stoppard, and George M. Cohan.
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By Playbill Staff | 07/02/2020Choir Boy premieres Off-Broadway in 2013.
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By Playbill Staff | 07/01/2020Blair Underwood, Lisa Gay Hamilton, and Kevin Kline star in Measure for Measure at the Delacorte in Central Park in 1993.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/30/2020Late stage and screen star Lena Horne, recipient of a 1981 Special Tony for her triumphant solo show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, was born on this day in 1917.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/29/2020Shows for Days, starring Patti LuPone and Michael Urie, opens at Lincoln Center Theater's Mitzi E. Newhouse.
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By Nathan Skethway | 06/28/2020Legendary composer Richard Rodgers was born June 28, 1902.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/27/2020In 1994, Vanessa Williams makes her Broadway debut in Kiss of the Spider Woman.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/26/2020Ziegfeld Follies of 1911, featuring songs by Irving Berlin, opens at New York's Jardin de Paris.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/25/2020Times Square gets a new landmark as the first TKTS booth opens in 1973.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/24/2020In 1998, Aasif Mandvi premieres his Obie-winning monologue play Sakina's Restaurant at the American Place Theatre.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/23/2020S. Epatha Merkerson, Charles Weldon, and Billy Porter open in Cheryl L. West's Birdie Blue at Second Stage Theatre.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/22/2020In 2011, Unnatural Acts opens Off-Broadway at Classic Stage Company.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/21/2020In 2018 Idina Menzel opens in Off-Broadway's Skintight, by Joshua Harmon.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/20/2020In 2000, Kirsten Childs' musical The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin opens Off-Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/19/2020Holler If Ya Hear Me and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas both celebrate Broadway anniversaries.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/18/2020In 1998, William Finn's A New Brain opens at Lincoln Center; 20 years later, the campus hosts the NYC premiere of Antoinette Nwandu's Pass Over.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/17/2020A Strange Loop opens Off-Broadway, on its way to winning a Pulitzer Prize.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/16/2020Staceyann Chin opens her solo show, Border/Clash: A Litany of Desires, blending slam poetry, autobiographical story-telling, and political commentary.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/16/2020The prolific performer celebrates his birthday June 16
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By Playbill Staff | 06/15/2020In 2008, In The Heights wins Best Musical and Lin-Manuel Miranda became the youngest-ever Tony winner for Best Score.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/14/2020Following the longest preview period in Broadway history, Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark officially opens on Broadway in 2011.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/13/2020The Secret Life of Bees opened Off-Broadway in 2019.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/12/2020Kirsten Childs' Bella: An American Tale opens at Playwright Horizons in 2017.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/11/2020In 1985, Sally Struthers and Rita Moreno star in a revival of The Odd Couple.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/10/2020Judy Garland is born, Torch Song Trilogy opens on Broadway, and The Five Lesbian Brothers open Brave Smiles Off-Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/09/2020Happy birthday to composer Cole Porter, whose Kiss Me, Kate was revived by Roundabout Theatre Company in 2019.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/08/2020David Henry Hwang's drama FOB, set in a small restaurant in California, opens Off-Broadway in 1980 on its way to winning an OBIE for Best Play.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/07/2020In 2016, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two begins performances in London.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/06/2020Happy birthday, Harvey Fierstein.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/05/2020The American Negro Theatre is founded in Harlem in 1940, eventually kickstarting the careers of actors such as Ruby Dee, Harry Belafonte, and Sidney Poitier.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/04/2020Today's birthdays include Julie White, Mary Testa, and Rosalind Russell.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/03/2020The original Broadway production of Chicago, starring Gwen Verdon and Chita Rivera, opens in 1975.
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By Matthew Blank | 06/02/2020The celebrated composer of A Chorus Line was born June 2, 1944.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/02/2020The musical Far From Heaven, starring Kelli O'Hara, opens Off-Broadway in 2013.
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By Nathan Skethway | 06/01/2020The actor celebrates her birthday June 1.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/01/2020In 2005, Ewan McGregor and Jane Krakowski open in the Donmar Warehouse revival of Guys and Dolls.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/31/2020Mart Crowley's gay classic The Boys in the Band makes its star-studded Broadway debut in 2018.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/30/2020Happy birthday, Idina Menzel.
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