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By Playbill Staff | 07/27/2021Little Shop of Horrors opens Off-Broadway at the Orpheum Theatre in 1982. -
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By Playbill Staff | 07/26/2021Head Over Heels opens, with star Peppermint making history as the first woman who openly identifies as trans to originate a principal role on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 07/25/2021In 1975, A Chorus Line begins performances on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 07/24/2021In 2003, the Deaf West Theatre revival of Big River opens on Broadway at Roundabout Theatre Company.
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By Playbill Staff | 07/23/2021In 2018, Straight White Men opens and makes Young Jean Lee the first Asian-American woman playwright produced on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 07/21/2021In 1976, a revival of Guys and Dolls featuring an all-Black cast opens on Broadway.
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By Marc J. Franklin | 07/21/2021The performer celebrates her birthday July 21.
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By Nathan Skethway | 07/20/2021Test your knowledge of musical theatre both old and new with this quiz.
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By Playbill Staff | 07/20/2021Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse's Stop The World—I Want to Get Off opens in London on this date in 1961.
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By Playbill Staff | 07/19/2021In 2010, Jason Danieley and Marin Mazzie join the cast of Next to Normal on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 07/18/2021In 2002, Hairspray plays its first preview on Broadway.
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By Nathan Skethway | 07/17/2021The beloved meta musical opened on Broadway July 17, 2008.
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By Playbill Staff | 07/17/2021In 2018, Kwame Kwei-Armah and Shaina Taub's musical adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night opens in Central Park.
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By Playbill Staff | 07/16/2021In 2012, Lindsay Mendez and Derek Klena star in Pasek and Paul's Off-Broadway musical Dogfight.
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By Playbill Staff | 07/15/2021In 2015, Sutton Foster leads a wild, wild party at New York City Center's Encores! Off-Center series.
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By Playbill Staff | 07/14/2021In 1917, late West Side Story and Gypsy playwright Arthur Laurents is born.
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By Playbill Staff | 07/12/2021Fela! returns to Broadway in 2012.
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By Playbill Staff | 07/11/2021In 2016, Oslo opens Off-Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 07/10/2021In 2017, Dominique Morisseau’s Pipeline premieres Off-Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 07/09/2021Today's birthdays include Quentin Earl Darrington, Jeremy Pope, Brandon Uranowitz, and Brian Dennehy.
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By Playbill Staff | 07/08/2021In 1980, Richard Burton and Christine Ebersole star in a revival of Camelot.
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By Playbill Staff | 07/07/2021Happy birthday to South Pacific Tony winner Paulo Szot.
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By Playbill Staff | 07/06/2021The long-running, Tony-nominated revue Smokey Joe's Cafe begins an Off-Broadway run at Stage 42 on this date in 2018.
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By Playbill Staff | 07/05/2021Lanford 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 | 07/04/2021Happy birthday to Gertrude Lawrence, Neil Simon, Edie Falco, and more.
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By Playbill Staff | 07/03/2021Happy birthday to Audra McDonald, Betty Buckley, Tom Stoppard, George M. Cohan, and more!
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By Playbill Staff | 07/02/2021In 2013, Choir Boy premieres Off-Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 07/01/2021Ellen Greene returns to Little Shop of Horrors in 2015 opposite Jake Gyllenhaal.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/30/2021Late 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 | 06/29/2021The Broadway premiere of Marvin’s Room, starring Celia Weston, Lili Taylor, and Janeane Garofalo, opens on this date in 2017.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/28/2021Michael McElroy and Phylicia Rashad open Off-Broadway in Blue in 2001.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/27/2021In 1994, Vanessa Williams makes her Broadway debut in Kiss of the Spider Woman.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/26/2021In 1911, an edition of the Ziegfeld Follies featuring songs by Irving Berlin opens at New York's Jardin de Paris.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/25/2021In 1973, Times Square gets a new landmark as the first TKTS booth opens.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/24/2021In 2013, Buyer & Cellar, starring Michael Urie, opens Off-Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/23/2021In 2005, S. 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 | 06/22/2021In 2011, Unnatural Acts opens Off-Broadway at Classic Stage Company.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/21/2021In 2018, Idina Menzel stars in Off-Broadway's Skintight by Joshua Harmon.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/20/2021In 2000, Kirsten Childs' musical The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin opens Off-Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/19/2021Holler If Ya Hear Me and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas both celebrate Broadway anniversaries.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/18/2021In 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 | 06/16/2021In 2005, Staceyann 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 | 06/16/2021The prolific performer celebrates his birthday June 16
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By Playbill Staff | 06/15/2021In 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 | 06/14/2021Following 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 | 06/13/2021In 2019, The Secret Life of Bees opened Off-Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/12/2021Kirsten Childs' Bella: An American Tale opens at Playwright Horizons in 2017.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/11/2021In 1985, Sally Struthers and Rita Moreno star in a revival of The Odd Couple.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/10/2021In 1982, Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 06/09/2021Happy birthday to composer Cole Porter, whose Kiss Me, Kate was revived by Roundabout Theatre Company in 2019.
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