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408th Anniversary of the World Premiere of Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday |
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402nd Anniversary of the birth of British actor, William Cartwright |
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370th Anniversary of the birth of French playwright, Antoinette du Ligier de la Guard Deshoulieres, |
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141st Anniversary of the birth of Lew Fields (Moses Schanfield) |
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102nd Anniversary of the Broadway debut of George M. Cohan's Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway |
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89th Anniversary of the birth of Author J.D. Salinger |
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75th Anniversary of the birth of playwright Joe Orton |
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70th Anniversary of the debut of the Mercury Theatre edition of Thomas Decker's The Shoemakers' Holiday |
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68th Anniversary of the birth of Frank Langella |
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36th Anniversary of the death of Maurice A Chevalier |
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30th Anniversary of new copyright act |
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23rd Anniversary of the death of designer Raoul Pène Du Bois |
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5th Anniversary of the passing of Polish director, kazimierz Dejmek |
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330th Anniversary of the opening of the Hamburg Staatsoper |
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124th Anniversary of the birth of Georgian set designer, Georgy Yakulov |
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105th Anniversary of the birth of Sally Rand |
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75th Anniversary of the birth of designer, Peter Harvey |
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59th Anniversary of the birth of playwright, Christopher Durang |
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56th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of Pal Joey |
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25th Anniversary of the last initial performance of Annie on Broadway |
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17th Anniversary of the death of Pato Guzman (Art Director of the Star Treck Pilot) |
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4th Anniversary of the passing of Broadway actor, Charles Brown |
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371st Anniversary of the death of French (ballet) costume designer, Daniel Rabel |
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211th Anniversary of the birth of singer,actress,manager, Lucia Vestris, said to have introduced the box set to the London stage (1832). |
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104th Anniversary of the birth of designer, Edward Carrick |
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63rd Anniversary of the NY premiere of the John Patrick play, The Hasty Heart |
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16th Anniversary of the death of Judith Anderson |
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106th Anniversary of the birth of costume designer, Marilyn Putnam |
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104th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of Shaw's Candida |
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103rd Anniversary of the birth of Sterling Holloway |
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101st Anniversary of the world premiere in London of George Bernard Shaw's Don Juan in Hell |
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48th Anniversary of the death of French playwright, Albert Camus |
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43rd Anniversary of the death of Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot |
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27th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of the play, Frankenstein |
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1st Anniversary of the death of Vincent Sardi Jr. of the famous Sardis Restaurant |
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145th Anniversary of the birth of Konstantine Stanislavski (new calendar) |
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133rd Anniversary of the debut of the new Paris Opera House |
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124th Anniversary of the World Premiere of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Princess Ida |
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106th Anniversary of the world premiere of Büchner’s play, Danton’s Death |
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87th Anniversary of the birth of Friedrich Dürrenmatt, playwright of The Visit |
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83rd Anniversary of the birth of designer,director, Jack Landau |
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73rd Anniversary of the New York premiere of Odets’ play, Waiting for Lefty |
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58th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of Carson McCullers' play, A Member of the Wedding |
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41st Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of Pinter's play, The Homecoming |
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33rd Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of the musical, The Wiz |
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28th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of the Pinter play, Betrayal |
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19th Anniversary of the Broadway Premiere of the play, Eastern Standard |
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4th Anniversary of the passing of Yiddish Theatre Star, Fraydele Oysher |
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4th Anniversary of the death of actress, Patricia Falkenhain |
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126th Anniversary of the birth of Russian set and costume designer, Alexandra Exter |
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73rd Anniversary of the death of George Pierce Baker |
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45th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of the Lionel Bart musical production of Oliver |
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16th Anniversary of the world premiere, in Los Angeles, of Robert Schenkkan's Kentucky Cycle |
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1st Anniversary of the death of the great Canadian actress, Charmion King |
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183rd Anniversary of the opening of the 2nd Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow |
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118th Anniversary of the birth of Uruguayan set designer, Rafael Barradas |
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112th Anniversary of the birth of actor,playwright, Arnold Ridley |
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73rd Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of The Petrified Forest, by Robert Sherwood |
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70th Anniversary of the closing of Meyerhold Theatre in Russia |
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65th Anniversary of the death of Nikola Tesla |
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50th Anniversary of the world premiere of Suddenly Last Summer |
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33rd Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of the musical, Shenandoah |
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14th Anniversary of the death of Jay Blackton, the conductor on Broadway, of Oklahoma |
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6th Anniversary of the passing of Avery Schreiber of the comedy team, "Burns and Schreiber" |
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85th Anniversary of a run on Broadway of a repertoire presented by The Moscow Art Theatre |
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83rd Anniversary of the birth of lighting designer, Tharon Musser |
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41st Anniversary anniversary of the death of Russian director, Nikolay Pavlovich Okhlopkov. He was one of the first modern directors to use arena, environmental, and satellite staging |
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34th Anniversary of the New York premiere of E Wilson Jr's musical Let My People Come |
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27th Anniversary of the premiere on Broadway of the Kevin Kline edition of the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta, The Pirates of Penzance |
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19th Anniversary of the last performance on Broadway, of Starlight Express |
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1st Anniversary of the death of Yvonne De Carlo who played Carlotta in Sondheim's Follies (as well as Lillie Munster on TV) |
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123rd Anniversary of the world premiere of Ibsen’s play, The Wild Duck |
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118th Anniversary of the birth of playwright Karel Capek |
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100th Anniversary of the death of Abraham Goldfaden who founded the first professional Yiddish theatre in 1876 |
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94th Anniversary of the birth of Gypsy Rose Lee (Rose Hovick) |
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86th Anniversary of the first American professional production of Andriev's, He Who Gets Slapped |
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79th Anniversary of the birth of playwright, Heiner Müller |
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79th Anniversary of the birth of playwright, Brian Friel |
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67th Anniversary of the birth of British director, Terry Hands |
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61st Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of Kurt Weill's production of Street Scene |
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52nd Anniversary of the live television reprieve broadcast of the Mary Martin edition of Peter Pan (It was not set on videotape until 1960, 4 years later) |
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20th Anniversary of the world premiere, in Boston, of August Wilson's Piano Lesson |
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16th Anniversary of the Off-Broadway premiere of Terrence McNally's play, Lips Together Teeth Apart |
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13th Anniversary of the passing of Peter Cook |
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1st Anniversary of the death of Broadway actress, Irma St. Paule (Rose Tattoo) |
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210th Anniversary of the World Premiere of Schiller’s Die Picolo Mini, in Weimar |
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188th Anniversary of the birth of American actress, Louisa Lane Drew |
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111th Anniversary of the world premiere of Henrik Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman |
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91st Anniversary of the death of Buffalo Bill (William Cody) |
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79th Anniversary of the NY premiere of Elmer Rice's play, Street Scene |
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70th Anniversary of the world premiere in Paris, of Jean Anouilh's La Sauvage |
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67th Anniversary of the New York premiere of Joseph Kesselring's Arsenic & Old Lace |
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61st Anniversary of the Broadway Premiere of the Burton Lane musical, Finian's Rainbow |
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56th Anniversary of the New York premiere of the Gershwin,Romberg,Wodehouse musical, Rosalie |
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56th Anniversary of the world premiere in Paris of Jean Anouilh's La valse des toreadors |
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53rd Anniversary of the world premiere in Dallas, of the Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee play, Inherit the Wind |
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37th Anniversary of the death of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel |
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4th Anniversary of the death of Spalding Gray |
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123rd Anniversary of the World Premiere in Oslo of Ibsen’s The Wild Duck |
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109th Anniversary of the birth of Eva Le Gallienne |
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94th Anniversary of the birth of film costume designer, Dorothy Jeakins |
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61st Anniversary of the death of Eva Tanguay |
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32nd Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of the Stephen Sondheim musical, Pacific Overtures |
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3rd Anniversary of the death of Broadway actor, Perry Timothy “Tim" Jecko |
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141st Anniversary of the World Premiere in St. Petersburg of Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan the Terrible |
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130th Anniversary of the birth of Ferenc Molnar |
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100th Anniversary of the playwright Ruth Goodman Goetz (The Heiress) |
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43rd Anniversary of the death of playwright Lorraine Hansberry at the age of 34 |
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32nd Anniversary of the passing of Dame Agatha Christie |
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144th Anniversary of the death of Stephen Foster |
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129th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of The Mulligan Guard’s Ball |
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125th Anniversary of the world premiere of of Ibsen's play, An Enemy of the People |
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113th Anniversary of the world premiere in London of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband |
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104th Anniversary of the birth of designer, Oliver Messel |
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94th Anniversary of the birth of mime, Arnold Jones |
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82nd Anniversary of the birth of Gwen Verdon |
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40th Anniversary of the NY premiere of the musical, Your Own Thing |
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20th Anniversary of the Supreme Court Ruling that affirms the right of public school officials to censor plays |
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1st Anniversary of the death of Larkin Ford - last member of the original cast of the teleplay of Twelve Angry Men |
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104th Anniversary of the birth of Cecil Beaton |
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78th Anniversary of the NY debut of George Gershwin's musical, Strike Up the Band |
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68th Anniversary of the birth of director, Treavor Nunn |
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54th Anniversary of the world premiere in London of Sandy Wilson's musical The Boyfriend |
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48th Anniversary of the US premiere of Edward Albee's play, Zoo Story |
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46th Anniversary of the New York premiere of Funnyhouse of a Negro, by Adrienne Kennedy |
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9th Anniversary of the death of Jerzy Grotowski |
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4th Anniversary of the passing of Uta Hagen |
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386th Anniversary of the baptism of Moliere |
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217th Anniversary of the birth of Australian playwright, Franz Grill Parzer |
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115th Anniversary of the death of British Actress,playwright, Fanny Kemble |
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88th Anniversary of the death of composer, Reginald DeKoven |
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70th anniversary of the death of playwright/Lyricist, Harold Atteridge |
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55th Anniversary of the world premiere of Waiting for Godot |
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55th Anniversary of the debut of Harold Steinman's Dancing Waters ® effect at the Radio City Music Hall http://www.Dancingwaters.com |
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26th Anniversary of the New York premiere of Forbidden Broadway |
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259th Anniversary of the birth of Italian playwright, Conte Vittorio Alfieri |
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155th Anniversary of the birth of British actor,directir Johnston Forbes-Robertson |
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136th Anniversary of the birth of Gordon Craig |
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99th Anniversary of the birth of Ethel Merman (Zimmerman) |
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72nd Anniversary of the incorporation of the Screen Actors Guild |
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50th Anniversary of the Broadway Premiere of William Gibson's Two for the Seesaw |
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44th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of the Jerry Herman musical, Hello Dolly |
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44th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
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6th Anniversary of the death of playwright/actor, Ron Taylor |
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3rd anniversary of the death of Peter Zeisle, Co-founder of the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis |
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408th Anniversary of the birth of Spanish playwright, Pedro Calderón de la Barca |
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233rd Anniversary of the world premiere in London of Sheridan's play, The Rivals |
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148th Anniversary of the birth of Chekhov |
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145th Anniversary of the birth of Constantin Stanislavsky (old cal) |
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104th Anniversary of the Moscow premiere of The Cherry Orchard |
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81st Anniversary of the birth of Eartha Kitt |
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77th Anniversary of the birth of James Earl Jones |
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34th Anniversary of the premiere in New York of the Comden & Green musical, Lorelei |
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8th Anniversary of the death of Derek Anson Jones, Director on Broadway, of the Play, Wit. |
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197th Anniversary of the birth of British actor, Charles Kean |
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146th Anniversary of the death of designer, Clarke Robinson |
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107th Anniversary of the first kabaret (cabaret) in Germany, The Überbrettl on Alexanderplatz |
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104th Anniversary of the birth of actor, Cary Grant (Archibald Alexander Leach) |
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95th Anniversary of the birth of Danny Kaye (David Daniel Kaminsky or Kominski |
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72nd Anniversary of the birth of ballet designer, Ian Spurling |
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58th Anniversary of the world premiere in London of Christopher Fry's Venus Observed |
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40th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of the Kander,Ebb musical, The Happy Time |
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40th Anniversary of the premiere in New York of the Hester & Appolinar musical "Your Own Thing |
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28th Anniversary of the death of Cecil Beaton |
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10th Anniversary of the Broadway debut of the Stephen Flaherty, Terrence McNally musical, Ragtime |
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432nd Anniversary of the death of Hans Sachs, who built Germany's first theatre building |
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279th Anniversary of the death of playwright William Congreve |
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115th Anniversary of the world premiere of Ibsen's play, The Master Builder |
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91st Anniversary of the birth of actor, John Raitt |
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88th Anniversary of the Guild Theatre's revival of Leo Tolstoi's The Power of Darkness |
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37th Anniversary of the Broadway revival of the musical, No No Nanette |
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8th Anniversary of the passing of actress, Heddy Lamarr |
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1st Anniversary of the death of Broadway lighting designer - Chris Parry |
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1st Anniversary of the death of Curt Dempster, founding artistic director of New York's Ensemble Studio Theatre |
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229th Anniversary of the death of David Garrick |
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112th Anniversary of the birth of George Burns (Nathan Birnbaum) |
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105th Anniversary of the debut of The Wizard of Oz on Broadway |
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100th Anniversary of the birth of Carlton Winckler, who among other things, designed the lighting for Disney's film, Fantasia |
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98th Anniversary of the birth of Abram Hill, founder of the American Negro Theater |
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78th Anniversary of the debut of The Lone Ranger on WXYZ radio in Detroit |
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19th Anniversary of the death of Beatrice Lilly (Constance Sylvia Munston) |
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13th Anniversary of the Broadway Premiere of Love! Valor! Compassion! |
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5th Anniversary of the death of Al Hirschfeld |
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136th Anniversary of the death of Australian playwright, Franz Grill Parzer |
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129th Anniversary of the World Premiere in Denmark, of Ibsen’s A Dolls House |
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107th Anniversary of the Moscow premiere of Chekhov's The Three Sisters |
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105th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of The Wizard of Oz |
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100th Anniversary of the world premiere of of The Ghost Sonata, by Ibsen |
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80th Anniversary of the death of Loie Fuller |
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70th Anniversary of the premiere in New York of George Kaufman & Moss Hart's American Way |
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58th Anniversary of the New York debut of T S Eliot's Cocktail Party |
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50th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of Marcel Marceau and his Partners |
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26th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of the musical, Little Me |
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9th Anniversary of the death of Susan Strasberg |
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4th Anniversary of the passing ofYordan Radichkov, Bulgarian Playwright |
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279th Anniversary of the birth of, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing |
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235th Anniversary of the birth of French playwright, Guilbert de Pixérécourt |
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162nd Anniversary of the death of Paris Opera scenery designer, Louis-Pierre Baltard |
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159th Anniversary of the birth of August Strindberg |
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146th Anniversary of the birth of Loie Fuller |
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140th Anniversary of the birth of British actor, Charles Kean |
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93rd Anniversary of the birth of Lemuel Ayers |
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90th Anniversary of the debut on Broadway of Jerome Kern's Oh, Lady! Lady!! |
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70th Anniversary of the world premiere of Thornton Wilder's play, Our Town |
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55th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of Aurthur Miller's play, The Crucible |
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48th Anniversary of the world premiere of Ionesco's play, Rhinoceros |
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42nd Anniversary of the Off-Broadway premiere of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris |
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39th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of the musical, Celebration |
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14th Anniversary of the death of French actor, Jean-Louis Barrault |
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4th anniversary of the death of dancer/actress Ann Miller |
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154th Anniversary of the death of playwright Robert Montgomery Bird |
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133rd Anniversary of the birth of D.W. Griffith |
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120th Anniversary of the death of French playwright, Eugène-Marin Labiche |
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97th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of Rostand's Chantecler |
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82nd Anniversary of the New York debut of O'Neill's play, The Great God Brown |
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79th Anniversary of the Guild Theatre production of O'Neill's Strange Interlude |
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77th Anniversary of the Death of Pavlova |
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75th Anniversary of the birth of Chita Rivera |
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67th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of the Kurt Weill, Ira Gershwin musical, Lady in the Dark |
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44th Anniversary of the world premiere of of Arthur Miller's play, After the Fall |
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32nd Anniversary of the death of Paul Robeson |
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19th Anniversary of the death of Salvador Dali |
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14th Anniversary of the passing of designer Oliver Smith |
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349th Anniversary of the premiere in Paris of Corneille's Oedipus |
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338th Anniversary of the birth of playwright William Congreve |
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277th Anniversary of the birth of playwright Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais |
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99th Anniversary of the birth of French designer,director, André Barsacq |
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75th Anniversary of the New York debut of Noel Coward's Design for Living |
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47th Anniversary of the NY premiere of Edward Albee's play, The American Dream |
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47th Anniversary of the debut in New York of Edward Albee's American Dream |
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45th Anniversary of the death of lyricist, Otto Harbach |
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35th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of the play, The Jockey Club Stakes |
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33rd Anniversary of the death of Larry Fine |
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285th Anniversary of the birth of French actress, Mlle Clairon |
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134th Anniversary of the birth of Somerset Maugham |
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121st Anniversary of the birth of George Abbott |
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115th Anniversary of the debut of Charles Frohman's Empire Theatre on Broadway |
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104th Anniversary of the World Premiere in Dublin of Synge’s Riders to the Sea |
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87th Anniversary of the world premiere, in Prague, of Capek's play, R.U.R. |
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63rd Anniversary of the birth of lighting designer, Marcia Madeira |
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54th Anniversary of the BBC (world) premiere of Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood |
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48th Anniversary of the death of lighting designer,inventor, Bassett Jones |
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40th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of the play, I Never Sang for my Father |
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12th Anniversary of the death of Jonathan Larson |
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4th anniversary of the passing of actress, Tanny McDonald |
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194th Anniversary of the debut performance of actor, Edmond Kean at Drury Lane (as Shylock in Merchant of Venice) |
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120th Anniversary of the birth of Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot |
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103rd Anniversary of the birth of Maria Augusta von Trapp |
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101st Anniversary of the Abbey Theatre debut of Playboy of the Western World |
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77th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of Lyn Riggs' play, Green Grow the Lilacs |
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33rd Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of the Albee play, Seascape |
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32nd Anniversary of the debut in New York of David Mamet's American Buffalo |
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20th Anniversary of the premiere on Broadway of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Phantom of the Opera |
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19th Anniversary of the Broadway Premiere of the musical, Black and Blue |
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16th Anniversary of the Broadway Premiere of Little Hotel on the Side |
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176th Anniversary of the birth of Lewis Carroll |
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123rd Anniversary of the birth of Jerome Kern |
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83rd Anniversary of the birth of designer, John Bury |
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82nd Anniversary of the demonstration of Television in London by John Logie Baird |
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53rd Anniversary of the Broadway debut of the Albert Hague musical, Plain & Fancy |
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46th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of the musical, A Family Affair |
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26th Anniversary of the Broadway Premiere of Joseph & the Amazing Dreamcoat |
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1st Anniversary of the death of Broadway Actress, Tige Andrews (Mr. Roberts) |
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127th Anniversary of the death of Fyodor Dostoevsky |
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90th Anniversary of the birth of designer, Carl Kent |
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69th Anniversary of the death of William Butler Yates |
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29th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of the play, Wings |
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20th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of the musical Sarafina! |
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210th Anniversary of the opening of New York's first (of 2) Park Theatres |
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205th Anniversary of the death of French actress, Mlle Clairon |
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186th Anniversary of the birth of Italian actress, Adelaide Ristori |
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146th Anniversary of the birth of Anton Chekhov (new style) |
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142nd Anniversary of the birth of French dramatist, Romain Rolland |
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128th Anniversary of the birth of W. C. Fields (William Claude Dukenfield) |
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107th Anniversary of the birth of actress, Mary Eaton |
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96th Anniversary of the birth of Professor Irwin Corey |
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61st Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of Arthur Miller's play, All My Sons |
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42nd Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of the Cy Coleman musical, Sweet Charity |
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28th Anniversary of the passing of Jimmy Durante |
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10th Anniversary of the Broadway premiere of Paul Simon's musical, The Capeman |
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150th Anniversary of the first black drama, William Wells Brown's Leap to Freedom |
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80th Anniversary of the New York debut of O'Neill's Strange Interlude |
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80th Anniversary of the birth of Harold Prince |
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72nd anniversary of George Balanchine's Broadway debut, arranging dances for the current edition of Zigfield's Follies |
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71st Anniversary of the birth of Vanessa Redgrave |
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50th Anniversary of the New York premiere of Dore Schary's play, Sunrise at Campobello |
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28th Anniversary of the NY debut of Edward Albee's Lady from Dubuque |
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2nd Anniversary of the death of Wendy Wasserstein |
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1st Anniversary of the death of British actor Griffith Jones |
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1st Anniversary of the death of Broadway writer (and creator of TV's I Dream of Jeannie) Sidney Sheldon |
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191st Anniversary of the World Premiere in Vienna of Franz Grill Parzer’s The Ancestress |
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150th Anniversary of the birth of French actor,director,manager, André Antoine |
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117th Anniversary of the world premiere of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler |
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116th Anniversary of the birth of Eddie Cantor (Edward Israel Iskowitz) |
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107th Anniversary of the world premiere of the play, The Three Sisters |
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106th Anniversary of the birth of Tallulah Bankhead |
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85th Anniversary of the birth of Carol Channing |
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57th Anniversary of the death of British producer, Charles B. Cochran |
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19th Anniversary of the re-discovery of the foundation of the ancient Rose Theatre, in London |
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13th Anniversary of the passing of George Abbott |
