Olivia De Havilland signed to do a Broadway play for Garson Kanin this season, `` A Gift of Time ''.

Hopwood started out as a journalist for a Cleveland newspaper as its New York correspondent, but within a year had a play, Clothes ( 1906 ), produced on Broadway.

His many plays included Nobody's Widow ( 1910 ), starring Blanche Bates ; Fair and Warmer ( 1915 ), starring Madge Kennedy ( filmed in 1919 ); The Gold Diggers ( 1919 ), starring Ina Claire ( filmed in 1923 as The Gold Diggers, in 1928 as Gold Diggers of Broadway and also as Gold Diggers of 1933 ); Ladies ' Night, 1920, starring Charlie Ruggles ( filmed in 1928 ); the famous mystery play The Bat ( with Mary Roberts Rinehart ), 1920 ( filmed in 1926, 1930 and 1959 ); Getting Gertie's Garter ( with Wilson Collison ), 1921, starring Hazel Dawn ( filmed in 1927 and 1945 ); The Demi-Virgin, 1921, also starring Hazel Dawn ; The Alarm Clock, 1923 ; The Best People ( with David Gray ), 1924 ( filmed in 1925 and as Fast and Loose in 1930 ), the song-farce Naughty Cinderella, 1925, starring Irene Bordoni and The Garden of Eden in 1927 ( filmed in as 1928 ).

* Libretto for the Broadway play

The play made its Broadway premiere at the Palmer's Theatre on 21 December 1889, starring Beatrice Cameron as Nora Helmer.

Though initially unenthusiastic about acting, he returned from service, auditioned for a Broadway play, and was offered a role.

After the victory Boston's owner sold its star pitcher, Babe Ruth, to the New York Yankees to help funding of a Broadway play, and thus starting a tale of futility which would last 86 years, known as Curse of the Bambino.

In May 2012, Kane is appearing on Broadway as Betty Chumley in a revival of the play Harvey.

In 2003, Christopher Trumbo mounted a Broadway play based on his father's letters called Trumbo: Red, White and Blacklisted, in which a wide variety of actors played his father during the run, including Nathan Lane, Tim Robbins, Brian Dennehy, Ed Harris, Chris Cooper and Gore Vidal.

The film was based on the Broadway play of the same name.

* 1964: Dylan, a Broadway play by Sidney Michaels, starring Alec Guinness as Dylan Thomas and Kate Reid as Caitlin.

Wallach made his Broadway debut in 1945 and won a Tony Award in 1951 for his performance in the Tennessee Williams play The Rose Tattoo.

Schaffner earned two more Emmy awards for his work on the 1955 TV adaptation of the Broadway play, The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, shown on the anthology series Ford Star Jubilee.

The film was an adaptation of the hit Broadway play The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, which had already been made into a film in 1931.

Harold and Maude was also a play on Broadway that closed after four performances.

Richard Burton received his third Tony Award nomination when he played his second Hamlet, his first under John Gielgud's direction, in 1964 in a production that holds the record for the longest run of the play in Broadway history ( 136 performances ).

In fact, Hamlet is the most produced Shakespeare play in New York theatre history, with sixty-four recorded productions on Broadway, and an untold number Off Broadway.

Bogart starred in the Broadway play Invitation to a Murder at the Theatre Masque, now the John Golden Theatre, in 1934.

* Hostile Witness, 1966 Broadway play

Longform shows may take the form of an existing type of theatre, for example a full-length play or Broadway-style musical such as Spontaneous Broadway.

His pallbearers included boxer Floyd Patterson, Mikhail Baryshnikov ( who had hoped to play Cagney on Broadway ), actor Ralph Bellamy, and Miloš Forman.

His success directing the 1928 play Journey's End led to his move to the United States, first to direct the play on Broadway and then to Hollywood to direct motion pictures.

Having purchased the film rights to Journey's End, British producers Michael Balcon and Thomas Welsh agreed that Whale's experience directing the London and Broadway productions of the play made him the best choice to direct the film.

For the hit Broadway show, " Hot Chocolates ", he and Razaf wrote "( What Did I Do to Be So ) Black and Blue " ( 1929 ), which became a hit for Ethel Waters and Louis Armstrong.

* Twelve Western fonts ( including Andalé Sans, Arial Narrow, Arial Black, Broadway, Garamond, Imprint MT Shadow, Kidprint, Palace Script, Sheffield ) and seven Asian language fonts ( including support for the Hong Kong Supplementary character set )

Black Flag were also performing that night at the Mabuhay Gardens downstairs from On Broadway, and Black Flag singer Henry Rollins, a longtime fan of the band, came up to watch the Misfits ' soundcheck.

Her performances in the Broadway musical Black and Blue earned Brown a Tony Award, and the original cast recording won a Grammy Award.

These included a role in the sitcom Hello, Larry, and the John Waters film, Hairspray, as well as Broadway appearances in Amen Corner and Black and Blue.

In 1990, she made her Broadway debut replacing Ruth Brown as star of the hit musical Black and Blue.

** Mike Berniker ( producer ) & the original Broadway cast for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Barry also wrote the scores to a number of musicals, including Passion Flower Hotel ( lyrics by Trevor Peacock ), the successful West End show Billy ( lyrics by Don Black ) and two major Broadway flops, The Little Prince and the Aviator and Lolita, My Love, the latter with Alan Jay Lerner as lyricist.

She also starred in Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy / White Lies, in 1967, which was the production in which both Michael Crawford and Lynn Redgrave made their Broadway debuts.

In 1967 she made her Broadway debut in Black Comedy with Michael Crawford and Geraldine Page.

In 1981, she briefly hosted her own talk show Today's Black Woman, and also found work acting in different movies, Broadway and other theatre productions throughout the 1980s.

Although renowned for their commercially successful 1998 single " Iris ", they have had several other notable and popular singles include " Name " from 1995's A Boy Named Goo, " Broadway ", " Black Balloon " and " Slide " from 1998's Dizzy Up The Girl, which produced five top-10 singles, and " Here Is Gone ", " Sympathy " and " Big Machine " from 2002's Gutterflower.

" Iris " was included on the triple-platinum Dizzy Up the Girl, and was among Top-Ten hits " Slide ", " Black Balloon ", " Broadway ", and " Dizzy " from the same album.

The most influential San Francisco hardcore band was the Dead Kennedys, whose frontman, Jello Biafra, became a noted social activist even after the band's last show at the On Broadway, which included The Black Athletes and Naked Lady Wrestlers on the card.

In addition to his film music, Bernstein wrote the scores for two Broadway musicals, How Now, Dow Jones, with lyricist Carolyn Leigh, in 1967 and Merlin, with lyricist Don Black, in 1983.

The Dyckmans sold the Black Horse to finance a new operation on the west side of Broadway and 226th Street that was to be managed by Benjamin Palmer, who owned property on City Island.

In 1910, Harry Black moved the company to Francis Kimball's Trinity Building at 111 Broadway, where its parent company, U. S. Realty, had its offices.

Received Tony Award nomination for his Broadway debut in the musical Black & Blue.

*: Charlie Chan in London, Charlie Chan in Paris, Charlie Chan in Egypt, Charlie Chan in Shanghai, Charlie Chan at the Circus, Charlie Chan at the Olympics, Charlie Chan at the Opera, Charlie Chan at the Race Track, Charlie Chan's Secret, Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo, Charlie Chan on Broadway and The Black Camel.

*: Charlie Chan in London, Charlie Chan in Paris, Charlie Chan in Egypt, Charlie Chan in Shanghai, Charlie Chan at the Circus, Charlie Chan at the Olympics, Charlie Chan at the Opera, Charlie Chan at the Race Track, Charlie Chan's Secret, Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo, Charlie Chan on Broadway and The Black Camel.

In addition to the huge success of " Iris " ( US # 9 ), Dizzy Up the Girl featured three additional top forty singles, with the songs " Slide " ( US # 8 ), " Broadway " ( US # 24 ), and " Black Balloon " ( US # 16 ).

A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America, Broadway Books 1998.

Among his other stage credits is the Broadway production of Black Comedy / White Lies.