First Nighter: Arin Arbus's "King Lear," David Herskovitz's "Uriel Acosta"
Plays are revelations. Good plays, that is, and the better a play, the more revelatory it can be. And let's just say King Lear--now...
Today is Wednesday, August 19, 2026 Broadway Baby Birthdays: Erika Christensen Tracie Thoms Kyra Sedgwick John Stamos Adam Arkin Peter Gallagher José Fernández William Mastrosimone Fred Dalton Thompson Vanya Franck Michael Dyne Mel Reed Joan Peers Barry Kelley Claude Dauphin Muriel Kirkland Ogden Nash Kenneth MacKenna John C. Wilson Olga Baklanova Elsie Ferguson Fred Stone William Burress Lawrence D'Orsay John Deacon Gerald McRaney Paul Ukena Frank Thompson Floyd Huddleston