“The Glass Menagerie” opens on Broadway

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March 31, 1945
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George Bernard Shaw’s play, “St Joan,” premiers in London

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March 26, 1924
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“Our Town,” Pulitzer winning play by Thornton Wilder, is performed for the first time

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Thornton Wilder's "Our Town": The Reader as Writer

First known performance of a Shakespeare play, Titus Andronicus

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