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“This theatre originally opened as the Mansfield (in honor of the distinguished actor Richard Mansfield) on February 15, 1926. In 1960, it was rechristened the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in tribute to the New York Times drama critic. The theatre is currently under the direction of the Nederlander Organization.
Recent productions here include Love Letters; the musicals After Midnight and Hands on a Hardbody; and Peter and the Starcatcher with Christian Borle (Tony Award); Relatively Speaking; Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles; Rock of Ages; a revival of Grease!; A Moon for the Misbegotten; The Times They Are A-Changin’; The Odd Couple; The Blonde in the Thunderbird; Mark Twain Tonight!; Democracy; Jumpers; Jackie Mason’s Laughing Room Only; The Look of Love; Medea; Patti LuPone and Peter Gallagher in Noises Off (the Atkinson also housed the original production, starring Dorothy Loudon and Victor Garber); Jane Eyre; and Derek Jacobi in Uncle Vanya.
The 1990s saw The Iceman Cometh; Wait Until Dark; Play On!; Taking Sides; Buried Child; On the Waterfront; What’s Wrong With This Picture?; She Loves Me; Death and the Maiden starring Glenn Close (Tony Award), Gene Hackman, and Richard Dreyfuss; Shadowlands; and The Cemetery Club.
The 1980s saw personal appearances by Stephanie Mills; Peter, Paul and Mary; and Victor Borge. A revival of the 1942 play Cafe Crown transferred here from the downtown New York Shakespeare Festival. Beginning in 1986, Jackie Mason’s The World According to Me! played several engagements, garnering a special Tony in 1987.
Glenn Close, Sam Waterston, Mary Beth Hurt, and Simon Jones starred in Benefactors. Rex Harrison, Claudette Colbert, Lynn Redgrave, George Rose, and other stars revived Aren’t We All; Ben Kingsley as Edmund Kean played a limited engagement; Liv Ullmann starred in Ghosts; Christopher Durang’s Beyond Therapy brought lunacy; Tom Courtenay and Paul Rogers won applause in The Dresser; and the 1980s began with Talley’s Folly.
Highlights of the 1970s included Cliff Gorman in Lenny (Tony Award); The River Niger; Lynn Redgrave in My Fat Friend; James Earl Jones and Kevin Conway in Of Mice and Men; Same Time, Next Year, starring Ellen Burstyn (Tony Award) and Charles Grodin; and Jack Lemmon in Tribute.
The 1960s brought Indians with Stacy Keach; Albert Finney and Zena Walker in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg; Dustin Hoffman in Jimmy Shine; Neil Simon’s Come Blow Your Horn; and Charles Boyer in Man and Boy.
Highlights of earlier years: Fredric March in Years Ago, with his wife Florence Eldridge; Anna Lucasta; and Marc Connelly’s Pulitzer winner, The Green Pastures.
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