The Women, by Clare Boothe Luce and starring Ilka Chase, Jane Seymour, Arlene Francis, Doris Day, and Marjorie Main, opens at New York's Ethel Barrymore Theater and runs for 657 performances.

21 Sept.

George Kelly's Reflected Glory, starring Tallulah Bankhead, opens at New York's Morosco Theater

22 Oct.

Stage Door, by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber, and starring Margaret Sullavan and Tom Ewell, opens at New York's Music Box Theater and runs for 169 performances. The next year it is made into a movie directed by Gregory La Cava and starring Katharine Hepburn, Adolphe Menjou, Lucille Ball, and Ginger Rogers.

27 Oct.

It Can't Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis and John C. Moffitt, produced under the auspices of the Federal Theatre Project, opens simultaneously in seventeen cities across the nation.

29 Oct.

Songs such as "De-Lovely" highlight Cole Porter's music and lyrics for Red, Hot and Blue, which opens at New York's Alvin Theater...