Four days later Plácido Domingo, singer, steps onto the Met stage to open a run of Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra".
When, next Wednesday evening, Hattie Morahan picks up an armful of Christmas shopping and steps on stage to open a run of Ibsen's A Doll's House, it will be for the third time in just over a year.
Yesterday's conference speech made concessions to speechcraft, as well as to stagecraft: Corbyn wore a tie; he used a teleprompter ("autocue" is the British term); and he opened with a run of politically deft jokes, taking the air out of perceptions that he is a radical who would end, among other things, premier-league football.
On Wednesday, a two-hour recounting of his life (simply called Rizzo), based on a mostly friendly 1993 biography from ESPN writer Sal Paolantonio, opened after a run of sold-out previews.
Finally, in Stony Brook on Thursday "Six Degrees of Separation" opens a run through Oct. 29 at Staller Center's Theater II on the State University campus (631) 631-2787.
There were a few misfires on Tuesday night, when the festival opened a weeklong run of six different programs at the Joyce SoHo, but the work grew more interesting as the evening wore on.
When you open a running journal it should remind you of what you love about the sport.
McDowell has arrived at the Open amid a run of inconsistent form, having won three of his last eight events but missed the cut in the other five, including at the last two majors.
But it was actually a rehearsal, in a dusty basement on East 64th Street, of "City Council Meeting," an experimental play opening Thursday for a run of eight free performances in three locations around the city.
Freedman has won his two opening games, after a run of six defeats in seven had cost predecessor Stuart Pearce his job.
