The Nederlander Theatre
…her. The Nederlander was known for many years as the National from when it opened in 1921 with Sidney Howard’s Swords. The 1920s saw several triumphant plays including Yellow starring Spencer Tracy. During the 1930s, it was overflowing with successes including Lillian Gish in O’Casey’s Within the Gates (1936), nine Noel Coward one-act plays jointly called Tonight at 8:30 (1936) with Gertrude Lawrence and Noel Coward, and Lillian Hellman’s The Litt…