| 2025-09-08 | Part of a play with the opening scene |
| 2025-08-25 | Start of a play |
| 2024-10-10 | Play opener |
| 2022-11-06 | Play opener |
| 2020-09-30 | Start of a play |
| 2020-05-27 | Theater opening |
| 2019-03-12 | When a play's plot is set in motion |
| 2018-11-17 | Play starter |
| 2017-11-06 | Start of a play |
| 2015-01-29 | 2014 Broadway play based on Moss Hart's autobiography |
| 2014-12-12 | Start to play? |
| 2012-12-31 | Start of a play |
| 2010-11-27 | Show opener |
| 2010-10-03 | Play opener |
| 2009-10-08 | When Romeo meets Juliet |
| 2009-01-27 | Play starter |
| 2008-02-01 | Dramatic beginning |
| 2007-05-24 | Overture follower |
| 2004-11-13 | Opening on Broadway |
| 2003-05-16 | Curtain-parting time |
| 2003-01-16 | Broadway opening? |
| 2002-11-02 | Broadway opening |
| 2002-08-03 | Prologue follower |
| 2002-04-26 | Opening on stage |
| 1999-11-17 | Play opener |
| 1999-07-31 | Moss Hart's autobiography |
| 1999-06-13 | Opening at an opening |
| 1995-06-18 | Moss Hart's autobiography |
| 1994-01-01 | When the ghost appears in "Hamlet" |