Subcategories - Drama, Theater, Playwrights
- The Abbey Theatre Heralds the Celtic Revival
- Adam de la Halle
- Adams’ Nixon in China Premieres
- Aeschylus
- Agnes de Mille
- Aimé Césaire
- Akalaitis’ Green Card Confronts Audiences with Harsh Realities
- Alexandre Dumas, père
- The American Dream Establishes Albee as the Voice of Pessimism
- Anton Chekhov
- Aristophanes
- Arthur Miller
- Aśvaghosa
- Aśvaghosa Composes Complete Biography of the Buddha
- Athol Fugard
- Baker Establishes The 47 Workshop at Harvard
- Baraka’s Dutchman Dramatizes Racial Hatred
- The Bedbug and The Bathhouse Exemplify Revolutionary Theater
- Behan’s The Hostage Is Presented by the Theatre Workshop
- Ben Jonson
- Bernstein Joins Symphonic and Jazz Elements in West Side Story
- Bertolt Brecht
- Brecht and Weill Collaborate on Mahagonny Songspiel
- Brecht Founds the Berliner Ensemble
- Britten Completes Peter Grimes
- Cheryl Crawford
- Christoph Gluck
- Christopher Marlowe
- Clare Boothe Luce
- Cohan’s Little Johnny Jones Premieres
- Cole Porter
- Coward’s Design for Living Epitomizes the 1930’s
- Cyrano de Bergerac, Savinien de
- David Garrick
- Edmund Kean
- Einstein on the Beach Is a Triumph of Minimalism
- Elie Wiesel
- Ellen Terry
- Émile Zola
- Esslin Publishes The Theatre of the Absurd
- Eugène Ionesco
- Eugene O’Neill
- Euripides
- Eva Le Gallienne
- Fanny Kemble
- The Federal Theatre Project Promotes Live Theater
- Federico García Lorca
- Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy Meets with Unexpected Success
- The Ford Foundation Begins to Fund Nonprofit Theaters
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
