Subcategories - Drama, Theater, Playwrights

  1. Ludovico Ariosto
  2. Luigi Pirandello
  3. Mae West
  4. Mahler Revamps the Vienna Court Opera
  5. Marguerite de Navarre
  6. Max Frisch
  7. Maxim Gorky
  8. Megan Terry
  9. Menander
  10. Miguel de Cervantes
  11. Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
  12. Mikhail Lermontov
  13. Molière
  14. Mortimer’s A Voyage Round My Father Is Embraced by Audiences
  15. The Mousetrap Begins a Record-Breaking Run
  16. Nathalie Sarraute
  17. Nigeria Hangs Writer Saro-Wiwa and Other Rights Advocates
  18. Noël Coward
  19. Norman Bel Geddes
  20. Oklahoma! Opens on Broadway
  21. Oliver Goldsmith
  22. Olivier’s Hamlet Is Released to Acclaim and Controversy
  23. Orson Welles
  24. Osborne’s Look Back in Anger Opens in London
  25. Oscar Hammerstein II
  26. Oscar Wilde
  27. Our Town Opens on Broadway
  28. Paul Robeson
  29. Pedro Calderón de la Barca
  30. Pierre Corneille
  31. Pinter’s The Caretaker Opens in London
  32. Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author Premieres
  33. Plautus
  34. The Playboy of the Western World Offends Irish Audiences
  35. Porter Creates an Integrated Score for Kiss Me, Kate
  36. Puccini’s Tosca Premieres in Rome
  37. Rabindranath Tagore
  38. The Radical Musical Hair Opens on Broadway
  39. Reinhardt Becomes Director of the Deutsches Theater
  40. Richard Rodgers
  41. Roman Playwright Terence Dies
  42. The Royal Shakespeare Company Adopts a New Name and Focus
  43. Samuel Beckett
  44. Sartre and Camus Give Dramatic Voice to Existential Philosophy
  45. Seneca the Younger
  46. Shakespeare Writes His Dramas
  47. Shange’s for colored girls . . . Is a Landmark
  48. Shaw Articulates His Philosophy in Man and Superman
  49. Shepard’s Buried Child Promotes Off-Broadway Theater
  50. Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Is Condemned