Subcategories - Drama, Theater, Playwrights
- Ludovico Ariosto
- Luigi Pirandello
- Mae West
- Mahler Revamps the Vienna Court Opera
- Marguerite de Navarre
- Max Frisch
- Maxim Gorky
- Megan Terry
- Menander
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
- Mikhail Lermontov
- Molière
- Mortimer’s A Voyage Round My Father Is Embraced by Audiences
- The Mousetrap Begins a Record-Breaking Run
- Nathalie Sarraute
- Nigeria Hangs Writer Saro-Wiwa and Other Rights Advocates
- Noël Coward
- Norman Bel Geddes
- Oklahoma! Opens on Broadway
- Oliver Goldsmith
- Olivier’s Hamlet Is Released to Acclaim and Controversy
- Orson Welles
- Osborne’s Look Back in Anger Opens in London
- Oscar Hammerstein II
- Oscar Wilde
- Our Town Opens on Broadway
- Paul Robeson
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- Pierre Corneille
- Pinter’s The Caretaker Opens in London
- Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author Premieres
- Plautus
- The Playboy of the Western World Offends Irish Audiences
- Porter Creates an Integrated Score for Kiss Me, Kate
- Puccini’s Tosca Premieres in Rome
- Rabindranath Tagore
- The Radical Musical Hair Opens on Broadway
- Reinhardt Becomes Director of the Deutsches Theater
- Richard Rodgers
- Roman Playwright Terence Dies
- The Royal Shakespeare Company Adopts a New Name and Focus
- Samuel Beckett
- Sartre and Camus Give Dramatic Voice to Existential Philosophy
- Seneca the Younger
- Shakespeare Writes His Dramas
- Shange’s for colored girls . . . Is a Landmark
- Shaw Articulates His Philosophy in Man and Superman
- Shepard’s Buried Child Promotes Off-Broadway Theater
- Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Is Condemned
