Subcategories - Drama, Theater, Playwrights
- Show Boat Introduces American Musical Theater
- Simon’s Biloxi Blues Emphasizes Serious Themes
- Sir John Vanbrugh
- Sir Laurence Olivier
- Sondheim Uses Operatic Techniques in Sweeney Todd
- Sondheim’s Company Is Broadway’s First “Concept” Musical
- Sophocles
- The Sound of Music Captivates Audiences
- Soyinka Wins the Nobel Prize in Literature
- Stanislavsky Helps to Establish the Moscow Art Theater
- Strauss’s Salome Shocks Audiences
- Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress Premieres in Venice
- Tawfiq al-Hakim Introduces Absurdism to the Arab Stage
- Tennessee Williams
- Terence
- The Theatres Act Ends Censorship of English Drama
- Thespis
- Thomas Nashe
- U.S. Highball Premieres in New York
- Victor Hugo
- Vsevolod Yemilyevich Meyerhold
- W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan
- Waiting for Godot Expresses the Existential Theme of Absurdity
- Weiss’s Absurdist Drama Marat/Sade Is Produced
- William Charles Macready
- William Shakespeare
- Willson’s The Music Man Presents Musical Americana
- The Wiz Brings African-American Talent to Broadway
- Wole Soyinka
- Zeami Motokiyo
- “Angry Young Men” Express Working-Class Views
- “MASTER HAROLD” . . . and the boys Examines Apartheid
