History MissingEpisode / Theatre

** Creator/{{Sophocles}}, the second great Greek tragedian, is credited with 120 plays, but only seven have survived in their entirety. Fragments of a previously lost play of his, ''The Progeny'', were discovered in 2005. The play is part of the [[Theatre/OedipusRex Oedipus cycle]], and is apparently about the Seven Against Thebes.

** Creator/{{Menander}}'s ''Dyskolos'' ("Grouch") was recovered by archaeologists a few decades since with only thirty-nine lines missing, but is the only specimen of the Athenian New Comedy for enough to survive to make performance theoretically possible.
* Claudio Monteverdi completed at least eight operas and may have written as many as eighteen, but only three survive in complete score (the earliest, ''Theatre/LOrfeo'', and the last two, ''Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria'' and ''L'incoronazione di Poppea''). Of the remaining operas, we have only a single fragment from two of them (one being the famous "Lament of Arianna" from the otherwise lost ''L'Arianna'', the other being a trio from ''Proserpina rapita''), while the rest are completely missing.[[note]] It is speculated that, since the lost operas date from the 1610s and 1620s, the scores were lost in the wars that engulfed Mantua in the 1630s.[[/note]] These fragments only survived because they were published separately.

* ''Theatre/{{Elisabeth}}'': Good luck finding a full video of the Finnish production. The only evidence it ever existed is a few clips, photos and audios from it.

* Claudio Monteverdi completed at least eight operas and may have written as many as eighteen, but only three survive in complete score (the earliest, ''L'Orfeo'', and the last two, ''Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria'' and ''L'incoronazione di Poppea''). Of the remaining operas, we have only a single fragment from two of them (one being the famous "Lament of Arianna" from the otherwise lost ''L'Arianna'', the other being a trio from ''Proserpina rapita''), while the rest are completely missing.[[note]] It is speculated that, since the lost operas date from the 1610s and 1620s, the scores were lost in the wars that engulfed Mantua in the 1630s.[[/note]] These fragments only survived because they were published separately.
* In a rather strange case, the musical ''RENT'' by Johnathan Larson survives in text form and recorded performances. However, what's been heavily sought after is a recording with the full original cast. While the movie survives, it omits several songs and has two alternate cast members. On top of that, the live setting is considered to be far superior and the original performers were acclaimed for their skills. In 2006, a low quality camera recording was recovered of the opening night performance, but it's hard to tell what's going on and everything is distorted beyond all belief. It's believed that a full performance with the original cast exists somewhere, but for some reason nobody will release the full version.

* ''Franchise/MortalKombat Mortal Kombat: Live Tour'' was a touring stage show based off the famous video game franchise that played for only ten dates across six months. And while the show's the press kit and promotional video can be easily found online, the actual stage show was never officially released in any form and there's no evidence that it was ever taped by fans in attendance.

* {{Theatre/Lestat}} The musical based on The Creator/AnneRice Vampire Chronicles with music by Creator/EltonJohn and Bernie Taupin has a smaller fan base than it deserves, maybe because John has suppressed the release of the Cast Recording leaving it a truly lost musical.