Theatre

Even the stage has its shining examples.

See also Theatre Tropes.

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Creators:

Subcategories:

• Classic Theatre
• 19th Century Theatre
• Theatrical Productions

By Decade:

• Theatre of the 1900s
• Theatre of the 1910s
• Theatre of the 1920s
• Theatre of the 1930s
• Theatre of the 1940s
• Theatre of the 1950s
• Theatre of the 1960s
• Theatre of the 1970s
• Theatre of the 1980s
• Theatre of the 1990s
• Theatre of the 2000s
• Theatre of the 2010s
• Theatre of the 2020s

Subgenres:

• Absurdism
• Ballet
• Burlesque
• Commedia dell'Arte
• Dinner Theatre
• Farce
• Kabuki Theatre
• Minstrel Shows
• Mummers
• The Musical
  • Jukebox Musical
  • Rock Opera
• Opera
• Pantomime
• Restoration Comedy
• Satyr Play
• Spex
• Vaudeville

• Aeschylus
• Aristophanes
• Alan Ball
• Samuel Beckett
• Robert Bolt
• Bertolt Brecht
• Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Miguel de Cervantes
• Anton Chekhov
• Jean Cocteau
• Noël Coward
• Michael Cristofer
• Euripides
• Peter Fenton
• Georges Feydeau
• Harvey Fierstein
• Bob Fosse
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Daniel Handler
• Lillian Hellman
• Ludvig Holberg
• William Dean Howells
• Langston Hughes
• Henrik Ibsen
• Eugène Ionesco
• Ben Jonson
• Sarah Kane
• Sidney Kingsley
• Heinrich Von Kleist
• Tony Kushner
• Tracy Letts
• Federico García Lorca
• David Mamet
• Christopher Marlowe
• Martin McDonagh
• Arthur Miller
• Molière
• Germain Muller
• Qui Nguyen
• Eugene O'Neill
• John Osborne
• Marcel Pagnol
• Gail Phaneuf
• Harold Pinter
• J. B. Priestley
• Alexander Pushkin
• Jean Racine
• Peter Shaffer
• William Shakespeare
• Ntozake Shange
• George Bernard Shaw
• Neil Simon
• Sophocles
• Tom Stoppard
• August Strindberg
• Chris Terrio
• Sue Townsend
• Lope de Vega
• John Webster
• Oscar Wilde
• Thornton Wilder
• Tennessee Williams

Creators of operas and musical theatre:

• Les Ballets Trockadero De Monte Carlo
• Leonard Bernstein
• Comden and Green
• George Gershwin
• Gilbert and Sullivan
• Marvin Hamlisch
• Joe Iconis
• Lerner and Loewe
• Andrew Lloyd Webber
• Robert Lopez
• Dave Malloy
• Lin-Manuel Miranda
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Anthony Newley
• Jacques Offenbach
• Pasek And Paul
• Cole Porter
• Giacomo Puccini
• Tim Rice
• Rodgers and Hammerstein
• Gioachino Rossini
• Stephen Schwartz
• Stephen Sondheim
• Giuseppe Verdi
• Richard Wagner

Specialty companies:

• American Shakespeare Center
• Blue Man Group
• Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
• Cirque du Soleil
• Crazy Horse
• Mischief Theatre
• Takarazuka Revue
• Team StarKid

Unions:

• Actors Equity
• Equity

Other related pages:

• Broadway and the West End
• Fringe Festival

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