Even the stage has its shining examples and tropes.
Creators:
Subcategories:
By Decade:
Subgenres:
- Aeschylus
- Edward Albee
- Aristophanes
- Samuel Beckett
- Robert Bolt
- Bertolt Brecht
- Anton Chekhov
- Jean Cocteau
- Noël Coward
- Euripides
- Peter Fenton
- Georges Feydeau
- Bob Fosse
- Federico García Lorca
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Lillian Hellman
- Ludvig Holberg
- Henrik Ibsen
- Eugene Ionesco
- Thomas Kyd
- David Mamet
- Christopher Marlowe
- Martin McDonagh
- Arthur Miller
- Molière
- Eugene O'Neill
- John Osborne
- Harold Pinter
- Luigi Pirandello
- Alexander Pushkin
- Peter Shaffer
- William Shakespeare
- George Bernard Shaw
- Neil Simon
- Sophocles
- Tom Stoppard
- August Strindberg
- Lope de Vega
- 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
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Cole Porter
- Tim Rice
- Rodgers and Hammerstein
- Stephen Schwartz
- Stephen Sondheim
- Richard Wagner
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Robert Lopez
Specialty companies:
Unions:
Tropes:
- All Musicals Are Adaptations
- Alternate Show Interpretation
- Alto Villainess
- At the Opera Tonight
- Audience Monologue
- BSoD Song
- Counterpoint Duet
- Crowd Song
- Curtain Call
- Dark Reprise
- Dinner Theater
- Dramatis Personae
- Dream Ballet
- The Eleven O'Clock Number
- Everything Has Rhythm
- Final Love Duet
- Fringe Festival
- Gender-Neutral Narrator
- Ghost Song
- Gospel Revival Number
- Greek Chorus
- "I Am Becoming" Song
- "I Am" Song
- "I Want" Song
- Irrelevant Act Opener
- Mamet Speak
- Massive Multiplayer Ensemble Number
- Medley Overture
- Minor Character, Major Song
- The Musical Musical
- No Serious Business In Showbusiness
- Opening Ballet
- Original Cast Precedent
- Our Acts Are Different
- Patter Song
- The Performer King
- Quarreling Song
- Recitation Handclasp
- Screen-to-Stage Adaptation
- Set Switch Song
- Show Stopper
- Small Start Big Finish
- The Song Before the Storm
- Spontaneous Choreography
- Sung-Through Musical
- Tenor Boy
- That Reminds Me of a Song
- Villain Song
- "The Villain Sucks" Song
- Voice Types
