Abbey Theatre (Ireland)
Absurdism
Achurch, Janet
Actor Prepares, An (Stanislavsky)
Actor-manager system
Actors, acting, and Acting Companies: England
Actors, acting, and Acting Companies: France
Actors, acting, and Acting Companies: Germany
Actors, acting, and Acting Companies: Russia
Admirable Chrichton, The (Barrie)
Alexandrinsky Theatre (Leningrad)
Anatol (Schnitzler)
Anderson, Mary
Andreyev, Leonid
Anglin, Margaret
Antirealism
Antoine, André
Appia, Adolphe
Archer, William
Armat, Thomas
At the Hawk's Well (Yeats)
Auditoriums
Augier, Emile
Ballet
Ballets Russes
Barker, Harley Granville
Barnay, Ludwig
Barrie, James M.
Basserman, Albert
Bates, Blanche
Bayreuth Festival Theatre
Becque, Henri
Before Sunrise (Hauptmann)
Belasco Theatre (New York)
Benavente, Jacinto
Benson, Frank
Berliner Theater
Bernhardt, Sarah
Birmingham Repertory Company
Birth of a Nation, The
Blok, Alexander
Blue Bird, The (Maeterlinck)
Blumenthal, Oskar
Bodenstadt, Friedrich von
Boleslavsky, Richard
Bonds of Interest, The (Benavente)
Boucicault, Dion
Box, pit, and gallery
Brahm, Otto
Brand (Ibsen)
Brandt, Fritz
Brieux, Eugène
Brighouse, Harold
Brothers Karamozov, The
Building A Character (Stanislavsky)
Burckhardt, Max
Burgtheater (Vienna)
Caesar and Cleopatra (Shaw)
Carbon arc light
Carter, Mrs. Leslie
Cathleen ni Houlihan (Yeats)
Censorship
Chariot-and-pole (scene shifting)
Chekhov, Anton
Chekhov, Mikhail
Cherry Orchard, The (Chekhov)
Chronegk, Ludwig
Comédie Française
Comédies rosses
Commedia dell'arte: Russia
Commedia dell'arte: Spain
Comte, Auguste
Copeau, Jacques
Copyright
Costume: Germany
Count of Monte Cristo, The
Court theatre
Craig, Gordon
Creating a Role (Stanislavsky)
Curel, François de
Curtains, stage
Cyclorama
Dalcroze, Emile Jacques
Damaged Goods (Brieux)
D'Annunzio, Gabriele
Darwin, Charles
Daudet, Alphonse
Designers
Dethomas, Maxim
Deutsches Theater (Berlin)
Diaghilev, Sergei
Directing and directors: France
Directing and directors: Germany
Directing and directors: Russia
Directing and directors: United States
Doll's House, A (Ibsen)
Dramatists' Guild (United States)
Dramatists: England
Dramatists: France
Dramatists: Germany
Dramatists: Ireland
Dramatists: Italy
Dramatists: Norway
Dramatists: Russia
Dramatists: Spain
Dramatists: United States
Dream Play, The (Strindberg)
Duke of York's Theatre (London)
Dullin, Charles
Dumas, Alexandre fils
Duse, Eleanora
Earth Spirit (Wedekind)
Easiest Way, The (Walter)
Echegary, José
Edison, Thomas A.
Elektra (Hofmannsthal)
Elevator traps and stages
Elizabethan Stage Society (England)
Empire Theatre (New York)
Enemies (Gorky)
England: 1875–1915
Erlanger, Abraham
Erler, Fritz
Eurythmics
Everyman
Evreinov, Nikolai
Faith Healer, The (Moody)
Falck, August
Father, The (Strindberg)
Fay, Frank
Fay, W.G.
Ferrari, Paolo
Film
First Studio (Moscow Art Theatre)
Fiske, Harrison Grey
Fiske, Minnie Maddern
Fitch, Clyde
Fokine, Mikhail
Forbes-Robertson, Johnston
Fort, Paul
Fortuny, Mariano
Fourth Wall
France: 1875–1915
Franz, Ellen
Freie Bühne
Freie Volksbühne
Freud, Sigmund
Frohman, Charles
Fuchs, George
Gaiety Theatre (Manchester)
Galsworthy, John
Generation of '98 (Spain)
Germany: 1875–1915
Ghost Sonata, The (Strindberg)
Ghosts (Ibsen)
Girl of the Golden West, The (Belasco)
Girl with the Green Eyes, The (Fitch)
Godwin, Edward
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Goncourt, Edmond and Jules
Gorky, Maxim
Government regulation of theatre
Governor's Lady, The
Great Divide, The (Moody)
Great Galeoto, The (Echegaray)
Great Theatre of the World, The (Hofmannsthal)
Gregory, Lady Augusta
Grein, J.T.
Griffith, D.W.
Grillparzer, Franz
Gual, Adria
Haase, Friedrich
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Hapgood, Elizabeth Reynolds
Hartman, Louis
Hauptmann, Gerhart
Hayman, Al
Haymarket Theatre (London)
Heartbreak House (Shaw)
Hedda Gabler (Ibsen)
Her Majesty's Theatre (London)
Historical accuracy
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von
Horniman, Miss A.E. F.
Houghton, Stanley
Ibsen, Henrik
Iliad (Homer)
Immermann, Karl
Imperial Theatre (London)
Importance of Being Earnest, The (Wilde)
In the Shadow of the Glen (Synge)
Incorporated Stage Society (London)
Independent Theatre (London)
International Copyright Agreement
Intimate Theater (Stockholm)
Ireland
Irish Literary Society
Irish National Theatre Society
Italy: 1875–1915
Jackson, Barry
Jannings, Emil
Jarry, Alfred
Jones, Henry Arthur
Jourdain, Francis
Jouvet, Louis
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)
Kachalov, Vassily
Kainz, Josef
Kamerny Theatre (Moscow)
Kammerspiele (Berlin)
Kean, Charles, 352
Kilian, Eugene
Klaw, March
Klein, Julius
Kleines Theater (Berlin)
Knipper, Olga
Kommissarzhevskaya, Vera
Kommissarzhevsky, Theodore
Koonen, Alice
Krauss, Werner
Kuppelhorizant (Plaster dome)
L'Arronge, Adolf
Lautenschläger, Karl
Lessing Theater (Berlin)
Life of Man, The (Andreyev)
Lighting
Limelight
Linnebach, Adolf
Littmann, Max
Lower Depths, The (Gorky)
Lugné-Poë, Aurélien-Marie
Lyceum Theatre (London)
Lyceum Theatre (New York)
Machinery, stage
MacKaye, Steele
Madame Butterfly (Belasco)
Madison Square Theatre (New York)
Madras House (Barker)
Maeterlinck, Maurice
Magda (Sudermann)
Major Barbara (Shaw)
Mallarmé, Stephane
Man and Superman (Shaw)
Management, theatre
Manchester school
Manhattan Theatre (New York)
Mansfield, Richard
Martin-Harvey, John
Martyn, Edward
Matinee performances
Meiningen Players
Melodrama
Meyerhold, Vsevelod
Midsummer Night's Dream, A (Shakespeare)
Miller, Henry
Miss Julie (Strindberg)
Modern Theater Art (Rouche)
Modjeska, Helena
Moissi, Alexander
Monodramas
Moody, William Vaughan
Moore, George
Morton, Martha
Moscow Art Theatre
Moskvin, Ivan
Motion pictures
Munich Art Theatre
Music
My Life in Art (Stanislavsky)
Naturalism
Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vladimir
Neoromanticism
Neue Freie Volksbühne
New York Dramatic Mirror, The
Nixon, Sam
Nonrealism
Norway
Norwegian National Theatre
O'Casey, Sean
Odell, G.C. D.
Odéon (Paris)
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
O'Neill, Eugene
O'Neill, James
Opera
Opéra (Paris)
Origin of Species, The (Darwin)
Orlik, Emil
Ormond Dramatic Society (Ireland)
Ostrovsky, Alexander
Pallenberg, Max
Panoramas
Parisienne, La (Becque)
Peabody, Josephine Preston
Peer Gynt (Ibsen)
Pelléas and Mélisande (Maeterlinck)
People's theatre
Perfall, Karl von
Peter Pan (Barrie)
Phelps, Samuel
Pinero, Arthur Wing
Pisemsky, A.F.
Playboy of the Western World, The (Synge)
Poel, William
Porto-Riche, Georges
Postmodernism
Power of Darkness, The (Tolstoy)
Pretenders, The (Ibsen)
Proscenium arch
Realism
Reigen (Schnitzler)
Reinhardt, Max
Repertory system
Revolving stage (Lautenschläger's)
Riders to the Sea (Synge)
Rienzi (Wagner)
Robertson, Thomas William
Robins, Elizabeth
Roller, Alfred
Rosmersholm (Ibsen)
Rouché, Jacques
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (England)
Royal Court Theatre (London)
Royal Court Theatre (Munich)
Royal Opera House (Berlin)
Russia: 1875–1915
Rutherston, Albert
Salomé (Wilde)
Salzburg Festival
Sardou, Victorien
Savits, Jocza
Savoy Theatre (London)
Saxe-Meiningen, Georg II, Duke of
Scenery: France
Scenery: Germany
Scenery: Modern
Schiller, Friedrich
Schlenther, Paul
Schnitzler, Arthur
Scott, Clement
Scribe, Eugène
Sea Gull, The (Chekhov)
Second Mrs. Tanqueray, The (Pinero)
Shakespeare, William
Shaw, George Bernard
Shubert family
Siegfried (Wagner)
Sorma, Agnes
Spain: 1875–1915
Special effects
Spotlights
Spreading the News (Gregory)
Spring's Awakening (Wedekind)
Stage: Germany
Stanislavsky, Konstantin
Starr, Frances
Stern, Ernst
Strand Theatre (New York)
Strauss, Richard
Stravinsky, Igor
Strife (Galsworthy)
Strindberg, August
Strnad, Oscar
Subscription theatres
Sudermann, Hermann
Sullerzhitsky, Leopold
Supernumeraries
Sweden
Symbolism
Syndicate, The (New York)
Synge, John Millington
Tairov, Alexander
Tale of Two Cities, A
Teatro Intim (Barcelona)
Terry, Ellen
Théâtre Antoine (Paris)
Theatre architecture: England
Theatre architecture: Germany
Théâtre d'Art (Paris)
Théâtre de l'Oeuvre (Paris)
Théâtre des Arts (Paris)
Théâtre Libre (Paris)
Theatre of the Soul, The (Evreinov)
Thérèse Raquin (Zola)
Three Sisters, The (Chekhov)
To Damascus (Strindberg)
Tolstoy, Alexey K.
Touring
Tree, Herbert Beerbohm
Tristan and Isolde (Wagner)
Truth, The (Fitch)
Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich (A. Tolstoy)
Turgenev, Ivan
Two Gentlemen of Verona (Shakespeare)
Ubermarionette
Ubu Roi (Jarry)
Uncle Vanya (Chekhov)
United States: 1875–1915
Vakhtangov, Yevgeny
Variot, Jean
Vedrenne, John
Vieux Colombier, Théâtre du (Paris)
Volkonsky, Sergei
Vultures, The (Becque)
Wagner, Richard
Walter, Eugene
Warfield, David
Weavers, The (Hauptmann)
Wedekind, Frank
Well-made play formula
When We Dead Awaken (Ibsen)
Widower's Houses (Shaw)
Wild Duck, The (Ibsen)
Wild Duck, The (Ibsen)
Wilde, Oscar
Wilkinson, Norman
World of Art, The
Yeats, William Butler
Youngest Germany
Zimmerman, Fred
Zola, Emile

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