“Living Newspaper”
Abba, Marta
Abbey Theatre (Ireland)
Academy of Dramatic Art (Rome)
Acting, the First Six Lessons (Boleslavsky)
Actor-manager system
Actors Equity Association
Actors, acting, and Acting Companies: England
Actors, acting, and Acting Companies: United States
Adding Machine, The (Rice)
Adler, Stella
Adrienne Lecouvreur (Scribe)
Afinogenov, Alexander
Akimov, Nikolai
Akins, Zoe
Alexandrinsky Theatre (Leningrad)
Alienation effect
American Laboratory Theatre
Ames, Winthrop
Amico, Silvio D'
Amphitryon 38 (Giraudoux)
Anderson, Maxwell
Anna Christie (O'Neill)
Anouilh, Jean
Antigone (Anouilh)
Antigone (Cocteau)
Antigone (Hasenclever)
Antoine, André
Apollinaire, Guillaume
Appia, Adolphe
Archard, Marcel
Armored Train 14–69 (Ivanov)
Aronson, Boris
Art Theatre (Rome)
Artaud, Antonin
Ascent of F6, The (Auden and Isherwood)
Ashcroft, Peggy
Atelier (Paris)
Atkins, Robert
Auden, W.H.
Awake and Sing (Odets)
Baal (Brecht)
Baker, George Pierce
Ballet
Ballets Russes
Ballets Suédois
Barker, Harley Granville
Barrault, Jean-Louis
Barry, Philip
Barrymore, Ethel
Barrymore, John
Barsacq, André
Bathhouse, The (Mayakovsky)
Baty, Gaston
Bauhaus
Bay, Howard
Baylis, Lilian
Bedbug, The (Mayakovsky)
Beggar, The (Sorge)
Beggar's Opera, The (Gay)
Behrman, S.N.
BelGeddes, Norman
Benson, Frank
Bérard, Christian
Berlin State Theater
Bernstein, Aline
Beyond the Horizon (O'Neill)
Biography (Behrman)
Biomechanics
Birmingham Repertory Company
Black theatre in America
Blake, Eubie
Blitzstein, March
Blood Wedding (Lorca)
Boleslavsky, Richard
Boston Opera Company
Bottomley, Gordon
Boulevard theatres (Paris)
Bourdet, Edouard
Bragaglia, Anton Guilio
Braithwaite, Lilian
Breasts of Tiresias, The (Apollinaire)
Brecht, Bertolt
Breton, André
Bridges-Adams, W.
Brothers Karamozov, The
Bruckner, Ferdinand
Büchner, Georg
Bulgakov, Mikhail
Burning Heart, The (Ostrovsky)
Bush, Anita
Cambridge Festival Theatre (England)
Camille (Dumas fils)
Captain of Kopenick, The (Zuckmayer)
Carnovsky, Morris
Carolina Playmakers
Cartel des Quatre
Casona, Alejandro
Caucasian Chalk Circle, The (Brecht)
Censorship
Chancerel, Léon
Charlot, André
Chekhov, Mikhail
Cheney, Sheldon
Chiarelli, Luigi
Chicago Little Theatre
Chronicles of Hell (Ghelderode)
Chu Chin Chow
Circle, The (Maugham)
Cirque d'Hiver
Civic Repertory Theatre (New York)
Civic Theater, The (MacKaye)
Claire, Ina
Clurman, Harold
Cochran, C.B.
Cocteau, Jean
Comédie des Champs-Elysées
Comédie Française
Comedy: Manners
Commedia dell'arte
Community Drama (MacKaye)
Community theatres
Compagnie des Comédiens-Routiers
Compagnie des Quatre Saisons
Compagnie des Quinze
Connolly, March
Cons, Emma
Conservatoire (Paris)
Constant Wife, The (Maugham)
Constructivism
Copeau, Jacques
Coral (Kaiser)
Corn is Green, The (Williams)
Cornell, Katherine
Coward, Noel
Cradle Will Rock, The (Blitzstein)
Craig, Gordon
Crawford, Cheryl
Criminals, The (Bruckner)
Crommelynck, Fernand
Crothers, Rachel
Cyclorama
Cyclorama
Dadaism
Dadaism
Dance: France
Dangerous Corner (Priestley)
Dasté, Jean
Davis, Hallie Flanagan
Dawns, The (Verhaeren)
Days of the Turbins, The (Bulgakov)
Dekker, Thomas
Designers
Desire Under the Elms (O'Neill)
Detroit Arts and Crafts Theatre
Deutsches Theater (Berlin)
Diaghilev, Sergei
Directing and directors: England
Directing and directors: France
Directing and directors: Germany
Directing and directors: Russia
Divine Comedy, The (Dante)
Divine Words (Valle-Inclan)
Doctor Knock (Romains)
Dostigayev and Others (Gorky)
Drama League of America
Dramatists' Guild (United States)
Dramatists: England
Dramatists: France
Dramatists: Germany
Dramatists: Italy
Dramatists: Spain
Dramatists: United States
Dramaturg
Drums in the Night (Brecht)
DuBose, Mlle
Dullin, Charles
Dullin, Charles
Dybbuk, The (Ansky)
Eliot, T.S.
Elizabeth of England (Bruckner)
Emperor Jones, The (O'Neill)
England: 1915–1940
English National Opera Company
Epic theatre
Epic theatre
Erik XIV (Strindberg)
Eternal Road, The (Werfel)
Evans, Edith
Evans, Maurice
Everyman
Expressionism
Expressionism (Willett)
Fabré, Emile
Fagan, J.B.
Family Reunion, The (Eliot)
Farce
Farjeon, Herbert
Federal Theatre Project (United States)
Fehling, Jürgen
Ferber, Edna
Festivals
First Studio (Moscow Art Theatre)
Fontanne, Lynn
Formalism
Fourth Studio (Moscow Art Theatre)
France: 1915–1940
Fraser, Claud Lovat
Freud, Sigmund
From Morn to Midnight (Kaiser)
Fuerst, René
Futurism
Gale, Zona
Galsworthy, John
Gas I and Gas II (Kaiser)
Gate Theatre (London)
Gémier, Firmin
Generation of '27 (Spain)
Germany: 1915–1940
Ghelderode, Michel de
Ghéon, Henri
Gielgud, John
Gilpin, Charles
Gingold, Hermione
Giraudoux, Jean
Glaspell, Susan
Glass Menagerie, The (Williams)
Godfrey, Peter
Golden Boy (Odets)
Goll, Yvan
Good Soldier Schweik, The (Hacek)
Good Woman of Setzuan, The (Brecht)
Gorelik, Mordecai
Gorky, Maxim
Gorky, Maxim
Government regulation of theatre
Gray, Terence
Great Theatre of the World, The (Hofmannsthal)
Green, Paul
Green Pastures (Connolly)
Greet, Ben
Gropius, Walter
Grosses Schauspielhaus (Berlin)
Group Theatre, The (New York)
Guinness, Alec
Guitry, Sacha
Guthrie, Tyrone
Habimah Theater (Moscow)
Hacek, Jaroslav
Hairy Ape, The (O'Neill)
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Hammerstein II, Oscar
Hampden, Walter
Hardwicke, Cedric
Harrison, Richard
Hart, Moss
Hasenclever, Walter
Hay Fever (Coward)
Hayes, Helen
Hébertot, Jacques
Hellman, Lillian
Henry IV (Pirandello)
Heyward, Dorothy
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von
Hopkins, Arthur
House of Bernarda Alba, The (Lorca)
Houseman, John
Howard, Sidney
Hughes, Langston
Hume, Sam
Hurrah, We Live! (Toller)
Hurston, Zora Neale
Ibsen, Henrik
In Abraham's Bosom (Green)
Infernal Machine, The (Cocteau)
Inner emigration
Inspector Calls, An (Priestley)
Inspector General, The (Gogol)
Interior monologues
Ireland
Isherwood, Christopher
Italy: 1915–1940
Ivanov, Vsevelod
Jackson, Barry
Jacquemont, Maurice
James-Lange theory
Jamois, Marguerite
Jessner, Leopold
Jessnertreppen
Johnny Johnson (Green)
Johnson, Georgia Douglas
Johnson, Hall
Jones, Robert Edmond
Jones
Jouvet, Louis
Judith (Giraudoux)
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)
Juno and the Paycock (O'Casey)
Kaiser, Georg
Kamerny Theatre (Moscow)
Kammerspiele (Berlin)
Kaufman, George S.
Kazan, Elia
Kern, Jerome
Kingsley, Sidney
Klein, Cesar
Koch, Frederick
Kommissarzhevsky
Korneichuk, Alexander
La Barraca (Spain)
Lafayette Players (New York)
Last of Mrs. Cheney, The (Lonsdale)
Lawrence, Gertrude
Lawson, John Howard
Le Gallienne, Eva
Leigh, Andrew
Lenormand, Henri-René
Levidov, Mikhail
Lillie, Beatrice
Little Foxes, The (Hellmen)
Little Theatre (New York)
Little theatre movement
Lonsdale, Frederick
Lorca, Federico Garcia
Lord, Pauline
Lugné-Poë, Aurélien-Marie
Lunacharsky, Anatole
Lunacharsky, Anatole
Lunt, Alfred
Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith)
Lyubov Yarovaya (Trenyov)
Macbeth (Shakespeare)
Macgowan, Kenneth
MacKaye, Percy
Malady of Youth, The (Bruckner)
Malvern Festival (England)
Maly Theatre (Moscow)
Man and the Masses (Toller)
Man is Man (Brecht)
Man Who Came to Dinner, The (Kaufman and Hart)
Man Who Married a Dumb Wife, The
Management, theatre
Maré, Rolf de
Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso
Marriage Party on the Eiffel Tower, The (Cocteau)
Marshall, Norman
Mask and the Face, The (Chiarelli)
Massey, Raymond
Matchmaker, The (Wilder)
Maugham, Somerset
Mayakovsky, Vladimir
McClendon, Rose
Melodrama
Merchant of Venice, The (Shakespeare)
Mercury Theatre (New York)
Merry Wives of Windsor, The (Shakespeare)
Meyerhold, Vsevelod
Mielziner, Jo
Miracle, The
Miracle of Saint Anthony, The (Maeterlinck)
Mitchell, Abbie
Moeller, Phillip
Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Moscow Art Theatre
Mother Courage (Brecht)
Mourning Becomes Electra (O'Neill)
Murder in the Cathedral (Eliot)
Musical comedy
Native Son (Green and Wright)
Naturalism
Neher, Caspar
Neighborhood Playhouse (New York)
Neorealism
New stagecraft
New Theatre (New York)
New Theatre League
New York Stage Society
Noah (Obey)
Nonrealism
Nonrealism
Obey, André
O'Casey, Sean
Odéon (Paris)
Odets, Clifford
Odets, Clifford
Oedipus, King of Thebes (Bouhelier)
Oenslager, Donald
Okhlopkov, Nikolai
Old Vic, The (London)
Olivier, Laurence
Ondine (Giraudoux)
One Race (Unruh)
O'Neill, Eugene
One-Third of a Nation
Opera: England
Opera: United States
Optimistic Tragedy, The (Vishnevsky)
Oresteia (Aeschylus)
Orpheus (Cocteau)
Our Betters (Maugham)
Our Town (Wilder)
Ouspenskaya, Maria
Oxford Repertory Company
Pagnol, Marcel
Pantagleize (Ghelerode)
Parade (Cocteau)
Payne, B. Iden
People's Theater, The (Spain)
Petrified Forest, The (Sherwood)
Phèdre (Racine)
Philadelphia Story, The (Barry)
Pinero, Arthur Wing
Pirandello, Luigi
Pirchan, Emil
Piscator, Erwin
Pitoëff, Georges
Playfair, Nigel
Plot of the Equals, The (Levidov)
Poel, William
Pogodin, Nikolai
Popov, Alexander
Porgy (Heyward)
Power
Prampolini, Enrico
Priestley, J.B.
Private Lives (Coward)
Provincetown Players (Massachusetts)
Puppets
Pushkin Theatre (Leningrad)
Quayle, Anthony
Queen of Spades (Tchaikovsky)
Queen's Theatre (London)
Rasputin (A. Tolstoy)
Realism
Realistic Theatre (Moscow)
Red Army Central Theatre (Moscow)
Red Roses for Me (O'Casey)
Redgrave, Michael
Reinhardt, Max
Repertory system
Rice, Elmer
Richard III (Shakespeare)
Richardson, Ralph
Richardson, Willis
Right You Are–lf You Think You Are (Pirandello)
Rivals, The (Sheridan)
Robeson, Paul
Robson, Flora
Rodgers, Richard
Rolland, Romain
Romains, Jules
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
Rouché, Jacques
Royal Ballet (England)
Ruggeri, Ruggero
Russia: 1917–1940
Russian Association of Proletarian Writers (RAPP)
Sadler's Wells Ballet Company (London)
Sadler's Wells Theatre (London)
Sailors of Cattaro, The (Wolf)
Saint-Denis, Michel
Salomé (Wilde)
Salzburg Festival
Saroyan, William
Saroyan, William
Scenery: Germany
Schlemmer, Oskar
Second Art Theatre (Moscow)
Shakespeare, William
Shaw, George Bernard
Shaw, Glen Byam
Shaw, Irwin
Shchukin, Boris
Sherwood, Robert E.
Showboat (Hammerstein and Kerr)
Simonov, Reuben
Simonson, Lee
Siren Washed Ashore, The (Casona)
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Pirandello)
Skin of Our Teeth, The (Wilder)
Son, The (Hasenclever)
Sorge, Reinhard Johannes
Spain: 1915–1940
Spectacle
Stage: Germany
Stanislavsky, Konstantin
Stevens, Thomas Wood
Strange Interlude (O'Neill)
Strasberg, Lee
Strauss, Richard
Studio des Champs-Elysees (Paris)
Sullerzhitsky, Leopold
Sumurun (Freska)
Surrealism
Symbolism
Synthetic drama
Tairov, Alexander
Taking of the Winter Palace, The
Taming of the Shrew, The (Shakespeare)
Tartuffe (Molière)
Taylor, Laurette
Teatro degli Independenti (Rome)
Tempest, Marie
Theater in dem Redoutensaal (Vienna)
Théâtre Alfred Jarry
Théâtre Ambulant
Theatre and Its Double, The (Artaud)
Théâtre Antoine (Paris)
Theatre architecture: Germany
Theatre Arts Magazine
Théâtre de l'Athenee (Paris)
Théâtre de l'Oeuvre (Paris)
Thèâtre de l'Oncle Sébastian
Théâtre des Arts (Paris)
Théâtre des Champs-Elysees
Theatre Guild (New York)
Théâtre Montparnasse (Paris)
Théâtre National Populaire (France)
Theatre of Cruelty
Theatre of the Grotesque
Theatre of the People, The (Rolland)
Theatre of the Revolution (Moscow)
Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt (Paris)
Theatre Studio (London)
They Knew What They Wanted (Howard)
Third Studio (Moscow Art Theatre)
Thorndike, Sybil
Threepenny Opera, The (Brecht)
Throckmorton, Cleon
Time is a Dream (Lenormand)
Time of Your Life, The (Saroyan)
To the Actor (Chekhov)
Toller, Ernst
Tolstoy, Alexey K.
Tolstoy, Leo
Torrence, Ridgely
touring
Toy Theatre (Boston)
Tragic Sense of Life, The (Unamuno)
Transfiguration (Toller)
Treadwell, Sophie
Tree, Herbert Beerbohm
Trenyov, Constantin
Triple-A Plowed Under
Trojan War Shall Not Take Place, The (Giraudoux)
Turandot (Gozzi)
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare)
Tzara, Tristan
Unamuno, Miguel de
Union of Soviet Writers
Unions, trade
United States: 1915–1940
Unruh, Fritz von
Urban, Joseph
Vakhtangov, Yevgeny
Valle-Inclán, Ramón del
Valois, Ninette de
Verhaeren, Emile
Vieux Colombier, Théâtre du (Paris)
Vishnevsky, Vsevelod
Vitrac, Roger
Volksbühne (Berlin)
Vollmer, Lulu
Waiting for Lefty (Odets)
Walden, Herwarth
Washington Square Players (New York)
Way of the World, The (Congreve)
Weill, Kurt
Welles, Orson
Wilder, Thornton
Willett, John
Williams, Bert
Williams, Emlyn
Williams, Harcourt
Williams, Tennessee
Wilson, Frank
Wolf, Friedrich
Wolfit, Donald
Workers' Drama League
Wright, Richard
Xirgu, Margarita
Yegor Bulichev and Others (Gorky)
Yerma (Lorca)
You Can't Take It with You (Kaufman and Hart)
Yuzhin, Alexander
Zakhava, Boris
Zavadsky, Yuri
Ziegfeld, Florenz
Zuckmayer, Carl

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