Absurdism
Achard, Marcel
Actors Studio (New York)
Actors' Workshop (San Francisco)
Actors, acting, and Acting Companies: England
Actors, acting, and Acting Companies: France
Actors, acting, and Acting Companies: Germany
Actors, acting, and Acting Companies: Italy
Actors, acting, and Acting Companies: United States
Adamov, Arthur
Akimov, Nikolai
Albee, Edward
Albertazzi, Giorgio
Aldwych Theatre (London)
All My Sons (Miller)
Alley Theatre (Houston)
Amadeus (Shaffer)
American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA)
American Place Theatre (New York)
American Repertory Company (New York)
Anderson, Maxwell
Anderson, Robert
Andorra (Frisch)
Anouilh, Jean
Appen, Karl von
Appia, Adolphe
Architect and the Emperor of Assyria, The (Arrabal)
Arden, John
Arena Stage (Washington)
Arrabal, Fernando
Artaud, Antonin
Arts Council (England)
Ashcroft, Peggy
Association of Producing Artists
Audiberti, Jacques
Avignon Festival (France)
Balcony, The (Genet)
Bald Soprano, The (Ionesco)
Barker, Harley Granville
Barlow, Boleslag
Barrault, Jean-Louis
Barsacq, André
Bathhouse, The (Mayakovsky)
Baty, Gaston
Bayreuth Festival Theatre
Beck, Julian
Beckett, Samuel
Bedbug, The (Mayakovsky)
Behan, Brendan
Behrman, S.N.
Bell, Marie
Benthall, Michael
Bentley, Eric
Bergman, Ingmar
Berlin National Theater
Berliner Ensemble
Bernstein, Leonard
Besson, Benno
Betti, Ugo
Biedermann and the Firebugs (Frisch)
Birthday Party, The (Pinter)
Blacks, The (Genet)
Blau, Herbert
Blin, Roger
Bock, Jerry
Bolt, Robert
Borchert, Wolfgang
Bosio, Gianfranco de
Brando, Marlon
Brecht, Bertolt
Brig, The (Brown)
Brook, Peter
Brown, Kenneth
Browne, E. Martin
Buchwitz, Harry
Burian, E.F.
Burrell, John
Bury, John
Busch, Ernst
Caligula (Camus)
Camus, Albert
Candide
Carmines, Al
Cartel des Quatre
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Williams)
Censorship
Center 42 (London)
Central Theatre of the Soviet Army
Cesaire, Aimé
Chairs, The (Ionesco)
Chayefsky, Paddy
Chekhov, Anton
Chinese Wall, The (Frisch)
Chips with Everything (Wesker)
Cino, Joe
Cinoherni (Prague)
Circle in the Square (New York)
City Center (New York)
Civic Repertory Theatre (New York)
Clairond, Aimé
Claudel, Paul
Cocktail Party, The (Eliot)
Come Back, Little Sheba (Inge)
Comédie Française
Commedia dell'arte: England
Compagnia Proclemer-Albertazzi
Confidential Clerk, The (Eliot)
Connection, The (Gelber)
Contemporary Theatre (Moscow)
Cook, Ralph
Copeau, Jacques
Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (England)
Cousin, Gabriel
Crawford, Cheryl
Crucible, The (Miller)
Czech Republic/Slovakia
Dalrymple, Jean
Damiani, Luciano
Dead Queen, The (Montherlant)
Death of a Salesman (Miller)
Deathwatch (Genet)
Decroux, Etienne
Delacorte Theatre (New York)
Delaney, Shelagh
Delicate Balance, A (Albee)
deLullo, Giorgio
Deputy, The (Hochhuth)
Descaves, Pierre
Designers
Deutsches Theater (Berlin)
Devine, George
Dewhurst, Colleen
Directing and directors: England
Directing and directors: France
Directing and directors: Germany
Directing and directors: Italy
Directing and directors: Russia
Directing and directors: United States
Dirty Hands (Sartre)
Documentary drama
Dorst, Tankred
Dramatic Centers (France)
Dramatists: Czech Republic/Slovakia
Dramatists: England
Dramatists: France
Dramatists: Germany
Dramatists: Italy
Dramatists: Russia
Dramatists: United States
Dramaturg
Duerrenmatt, Friedrich
Dullin, Charles
Dux, Pierre
Edinburgh Festival
Eliot, T.S.
Endgame (Beckett)
Engel, Erich
England: 1940–1968
English Stage Company (London)
Entertainer, The (Osborne)
Equus (Shaffer)
Esslin, Martin
Existentialism
Fabbri, Diego
Falk, Rosella
Fando and Lis (Arrabal)
Felsenstein, Walter
Festivals
Fichandler, Zelda
Filippo, Eduardo de
Filippo, Peppino de
Flies, The (Sartre)
Ford Foundation
Fornés, Maria Irene
France: 1940–1968
Freie Volksbühne
Frigerio, Ezio
Frisch, Max
Fry, Christopher
Garcia, Victor
Gassman, Vittorio
Gatti, Armand
Gelber, Jack
Genet, Jean
Germany: 1940–1968
Giehse, Therese
Gielgud, John
Glass Menagerie, The (Williams)
Goldoni, Carlo
Gorky Theatre (Leningrad)
Government regulation of theatre
Grassi, Paolo
Greene, Graham
Grossman, January
Group Theatre, The (New York)
Gründgens, Gustav
Guthrie, Tyrone
Guthrie Theatre (Minneapolis)
Hall, Peter
Hambleton, T. Edward
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Hammerstein II, Oscar
Handman, Wynn
Havel, Václav
Heinz, Wolfgang
Hellman, Lillian
Herman, Jerry
Herrand, Marcel
Hilpert, Heinz
Hirschfeld, Kurt
Hochhuth, Rolf
Hochwalder, Fritz
Hölderlin (Weiss)
Homecoming, The (Pinter)
Hostage, The (Behan)
Houghton, Norris
Hunt, Hugh
Iceman Cometh, The (O'Neill)
In the Case of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Kipphardt)
Indians (Kopit)
Inge, William
Institute of Scenography (Prague)
International Theatre Institute
Intoleranza (Nonno)
Investigation, The (Weiss)
Ionesco, Eugène
Irving, Jules
Italy: 1940–1968
Jackson, Barry
Jacquemont, Maurice
Joan of Lorraine (Anderson)
Joel Brand (Kipphardt)
Jones, Margo
Jouvet, Louis
Judson Poets' Theatre (New York)
Just Assassins, The (Camus)
Kander, John
Kazan, Elia
King Lear (Shakespeare)
Kipphardt, Heinar
Kitchen, The (Wesker)
Kopit, Arthur
Kortner, Fritz
Kouril, Miroslav
Krejca, Otomar
Lady's Not for Burning, The (Fry)
LaMama Experimental Theatre (New York)
Langhoff, Wolfgang
Lark, The (Anouilh)
Laterna Magika
Le Gallienne, Eva
Leningrad Comedy Theatre
Lerner, Alan Jay
Lewis, Robert
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (New York)
Little theatre movement
Littlewood, Joan, Joan
Living Theatre
Loesser, Frank
Loewe, Frederick
Long Day's Journey Into Night (O'Neill)
Look Back in Anger (Osborne)
Mahabharata
Maids, The (Genet)
Malina, Judith
Malraux, André
Man Outside, The (Borchert)
Management, theatre
Mangum, Edward
Mann, Theodore
Marat/Sade (Weiss)
Marchat, Jean
Marowitz, Charles
Master of Santiago, The (Montherlant)
Mayakovsky Theatre
Mercury Theatre (London)
Meyerhold, Vsevelod
Midsummer Night's Dream, A (Shakespeare)
Mielziner, Jo
Miller, Arthur
Miller, Arthur
Miller, Jonathan
Modellbücher
Monk, Egon
Montherlant, Henry de
Moscow Art Theatre
Mossoviet Theatre
Mother Courage (Brecht)
Musical comedy
Myth of Sisyphus, The (Camus)
National Theatre (England)
National theatres
Native Americans
Neher, Caspar
Neorealism
New Theatre (London)
New York Shakespeare Festival
No Exit (Sartre)
Nonno, Luigi
Notes and Counter Notes (Ionesco)
Odéon (Paris)
Odets, Clifford
Off-Broadway
Off-off Broadway
Oh, Dad, Poor Dad (Kopit)
Okhlopkov, Nikolai
Oklahoma! (Rodgers and Hammerstein)
Old Times (Pinter)
Old Vic, The (London)
Olivier, Laurence
O'Neill, Eugene
Opera
Opéra (Paris)
Opéra-Comique, Theatre National de l' (Paris)
Osborne, John
Otto, Teo
Page, Geraldine
Palais de Chaillot (Paris)
Palitzsch, Peter
Papp, Joseph
Philipe, Gérard
Phoenix Theatre (New York)
Physicists, The (Duerrenmatt)
Piccolo Teatro (Milan)
Picnic (Inge)
Pinter, Harold
Pirandello, Luigi
Piscator, Erwin
Pitoëff, Georges
Planchon, Roger
Play Strindberg (Duerrenmatt)
Pluchek, Valentin
Poetic drama
Pogodin, Nikolai
Polyekran
Popov, Alexander
Proclemer, Anna
Pushkin Theatre (Leningrad)
Quayle, Anthony
Quintero, José
Rabb, Ellis
Radok, Alfred
Rattigan, Terence
Realism
Redgrave, Michael
Regional theatres
Renaud, Madeleine
Renaud, Madeleine
Reybaz, André
Rhinoceros (Ionesco)
Richardson, Ralph
Rideau de Paris
Robards, Jason, Jr.
Rodgers, Richard
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
Rosov, Victor
Royal Court Theatre (Munich)
Royal Hunt of the Sun, The (Shaffer)
Royal Shakespeare Company (England)
Russia: 1948–1968
Safronov, Anatoly
Saint-Denis, Michel
Salacrou, Armand
Salzburg Festival
Saroyan, William
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Satin Slipper, The (Claudel)
Schalla, Hans
Schiller Theater (Berlin)
Schneider, Alan
Scofield, Paul
Scott, George C.
Screens, The (Genet)
Seascape (Albee)
Sellner, Rudolf
Separate Tables (Rattigan)
Serreau, Jean-Marie
Shaffer, Peter
Shakespeare, William
Shaw, Glen Byam
Signature Company (New York)
Simon, Neil
Simonov, Konstantin
Sociétaires (France)
Soldiers, The (Hochhuth)
Solemn Communion (Arrabal)
Sonnet, of Petrarch (Pogodin)
South Pacific
Squarzina, Luigi
Stanislavsky, Konstantin
Steckel, Lionel
Stein, A.
Stewart, Ellen
Strasberg, Lee
Stratford Festival Theatre Company (England)
Streetcar Named Desire, A (Williams)
Strehler, Giorgio
Studio des Champs-Elysees (Paris)
Styne, Jule
Summer and Smoke (Williams)
Summer theatres
Svoboda, Josef
Tardieu, Jean
Taste of Honey, A (Delaney)
Teatro Stabile (Genoa)
Teatro Stabile (Turin)
Television
Theatre architecture: United States
Théâtre aux Mathurins (Paris)
Theatre Behind the Gate (Prague)
Theatre Communications Group
Théâtre de France
Théâtre de la Cité (Lyons)
Théâtre des Nations
Theatre Genesis (New York)
Théâtre Marigny (Paris)
Théâtre National Populaire (France)
Theatre of Cruelty
Theatre of Satire (Moscow)
Theatre of the Absurd, The (Esslin)
Theatre of the Revolution (Moscow)
Theatre on the Balustrade (Prague)
Théâtre panique
Theatre Workshop (London)
Three Tall Women (Albee)
Threepenny Opera, The (Brecht)
Tiny Alice (Albee)
Total theatre
touring
Tovstogonov, Georgi
Toys in the Attic (Hellman)
Tynan, Kenneth
United States: 1940–1968
Vakhtangov Theatre (Moscow)
Vance, Nina
Vaughan, Stuart
Vilar, Jean
Visconti, Luchino
Vishnevsky, Vsevelod
Visit, The (Duerrenmatt)
Vitaly, Georges
Vivian Beaumont Theatre (New York)
Volksbühne (Berlin)
Volodin, Alexander
Vostry, Jaroslav
Wagner, Richard
Wagner, Wieland
Wagner, Wolfgang
Waiting for Godot (Beckett)
Walser, Martin
Walterlin, Oskar
Waltz of the Toreadors, The (Anouilh)
Webster, Margaret
Weigel, Helene
Weiss, Peter
Wekwerth, Manfred
Wesker, Arnold
Wessies in Weimar (Hochhuth)
West Side Story
Whitehead, Robert
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Albee)
Wilder, Thornton
Williams, Tennessee
Wilson, Georges
Winslow Boy, The (Rattigan)
Wolfit, Donald
World Theatre
World Theatre Season (London)
Yefremov, Oleg
Young Vic (London)
Zavadsky, Yuri
Zeffirelli, Franco
Zuckmayer, Carl
Zurich Schauspielhaus

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