18 Happenings in 6 Parts (Kaprow)
Abramov, Fedor
Absurdism
Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Fo)
Actors Theatre of Louisville
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: Poland
Actors, acting, and Acting Companies: United States
Admissions fees
Aitmatov, Chingiz
Ajax (Sophocles)
Akalaitis, JoAnne
Aksyonov, Vasili
Alcestis (Euripides)
Alliance for Children's and Young People's Theatre
Always for Sale (Aksyonov)
American Buffalo (Mamet)
American Daughter, An (Wasserstein)
American Repertory Theatre (Cambridge, MA)
Anderson, Laurie
Angels in America (Kushner)
Annie (Strouse)
Approaching Simone (Terry)
Arbuzov, Aleksei
Arena Stage (Washington)
Ariosto, Lodovico
Arts Council (England)
As You Like It (Shakespeare)
Ascent of Mount Fuji, The (Mukhamedzhanov)
Asian Theatre in United States
Avignon Festival (France)
Ayckbourn, Alan
Bacchae, The (Euripides)
Baklanov, G.
Baraka, Imamu Amiri (LeRoi Jones)
Barker, Howard
Barnes, Peter
Barrault, Jean-Louis
Barrault, Jean-Louis
Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, The (Rabe)
Baumbauer, Frank
Bausch, Pina
Bayreuth Festival Theatre
Beck, Julian
Beckett, Samuel
Bene, Carmelo
Benefactors (Frayn)
Bennett, Michael
Berezin, Tanya
Berghaus, Ruth
Berliner Ensemble
Bernhard, Thomas
Bingo (Bond)
Bishop, André
Black Arts Repertoire Theatre School
Black theatre in America
Black Theatre Magazine
Body Politic (Chicago)
Bogdanov, Michael
Bogosian, Eric
Bond, Edward
Boublil, Alain
Bread and Puppet Theatre, The
Breaking the Silence (Poliakoff)
Brecht, Bertolt
Brenton, Howard
Breuer, Lee
Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk
Broadway
Brook, Peter
Brooklyn Academy of Music (New York)
Brothers and Sisters (Abramov)
Brusato, Franco
Brustein, Robert
Bullins, Ed
Buried Child (Shepard)
Burn This (L. Wilson)
Bury, John
Cage aux Folles, La
Carmines, Al
Carrièrre, Jean-Claude
Castorf, Frank
Cats
Censorship
Chaikin, Joseph
Chamberlain, Lord
Chambers, Jane
Changing Room, The (Storey)
Che!
Chekhov, Anton
Chekhov Festival
Chelsea Theatre Center (New York)
Chereau, Patrice
Cherry Orchard, The (Chekhov)
Chin, Frank
Chorus Line, A
Churchill, Caryl
Cieslak, Ryszard
Cinders (Glowacki)
Cinoherni (Prague)
Circle in the Square (New York)
Circle Repertory Theatre Company (New York)
City of Angels
City Sugar (Poliakoff)
Ciulei, Liviu
CIVIL warS (R. Wilson)
Cixous, Hélène
Cloud 9 (Churchill)
Coleman, Cy
Comédie Française
Commune
Computers
Contemporary Theatre (Moscow)
Contemporary Theatre (Warsaw)
Contractor, The (Storey)
Conversations with Socrates (Radzinsky)
Copeau, Jacques
Corneille, Pierre
Crimes of the Heart (Henley)
Crinkley, Richmond
Crucible, The (Miller)
Curse of the Starving Class, The (Shepard)
Czech Republic/Slovakia
Dairy Farm (Kroetz)
Daldry, Stephen
Dance: Germany
Daniels, Ron
Davidson, Gordon
Davis, R.G.
Day in the Death of Joe Egg, A (Nichols)
Dead Class, The (Kantor)
Delacorte Theatre (New York)
Designers
Devine, George
Dionysus in 69
Directing and directors: England
Directing and directors: France
Directing and directors: Germany
Directing and directors: Italy
Directing and directors: Poland
Directing and directors: Russia
Directing and directors: United States
Dodin, Lev
Doronina, Tatyana
Dorst, Tankred
Dowling, Joe
Dramatists: Czech Republic/Slovakia
Dramatists: England
Dramatists: France
Dramatists: Germany
Dramatists: Italy
Dramatists: Poland
Dramatists: Russia
Dramatists: United States
Dramaturg
Dreyfus (Grumberg)
Durringer, Xavier
Dutchman, The (Baraka)
Edinburgh Festival
Edward II (Marlowe)
Efros, Anatoly
Einstein on the Beach (Wilson)
Electronic Nigger, The (Bullins)
Emancipatory theatre
Emigrés, The (Mrozek)
Emperor Jones, The (O'Neill)
Endgame (Beckett)
England
England: 1968-
English Stage Company (London)
Environmental theatre
Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center (Connecticut)
Eyre, Richard
Falls, Robert
Fasten Your Seat Belts (Baklanov)
Faust (Goethe)
Fefu and Her Friends (Fornés)
Feldman, Peter
Feminist theatre
Fences (A. Wilson)
Festivals
Fichandler, Zelda
Fierstein, Harvey
Fifth of July (L. Wilson)
Flimm, Jürgen
Fo, Dario
Fool for Love (Shepard)
Fornés, Maria Irene
France: 1968-
Frankenstein
Frayn, Michael
Free Southern Theatre (United States)
Friel, Brian
Fuchs, Elinor
Fugard, Athol
Ganz, Bruno
Gay and lesbian theatre
Geiogamah, Hanay
Gems, Pam
Genet, Jean
George Coats Performance Works (San Francisco)
Germany: 1968-
Ghosts (Ibsen)
Gilles de Rais (Planchon)
Glass, Philip
Glengarry Glen Ross (Mamet)
Globe Theatre (London)
Glowacki, Janusz
Goldflam, Arnost
Goodman Theatre (Chicago)
Gospel at Colonus (Breuer)
Gotanda, Philip Kan
Government regulation of theatre
Grand Magic Circus, The
Grassi, Paolo
Gray, Simon
Gray, Spalding
Griffiths, Trevor
Grosch, Jürgen
Grossman, January
Grotowski, Jerzy
Grumberg, Jean-Paul
Gubenko, Nikolai
Guerrilla theatre
Gunter, John
Guthrie Theatre (Minneapolis)
Hair!
Hall, Peter
Halliwell, David
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Hamletmachine (Müller)
Hampton, Christoper
Handke, Peter
Hands, Terry
Hansberry, Lorraine
Hapgood (Stoppard)
Happenings
Hare, David
Haussman, Leander
Havel, Václav
Heidi Chronicles (Wasserstein)
Henley, Beth
Henry IV, Part I (Shakespeare)
Herman, Jerry
Heyme, Heinzgünther
Hispanic theatre in America
Hochhuth, Rolf
Hoffman, William
Home (Storey)
Horvath, Odon von
Hot L Baltimore (L. Wilson)
Hughes, Holly
Hunting Cockroaches (Glowacki)
Hurlyburly (Rabe)
Hwang, David Henry
Indiade, or the India of Their Dreams
Inspector General, The (Gogol)
Institute of Scenography (Prague)
International Center for Theatre Research (Paris)
International Shakespeare Globe Centre (London)
Iphigenia in Aulis (Euripides)
Italy: 1968-
Jarry, Alfred
Jelinek, Elfriede
Jelly's Last Jam (Wolfe)
Jesus Christ Superstar (Webber)
Joint Stock Company
Jones, Inigo
Jory, John
Julliard School (New York)
Jumpers (Stoppard)
Kalfin, Robert
Kander, John
Kantor, Tadeusz
Kaprow, Alan
Kaspar (Handke)
Kathakali (India)
Keefe, Barrie
King Lear (Shakespeare)
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Kitchen, The (Wesker)
Kokkos, Yannis
Koltès, Bernard-Marie
König, Michael
Kraemer, Jacques
Kramer, Hilton
Kramer, Larry
Krejca, Otomar
Kroetz, Franz Xaver
Kupfer, Harry
Kushner, Tony
La Jolla Playhouse (San Diego)
LaMama Experimental Theatre (New York)
Lampe, Jutta
Larson, Jonathan
Lassalle, Jacques
Last Summer in Chulimsk (Vampilov)
Lear (Bond)
LeCompte, Elizabeth
Leguizamo, John
Lepage, Robert
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
Lichtenstein, Harvey
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (New York)
Lion King, The
Living Theatre
Lloyd-Webber, Andrew
Ludlam, Charles
Lunin (Radzinsky)
Lyubimov, Yuri
M. Butterfly (Hwang)
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (A.Wilson)
Mabou Mines
Macbeth, Robert
Mad Dog Blues (Shepard)
Madman and the Nun, The (Witkiewicz)
Mahabharata
Maids, The (Genet)
Malina, Judith
Maly Theatre (Moscow)
Mamet, David
Mamet, David
Management, theatre
Manhattan Theatre Club (New York)
Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles)
Marthaler, Christopher
Masks
Mason, Marshall
Master Harold and the Boys (Fugard)
McDonagh, Martin
McNally, Terence
Meadow, Lynne
Melillo, Joseph V.
Mensch Meier (Kroetz)
Mercer, David
Merchant of Venice, The (Shakespeare)
Meyerhold, Vsevelod
Midsummer Night's Dream, A (Shakespeare)
Miller, Arthur
Mime
Miquel, Jean-Pierre
Miss Julie (Strindberg)
Mnouchkine, Ariane
Moraga, Cherríe
Morley, Christopher
Mortier, Gerard
Moscow Art Theatre
Moscow Theatre of Drama and Comedy
Moses, Gilbert
Mosher, Gregory
Mother Courage (Brecht)
Motion pictures
Mrozek, Slawomir
Mukhamedzhanov, Kaltai
Müller, Heinar
Music halls
Musicals
Mysteries and Smaller Pieces
Napier, John
National Black Arts Festival
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
National Health, The (Nichols)
National Theatre (England)
National Theatre of the Deaf
National theatres
Native-American theater
Negro Ensemble Company (New York)
Nemiroff, Robert
Nest, The (Kroetz)
New Lafayette Theatre (New York)
New vaudevillians
New York City Opera
New York Shakespeare Festival
Nichols, Peter
'night Mother (Norman)
Noble, Adrian
Noises Off (Frayn)
Norman, Marsha
Norman Conquests, The (Ayckbourn)
Nunn, Trevor
Odéon (Paris)
Oedipus at Colonus (Sophocles)
Off-Broadway
Off-off Broadway
Off-Off Broadway Alliance
Oh, Calcutta
Old Fashioned Comedy (Arbuzov)
Old Globe Theatre (San Diego)
Old Vic, The (London)
Olivier, Laurence
Olivier Theatre (London)
Olympic Arts Festival (Los Angeles)
O'Neal, John
Ong, Hans
Open Theatre
Opera
Opera: England
Opera: United States
Oresteia (Aeschylus)
Organic Theatre Company (Chicago)
Orghast
Orlando Furioso
Osborne, John
Othello (Shakespeare)
Our Town (Wilder)
Palitzsch, Peter
Pantomime
Papp, Joseph
Paradise Now (Malina and Beck)
Patroni-Griffi, Guiseppe
Peduzzi, Richard
Peer Gynt (Ibsen)
Pelléas and Mélisande (Maeterlinck)
Performance art
Performance Group (New York)
Persepolis Festival (Iran)
Persians, The (Aeschylus)
Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla
Phantom of the Opera
Piano Lesson, The (Wilson)
Piccolo Teatro (Milan)
Pinter, Harold
Pirandello, Luigi
Piscator, Erwin
Planchon, Roger
Playwrights' Horizons
Plenty (Hare)
Poland
Poliakoff, Stephen
Polish Laboratory Theatre
Poor theatre (Grotowski)
Postmodernism
Poststructuralism
Pravda (Hare and Brenton)
Public Theatre (New York)
Puppets
Py, Olivier
Quinton, Everett
Rabe, David
Rabelais
Radzinsky, Edvard
Raisin in the Sun, A (Hansberry)
Rame, Franca
Real Inspector Hound, The (Stoppard)
Regional theatres
Reinshagen, Gerlind
Remembrances (Arbuzov)
Rent
Revue
Rhinoceros (Ionesco)
Richard II (Shakespeare)
Richard III (Shakespeare)
Richards, Lloyd
Ridiculous Theatrical Company (New York)
Ritual
Road to Mecca, The (Fugard)
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
Ronconi, Luca
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Stoppard)
Rósewicz, Tadeusz
Roshchin, Mikhail
Roth, Friedrike
Rothman, Carole
Roundabout Theatre (New York)
Royal Court Theatre (Munich)
Royal Covent Garden Opera Company (London)
Royal National Theatre (London)
Royal Shakespeare Company (England)
Rudnick, Paul
Ruhr Festival
Russia: 1968-
Rustaveli Theatre (Tbilisi)
Rylance, Mark
Sachs, Oliver
Saint-Denis, Michel
Salvatore, Gaston
Salzburg Festival
San Francisco Mime troupe
Sanchez-Scott, Milcha
Savary, Jerome
Schaubühne (Berlin)
Schechner, Richard
Schönberg, Claude-Michel
Schumann, Peter
Screens, The (Genet)
Second Stage (New York)
Sellars, Peter
Serban, Andrei
Serpent, The (Van Itallie)
Seven Streams of the River Ota, The (Lepage)
Shaffer, Peter
Shaw, Fiona
Shepard, Sam
Shiomi, Ric
Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, The (Hansberry)
Sisters Rosensweig (Wasserstein)
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Pirandello)
Slavkin, Viktor
Smith, Anna Deavere
Smith, Molly D.
Sociétaires (France)
Sondheim, Stephen
South Coast Repertory Company
Specht, Kerstin
Special effects
Speed-the-Plow (Mamet)
Sperr, Martin
Spiderwoman Theatre
Spirit House (Newark)
Spoleto Festival
Spring's Awakening (Wedekind)
Squarzina, Luigi
Stafford-Clark, Max
Stein, Peter
Steppenwolf Theatre (Chicago)
Stoppard, Tom
Storey, David
Storm and Stress (Klinger)
Strauss, Botho
Strawberry Fields (Poliakoff)
Streamers (Rabe)
Strehler, Giorgio
Strindberg, August
Strouse, Charles
Sturua, Robert
Sunday in the Park with George (Sondheim)
Surrealism
Svoboda, Josef
Svoboda, Josef
Sweeney Todd
Tabakov, Oleg
Taganka Theatre (Moscow)
Tairov, Alexander
Tales of the Vienna Woods (Horvath)
Talley's Folly (Wilson)
Tango (Mrozek)
Tartuffe (Molière)
Teatro Campesino, El
Television
Tempest, The (Shakespeare)
Terry, Megan
Thalia Theatre (Hamburg)
Theatertreffen (West Berlin)
Theatre architecture: England
Theatre architecture: Germany
Théâtre de France
Théâtre de l'Europe
Théâtre des Amandiers (Paris)
Théâtre des Nations
Théâtre d'Orsay (Paris)
Théâtre du Soleil (Paris)
Théâtre National de Chaillot
Théâtre National de Strasbourg
Théâtre National Populaire (France)
Theatre of Sources
Theatre on the Balustrade (Prague)
Three Sisters, The (Chekhov)
Titanic
Toilet, The (Baraka)
Toller (Dorst)
Tooth of Crime, The (Shepard)
Top Girls (Churchill)
touring
Towards a Poor Theatre (Grotowski)
Travesties (Stoppard)
True West (Shepard)
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare)
Uncle Vanya (Chekhov)
Uncle Vanya (Chekhov)
United States: 1968-
Upper Austria (Kroetz)
Vakhtangov, Yevgeny
Valdez, Luis
Vampilov, Aleksandr
Van Itallie, Jean-Claude
Vasilyev, Anatoly
Victory Gardens (Chicago)
Viet Rock (Terry)
Vieux Colombier, Théâtre du (Paris)
Vinaver, Michel
Vincent, Jean-Pierre
Vineyard Theatre (New York)
Visitor (Strauss)
Vitez, Antoine
Vivian Beaumont Theatre (New York)
Vogel, Paula
Volksbühne (Berlin)
Wager, Douglas C.
Wagner, Wolfgang
Waiting for Godot (Beckett)
Wajda, Andrzej
Wallace, Naomi
Wallenstein Trilogy (Schiller)
Walser, Martin
Wanamaker, Sam
Ward, Douglas Turner
Warner, Deborah
Wasserstein, Wendy
Water Hen, The (Witkiewicz)
Way of the World, The (Congreve)
Weber, Carl
Weigel, Helene
Weil, Simone
Wekwerth, Manfred
Wertenbaker, Timberlake
Wesker, Arnold
West, Cheryl
Wilson, Lanford
Wilson, Robert
Wilson, August
Witkiewicz, Stanislaw Ignacy
Wojewodski, Stan, Jr.
Wolfe, George C.
Wolfe, George C.
Wonder, Erich
Wooster Group, The (New York)
Wright, Garland
Yale Repertory Theatre
Yefremov, Oleg
Yeston, Maury
Your Murderer (Aksyonov)
Zadek, Peter

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