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The following timeline of twentieth-century theatre offers a year-by-year account of the performance and publication of notable works of drama and significant events in the history of theatre during the 20th century. Musical theatre works are excluded from the list below.


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1907

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1908

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1909

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Poster by Oskar Kokoschka advertising the première of his play

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1911

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1912

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1913

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1914

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1915

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1916

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1917

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1918

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1919

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1920

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1921

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1922

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1923

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1924

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1925

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1926

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1927

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1928

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1929

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1930

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1931

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1932

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1933

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The original Broadway production of Ah, Wilderness!, with George M. Cohan, Elisha Cook, Jr., and Gene Lockhart

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1936

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1937

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1938

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1939

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1940

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1941

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1942

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1943

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1944

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1945

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1946

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1947

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1948

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1949

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1950

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1951

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1952

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1954

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1955

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  2. ^ Vrânceanu, Mircea (1947). Însemnările unui răsvrătit. Bucharest: Editura Socialistă. p. 62.
  3. ^ Alan Goble (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 111.
  4. ^ Claude Schumacher; Glynne W. Wickham; John Northam, eds. (1996). Naturalism and Symbolism in European Theatre 1850-1918. Cambridge University Press. p. 218.
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  12. ^ Gerald Bordman (1995). American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama 1914-1930. OUP USA. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-19-509078-9.
  13. ^ Amaresh Datta (1988). Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Devraj to Jyoti. Sahitya Akademi. p. 1072. ISBN 978-81-260-1194-0.
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  19. ^ Hochman, Stanley, ed. (1984). McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama. Vol. 1. New York: McGraw-Hill. pp. 344–5. ISBN 978-0-07-079169-5.
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