Even the stage has its shining examples.
See also Theatre Tropes. For the movies played in theatres, see Film.
Creators:
By country:
Subcategories:
By Decade:
Subgenres:
- Aeschylus
- Edward Albee
- Aristophanes
- Alan Ayckbourn
- Jon Robin Baitz
- Alan Ball
- Francis Beaumont
- Samuel Beckett
- Stephen Belber
- Robert Bolt
- Bertolt Brecht
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Fanny Burney
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- Truman Capote
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Anton Chekhov
- Paul Claudel
- Jean Cocteau
- William Congreve
- Noël Coward
- Michael Cristofer
- Robert Daborne
- Thomas Dekker (Playwright)
- Marriott Edgar
- Euripides
- Peter Fenton
- Georges Feydeau
- Harvey Fierstein
- John Fletcher
- John Ford (Playwright)
- Bob Fosse
- Jon Fosse
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Sacha Guitry
- Daniel Handler
- David Hare
- Joseph Heller
- Lillian Hellman
- Jean-Christophe Hembert
- Ludvig Holberg
- William Dean Howells
- Langston Hughes
- Henrik Ibsen
- Robert Icke
- Eugène Ionesco
- Elizabeth Inchbald
- Ben Jonson
- Sarah Kane
- Dennis Kelly
- Sidney Kingsley
- Heinrich von Kleist
- Tony Kushner
- Neil LaBute
- Tracy Letts
- David Lindsay-Abaire
- Federico García Lorca
- Matthew López
- Jonathan Maitland
- David Mamet
- Gabriel Marcel
- Christopher Marlowe
- Philip Massinger
- Martin McDonagh
- Thomas Middleton
- Arthur Miller
- Molière
- Germain Muller
- Qui Nguyen
- Eugene O'Neill
- John Osborne
- Marcel Pagnol
- Gail Phaneuf
- Harold Pinter
- J. B. Priestley
- Alexander Pushkin
- Jean Racine
- William Rowley
- Friedrich Schiller
- Peter Shaffer
- William Shakespeare
- Ntozake Shange
- George Bernard Shaw
- Neil Simon
- Tobias Smollett
- Sophocles
- Tom Stoppard
- August Strindberg
- Chris Terrio
- Cyril Tourneur
- Sue Townsend
- Lope de Vega
- John Webster
- Oscar Wilde
- Thornton Wilder
- Tennessee Williams
Creators of operas and musical theatre:
- Les Ballets Trockadero De Monte Carlo
- Leonard Bernstein
- Comden and Green
- Kevin Del Aguila
- George Gershwin
- Gilbert and Sullivan
- Marvin Hamlisch
- Joe Iconis
- Kander and Ebb
- Lerner and Loewe
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Robert Lopez
- Dave Malloy
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Anthony Newley
- Jacques Offenbach
- Pasek And Paul
- Cole Porter
- Giacomo Puccini
- Tim Rice
- Rodgers and Hammerstein
- Gioachino Rossini
- Stephen Schwartz
- Stephen Sondheim
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Richard Wagner
Theatrical Companies:
- American Shakespeare Center
- Blue Man Group
- Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
- Cirque du Soleil
- Crazy Horse
- Medieval Times Dinner And Tournament
- Mischief Theatre
- National Theatre
- Pirates Dinner Adventure
- Takarazuka Revue
- Team StarKid