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'Master Harold'... and the Boys
"Master Harold"... and the Boys is a 1982 one-act play by South African playwright Athol Fugard about a white teenager and two black waiters in apartheid-era Port Elizabeth.
'night, Mother
'night, Mother is a one-act play by Marsha Norman, first produced in 1983, in which a daughter tells her mother she plans to end her life that night.
1536 (play)
1536 is Ava Pickett's debut play, directed by Lyndsey Turner, about three Essex women during Anne Boleyn's downfall; premiered at the Almeida in 2025, transferred to the Ambassadors Theatre in 2026, and won the 2024 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
2024 Laurence Olivier Awards
The 2024 Laurence Olivier Awards, held 14 April 2024 at the Royal Albert Hall and hosted by Hannah Waddingham, honored London theatre: Sunset Boulevard won seven awards, with Dear England, Operation Mincemeat, and Stranger Things: The First Shadow among winners.
2026 in stand-up comedy
2026 in stand-up comedy: Netflix Is a Joke Fest May 4-10 in Los Angeles with 350+ events, the Edinburgh Fringe August 7-31 with 4,200+ shows, and a UK touring boom with hundreds of comedians on the road.
2026 Laurence Olivier Awards
The 2026 Laurence Olivier Awards (Olivier Awards 2026 with Cunard), held 12 April 2026 at the Royal Albert Hall and hosted by Nick Mohammed, marked the awards' 50th anniversary. Paddington The Musical won seven awards including Best New Musical; Rosamund Pike, Jack Holden, and Rachel Zegler took acting prizes.
21 Chump Street
21 Chump Street is a 14-minute mini-musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda, premiered June 7, 2014 at BAM for This American Life, based on the true Palm Beach case of student Justin Laboy entrapped by undercover officer Naomi Rodriguez.
4.48 Psychosis
4.48 Psychosis is Sarah Kane's final play, written 1998-99 before her suicide at 28. Premiered at the Royal Court, London, June 23, 2000, it has no cast list or stage directions and inspired Philip Venables's 2016 opera.
42nd Street (musical)
42nd Street is a 1980 Broadway backstage musical with music by Harry Warren, lyrics by Al Dubin, book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble, based on Bradford Ropes's novel and the 1933 Busby Berkeley film; it ran 3,486 performances and won the 1981 Tony for Best Musical.
70th Tony Awards
The 70th Tony Awards (2016) honored the 2015-2016 Broadway season on June 12 at the Beacon Theatre, hosted by James Corden; Hamilton won a record 16 nominations and 11 Tonys including Best Musical, one short of The Producers' record.
71st Tony Awards
The 71st Tony Awards, held June 11, 2017 at Radio City Music Hall on CBS, honored the 2016-2017 Broadway season; first-time host Kevin Spacey presided as Dear Evan Hansen won six Tonys including Best Musical.
72nd Tony Awards
72nd Tony Awards (June 10, 2018, Radio City Music Hall, CBS), hosted by Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban; The Band's Visit won 10 Tonys including Best Musical, and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child won six.
73rd Tony Awards
The 73rd Tony Awards (2019 American Theatre Wing ceremony), held June 9, 2019 at Radio City Music Hall on CBS with host James Corden; Hadestown won 8 of 14 nominations including Best Musical, The Ferryman won Best Play, and Ali Stroker became the first wheelchair user to win a Tony.
74th Tony Awards
The 74th Annual Tony Awards, honoring the pandemic-shortened 2019–2020 Broadway season, was postponed from June 7, 2020, and finally held September 26, 2021 at the Winter Garden Theatre, with Moulin Rouge! The Musical winning 10 Tonys including Best Musical.
78th Tony Awards
78th Tony Awards: Broadway's 2024-25 season honors, held June 8, 2025 at Radio City Music Hall, hosted by Cynthia Erivo on CBS and Paramount+. Maybe Happy Ending won six Tonys including Best Musical; Purpose won Best Play; Hamilton cast reunion.
79th Tony Awards
79th Tony Awards: June 7, 2026, Radio City Music Hall, hosted by P!nk, CBS and Paramount+. Best Musical Schmigadoon! (also score, book, orchestrations); Best Play Liberation; John Lithgow and Lesley Manville acting wins.
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside is a 1613 city comedy by Thomas Middleton, satirizing marriage, money, and sex among several London households, and often hailed as his finest comedy.
A Cheery Soul
A Cheery Soul is a 1963 three-act play by Australian writer Patrick White, adapted from his own short story, about the overbearing do-gooder Miss Docker in suburban Sarsaparilla.
A Dance of the Forests
A Dance of the Forests is a play by the Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka, first performed at Nigeria's independence celebrations in October 1960, warning against romanticizing precolonial African history.
A Delicate Balance
A Delicate Balance is a 1966 play by Edward Albee about a wealthy couple whose household is disrupted by frightened friends; it won the 1967 Pulitzer Prize.
A Doll's House
A Doll's House (Et dukkehjem) is an 1879 three-act prose play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, published in Copenhagen, whose heroine Nora Helmer leaves her husband and children.
A Dream under the Southern Bough
A Dream under the Southern Bough (Nanke ji) is a 1600 Ming chuanqi play in 44 scenes by Tang Xianzu, the third of his Four Dreams of Linchuan.
A Few Good Men (play)
A Few Good Men is Aaron Sorkin's 1989 Broadway courtroom drama debut about JAG lawyers defending Marines in a Guantanamo Bay Code Red killing; 497 performances, a 1992 hit film, and a 2026 revival.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: 1962 Broadway musical comedy, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart, based on Plautus farces; won six Tonys including Best Musical.
A History of Chinese Drama
A History of Chinese Drama (中国戏剧史) is a three-volume history of Chinese theater by the historian Zhou Yibai, first published in 1953 by Zhonghua Book Company.
A Lost Letter
A Lost Letter (O scrisoare pierdută) is a four-act comedy by Romanian playwright Ion Luca Caragiale, premiered in Bucharest in 1884 and widely regarded as the masterpiece of Romanian drama.
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Balanchine)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (真夏の夜の夢) is George Balanchine's two-act ballet to Mendelssohn, premiered January 17, 1962 by New York City Ballet; his first wholly original full-length American ballet, with Villella, Hayden, and Mitchell in the original cast.
A Midsummer Night's Dream (ballet)
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a two-act ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to music of Felix Mendelssohn, premiered by New York City Ballet in New York in 1962, his first wholly original evening-length ballet in America.
A Month in the Country
A Month in the Country (Месяц в деревне) is a five-act comedy by Ivan Turgenev, written 1848–1850, in which two women love a young tutor on a Russian estate.
A Moon for the Misbegotten
A Moon for the Misbegotten is a 1943 four-act play by Eugene O'Neill, a sequel to Long Day's Journey Into Night following James Tyrone Jr. after his mother's death.