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The Dream (ballet)
The Dream is Frederick Ashton's 1964 one-act ballet for The Royal Ballet, adapting Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream to Mendelssohn's Op. 61 music arranged by John Lanchbery, premiered 2 April 1964 at Covent Garden for the Shakespeare Quartercentenary.
The Dubrovnik Trilogy
The Dubrovnik Trilogy (Dubrovačka trilogija) is a set of three one-act plays by Ivo Vojnović, published in Zagreb between 1900 and 1902, tracing a century of Dubrovnik's patrician decline.
The Duchess of Malfi
The Duchess of Malfi (The Tragedy of the Dutchess of Malfy), John Webster's Jacobean revenge tragedy, first performed by the King's Men at Blackfriars in 1614, printed in quarto in 1623; based on Giovanna d'Aragona's secret marriage to her steward Antonio, with brothers Ferdinand and the Cardinal as tyrants and Bosola as malcontent-turned-avenger.
The Dumb Waiter
The Dumb Waiter is a 1957 one-act play by Harold Pinter in which two hitmen, Ben and Gus, wait in a basement room for orders, a comedy of menace in the Theatre of the Absurd.
The Dybbuk
The Dybbuk (Der dibek; Ha-Dibuk), also called Between Two Worlds, is S. An-ski's 1920 Yiddish play about Khonen's spirit possessing his beloved Leah, the most celebrated work of Yiddish and Hebrew theater.
The Elder Son
The Elder Son (Старший сын) is a 1967 two-act comedy by the Soviet playwright Alexander Vampilov, in which a student posing as a lonely father's lost son becomes part of the family.
The Emperor Jones
The Emperor Jones, premiered in 1920, is a landmark play by Eugene O'Neill featuring Brutus Jones, an African American lead, who rises to power on a small Caribbean island.
The End of the Golden Weather
The End of the Golden Weather is a 1959 solo drama by New Zealand playwright Bruce Mason, remembering one childhood summer in a fictional beachside town.
The Eternal Feminine
The Eternal Feminine (El eterno femenino) is a posthumous farce by Mexican writer Rosario Castellanos. Published in 1975, the play critiques sexism and explores feminine passivity.
The Eternal Living
The Eternal Living (Вечно живые) is a 1943 play by the Soviet dramatist Viktor Rozov about a Moscow family during the war, and it opened the Sovremennik Theatre in 1956.
The Eye-Opening of the Great Buddha
The Eye-Opening of the Great Buddha (Daibutsu Kaigen, 大仏開眼) is a 1940 Japanese historical drama by playwright Nagata Hideo, dramatizing the 752 eye-opening ceremony of the Tōdai-ji Great Buddha in Nara.
The Fallen Fruits
The Fallen Fruits (Los frutos caídos) is a three-act play by the Mexican dramatist Luisa Josefina Hernández, written in 1955 and premiered in Mexico City in 1957.
The Fantasticks
The Fantasticks, Off-Broadway musical by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt based on Rostand's Les Romanesques; opened 1960 at Sullivan Street Playhouse, ran 17,162 performances, world's longest-running musical, Broadway premiere 2026.
The Farafir
The Farafir (الفرافير, Al-Farāfīr) is a two-act comedy by the Egyptian writer Yusuf Idris, staged and published in 1964 and considered a watershed of Egyptian theater.
The Fate of a Cockroach
The Fate of a Cockroach (Arabic: مصير صرصار) is a 1966 three-act play by the Egyptian writer Tawfiq al-Hakim, combining absurdist symbolism with dark comedy.
The Father Returns
The Father Returns (Chichi kaeru) is a 1917 one-act Japanese play by Kikuchi Kan in which an abandoned father returns home and is refused forgiveness by his eldest son.
The Ferryman (play)
The Ferryman, Jez Butterworth's 2017 play directed by Sam Mendes, set on a 1981 County Armagh farm during the Troubles' hunger strikes; Royal Court, Gielgud and Broadway runs, Tony Award for Best Play, 2025 Dublin premiere.
The Fire and the Rain
The Fire and the Rain (Agni Mattu Male) is a 1998 play by Girish Karnad, adapted from his Kannada original and based on a Mahabharata myth.
The Firebird
The Firebird (L'Oiseau de feu, Жар-птица) is Stravinsky's 1910 one-act fairy-tale ballet for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, choreographed by Michel Fokine, premiered 25 June 1910 in Paris, with suites of 1911, 1919, and 1945.
The Flick
The Flick is a two-act dramatic comedy by Annie Baker, premiered at Playwrights Horizons in 2013, set in a Worcester, Massachusetts movie theater with a 35mm projector; it won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
The Floating World
The Floating World is a 1974 play by Australian playwright John Romeril about a former prisoner of war whose wartime trauma resurfaces on a cruise to Japan.
The Flying Wallendas
The Flying Wallendas: German-American circus family of high-wire aerialists performing without nets, founded by Karl Wallenda (1905–1978); famed for the seven-person pyramid, the 1962 Detroit tragedy, and continuing walks by Nik Wallenda.
The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (Бахчисарайский фонтан) (ballet)
The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (Бахчисарайский фонтан), Soviet dramballet after Pushkin's poem; music Asafyev, libretto Volkov, choreography Zakharov; premiered 28 September 1934 in Leningrad with Ulanova as Maria.
The Front Page
The Front Page is a 1928 Broadway comedy by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, set in a Chicago pressroom and credited with defining the hard-boiled reporter stereotype.
The Gamblers
The Gamblers (Igroki) is a one-act comedy by Nikolai Gogol about professional card sharps who fleece a fellow fraudster in a provincial tavern, brought to final form and published in 1842.
The Game of the Iele
The Game of the Iele (Jocul ielelor) is a 1916 drama by Romanian writer Camil Petrescu, the founding work of the drama of ideas in Romanian theater.
The Ghost Sonata
The Ghost Sonata (Spöksonaten) is a 1907 chamber play by Swedish playwright August Strindberg, widely considered a milestone of modern drama and a forerunner of expressionist and absurdist theater.
The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie is Tennessee Williams's 1944 memory play about the Wingfield family in St. Louis, premiering on Broadway in 1945 with Laurette Taylor and winning the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award.
The Gods Are Not to Blame
The Gods Are Not to Blame is a 1968 play by Nigerian playwright Ola Rotimi, adapting Sophocles' Oedipus Rex into a Yoruba setting in Kutuje, with King Odewale fulfilling a prophecy of patricide and incest; distinguished from later plays of similar titles by Alachi and Otun.
The Golden Age (Золотой век) (Shostakovich)
The Golden Age (Золотой век), Shostakovich's first ballet, Op. 22, premiered in Leningrad on 26 October 1930; a Soviet football-team plot, withdrawn after one season, revived by Grigorovich in 1982 and by the Mariinsky in 2006.