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Abbott, George (Francis)
Abell, Kjeld
Absurd, Theatre of the
Actors Studio, The
Adamov, Arthur
Adler, Stella
Agate, James (Evershed)
Albery FAMILY
alienation effect
Álvarez Quintero, Serafín and Joaquín
Ames, Winthrop
Anouilh, Jean(-Marie-Lucien-Pierre)
Arden, John
Artaud, Antonin
Ashwell, Lena
Bahr, Hermann
Bajor, Gizi
Baker, George Pierce
Barrault, Jean-Louis
Baty, Gaston
Baylis, Lilian Mary
Belasco, David
Bellamy, Ralph
Benson, Sir Frank
Bentley, Eric (Russell)
Berliner Ensemble
biomechanics
black theatre
Bloomgarden, Kermit
Brady, William A(loysius)
Brahm, Otto
Brecht, Bertolt
Broadway
Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)
Bryceland, Yvonne
Burian, Emil Frantisek
Cochran, Sir Charles Blake
Cook, George Cram
Copeau, Jacques
Coward, Sir Noël (Peirce)
Cowl, Jane
Craig, Edward Gordon
Cruelty, Theatre of
Dürrenmatt, Friedrich
Eltinge, Julian
environmental theatre
epic theatre
Ervine, Saint John (Greer)
Expressionism
Fact, Theatre of
Ffrangcon-Davies, Dame Gwen
Fiske, Harrison Grey
Fo, Dario
Fugard, Athol
Gascon, Jean
Gate Theatre
Gelber, Jack
Genet, Jean
Gielgud, Sir (Arthur) John
Glaspell, Susan
Granville-Barker, Harley
Gregory, Isabella Augusta, Lady
Grein, Jack Thomas
Grotowski, Jerzy
Group Theatre
Guitry, Sacha
Guthrie, Sir (William) Tyrone
Hall, Sir Peter (Reginald Frederick)
Hampden, Walter
Hare, David
Harvey, Sir John Martin
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von
Horniman, Annie (Elizabeth Fredericka)
Houseman, John
Ionesco, Eugène
Jarry, Alfred
Jessel, George (Albert)
Jessner, Leopold
Jouvet, Louis
Kamerny Theatre
Kaminska, Ida
Kaufman, George S(imon)
Kirkwood, James
Koch, Frederick Henry
Komisarjevsky, Theodore
Komissarzhevskaya, Vera Fyodorovna, COUNTESS (Grafinya) MURAVYOVA
Kortner, Fritz
Lawler, Ray
Le Gallienne, Eva
Le Poulain, Jean
Leonidov, Leonid Mironovich
Lindsay, Howard; and Crouse, Russel
little theatre
Littlewood, Joan (Maud)
Living Newspaper
Living Theatre, The
Longford, Edward Arthur Henry Pakenham, 6th earl of
Lugné-Poe, Aurélien-François-Marie
Lunt, Alfred; and Fontanne, Lynn
Lupino FAMILY
Lyubimov, Yury Petrovich
MacKaye, Percy
MacLiammóir, Micheál
Marsh, Ngaio
Martínez Sierra, Gregorio
Martyn, Edward
Merrick, David
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Mielziner, Jo
Miles, Bernard
Morris, William
Moscow Academic Art Theatre
Nathan, George Jean
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Okhlopkov, Nikolay Pavlovich
Old Vic
Olivier, Laurence (Kerr), BARON OLIVIER OF BRIGHTON
Osborne, John (James)
Palmer, (Edward) Vance
Papp, Joseph
Pasadena Playhouse
Pirandello, Luigi
Piscator, Erwin
Pitoëff, Georges
Prince, Harold (Smith)
Provincetown Players
Quintero, José (Benjamin)
Reinhardt, Max
Rice, Elmer
Robinson, (Esmé Stuart) Lennox
Rose, Billy
Royal Shakespeare Company
Saint-Denis, Michel
Schary, Dore
Shubert BROTHERS
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Skinner, Cornelia Otis
Stanislavsky, Konstantin (Sergeyevich)
Stanislavsky method
Strasberg, Lee
Suassuna, Ariano
Tairov, Aleksandr Yakovlevich
Teirlinck, Herman (Louis-Cesar)
Theatre Guild
Théâtre National Populaire
theatricalism
Vakhtangov, Yevgeny Bagrationovich
Valli, Romolo
vaudeville
Vilar, Jean
Wedekind, Frank
WPA Federal Theatre Project
Xirgu, Margarita
Yeats, William Butler
Zavadsky, Yury Alexandrovich
Ziegfeld, Florenz