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Events relating to theatre
Vladimir Mayakovsky's play The Bedbug is directed in Moscow by Meyerhold with incidental music by Shostakovich
US author Marc Connelly's play Green Pastures has its premiere on Broadway
Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence star in the West End in Private Lives, Coward's comedy of marital complications
The trilogy Mourning becomes Electra, Eugene O'Neill's transposition to New England of the Oresteia story, is performed in New York
Harold Clurman and Lee Strasberg's Group Theatre present their first professional production, The House of Connelly by Paul Green
French playwright Jean Anouilh has his first play, L'Hermine, produced and published
George Balanchine, Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht collaborate in Paris on Seven Deadly Sins, a ballet with songs
García Lorca writes his play Blood Wedding while he is director of a company touring in rural Spain
Dmitry Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District has its premiere in Leningrad's Maly Theatre
In Lillian Hellman's play The Children's Hour two teachers are maliciously accused of lesbianism by one of their pupils
T.S. Eliot's play Murder in the Cathedral has its first performance in Canterbury cathedral
García Lorca writes his play The House of Bernarda Alba in the last year of his short life
Paul Robeson sings 'Ol' Man River' in the film of Jerome Kern's Showboat
Terence Rattigan's first play, French without Tears, is performed in London
Thornton Wilder's play Our Town opens on Broadway
American Ballet Theatre, directed by Lucia Chase and Richard Pleasant, begins its first season in New York
Gene Kelly makes his name on Broadway in the Rodgers and Hart musical Pal Joey
British actors Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier marry
US choreographer Agnes de Mille creates Black Ritual for American Ballet Theatre
Bertolt Brecht's play set in the Thirty Years' War, Mother Courage, has its first performance in Zurich
Thornton Wilder's play The Skin of our Teeth has a mixed reception at its New Haven premiere
The musical Oklahoma! launches the partnership of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Jean-Paul Sartre begins a new career as a dramatist with his first play, The Flies ('Les Mouches')
Fancy Free becomes On the Town, a Broadway musical by Leonard Bernstein, directed by Jerome Robbins
US dramatist Tennessee Williams has his first success with The Glass Menagerie
