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Events relating to theatre
Irish dramatist Brendan Behan's play The Hostage is produced in Dublin
Chicken Soup with Barley begins a trilogy by English playwright Arnold Wesker
The Fire Raisers, by Swiss dramatist Max Frisch, is performed in Zürich
Nigerian dramatist Wole Soyinka's play The Swamp Dwellers is produced in London
Harold Pinter's first play in London's West End, The Birthday Party, closes in less than a week
West Indian poet and playwright Derek Walcott founds the Trinidad Theatre Workshop
A group of dancers leave the Netherlands Ballet and establish their own Netherlands Dance Theatre in The Hague
Harold Pinter's second play in London's West End, The Caretaker, immediately brings him an international reputation
William Gibson's play The Miracle Worker dramatizes the extraordinary story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan
The English revue Beyond the Fringe has its premiere at the Edinburgh Festival
Paul Scofield plays Thomas More in Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons
US dramatist Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opens on Broadway
Fiddler on the Roof, based on a novel by Sholom Aleichem, opens on Broadway with Zero Mostel playing Tevye the Milkman
Neil Simon's play The Odd Couple is produced in New York
Austrian author Peter Handke provokes interest with his first play Offending the Audience
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, by Tom Stoppard, is produced at the Edinburgh Festival
English playwright Alan Ayckbourn has his first success with Relatively Speaking
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, by English dramatist Peter Nichols, has its premiere in London
Barbara Streisand repeats her Broadway performance in the film of Funny Girl
Italian playwright Dario Fo's black comedy Accidental Death of an Anarchist has its premiere in Milan
The Dance Theatre of Harlem, founded by Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook, gives its first performance at the Guggenheim Museum in New York
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar is staged a year after being released as a record
English dramatist Caryl Churchill's first play, Owners, is produced in London
A Little Night Music, with lyrics and music by Stephen Sondheim, has its premiere in New York
Czech choreographer Jiri Kylián becomes director of the Netherlands Dance Theatre in The Hague
