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

Britain's new National Theatre, designed by Denys Lasdun, opens on the South Bank in London,