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Even the stage has its shining examples.

See alsoTheatre Tropes. For the movies played in theatres, seeFilm.

Creators:

• Aeschylus
• Edward Albee
• Aristophanes
• Alan Ayckbourn
• Jon Robin Baitz
• Alan Ball
• Samuel Beckett
• Stephen Belber
• Robert Bolt
• Bertolt Brecht
• Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Fanny Burney
• Miguel de Cervantes
• Anton Chekhov
• Paul Claudel
• Jean Cocteau
• William Congreve
• Noël Coward
• Michael Cristofer
• Thomas Dekker (Playwright)
• Marriott Edgar
• Euripides
• Peter Fenton
• Georges Feydeau
• Harvey Fierstein
• John Ford (Playwright)
• Bob Fosse
• Jon Fosse
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Sacha Guitry
• Daniel Handler
• Lillian Hellman
• Ludvig Holberg
• William Dean Howells
• Langston Hughes
• Henrik Ibsen
• Eugène Ionesco
• Elizabeth Inchbald
• Ben Jonson
• Sarah Kane
• Dennis Kelly
• Sidney Kingsley
• Heinrich von Kleist
• Tony Kushner
• Neil LaBute
• Tracy Letts
• David Lindsay-Abaire
• Federico García Lorca
• Matthew López
• Jonathan Maitland
• David Mamet
• Gabriel Marcel
• Christopher Marlowe
• Philip Massinger
• Martin McDonagh
• Thomas Middleton
• Arthur Miller
• Molière
• Germain Muller
• Qui Nguyen
• Eugene O'Neill
• John Osborne
• Marcel Pagnol
• Gail Phaneuf
• Harold Pinter
• J. B. Priestley
• Alexander Pushkin
• Jean Racine
• William Rowley
• Friedrich Schiller
• Peter Shaffer
• William Shakespeare
• Ntozake Shange
• George Bernard Shaw
• Neil Simon
• Sophocles
• Tom Stoppard
• August Strindberg
• Chris Terrio
• Sue Townsend
• Lope de Vega
• John Webster
• Oscar Wilde
• Thornton Wilder
• Tennessee Williams

Creators of operas and musical theatre:

• Les Ballets Trockadero De Monte Carlo
• Leonard Bernstein
• Comden and Green
• Kevin Del Aguila
• George Gershwin
• Gilbert and Sullivan
• Marvin Hamlisch
• Joe Iconis
• Kander and Ebb
• Lerner and Loewe
• Andrew Lloyd Webber
• Robert Lopez
• Dave Malloy
• Lin-Manuel Miranda
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Anthony Newley
• Jacques Offenbach
• Pasek And Paul
• Cole Porter
• Giacomo Puccini
• Tim Rice
• Rodgers and Hammerstein
• Gioachino Rossini
• Stephen Schwartz
• Stephen Sondheim
• Giuseppe Verdi
• Richard Wagner

Theatrical Companies:

• American Shakespeare Center
• Blue Man Group
• Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
• Cirque du Soleil
• Crazy Horse
• Medieval Times Dinner And Tournament
• Mischief Theatre
• National Theatre
• Pirates Dinner Adventure
• Takarazuka Revue
• Team StarKid

Unions:

• Actors' Equity
• Equity

Other related pages:

• Broadway and the West End
• Fringe Festival

Alternative Title(s):Theater