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1892
 
    
Oscar Wilde's comedy Lady Windermere's Fan is a great success with audiences in London's St. James Theatre       
1892
 
    
W.B. Yeats publishes a short play The Countess Cathleen, his first contribution to Irish poetic drama       
1892
 
    
Bernard Shaw's first play, Widowers' Houses, deals with the serious social problem of slum landlords       
1892
 
    
Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck publishes his play Pelléas et Mélisande       
1895
 
    
Oscar Wilde's most brilliant comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest is performed in London's St. James Theatre       
1896
 
    
Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull has a disastrous premiere in St Petersburg (but is well received two years later in Moscow)       
1898
 
     
Chekhov's The Seagull, directed by Konstantin Stanislavsky, succeeds at the Moscow Art Theatre        
1898
 
   
5-year-old Mary Pickford plays her first professional role on stage      
1899
 
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A new theatre opens on the Green in Richmond, designed by a speciallist in theatre architecture, Frank Matcham See in Google maps   
Richmond Theatre


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1900
 
   
Isadora Duncan dances professionally for the first time in Europe in London's Lyceum Theatre      
Isadora Duncan, photograph, c.1915
Royal Collection

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