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| 1895 |
| | | Oscar Wilde's most brilliant comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest is performed in London's St. James Theatre | |
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| 1896 |
| | | Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull has a disastrous premiere in St Petersburg (but is well received two years later in Moscow) | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Chekhov's The Seagull, directed by Konstantin Stanislavsky, succeeds at the Moscow Art Theatre | |
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| 1900 |
| | | Anton Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya is directed by Stanislavsky at the Moscow Art Theatre | |
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| 1902 |
| | | The play Cathleen ni Houlihan, by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, fosters Irish nationalism | |
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| 1902 |
| | | Maxim Gorky's play The Lower Depths is performed at the Moscow Art Theatre | |
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| 1904 |
| | | Anton Chekhov's last play, The Cherry Orchard, is staged by Stanislavsky just a few months before the author's death | |
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| 1904 |
| | | J.M. Synge's play Riders to the Sea has its premiere at the Molesworth Hall in Dublin | |
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| 1904 |
| | | J.M Barrie's play for children Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up has its premiere in London | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Bernard Shaw has two new plays opening in London in the same year, Major Barbara and Man and Superman | |
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