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1904
 
    
J.M. Synge's play Riders to the Sea has its premiere at the Molesworth Hall in Dublin       
1904
 
    
Hughie Cannon writes the music and words for the song originally titled "He Done Me Wrong" in the US musical Frankie and Johnny       
1904
 
    
J.M Barrie's play for children Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up has its premiere in London       
1904
 
    
Dublin's Abbey Theatre opens as a new home for the Irish National Theatre Society       
1905
 
     
David Belasco's play Girl of the Golden West has its premiere in New York, where it is seen two years later by Giacomo Puccini        
1905
 
    
Bernard Shaw has two new plays opening in London in the same year, Major Barbara and Man and Superman       
1905
 
    
The designer Edward Gordon Craig publishes a theatrical manifesto, The Art of the Theatre       
1906
 
    
17-year-old Charlie Chaplin joins the Fred Karno company, touring slapstick comedy       
1906
 
    
6-year-old Fred Astaire and his sister Adele give their first professional performance, in the pier theatre in Keyport, New Jersey       
1907
 
    
J.M. Synge's Playboy of the Western World provokes violent reactions at its Dublin premiere