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1930
 
     
Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence star in the West End in Private Lives, Coward's comedy of marital complications        
1931
 
     
The trilogy Mourning becomes Electra, Eugene O'Neill's transposition to New England of the Oresteia story, is performed in New York        
1931
 
     
Harold Clurman and Lee Strasberg's Group Theatre present their first professional production, The House of Connelly by Paul Green        
1932
 
    
French playwright Jean Anouilh has his first play, L'Hermine, produced and published       
1933
 
     
George Balanchine, Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht collaborate in Paris on Seven Deadly Sins, a ballet with songs        
1933
 
    
García Lorca writes his play Blood Wedding while he is director of a company touring in rural Spain       
1934
 
    
Dmitry Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District has its premiere in Leningrad's Maly Theatre       
1934
 
    
In Lillian Hellman's play The Children's Hour two teachers are maliciously accused of lesbianism by one of their pupils       
1935
 
    
T.S. Eliot's play Murder in the Cathedral has its first performance in Canterbury cathedral       
1936
 
    
García Lorca writes his play The House of Bernarda Alba in the last year of his short life