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| 1956 |
| | | Eugene O'Neill's searing account of tensions within his own family, Long Day's Journey into Night, has its premiere in Stockholm | |
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| 1956 |
| | | John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger features in the first season of London's new English Stage Company | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Laurence Olivier brings the music-hall artist Archie Rice vibrantly to life in John Osborne's The Entertainer | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins and Stephen Sondheim create the Broadway musical West Side Story | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Irish dramatist Brendan Behan's play The Hostage is produced in Dublin | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Chicken Soup with Barley begins a trilogy by English playwright Arnold Wesker | |
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| 1958 |
| | | The Fire Raisers, by Swiss dramatist Max Frisch, is performed in Zürich | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Nigerian dramatist Wole Soyinka's play The Swamp Dwellers is produced in London | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Harold Pinter's first play in London's West End, The Birthday Party, closes in less than a week | |
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| 1959 |
| | | West Indian poet and playwright Derek Walcott founds the Trinidad Theatre Workshop | |
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