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| 1942 |
| | | Thornton Wilder's play The Skin of our Teeth has a mixed reception at its New Haven premiere | |
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| 1943 |
| | | Jean-Paul Sartre begins a new career as a dramatist with his first play, The Flies ('Les Mouches') | |
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| 1945 |
| | | US dramatist Tennessee Williams has his first success with The Glass Menagerie | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, set in a down-and-out bar of the kind he had known in his youth, is performed in New York | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Bertolt Brecht's play The Life of Galileo has its premiere in Los Angeles with Charles Laughton in the lead | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Marlon Brando stars on Broadway in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar named Desire | |
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| 1947 |
| | | J.B. Priestley challenges audiences with An Inspector Calls, a play in which moral guilt spreads like an infection | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Christopher Fry's verse drama The Lady's Not For Burning engages in high-spirited poetic word play | |
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| 1948 |
| | | George Balanchine's New York City Ballet becomes the resident company in the City Center for Music and Drama | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Death of a Salesman, by US playwright Arthur Miller, has its first performance in New York | |
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