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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       
1947
 
     
Bertolt Brecht's play The Life of Galileo has its premiere in Los Angeles with Charles Laughton in the lead        
1947
 
     
Marlon Brando stars on Broadway in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar named Desire        
1947
 
    
J.B. Priestley challenges audiences with An Inspector Calls, a play in which moral guilt spreads like an infection       
1947
 
     
Jean-Louis Barrault and his wife Madeleine Renaud establish their own company at the Théâtre Marigny in Paris        
1948
 
    
Christopher Fry's verse drama The Lady's Not For Burning engages in high-spirited poetic word play       
1949
 
    
Death of a Salesman, by US playwright Arthur Miller, has its first performance in New York       
1949
 
     
The musical South Pacific, by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, opens on Broadway        
1949
 
     
Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munchin star as three US sailors on shore leave in the screen version of On the Town        
1949
 
    
Bertolt Brecht establishes a new theatrical company, the Berliner Ensemble, in East Germany