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1900
 
   
Isadora Duncan dances professionally for the first time in Europe in London's Lyceum Theatre      
Isadora Duncan, photograph, c.1915
Royal Collection

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1900
 
    
Scottish music-hall artist Harry Lauder makes his first London appearance at Gatti's music hall in Westminster       
Sheet music cover for Harry Lauder, c.1905


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1900
 
     
David Belasco's play Madame Butterfly has its premiere in New York, and is subsequently seen in London by Giacomo Puccini        
1900
 
     
Anton Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya is directed by Stanislavsky at the Moscow Art Theatre        
1901
 
     
Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters has its premiere at the Moscow Art Theatre, directed by Stanislavsky        
1902
 
     
The play Cathleen ni Houlihan, by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, fosters Irish nationalism        
1902
 
    
Maxim Gorky's play The Lower Depths is performed at the Moscow Art Theatre       
1902
 
    
W.B. Yeats heads a group of writers and directors in establishing the Irish National Theatre Society       
1903
 
    
The Wizard of Oz, based on the book by Frank Baum, opens on Broadway as a musical to huge success       
1904
 
     
Anton Chekhov's last play, The Cherry Orchard, is staged by Stanislavsky just a few months before the author's death