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1925
 
     
The Broadway revue Garrick Gaieties is the first big success for Rodgers and Hart        
1925
 
   
African-American singer and dancer Josephine Baker is jazz hot in La Revue Nègre in Paris      
1927
 
     
Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill write Mahagonny Songspiel for the Baden-Baden music festival        
1927
 
    
DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy, dramatized with a new title by himself and his wife Dorothy, has a great success on Broadway and in London       
1927
 
     
Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern open on Broadway with an immensely influential American musical, Show Boat        
1928
 
     
The Front Page, by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, has its premiere on Broadway        
1928
 
     
The Threepenny Opera, by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, opens to great acclaim in Berlin        
1928
 
    
Set in a World War I trench, the play Journey's End reflects the wartime experiences of its British author, R.C. Sherriff       
1929
 
     
Vladimir Mayakovsky's play The Bedbug is directed in Moscow by Meyerhold with incidental music by Shostakovich        
1930
 
    
US author Marc Connelly's play Green Pastures has its premiere on Broadway