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| 1927 |
| | | Mae West is sentenced to eight days in gaol when Sex, written, produced and starred in by herself on Broadway, is judged to be obscene | |
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| 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 | |
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| 1928 |
| | | The Front Page, by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, has its premiere on Broadway | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Set in a World War I trench, the play Journey's End reflects the wartime experiences of its British author, R.C. Sherriff | |
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| 1929 |
| | | Vladimir Mayakovsky's play The Bedbug is directed in Moscow by Meyerhold with incidental music by Shostakovich | |
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| 1930 |
| | | US author Marc Connelly's play Green Pastures has its premiere on Broadway | |
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| 1930 |
| | | Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence star in the West End in Private Lives, Coward's comedy of marital complications | |
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| 1931 |
| | | The trilogy Mourning becomes Electra, Eugene O'Neill's transposition to New England of the Oresteia story, is performed in New York | |
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| 1932 |
| | | French playwright Jean Anouilh has his first play, L'Hermine, produced and published | |
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| 1933 |
| | | García Lorca writes his play Blood Wedding while he is director of a company touring in rural Spain | |
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