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| 1950 |
| | | French dramatist Eugène Ionesco's play The Bald Prima Donna launches the Theatre of the Absurd | |
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| 1950 |
| | | Anton Dolin and Alicia Markova form the Festival Ballet, in time for next year's Festival of Britain | |
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| 1950 |
| | | Kirsten Flagstad sings the posthumous premiere, in London, of Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs | |
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| 1951 |
| | | Elia Kazan directs Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando in the film of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire | |
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| 1951 |
| | | Gertrude Lawrence and Yul Brynner open on Broadway in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I | |
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| 1951 |
| | | In Christ of St John of the CrossSalvador Dali paints an image of the crucified Christ seeming to fly on his cross | |
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| 1951 |
| | | British-Canadian choreographer Celia Franca founds the National Ballet of Canada | |
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| 1951 |
| | | John Huston directs Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn in The African Queen, based on a C.S. Forester story | |
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| 1951 |
| | | The Rake's Progress, with music by Igor Stravinsky and libretto by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman, has its premiere in Venice | |
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| 1951 |
| | | Japanese film director Kurosawa Akira makes an international reputation with Rashomon | |
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