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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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| 1951 |
| | | Gertrude Lawrence and Yul Brynner open on Broadway in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot ('En attendant Godot') is first performed in French in Paris | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Arthur Miller's play The Crucible uses the Salem witch trials as a metaphor for the contemporary paranoia of McCarthyism | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Tennessee Williams' play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opens on Broadway | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge is performed in New York | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Edna Everage, created by Australian satirist Barry Humphries, makes her first appearance in a Melbourne revue | |
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| 1956 |
| | | The musical My Fair Lady, by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, opens on Broadway | |
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| 1956 |
| | | The English Stage Company, founded by George Devine, opens in London's Royal Court Theatre | |
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| 1956 |
| | | The Visit, by Swiss dramatist Friedrich Dürrenmatt, has its premiere in Zürich | |
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