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1977
 
    
German author Botho Strauss's play Three Acts of Recognition wins him an international audience       
1979
 
    
Peter Shaffer's play about Mozart, Amadeus, has its premiere in London       
1980
 
    
US author Sam Shepard's play True West has its premiere in New York       
1982
 
     
Little Shop of Horrors, by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, opens in New York        
1982
 
    
Michael Frayn's farce Noises Off opens in London's West end       
1983
 
     
Ronald Harwood's play The Dresser is partly inspired by the British actor Donald Wolfit        
1987
 
    
Talking Heads, a series of dramatic monologues by English author Alan Bennett, is broadcast on British TV       
1987
 
     
Timberlake Wertenbaker bases her play Our Country's Good on Thomas Keneally's novel The Playmaker        
1988
 
     
M. Butterfly, by US author and composer David Henry Hwang, uses Puccini's opera as its inspiration        
1990
 
    
Racing Demon launches a trilogy on the British establishment by English playwright David Hare