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A defining aspect of theatre of the 1920s was the development of jazz. [1] Jazz was credited with being the "first distinctively American art form to disseminate US culture, style, and modernity across the globe". [1] Jazz's spread across the globe also applied to American lives and art forms.
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March 15 – The Blue Flame, a four-act play by George V. Hobart and John Willard after Leta Vance Nicholson, opens at the Shubert Theatre (New York City) on Broadway before a year's U.S. tour. Though described by a critic as "one of the worst plays ever written," [3] it is a commercial success, largely due to Theda Bara as the central ...
These playwrights and many others within the United States went on to write quite successful expressionist plays including Lajos Egri's Rapid Transit (play), first premiering in 1927, [5] and Sophie Treadwell's Machinal, first premiering in 1928. [6] Expressionism in theatre and drama has also experienced success in China and Spain.
Period of Adjustment (1960), by Tennessee Williams; Peter and the Starcatcher (2009), by Rick Elice; The Petrified Forest (1935), by Robert E. Sherwood; The Piano Lesson (1987), by August Wilson; Picnic (1953), by William Inge; Pillar of Fire and Other Plays (1975), by Ray Bradbury; Play It Again, Sam (1969), by Woody Allen; Plaza Suite (1968 ...
The Battle of Hastings (play) Battle of Tippecanoe Outdoor Drama; Becket; The Belle of Amherst; A Bequest to the Nation; Bhopal (play) The Black Prince (play) Black Watch (play) Blood at the Root (play) Bloody Poetry; Bloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville Inquiry; Boesman and Lena; The Bomb (play) Bonduca; The Burning (play) Byzantium (play)