BROWSE History on Stage

Learn about important historical and societal events that relate to plays, musicals and operas.

Mythology & Folklore

Date Range: c. 550 BCE - c. 1100 CE

The Plantagenet Kings

Date Range: 1154-1485

The Scientific Revolution

Date Range: 1400-1700

The Tudor Monarchy

Date Range: 1485-1603

American Presidents

Date Range: 1776 - Present Day

Bohemianism

Date Range: c.1830 - 1930

Victorian London

Date Range: 1837-1901

The Women's Suffrage Movement

Date Range: 1840s - 1920

Victorian Woman Question

Date Range: 1860s-1900

The Wild West

Date Range: 1865 - c.1905

The Gilded Age

Date Range: c.1868 - 1900s

Russian Revolution

Date Range: 1880s - 1921

The Birth of Hollywood

Date Range: 1908 - 1930s

World War I

Date Range: 1914-1918

The Great Depression

Date Range: 1929-1939

World War II

Date Range: 1939-1945

Civil Rights Movement

Date Range: 1940s-1970s

1980s Recession

Date Range: 1978 - Late 1980s

AIDS Crisis

Date Range: 1981 - 2000s

September 11

Date Range: 2001