Portal:Theatre/Selected anniversaries/December


 * 3 December 1947 – Premiere of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948
 * 6 December 1718 – Birth of Nicholas Rowe, an English playwright and poet who was the first editor of the works of William Shakespeare
 * 7 December 1948 – Birth of Pearl Cleage, an African-American novelist, playwright, and drama teacher
 * 14 December 1925 – Premiere of the modern opera Wozzeck by Alban Berg
 * 16 December 1972 – Premiere of Vijay Tendulkar's Ghashiram Kotwal, a classic of modern Indian theatre
 * 26 December 1606 – First known performance of the play King Lear, a tragedy by William Shakespeare based on the legendary King Lear of the Britons
 * 27 December 1927 – Broadway premiere of Show Boat by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, called "the greatest step forward in musical theatre"
 * 28 December 1598 – The Theatre was disassembled and rebuilt as the Globe Theatre (pictured) in London