Portal:Theatre/Selected anniversaries/June

June 1643 – Molière, considered one of the greatest comedic playwrights in the Western tradition, left his prosperous family and embarked on a theatrical career
6 June 1954 - Birth of Harvey Fierstein, a Tony Award winning American actor and playwright
10 June 1911 - Birth of Terence Rattigan, a British dramatist whose plays include The Browning Version and The Deep Blue Sea
18 June 1979 – Death of Rodolfo Usigli, "the playwright of the Mexican Revolution"
20 June 1703 – Premiere of The Love Suicides at Sonezaki by Chikamatsu Monzaemon (pictured), often considered the greatest Japanese dramatist
21 June 1737 – Licensing Act of 1737 passed, a landmark act of censorship, which gave the Lord Chamberlain the power to approve plays to be staged in England
24 June 1924 – Birth of Efua Sutherland, a foundational figure in modern Ghanaian drama
28 June 1867 - Birth of Luigi Pirandello, the Nobel Prize winning Italian writer of Six Characters in Search of an Author and many other plays