- 2000: Wrote the Broadway comedy "Taller Than a Dwarf"
- 2000: Resumed screen acting career with role in Woody Allen's "Small Time Crooks"
- 1998: Returned to Off-Broadway as playwright and star (with daughter Berlin) of "Power Plays"; also co-starred opposite Alan Arkin
- 1998: Wrote "Primary Colors", directed by Nichols; earned second Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar nomination
- 1996: Scripted Nichols-directed "The Birdcage", an Americanization of the French farce "La Cage aux folles"
- 1991: Wrote play, "Mr. Gogol and Mr. Preen", presented at the Mitzi E Newhouse Theater, Lincoln Center
- 1990: Acted with daughter Berlin in "In the Spirit", co-scripted by Berlin; film also reteamed her with Falk
- 1987: Scripted and helmed "Ishtar", reteaming her with Beatty and Hoffman; also co-wrote songs
- 1983: Directed stage productions of "The Disappearance of the Jews", "Gorilla" and "Hotline", all at Chicago's Goodman Theatre
- 1982: Made uncredited contribution to the screenplay of "Tootsie", starring Dustin Hoffman
- 1980: Reunited with Nichols to co-star in stage production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut; Nichols had directed the 1966 movie version starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton
- 1978: Co-wrote the remake "Heaven Can Wait" with Warren Beatty (who produced, co-directed with Buck Henry and starred); received first Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay
- 1978: Reteamed with Walter Matthau as co-stars in one segment of Herbert Ross' "California Suite"; screenplay written by Neil Simon based on his play
- 1976: Third film, "Mikey and Nicky", starring Falk and John Cassavetes, taken away by studio (Paramount) when editing process dragged on; Paramount cut film and released it; a director's cut was later screened at the 1980 Toronto Film Festival
- 1972: Helmed "The Heartbreak Kid", adapted by Neil Simon from a Bruce Jay Friedman story; reportedly provided uncredited polish on script; daughter Jeannie Berlin played the part of the dumped spouse and earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination
- 1971: Film writing and directing debut, "A New Leaf"; also starred opposite Walter Matthau as a terminally klutzy and unworldly botanist and heiress
- 1971: Wrote Otto Preminger's "Such Good Friends" under pseudonym Esther Dale; adapted from Lois Gould's novel
- 1969: Wrote "Adaptation", performed Off-Broadway on double bill with Terrence McNally's "Next" under title "Adaptation-Next"; also directed
- 1967: Film acting debut in "Enter Laughing"; also acted in that year's "Luv", her first association with Peter Falk
- 1964: Stage directing debut, "The Third Ear"
- 1962: Ended creative partnership with Nichols
- 1962: Off-Broadway debut as playwright, "Not Enough Rope"; also wrote "A Matter of Position", performed at Philadelphia's Walnut Street Theatre
- 1960: Broadway debut in "An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May", directed by Arthur Penn
- 1959: Quit TV series "Laugh Line" (NBC) after three weeks
- 1957: Moved to NYC with Mike Nichols; began appearing in Greenwich Village nightclubs
- 1957: TV debut (with Nichols), "The Jack Parr Show" (NBC)
- 1942: Moved to Los Angeles after death of father
- 1938: Began appearing on stage in father's productions
- 1938: Worked as child radio actress
- Was member of the ground-breaking improvisational troupe, The Compass Players (members included Mike Nichols and Alan Arkin)
- Was panelist on the CBS audience participation quiz show "Keep Talking"
- Settled in Chicago
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