An authoritative reference covering primarily actors, playwrights, directors, styles and movements, companies and organizations.

Table of Contents

• Preface and principles
• Editors and contributors
• Note to the reader
• A
• Abbey Theatre
• Abbott, George (1889–1995)
• Abdoh, Reza (1963–95)
• Abe Kōbō (1924–93)
• abhinaya
• Abington, Fanny (Frances) (1737–1815)
• absurd, theatre of the
• Achurch, Janet (1864–1916)
• Ackermann family
• Acquart, André (1922– )
• Acquaye, Saka (1923–2007)
• acrobatics
• acting/actor
• action
• actor
• actor-manager
• Actors Studio
• Actors Theatre of Louisville
• Adam de la Halle (Adam Le Bossu) (c.1240–c.1288)
• Adamov, Arthur (1908–70)
• Adams, Maude (1872–1953)
• Addison, Joseph (1672–1719)
• Adler, Jacob P. (1855–1926)
• Adler, Stella (1901–92)
• Admiral's Men, Lord
• Aeschylus (c.525–456 bc)
• African-American theatre
• agitprop
• agon
• Aguirre, Isidora (1919–2011)
• Ainley, Henry (1879–1945)
• Ajoka
• Akalaitis, JoAnne (1937– )
• Akimoto Matsuyo (1911–2001)
• Albee, Edward (1928– )
• Albee, Edward Franklin
• Albery, James (1838–89)
• Alcalá de Henares, Corral de
• Aldridge, Ira (1807–67)
• Aleichem, Sholem (Sholem Rabinowitz) (1859–1916)
• Aleotti, Giovan Battista (1546–1636)
• Alexander, George (1858–1918)
• Alfieri, Vittorio (1749–1803)
• Alfreds, Mike (1934– )
• alienation effect
• Alkazi, Ebrahim (1925– )
• Allalou (Sellali Ali) (1902–?)
• Allen, Gracie
• Alleyn, Edward (1566–1626)
• Allgood, Sara (1883–1950)
• Allio, René (1924–95)
• Alloula, Abdalkder (1923–94)
• Almagro, Corral de
• Alonso, José Luis (1924–90)
• Alonso de Santos, José Luis (1942– )
• Alsina, Arturo (1897–1984)
• Álvarez Quintero, Serafín (1871–1938) Joaquín Álvarez Quintero (1873–1944) Spanish playwrights.
• American Repertory Theatre (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
• Ames, Winthrop (1871–1937)
• amphitheatre
• amusement arcades
• anagnorisis
• Anderson, Judith (1898–1992)
• Anderson, Laurie (1947– )
• Anderson, Mary (1859–1940)
• Anderson, Maxwell (1889–1959)
• Anderson, Robert (1917–2009)
• Andreev, Leonid (1871–1919)
• Andreini family
• angura
• animal fights (venationes)
• animals
• ankiya nat
• Anouilh, Jean (1910–87)
• antagonist
• antiquarianism
• anti-theatrical polemic
• Antoine, André (1858–1943)
• Appia, Adolphe (1862–1924)
• applause
• Arbuzov, Aleksei (1908–86)
• Archer, William (1856–1924)
• architecture of theatres
• Arden, John (1930–2012)
• Arena Stage
• Aretino, Pietro (1492–1556)
• Argüelles, Hugo (1932–2003)
• Ariosto, Ludovico (1474–1533)
• Aristophanes (c.448–c.380 bc)
• Aristotle (384–322 bc)
• Arlecchino
• Arlen, Harold (1905–86)
• Armfield, Neil (1955– )
• Armin, Robert (c.1568–1615)
• Aronson, Boris (1898–1980)
• Arrabal, Fernando (1932– )
• Art, Théâtre d’
• Artaud, Antonin (1896–1948)
• artistic director
• Artists of Dionysus
• Asakura Setsu (1922– )
• Asch, Solomon (Sholem Asch) (1880–1957)
• Asche, Oscar (1871–1936)
• Ashcroft, Peggy (1907–91)
• Ashwell, Lena (1869–1957)
• Asian-American theatre
• Astaire, Fred (1899–1987) and Adele Astaire (1898–1981)
• Astley's Amphitheatre
• Atkins, Eileen (1934– )
• Atkins, Robert (1886–1972)
• Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh) (1907–73)
• Audiberti, Jacques (1899–1965)
• audience
• auditorium
• Augier, Émile (1820–89)
• auto sacramental
• avant-garde
• Avignon Festival
• Ayckbourn, Alan (1939– )
• Aylmer, Felix (1889–1979)
• B
• Babel, Isaak (1894–1941)
• Bacheterzi, Mahieddine (1896–1985)
• Bahr, Hermann (1863–1934)
• baiting
• Baker, George Pierce (1866–1935)
• Baker, Josephine (1906–75)
• Bakst, Leon (1866–1924)
• Balanchine, George (1904–83)
• Baldwin, James (1924–87)
• Bale, John (1495–1563)
• Balgandharva (1888–1967)
• Ball, William (1931–91)
• ballad opera
• ballet
• Ballets Russes, Les (de Serge Diaghilev)
• Bancroft, Squire (1841–1926)
• Bandō Tamasaburō V (1950– )
• bangsawan
• Baraka, Imamu Amiri (LeRoi Jones) (1934–2014)
• Barba, Eugenio (1936– )
• Barbeau, Jean (1945– )
• Barberio Corsetti, Giorgio (1951– )
• baris
• Barker, Harley Granville (1877–1946)
• Barker, Howard (1946– )
• Barker, James Nelson (1784–1859)
• Barnes, Peter (1931–2004)
• Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor) (1810–91)
• Baron (Michel Boyron) (1653–1729)
• barong
• Barraca, La
• Barrault, Jean-Louis (1910–94)
• Barrett, Lawrence (1838–91)
• Barrett, Wilson (1846–1904)
• Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) (1860–1937)
• Barry, Elizabeth (c.1658–1713)
• Barry, Philip (1896–1949)
• Barry, Sebastian (1955– )
• Barry, Spranger (1719–77)
• Barrymore family
• Barsacq, André (1909–73)
• Bart, Lionel (1930–99)
• Barton, John (1928– )
• Bassermann, Albert (1867–1952)
• Bateman family
• Bates, Alan (1934–2003)
• Baty, Gaston (1885–1952)
• Bauer, Wolfgang (1941–2005)
• Bauhaus
• Bausch, Pina (1940–2009)
• Baylis, Lilian (1874–1937)
• Bayreuth Festival
• Beale, Simon Russell (1961– )
• bear-baiting
• Beaton, Cecil (1904–80)
• Beatty, John Lee (1948– )
• Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de (1732–99)
• Beaumont, Francis (c.1584–1616)
• Beaumont, Hugh (1908–73)
• Beck, Julian (1925–85)
• Beckett, Samuel (1906–89)
• Becque, Henri (1837–99)
• Beeston, Christopher (c.1580–1639)
• Behan, Brendan (1923–64)
• Behn, Aphra (1640–89)
• Behrman, S. N. (Samuel Nathaniel) (1893–1973)
• Beier, Karin (1965– )
• Beijing opera
• Béjart family
• Belasco, David (1853–1931)
• Belbel, Sergi (1963– )
• Bel Geddes, Norman (1893–1958)
• Bell, John (1940– )
• Bellamy, George Ann (c.1727–88)
• Belleroche
• Bellotti-Bon, Luigi (1820–83)
• Bemba, Sylvain (1934–95)
• Ben-Ami, Jacob (1890–1977)
• Benavente, Jacinto (1866–1954)
• Ben Ayed, Ali (1930–72)
• Bene, Carmelo (1937–2002)
• benefit performance
• Benelli, Sem (1877–1949)
• Benet i Jornet, Josep M. (1940– )
• Bennett, Alan (1934– )
• Bennett, Arnold (1867–1931)
• Bennett, Michael (1943–87)
• Benois, Alexandre (1870–1960)
• Benson, Frank (1858–1939)
• Benthall, Michael (1919–74)
• Bentley, Eric (1916– )
• Berain, Jean (1637–1711)
• Bérard, Christian (1902–49)
• Berghaus, Ruth (1927–96)
• Berghof, Herbert (1909–90)
• Bergman, Ingmar (1918–2007)
• Bergner, Elisabeth (1897–1986)
• Berkoff, Steven (1937– )
• Berlin, Irving (1888–1989)
• Berliner Ensemble
• Berman, Sabina (1953– )
• Bernhard, Thomas (1931–89)
• Bernhardt, Sarah (1844–1923)
• Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598–1680)
• Bernstein, Leonard (1918–90)
• Besson, Benno (1922–2006)
• Betsuyaku Minoru (1937– )
• Betterton, Mary (c.1637–1712)
• Betterton, Thomas (c.1635–1710)
• Betti, Ugo (1892–1953)
• Bhaduri, Sisir (1889–1959)
• bhagavata mela
• bhand
• Bharata Muni
• Bhasa (c. fourth century ad)
• Bhattacharya, Bijon (1915–78)
• Bhavabhuti (c. seventh century ad)
• Biancolelli family
• Bibiena family
• biblical plays
• Bickerstaffe, Isaac (1735–1812)
• Bieito, Calixto (1963– )
• Binodini Dasi (c.1863–1941)
• biomechanics
• Birmingham Repertory Theatre
• Bjørnson, Bjørn (1859–1942)
• Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne (1832–1910)
• Björnson, Maria (1949–2002)
• Black, Stephen (1880–1931)
• blackface
• Blackfriars Theatre
• Blake, Eubie (1883–1983)
• Blakely, Colin (1930–87)
• Blakemore, Michael (1928– )
• Blau, Herbert (1926–2013)
• Blauwe Maandag Compagnie
• Blin, Roger (1907–84)
• Blitzstein, Marc (1905–64)
• Blok, Aleksandr (1880–1921)
• Bloom, Claire (1931– )
• Boal, Augusto (1931–2009)
• Boar's Head
• Bocage (Pierre-Martinien Tousez) (1797–1863)
• Bock, Jerry (1928–2010)
• Bogart, Anne (1953– )
• Bogdanov, Michael (1938– )
• Bogosian, Eric (1953– )
• Boleslavsky, Richard Valentinovich (1889–1937)
• Bolger, Ray (1904–87)
• Bolt, Robert (1924–95)
• Bolton, Guy (1883–1979)
• Bond, Edward (1934– )
• Bondy, Luc (1948–2015)
• booing
• Booth, Barton (1681–1733)
• Booth, Edwin (1833–93)
• Booth, John Wilkes (1839–65)
• Booth, Junius Brutus (1796–1852)
• Booth, Shirley (1898–1992)
• booth stage
• Borovsky, David (1934–2006)
• Boublil, Alain (1938– ) Claude-Michel Schönberg (1944– ) French lyricist and composer team.
• Bouchard, Michel Marc (1958– )
• Bouchardy, Joseph (1810–70)
• Boucicault, Dion (1822–1890)
• boulevard theatre
• bourgeois theatre
• box, pit, and gallery
• box set
• boy actor
• Bracegirdle, Anne (c.1673–1748)
• Brahm, Otto (1856–1912)
• Braithwaite, Lilian (1873–1948)
• Branagh, Kenneth (1960– )
• Brando, Marlon (1924–2004)
• Braun, Volker (1939– )
• Braunshweig, Stéphane (1964– )
• Bread and Puppet Theatre
• Brecht, Bertolt (1898–1956)
• Bredero, Gerbrant Adriaenszoon (1585–1618)
• breeches role
• Brenton, Howard (1942– )
• Breth, Andrea (1952– )
• Breuer, Lee (1937– )
• Brewster, Yvonne (1938– )
• Brice, Fanny (1891–1951)
• Bridges-Adams, William (1889–1965)
• Bridie, James (Osborne Henry Mavor) (1884–1951)
• Brie, Mlle de (1630–1706)
• Brieux, Eugène (1858–1932)
• Brighouse, Harold (1882–1958)
• Brome, Richard (c.1590–c.1653)
• Brook, Peter (1925– )
• Brown, John Russell (1923–2015)
• Brown, William Henry (fl. 1820s)
• Browne, E. Martin (1900–80)
• Browne, Maurice (1881–1955)
• Brustein, Robert (1927– )
• Bryceland, Yvonne (1925–92)
• Bryden, Bill (1942– )
• Bsissou, Mouyin (1927–84)
• Büchner, Georg (1813–37)
• Buckingham, 2nd Duke of (George Villiers) (1628–87)
• Buckstone, John Baldwin (1802–79)
• Buenaventura, Enrique (1925–2003)
• Buero-Vallejo, Antonio (1916–2000)
• bugaku
• buildings
• Bulgakov, Mikhail (1891–1940)
• bull-baiting
• Bullins, Ed (1935– )
• Bulwer-Lytton, Edward (1803–73)
• bunraku
• Buontalenti, Bernardo (1531–1608)
• Burbage, James (c.1530–1597)
• Burbage, Richard (c.1568–1619)
• Burgos, Jerónima de (c.1580–1641)
• Burgtheater
• Burian, Emil Frantis̆ek (1904–59)
• burlesque
• burletta
• Burns, George (Nathan Birnbaum) (1896–1996) and Gracie Allen (1895–1964)
• Burrows, Abe (1910–85)
• Burton, Richard (1925–84)
• Burton, William E. (1804–60)
• Bury, John (1925–2000)
• Busch, Ernst (1900–80)
• busker
• butoh
• Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788–1824)
• Byron, Henry James (1834–84)
• C
• cabaret
• Cabrujas, José Ignacio (1937–95)
• café-concert
• Caffe Cino
• Caird, John (1948– )
• Calderón de la Barca, Pedro (1600–81)
• Caldwell, Zoë (1934– )
• Callow, Simon (1949– )
• Calmo, Andrea (1509–71)
• Cambridge Festival Theatre
• Campbell, Ken (1941–2008)
• Campbell, Mrs Patrick (Beatrice Stella Tanner) (1865–1940)
• Campesino, El Teatro
• Camus, Albert (1913–60)
• canjun xi (ts’an-chün his)
• Cantor, Eddie (1892–1964)
• Cao Yu (Ts’ao Yü) (1910–96)
• C̆apek, Karel (1890–1938)
• Capuana, Luigi (1839–1915)
• Carballido, Emilio (1925–2008)
• Cariou, Len (1939– )
• Carnovsky, Morris (1897–1992)
• Carr, Marina (1964– )
• Carraro, Tino (1910–95)
• Carrière, Jean-Claude (1931– )
• Carroll, Vinnette (1922–2002)
• Cartel des Quatre, Le
• Cartwright, Jim (1958– )
• Casares, María (1922–96)
• Casona, Alejandro (Alejandro Rodríguez Alvarez) (1903–65)
• Casson, Lewis (1875–1969)
• Castorf, Frank (1951– )
• Castro y Bellvis, Guillén de (1569–1631)
• catastrophe
• catharsis
• cavittu natakam
• Cecchi, Carlo (1939– )
• Cecchini, Pier Maria (1563–1645)
• Celeste, Madame (1814–82)
• censorship
• Centlivre, Susannah (c.1667–1723)
• Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (1547–1616)
• Césaire, Aimé (1913–2008)
• Chaikin, Joseph (1935–2003)
• Chamberlain's Men, Lord
• Chambers of Rhetoric
• Champion, Gower (1921–80)
• Champmeslé, Mlle (Marie Desmares) (1642–98)
• Channing, Carol (1921– )
• Channing, Stockard (1944– )
• Chapel Royal, Children of the
• Chapman, George (c.1560–1634)
• character
• chariot races
• Chaurette, Normand (1954– )
• Cheek by Jowl
• Chekhov, Anton (1860–1904)
• Chekhov, Michael (Mikhail) (1891–1955)
• Cheng Changgeng (Ch’eng Ch’ang-keng) (1811–80)
• Cheng Yanqiu (Ch’eng Yen-ch’iu) (1904–58)
• Chéreau, Patrice (1944–2013)
• Chevalier, Maurice (1888–1972)
• Chicano theatre
• Chichester Festival Theatre
• Chikamatsu Hanji (1725–83)
• Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653–1725)
• children's theatre
• Childress, Alice (1920–94)
• Chin, Frank (1940– )
• Chitty, Alison (1948– )
• Ch’oe In-hun (1936– )
• Chong, Ping (1946– )
• chorus
• Christie, Agatha (1890–1976)
• Chronegk, Ludwig (1837–91)
• chuanju (Sichuan opera)
• chuanqui (ch’uan-ch’i)
• Chunliu She (Ch’un liu she)
• church drama
• Churchill, Caryl (1938– )
• ch’ǒyongmu, kǒmmu, muaemu
• Cibber, Colley (1671–1757)
• Cibber, Susannah (1714–66)
• Cibber, Theophilus (1703–58)
• Ciceri, Pierre (1782–1862)
• Ciéslak, Ryszard (1937–90)
• Cintra, Luís Miguel (1949– )
• circus, modern
• circus, Roman
• Citizens Theatre
• Ciulei, Liviu (1923–2011)
• Cixous, Hélène (1937– )
• Clairon, Mlle (Claire-Josèphe-Hippolyte Léris de La Tude) (1723–1803)
• claque
• Clark-Bekederemo, John Pepper (1935– )
• Clarke, Martha (1944– )
• classicism
• Claudel, Paul (1868–1955)
• Claus, Hugo (1929–2008)
• Clive, Kitty (1711–85)
• Close, Glenn (1947– )
• closet drama
• clown
• Clunes, Alec (Alexander Sheriff de Maro) (1912–70)
• Clurman, Harold (1901–80)
• Cochran, C. B. (Charles Blake) (1872–1951)
• Cockpit-in-Court
• Cocteau, Jean (1889–1963)
• Cody, William Frederick (‘Buffalo Bill’) (1846–1917)
• cofradías
• Cohan, George M. (1878–1942)
• Coleman, Cy (1929–2004)
• Coliseo
• collectives and collective creation
• Collier, Jeremy (1650–1726)
• Colman, George, the Elder (1732–94)
• Colman, George, the Younger (1762–1836)
• Comden, Betty (1915–2006) Adolph Green (1915–2002) American lyricists, librettists, screenwriters, and performers.
• comedia
• Comediants
• comédie-ballet
• Comédie-Française
• Comédie Italienne
• comédie larmoyante
• comedy
• commedia dell’arte
• commedia erudita
• community theatre
• company theatre
• Complicité, Theatre de
• concert party
• Condell, Henry (fl. 1598–1627)
• confidant
• Confrérie de la Passion
• Congreve, William (1670–1729)
• conjuring
• Conklin, John (1937– )
• Connelly, Marc (1890–1980)
• Conquest family
• constructivism
• Contat, Louise-Françoise (1760–1813) Marie-Émilie (1771–1846) French actresses.
• Cooke, George Frederick (1756–1812)
• Cooke, T. P. (Thomas Potter) (1786–1864)
• Copeau, Jacques (1879–1949)
• Copi (Raúl Damonte) (1939–87)
• copyright
• Coquelin, Constant-Benoît (1841–1909)
• Corneille, Pierre (1606–84)
• Corneille, Thomas (1625–1709)
• Cornell, Katharine (1898–1974)
• Cornish rounds
• Corpus Christi plays
• corrales de comedias
• Corrêa, José Celso Martinez (1937– )
• Cossa, Roberto Mario (‘Tito’) (1934– )
• Costantini family
• costume
• cothornus
• Cottesloe Theatre
• coup de théâtre
• court dance
• Courtney, Tom (1937– )
• Covent Garden Theatre
• Coward, Noël (1899–1973)
• Cowley, Hannah (1743–1809)
• Crabtree, Lotta (1846–1924)
• Craig, Edith (1869–1947)
• Craig, Edward Gordon (1872–1966)
• Craven, Hawes (1837–1910)
• Crimp, Martin (1956– )
• crisis
• Cronyn, Hume (1911–2003)
• cross dressing
• Crothers, Rachel (1878–1958)
• Crouse, Russel (1893–1966)
• Crowley, Bob (1952– )
• Cruelty, Theatre of
• Cruz, Corral de la
• Cueva, Juan de la (1550–1610)
• Cumberland, Richard (1732–1811)
• Cunillé, Lluïsa (1961– )
• Cunningham, Merce (1919–2009)
• Curtain Theatre
• Cusack, Cyril (1910–93)
• Cusack, Sinéad (1948– )
• Cushman, Charlotte (1816–76)
• cyclorama
• D
• dada
• Dadié, Bernard (1916– )
• Dalcroze, Émile-Jaques
• Daldry, Stephen (1960– )
• dalit theatre
• Daly, Augustin (1836–99)
• Damiani, Luciano (1923–2007)
• damnatio
• dance and dance-drama
• Dancourt, Florent-Carton (1665–1725)
• Dane, Clemence (Winifred Ashton) (1888–1965)
• Daniels, Ron (1942– )
• Daniels, Sarah (1956– )
• Danjūrō family
• D’Annunzio, Gabriele (1863–1938)
• Dasté, Jean (1904–94)
• Davenant, William (1606–68)
• Davidson, Gordon (1933– )
• Davies, Howard (1945– )
• Davies, Robertson (1913–95)
• Davis, Hallie Flanagan
• Davis, Henrietta Vinton (1860–1941)
• Davis, Ossie (1917–2005)
• Dawison, Bogumił (1818–72)
• Dear, Nick (1955– )
• de Berardinis, Leo (1940–2008)
• Deburau, Jean-Gaspard (1796–1846)
• decorum
• Decroux, Étienne (1889–1991)
• Dee, Ruby (1924–2014)
• de Filippo, Eduardo (1900–84)
• de Graft, Joe (1924–78)
• De Groen, Alma (1941– )
• Dekker, Thomas (c.1572–1632)
• Delaney, Shelagh (1939–2011)
• Delsarte, François (1811–71)
• de Mille, Agnes (1905–93)
• Dench, Judi (1934– )
• Dennis, John (1657–1734)
• denouement
• Deshpande, P. L. (1919–2000)
• design
• deus ex machina
• Deutsch, Ernst (1890–1969)
• Deutsches Theater
• development, theatre for
• Devine, George (1910–65)
• devising
• Devrient family
• Dewhurst, Colleen (1926–91)
• Dexter, John (1925–90)
• Dhlomo, Herbert I. E. (1903–56)
• Diaghilev, Sergei (1872–1929)
• dialogue
• diaspora
• Dickens, Charles (1812–70)
• Diderot, Denis (1713–84)
• difangxi (ti-fang hsi)
• Dingelstedt, Franz von (1814–81)
• Dionysia
• Dionysus, Theatre of
• diorama
• directing/director
• distancing effect
• dithyramb
• documentary drama and theatre
• Dodin, Lev (1944– )
• Donnellan, Declan (1953– )
• Dorn, Dieter (1935– )
• Dorst, Tankred (1925– )
• Dorval, Marie (1798–1849)
• Dotrice, Roy (1923– )
• Dowling, Joe (1948– )
• drag shows
• Dragún, Osvaldo (1929–99)
• Drake, Alfred (1914–92)
• Dramaten
• dramaturgy/dramaturg
• drame, le
• Dressler, Marie (1869–1934)
• Drew family
• Drottningholm Court Theatre
• Drury Lane Theatre
• Dryden, John (1631–1700)
• Dubé, Marcel (1930–2016)
• Duchesnois, Mlle (Catherine-Joséphine Rafuin) (1777–1835)
• Ducis, Jean-François (1733–1816)
• Ducrow, Andrew (1793–1848)
• Dukes, Ashley (1885–1959)
• Dullin, Charles (1885–1949)
• Dumas, Alexandre (Dumas fils) (1824–95)
• Dumas, Alexandre (Dumas père) (1802–70)
• du Maurier, Gerald (1873–1934)
• Dumesnil, Mlle (Marie-Françoise Marchand) (1713–1803)
• Duncan, Isadora (1877–1927)
• Dunlap, William (1766–1839)
• Dunnock, Mildred (1901–91)
• Durang, Christopher (1949– )
• Durante, Jimmy (1893–1980)
• Duras, Marguerite (1914–96)
• D’Urfey, Thomas (1653–1723)
• Dürrenmatt, Friedrich (1921–90)
• Duse, Eleanore (1858–1924)
• Dutt, Utpal (1929–93)
• Duym, Jacob (1547–1612 or 1624)
• E
• early modern period in Europe
• Ebb, Fred
• Echegaray, José (1832–1916)
• Edgar, David (1947– )
• Edinburgh International Festival
• educational theatre
• Edwardes, George (1852–1915)
• Edwards, Gale (1954– )
• Edwards, Hilton (1903–82)
• Effendi, Rustam (1903–79)
• Efremov, Oleg (1927–2000)
• Efros, Anatoly (1925–87)
• Eisenstein, Sergei (1898–1948)
• Ekhof, Konrad (1720–78)
• ekkyklema
• Ekster, Aleksandra (1884–1949)
• Elder, Lonnie, III (1927–96)
• Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) (1888–1965)
• Elizabethan Stage Society
• Elkunchwar, Mahesh (1939– )
• Elliott, Michael (1931–84)
• Engel, Erich (1891–1966)
• English Comedians
• English Shakespeare Company
• English Stage Company
• entremets/entremés
• entries, royal
• environmental theatre
• epic theatre
• Epidaurus, Theatre of
• epilogue
• Erdman, Nikolai (1900–70)
• Ermolova, Maria (1853–1928)
• Ervine, St John (1883–1971)
• Escudero, Ruth (1945– )
• Espert, Nuria (1938– )
• Estorino, Abelardo (1925–2013)
• Etherege, George (1635–91)
• Eulj, Ahmed Taieb al- (1928–2012)
• Euripides (c.480–407/6 bc)
• Evans, Edith (1888–1976)
• Evans, Maurice (1901–89)
• Evreinov, Nikolai (1879–1953)
• executions, public
• exposition
• expressionism
• Eyre, Richard (1943– )
• Eysoldt, Gertrud (1870–1950)
• F
• Fabre, Jan (1958– )
• fairground booths
• Farag, Alfred (1929–2005)
• farce
• Farnese, Teatro
• Farquhar, George (1678–1707)
• Farr, Florence (1860–1917)
• Farrah, Abdelkader (1926–2006)
• Fascism and theatre
• Fassbinder, Rainer Werner (1945–82)
• Faucit, Helen (1817–98)
• Favart, Charles-Simon (1710–92)
• Fechter, Charles Albert (1824–79)
• Fedeli
• Federal Theatre Project
• Fedotova, Glikeria (1846–1925)
• féerie
• Fehling, Jürgen (1885–1968)
• Felipe, Carlos (1914–75)
• female impersonation
• feminist theatre, UK
• feminist theatre, USA
• Ferrari, Paolo (1822–89)
• Ferrer, José (1912–92)
• Feydeau, Georges-Léon-Jules-Marie (1862–1921)
• Fialka, Ladislav (1931–91)
• Fichandler, Zelda (1924–2016)
• Field, Nathan (1587–1620)
• Fielding, Henry (1707–54)
• Fields, Gracie (Grace Stansfield) (1898–1979)
• Fields, Lew
• Fields, W. C. (William Claude Dunkenfield) (1880–1946)
• Fierstein, Harvey (1954– )
• Filippo, Eduardo de
• finance
• Finlay, Frank (1926–2016)
• Finley, Karen (1956– )
• Finney, Albert (1936– )
• fireworks
• Fiske, Minnie Maddern (1865–1932)
• Fitch, Clyde (1865–1909)
• Fitzball, Edward (1792–1873)
• Fitzgerald, Barry (1888–1961)
• Flanagan, Hallie (Hallie Flanagan Davis) (1890–1969)
• Flanders, Michael (1922–75)
• flats and wings
• flaw
• Fletcher, John (1579–1625)
• Fleury (Abraham-Joseph Bénard) (1750–1822)
• Flimm, Jürgen (1941– )
• Floridor (Josias de Soulas, Sieur de Primefosse) (1608–71)
• Fo, Dario (1926– )
• Fokin, Valery (1946– )
• Fokine, Michel (Mikhail) (1880–1942)
• Folies-Bergère
• folk play (medieval)
• Fontanne, Lynn
• Fonvizin, Denis (1745–92)
• fool
• Foote, Samuel (1720–77)
• footlights
• Forbes-Robertson, Johnston (1853–1937)
• Ford, John (1586–c.1639)
• Foregger, Nikolai (1892–1939)
• Foreman, Richard (1937– )
• Fornés, Maria Irene (1930– )
• Forrest, Edwin (1806–72)
• Forssell, Lars (1928–2007)
• Fort, Paul (1872–1960)
• Fortune Theatre
• Fosse, Bob (1927–87)
• Foster, Gloria (1936–2001)
• Fox, George W. L. (1825–77)
• Foy, Eddie (1856–1928)
• Françon, Alain (1946– )
• Frayn, Michael (1933– )
• freak show
• Freie Bühne (Free Stage)
• Frejka, Jir̆í (1904–52)
• French, David (1939–2010)
• Friel, Brian (1929–2015)
• Frigerio, Ezio (1930– )
• Frisch, Max (1911–91)
• Frohman, Charles (1860–1915)
• Fry, Christopher (1907–2005)
• Fuchs, Georg (1868–1949)
• Fugard, Athol (1932– )
• Fukuda Tsuneari (1912–94)
• Fuller, Charles (1939– )
• Fuller, Loïe (1862–1928)
• Fura dels Baus, La
• futurism
• G
• Gabrielli family
• Gala, Antonio (1936– )
• Galsworthy, John (1867–1933)
• Gambaro, Griselda (1928– )
• Gambon, Michael (1940– )
• gambuh
• Ganassa, Zan
• Gandhi, Shanta (1917–2002)
• Ganz, Bruno (1941– )
• Gao Ming (Kao Ming) (c.1305–70)
• Gao Wenxiu (Kao Wen-hsiu) (fl.1270)
• Gao Xingjian (Kao Hsing-chien) (1940– )
• García, Rodrigo (1964– )
• García, Santiago (1929– )
• García, Víctor (1934–82)
• García Lorca, Federico (1898–1936)
• Gardner, Herb (1934–2003)
• Garneau, Michel (1939– )
• Garrett, João Baptista de Almeida (1799–1854)
• Garrick, David (1717–79)
• Garro, Elena (1920–98)
• Gascon, Jean (1921–88)
• Gaskill, William (1930–2016)
• Gassman, Vittorio (1922–2000)
• Gatti, Armand (1924– )
• Gay, John (1685–1732)
• gay theatre and performance
• geju (ko-chü)
• Gelber, Jack (1932–2003)
• Gélinas, Gratien (1909–99)
• Gelosi
• Gémier, Firmin (1869–1933)
• geming xiandai xi (ko ming hsien tai hsi)
• Gems, Pam (1925–2011)
• gender and performance
• Genet, Jean (1910–86)
• George, Mlle (Marguerite-Joséphine Weimer) (1787–1867)
• Gershwin, George (Jacob Gershvin) (1898–1937) and Ira Gershwin (Israel Gershvin) (1896–1983)
• Ghelderode, Michel de (Ademar Martens) (1898–1962)
• Ghosh, Girish Chandra (1844–1912)
• ghost
• Giacometti, Paolo (1816–82)
• Giacosa, Giuseppe (1847–1906)
• Gide, André (1869–1951)
• Giehse, Therese (1898–1975)
• Gielgud, John (1904–2000)
• gigaku
• Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck) (1836–1911)
• Gill, Peter (1939– )
• Gillette, William Hooker (1853–1937)
• Gilpin, Charles (1878–1930)
• Giraldi, Giovan Battista (‘Cinthio’) (1504–73)
• Giraudoux, Jean (1882–1944)
• gladiatorial contests
• Glaspell, Susan (1876–1948)
• Glass, Philip (1937– )
• Globe Theatre
• Głowacki, Janusz (1938– )
• Godber, John (1956– )
• Goering, Reinhard (1887–1936)
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749–1832)
• Gogol, Nikolai (1809–52)
• Goldfaden, Abraham (Avrom Goldfadn) (1840–1908)
• Goldoni, Carlo (1707–93)
• Goldsmith, Oliver (c.1730–1774)
• Gombrowicz, Witold (1904–69)
• Gómez de Avellaneda, Gertrudis (‘Tula’) (1814–73)
• Gómez-Peña, Guillermo (1955– )
• Goncharova, Natalya (1881–1962)
• González-Dávila, Jesús (1940–2000)
• Goodbody, Buzz (1946–75)
• Gordin, Jacob (1853–1909)
• Gordon, Ruth (1896–1985)
• Gordone, Charles (1925–95)
• Gorelik, Mordecai (1899–1990)
• Gorky, Maxim (Aleksei Peshkov) (1868–1936)
• Gorostiza, Carlos (1920– )
• Gorostiza, Celestino (1904–67)
• Gotanda, Philip Kan (1951– )
• Gottsched, Johann Christoph (1700–66)
• Gozzi, Carlo (1720–1806)
• Grabbe, Christian Dietrich (1801–36)
• Graham, Martha (1894–1991)
• Gramatica, Emma (1872–1965) Irma Gramatica (1867–1962) Italian actresses.
• Grand-Guignol, Théâtre de
• Granville Barker, Harley
• Gray, John (1946– )
• Gray, Simon (James Holliday) (1936–2008)
• Gray, Spalding (1941–2004)
• Gray, Terence (1895–1986)
• Greek theatre, ancient
• Green, Adolph
• Green, Paul (1894–1981)
• Greene, Graham (1904–91)
• Greene, Robert (1558–92)
• Greet, Ben (1857–1936)
• Gregory, Andre (1934– )
• Gregory, Augusta (Lady) (1852–1932)
• Greig, David (1969– )
• Grein, J. T. (1862–1935)
• Grenfell, Joyce (1910–79)
• Griboedov, Aleksandr (1795–1829)
• Grieve family
• Griffin, Hayden (1943–2013)
• Griffiths, Trevor (1935– )
• Grillparzer, Franz (1791–1872)
• Grimaldi, Joseph (1778–1837)
• Grock (Charles Adrien Wettach) (1880–1959)
• Gros-Guillaume (Robert Guérin) (d.1634)
• Grotowski, Jerzy (1933–99)
• Group Theatre
• Grüber, Klaus Michael (1941–2008)
• Gründgens, Gustaf (1899–1963)
• Grundy, Sydney (1848–1914)
• Guan Hanqing (Kuan Han-ch’ing) (c.1240–c.1320)
• Guare, John (1938– )
• Guarini, Battista (1538–1612)
• Gubenko, Nikolai (1941– )
• Guerrero, María (1868–1928)
• Guignol
• Guilbert, Yvette (c.1867–1944)
• Guimerà, Àngel (1845–1924)
• Guinness, Alec (1914–2001)
• Guitry, Sacha (1885–1957)
• Gunter, John (1938–2016)
• Guo Muoruo (Kuo Mo-jo) (1892–1978)
• Gurik, Robert (1932– )
• Gurney, A. R. (Albert Ramsdell) (1930– )
• Guthrie, Tyrone (1900–71)
• Guthrie Theatre
• Gwynn, Eleanor ‘Nell’ (c.1642–87)
• H
• Hacks, Peter (1928–2003)
• Hagen, Uta (1919–2004)
• Hakim, Tawfiq el- (1898–1987)
• Hall, Peter (1930– )
• Hall, Roger (1939– )
• Hall, Willis
• Hallam family
• hamartia
• Hammerstein, Oscar I (1846–1919)
• Hammerstein, Oscar II (1895–1960)
• Hampden, Walter (1879–1955)
• Hampton, Christopher (1946– )
• hanamichi
• Hancock, Sheila (1933– )
• Handke, Peter (1942– )
• Hands, Terry (1941– )
• Hankin, St John (1869–1909)
• Hansberry, Lorraine (1930–65)
• happenings
• Hardy, Alexandre (c.1570–1632)
• Hare, David (1947– )
• Hare, John (1844–1921)
• Harlequin
• harlequinade
• Harrigan, Edward (1844–1911) and Tony Hart (1855–91)
• Harris, Audrey
• Harris, Jed (1900–79)
• Harris, Margaret
• Harris, Rosemary (1927– )
• Harrison, Rex (1908–90)
• Harrison, Tony (1937– )
• Hart, Lorenz (1895–1943)
• Hart, Moss (1904–61)
• Hart, Tony
• Harwood, Ronald (1934– )
• Hasenclever, Walter (1890–1940)
• Hashmi, Safdar (1954–89)
• hasta
• Hauptmann, Gerhart (1862–1946)
• Haussmann, Leander (1959– )
• Havel, Václav (1936–2011)
• Havergal, Giles (1938– )
• Hawtrey, Charles Henry (1858–1923)
• Hayes, Helen (1900–93)
• Haymarket, Theatre Royal
• heavens
• Hebbel, Christian Friedrich (1813–63)
• Hecht, Ben (1894–1964)
• Heijermans, Herman (1864–1924)
• Hellman, Lillian (1905–84)
• hell mouth
• Helpmann, Robert (1909–86)
• Heminges, John (1556–1630)
• Henley, Beth (1952– )
• Henry, Martha (1938– )
• Henslowe, Philip (c.1555–1616)
• Herbert, Jocelyn (1917–2003)
• Herbert, Victor (1859–1924)
• Herman, Jerry (1933– )
• Hernández, Luisa Josefina (1928– )
• Herne, James A. (1839–1901)
• hero and antihero (heroine)
• heroic tragedy
• Heron, Matilda (1830–77)
• Herrmann, Karl-Ernst (1936– )
• Hewett, Dorothy (1923–2002)
• Heyme, Hansgünther (1935– )
• Heyward, Dorothy (1890–1961) Dubose Heyward (1885–1940) American playwrights.
• Heywood, John (c.1497–1579)
• Heywood, Thomas (c.1574–1641)
• Hibberd, Jack (1940– )
• Hicks, Edward Seymour (1871–1949)
• Highway, Tomson (1951– )
• Hijikata Tatsumi (1928–86)
• Hijikata Yoshi (1898–1959)
• Hilar, Karel Hugo (1885–1935)
• Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179)
• Hill, Jenny (1851–96)
• Hiller, Wendy (1912–2003)
• hippodrama
• Hirata Oriza (1962– )
• Hirsch, John (1930–89)
• Hirsch, Judd (1935– )
• Hispanic theatre, USA
• Hochhuth, Rolf (1931– )
• Hofmannsthal, Hugo von (1874–1929)
• Holberg, Ludvig (1684–1754)
• Holbrook, Hal (1925– )
• Holcroft, Thomas (1745–1809)
• Hollingshead, John (1827–1904)
• Holm, Celeste (1919–2012)
• Holm, Ian (1931– )
• Home, William Douglas (1912–92)
• Hong Sheng (Hung Sheng) (c.1646–1704)
• Hooft, Pieter Corneliszoon (1581–1647)
• Hope Theatre
• Hopkins, Anthony (1937– )
• Hopkins, Arthur (1878–1950)
• Hordern, Michael (1911–95)
• Horniman, Annie E. F. (1860–1937)
• Horovitz, Israel (1939– )
• Horváth, Ödön von (1901–38)
• Hôtel de Bourgogne
• Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weiss) (1874–1926)
• Houghton, Stanley (1881–1913)
• Houseman, John (1902–88)
• Housman, Laurence (1865–1959)
• Houston, Velina Hasu (1957– )
• Howard, Alan (1937–2015)
• Howard, Bronson (1842–1908)
• Howard, Pamela (1939– )
• Howard, Sidney (1891–1939)
• Howe, Tina (1937– )
• Hoyt, Charles (1860–1900)
• Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim (c.935–973)
• huajü (hua chü)
• hubris
• Hughes, Barnard (1915–2006)
• Hughes, Holly (1955– )
• Hughes, Langston (1902–67)
• Hugo, Victor-Marie (1802–85)
• Humphries, Barry (1934– )
• Hunt, Hugh (1911–73)
• Hunter, Kathryn (1957– )
• Hunter, N. C. (Norman Charles) (1908–71)
• Hurston, Zora Neale (1891–1960)
• Husain, Shaharom (1919–2008)
• Hussain, Fida (1899–2000)
• Hussein, Ebrahim (1943– )
• Hutt, William (1920–2007)
• Hwang, David Henry (1957– )
• Hyman, Earle (1926– )
• Hynes, Garry (1953– )
• Hytner, Nicholas (1956– )
• I
• Ibsen, Henrik (1828–1906)
• Ichikawa Danjūrō IX (1838–1903)
• Idris, Yussuf (1927–91)
• Iffland, August Wilhelm (1759–1814)
• Ilinsky, Igor (1901–87)
• illusion
• imitation
• Immermann, Karl Leberecht (1796–1840)
• improvisation
• Inchbald, Elizabeth (1753–1821)
• Independent Theatre
• Inge, William (1913–73)
• Ingegneri, Angelo (1550–1613)
• ingénue
• Inoue Hisashi (1934–2010)
• interculturalism
• interlude
• International Centre for Theatre Research
• Ionesco, Eugène (1912–94)
• Irish Literary Theatre
• Irving, Henry (1838–1905)
• Irwin, Bill (1950– )
• Isherwood, Christopher (1904–86)
• Ivanov, Vsevolod (1895–1963)
• Izumi Kyōka (1873–1939)
• J
• Jackson, Barry (1879–1961)
• Jackson, Glenda (1936– )
• Jacobi, Derek (1938– )
• Jacobs, Sally (Sally Rich) (1932– )
• James, Henry (1843–1916)
• Jaques-Dalcroze, Émile (1865–1950)
• Jardiel Poncela, Enrique (1901–52)
• Jarry, Alfred (1873–1907)
• jatra
• Jefferson family
• Jefford, Barbara (1930– )
• Jellicoe, Ann (1927– )
• Jerrold, Douglas (1803–57)
• Jessner, Leopold (1878–1945)
• jig
• jingju (ching chü)
• Joaquin, Nick (1917–2004)
• Jodelet (Julien Bedeau) (c.1600–60)
• Jodelle, Étienne (1532–73)
• Joglars, Els
• Johnson, Bob (1904–85)
• Johnson, Samuel (1709–84)
• Johnston, Denis (1901–84)
• Jolson, Al (1886–1950)
• Jones, David (1934–2008)
• Jones, Henry Arthur (1851–1929)
• Jones, Inigo (1573–1652)
• Jones, James Earl (1931– )
• Jones, Joseph S. (1809–77)
• Jones, LeRoi
• Jones, Margo (1913–55)
• Jones, Marie (1951– )
• Jones, Robert Edmond (1887–1954)
• Jonson, Ben (1572–1637)
• Jordan, Dorothy (1761–1816)
• Jory, Jon (1938– )
• Jouvet, Louis (1887–1951)
• Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sor (1651–95)
• juggler
• Julia, Raul (1940–94)
• Juvarra, Filippo (Filippo Juvara) (1678–1736)
• juvenile theatre
• K
• kabuki
• Kachalov, Vasily (1875–1948)
• Kahn, Michael (1937– )
• Kailasam, T. P. (1884–1946)
• Kainz, Josef (1858–1910)
• Kaiser, Georg (1878–1945)
• Kakul, I Nyoman (1905–82)
• Kalidasa The greatest Sanskrit poet and playwright of India.
• Kambanellis, Iakovos (1922–2011)
• Kambar, Chandrasekhar (1938– )
• kamyŏngŭk
• Kan’ami (Kannami, Kanze Kiyotsugu) (1333–84)
• Kander, John (1927– ) Fred Ebb (1932–2004) American composer and lyricist.
• Kane, Sarah (1971–99)
• Kanhailal, Heisnam (1942– )
• Kani, John (1943– )
• Kanin, Garson (1912–99)
• Kantor, Tadeusz (1915–90)
• Kanze Hisao (1925–78)
• Kapoor, Prithviraj (1906–72)
• Kaprow, Allan (1927–2006)
• Karagöz
• Kara Jūrō (1940– )
• Karanth, B. V. (1928–2002)
• Karatygin, Vasily (1802–52)
• Karnad, Girish (1938– )
• Kasper (Kasperl, Kasperle)
• Kataev, Valentin (1897–1986)
• kathakali
• Katona, József (1791–1830)
• Katrakis, Manos (1908–84)
• Kaufman, George S. (1889–1961)
• Kawatake Mokuami (1816–93)
• Kazan, Elia (1909–2003)
• Kazantsev, Aleksei (1945–2007)
• Kazantzakis, Nikos (1883–1957)
• Kean, Charles (1811–68)
• Kean, Edmund (c.1787–1833)
• Keane, John B. (1928–2002)
• kecak (cak)
• Keene, Laura (1826–73)
• Keith, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) (1846–1914)
• Kellar, Harry (1849–1922)
• Kelly, Dennis (1968– )
• Kemble family
• Kemp, Lindsay (1938– )
• Kempe, William (d.1603)
• Kempinski, Tom (1938– )
• Kendal, Madge (Margaret Robertson) (1848–1935) and William Hunter Kendal (1843–1917) English actors.
• Kennedy, Adrienne (1931– )
• Kente, Gibson (1932–2004)
• Kern, Jerome (1885–1945)
• Kerr, Walter (1913–96)
• khon
• kiak
• Kidd, Michael (1919–2007)
• Killigrew, Thomas (1612–83)
• Kilroy, Thomas (1934– )
• Kim U-jin (1897–1926)
• King, Thomas (1730–1805)
• Kingsley, Sidney (1906–95)
• King's Men
• Kinoshita Junji (1914–2006)
• Kipphardt, Heinar (1922–82)
• Kirshon, Vladimir (1902–38)
• Kishida Kunio (1890–1954)
• kkoktukaksi norŭm
• Kleist, Heinrich von (1777–1811)
• Kline, Kevin (1947– )
• Knipper-Chekhova, Olga (1868–1959)
• Knowles, James Sheridan (1784–1862)
• Kokkos, Yannis (1944– )
• Kokoschka, Oskar (1886–1980)
• Koltai, Ralph (1926– )
• Koltès, Bernard-Marie (1948–89)
• komedya
• Komisarjevsky, Theodore (Fyodr Komissarzhevsky) (1882–1954)
• Komissarzhevskaya, Vera (1864–1910)
• Komparu Zenchiku (Ujinobu) (1405–c.1470)
• Kong Shangren (K’ung Shang-jen) (1648–1718)
• König, Michael (1947– )
• Koonen, Alisa (1899–1974)
• Kopit, Arthur (1937– )
• Kornfeld, Paul (1889–1942)
• Kortner, Fritz (1892–1970)
• Kott, Jan (1914–2001)
• Kotzebue, August Friedrich von (1761–1819)
• Koun, Karolos (1908–87)
• Krauss, Werner (1884–1959)
• Krejča, Otomar (1921–2009)
• krishnattam
• Kroetz, Franz Xaver (1946– )
• Ksentini, Rachid (1887–1944)
• Kubo Sakae (1900–58)
• Kukolnik, Nestor (1809–68)
• kunqu (k’un-ch’ü)
• Kurbas, Aleksandr (Les Kurbas) (1887–1937)
• Kushner, Tony (1956– )
• kutiyattam
• Kyd, Thomas (1558–94)
• Kyle, Barry (1948– )
• Kynaston, Edward (1643–1712)
• kyōgen
• Kyōka
• Kyveli (Adrianou) (1887–1978)
• L
• Laban, Rudolf (1879–1958)
• Labiche, Eugène (1815–88)
• Labou Tansi, Sony (Ntsoni za Buta Marcel) (1947–95)
• LaBute, Neil (1963– )
• La Chaussée, Pierre-Claude Nivelle de (1692–1754)
• Lacy, John (c.1615–81)
• Ladipo, Duro (1931–78)
• Lagerkvist, Pär (1891–1974)
• La Grange (Charles Varlet) (1635–92)
• Lahr, Bert (1895–1967)
• Lai, Stan (1954– )
• lakhon (lakon)
• La Mama Experimental Theatre Club
• Lampe, Jutta (1943– )
• Langham, Michael (1919–2011)
• Langner, Lawrence
• Langtry, Lillie (1853–1929)
• Lansbury, Angela (1925– )
• Lao She (1899–1966)
• Larivey, Pierre de (c.1540–1619)
• L’Arronge, Adolf (Adolf Aronsohn) (1838–1908)
• La Rue, Danny (Daniel Patrick Carroll) (1927–2009)
• Laterna Magika
• Laube, Heinrich (1806–84)
• Lauder, Harry (1870–1950)
• laughter
• Laughton, Charles (1899–1962)
• Laurents, Arthur (1918–2011)
• Lavelli, Jorge (1931– )
• Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert) (1885–1930)
• Lawrence, Gertrude (1898–1952)
• Lawrence, Jerome (1915–2004) Robert E. Lee (1918–94) American playwrights.
• lazzo (plural: lazzi)
• LeCompte, Elizabeth (1941– )
• Lecoq, Jacques (1921–99)
• Lecouvreur, Mlle (Adrienne Couvreur) (1692–1730)
• Lee, Canada (Leonard Conegata) (1907–52)
• Lee, Eugene (1939– )
• Lee, Hugh (1955– )
• Lee, Ming Cho (1930– )
• Lee, Nathaniel (c.1648–1692)
• Lee, Robert E.
• Le Gallienne, Eva (1899–1991)
• legitimate drama
• legong
• Leigh, Mike (1943– )
• Leigh, Vivien (Vivian Mary Hartley) (1913–67)
• Leighton, Margaret (1922–76)
• Leivick, H. (Halpern) (1886–1962)
• Lekain (Henri-Louis Cain) (1729–78)
• Lemaître, Frédérick (1800–76)
• Lenaea
• Leñero, Vicente (1933– )
• Leno, Dan (1860–1903)
• Lenya, Lotte (1900–81)
• Lenz, Jakob Michael Reinhold (1751–92)
• Leonard, Hugh (1926–2009)
• Leonov, Leonid (1899–1994)
• Lepage, Robert (1957– )
• Lermontov, Mikhail (1814–41)
• Lerner, Alan Jay (1918–86) and Frederick Loewe (1901–88)
• Lesage, Alain-René (1668–1747)
• lesbian theatre
• Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim (1729–81)
• Levin, Hanoch (1943–99)
• Lewes, George Henry (1817–78)
• Lewis, Robert (1909–97)
• Liang Chenyu (Liang Ch’en-yü) (1520–c.1593)
• Libre, Théâtre
• licensing acts
• licensing of plays
• Liera, Oscar (1946–90)
• lighting
• Lillie, Beatrice (Lady Robert Peel) (1894–1989)
• Lillo, George (1693–1739)
• limelight
• Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
• Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre
• Lindsay, David (c.1486–1555)
• lines of business
• Linney, Romulus (1930–2011)
• Lin Zhaohua (Lin Chao-hua) (1936– )
• Lipman, Maureen (1946– )
• Liston, John (1776–1846)
• Little Theatre movement
• Littlewood, Joan (1914–2002)
• liturgical drama
• living newspaper
• Living Theatre
• Li Yu (Li Yü) (1611–c.1680)
• Lloyd, Marie (Matilda Victoria Wood) (1870–1922)
• Lloyd Webber, Andrew (1948– )
• Lochhead, Liz (1947– )
• Loesser, Frank (1910–69)
• Loewe, Frederick
• Logan, Joshua (1908–88)
• Lonsdale, Frederick (1881–1954)
• Loos, Anita (c.1893–1981)
• Lope de Rueda
• Lope de Vega
• Loquasto, Santo (1944– )
• Loraine, Robert (1876–1935)
• Lorca, Federico García
• Lord Chamberlain
• Lourenço, João (1944– )
• Loutherbourg, Philip James de (1740–1812)
• Lovelace, Earl (1935– )
• Lowin, John (c.1576–c.1659)
• Lucas, Craig (1951– )
• Lucie, Doug (1953– )
• Ludlam, Charles (1943–87)
• ludruk
• Lugné-Poe, Aurélien-Marie (1869–1940)
• Lully, Jean-Baptiste (Giovanni Lulli) (1632–87)
• Lunacharsky, Anatoly (1875–1933)
• Lunt, Alfred (1892–1977) Lynn Fontanne (1887–1983) American actors.
• Lupino family
• LuPone, Patti (1949– )
• Lyly, John (c.1554–1606)
• Lyttelton Theatre
• Lytton, Edward Bulwer, Lord
• Lyubimov, Yury (1917–2014)
• M
• Mabou Mines
• MacArthur, Charles (1895–1966)
• McBurney, Simon (1958– )
• McCann, Donal (1943–99)
• McCarthy, Lillah (1875–1960)
• McClendon, Rose (1884–1936)
• McClintic, Guthrie (1893–1961)
• McCowen, Alec (1925– )
• McDonagh, Martin (1971– )
• McEwan, Geraldine (1932–2015)
• Macgowan, Kenneth (1888–1963)
• MacGowran, Jack (1918–73)
• McGrath, John (1935–2002)
• McGuinness, Frank (1953– )
• Machiavelli, Niccolò (1469–1527)
• MacIntyre, Tom (1935– )
• MacKaye, Percy (1875–1956)
• MacKaye, Steele (1842–94)
• McKellen, Ian (1939– )
• McKenna, Siobhán (1922–86)
• McKern, Leo (1920–2002)
• Mackintosh, Cameron (1946– )
• Macklin, Charles (1699–1797)
• MacLíammóir, Micheál (1899–1978)
• McMahon, Gregan (1874–1941)
• McMaster, Anew (1891–1962)
• McNally, Terrence (1939– )
• McPherson, Conor (1971– )
• Macready, William Charles (1793–1873)
• Madách, Imre (1823–64)
• Madani, Izzedine (1938– )
• Maddy, Yulisa Amadu (1936–2014)
• Maeterlinck, Maurice (1862–1949)
• Maffei, Francesco Scipione (1675–1755)
• Magaña, Sergio (1924–90)
• Maggi, Carlos (1922–2015)
• magic shows
• Mahelot, Laurent (fl. 1625–40)
• Mahendravikramavarman (580–630)
• Maillet, Antonine (1929– )
• Mairet, Jean (1604–86)
• Maleczech, Ruth (1939–2013)
• male impersonation
• Malina, Judith (1926–2015)
• Mamet, David (1947– )
• Mamoulian, Rouben (1898–1987)
• manager
• Manaka, Matsemela (1956–98)
• Manohar, R. S. (1925–2006)
• Mansfield, Richard (1854–1907)
• Mantell, Robert B. (1854–1928)
• Manzoni, Alessandro (1785–1873)
• Marais, Théâtre du
• Marber, Patrick (1964– )
• Marceau, Marcel (1923–2007)
• March, Fredric (Frederick McIntyre Bickel) (1897–1975)
• Marchessault, Jovette (1938–2012)
• Marcos, Plínio (1935–99)
• Mardzhanov, Konstantin (1872–1933)
• Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso (1876–1944)
• marionette
• Marivaux, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de (1688–1763)
• Marlowe, Christopher (1564–93)
• Marlowe, Julia (1866–1950)
• Marowitz, Charles (1934–2014)
• Marqués, René (1919–79)
• Mars, Mlle (Anne-Françoise-Hippolyte Boutet) (1779–1847)
• Marshall, Norman (1901–80)
• Marston, John (1576–1634)
• Martin, Karl Heinz (1888–1948)
• Martin, Mary (1913–90)
• Martinelli family
• Martínez Sierra, Gregorio (1881–1948)
• Martin-Harvey, John (1863–1944)
• Marx Brothers
• Masefield, John (1878–1967)
• mask and masking
• Mason, Bruce (1921–82)
• Mason, Patrick (1951– )
• masque
• Massey, Raymond (1896–1983)
• Massinger, Philip (1583–1640)
• Mathews, Charles (1776–1835)
• Mathews, Charles James (1803–78)
• Matsui Sumako (1886–1919)
• Matthison, Edith Wynne (1875–1955)
• Matura, Mustapha (1939– )
• Maude, Cyril Francis (1862–1951)
• Maugham, Somerset (1874–1965)
• May, Elaine (1932– )
• Mayakovsky, Vladimir (1893–1930)
• Mayo, Frank (1839–96)
• Ma Zhiyuan (Ma Chih-yüan) (1260–1325)
• Mbowa, Rose (1943–99)
• Mda, Zakes (1948– )
• Meckler, Nancy (1941– )
• medieval theatre in Europe
• Medwall, Henry (fl. 1495)
• Mee, Charles L. (1938– )
• Mei Lanfang (1894–1961)
• Meilhac, Henri (1831–97) and Ludovic Halévy (1834–1908)
• Meiningen Players
• Melo, Jorge Silva (1948– )
• melodrama
• mélodrame
• Menander (c.342–c.291 bc)
• Mendes, Sam (1965– )
• Méndez Ballester, Manuel (1909–2002)
• Meng Jinghui (Meng Ching-hui) (1965– )
• Mercer, David (1928–80)
• Merchant, Vivien (Ada Thompson) (1929–82)
• Mercier, Louis-Sébastien (1740–1814)
• Mercouri, Melina (1923–94)
• Merman, Ethel (1909–84)
• Meron, Hannah (1923–2014)
• Merrick, David (1912–2000)
• Mesguich, Daniel (1952– )
• Messel, Oliver (1904–78)
• Metastasio (Pietro Trapassi) (1698–1782)
• metatheatre
• Method
• Meyerhold, Vsevolod (1874–1940)
• Mhlanga, Cont (1958– )
• Mhlope, Gcina (1958– )
• Michell, Keith (1926–2015)
• Mickiewicz, Adam (1798–1855)
• Middle Comedy
• Middleton, Thomas (1580–1627)
• Mielziner, Jo (Joseph) (1901–76)
• Mihura, Miguel (1905–77)
• Mikhoels, Solomon (1890–1948)
• Miller, Arthur (1915–2005)
• Miller, Jonathan (1934– )
• Mills, John (1908–2005)
• mime
• mimesis
• Minetti, Bernhard (1905–98)
• Minks, Wilfried (1930– )
• minstrel show
• Mira de Amescua, Antonio (c.1574–1644)
• Mirii, Ngugi wa (1951–2008)
• Mirren, Helen (Ilyena Lydia Mironoff) (1946– )
• mise-en-scène
• Mishima Yukio (1925–70)
• Mistinguett (Jeanne-Marie Bourgeois) (1873–1956)
• Mitchell, Adrian (1932–2008)
• Mitchell, Julian (1935– )
• Mitchell, Katie (1964– )
• Mitra, Dinabandhu (1830–73)
• Mitra, Sombhu (1915–97)
• Mlama, Penina (Penina Muhando) (1948– )
• Mnouchkine, Ariane (1939– )
• Modena, Gustavo (1803–61)
• Modjeska, Helena (1840–1909)
• Moeller, Philip (1880–1958)
• Moisewitsch, Tanya (1914–2003)
• Moissi, Alexander (1880–1935)
• Molander, Olof (1892–1966)
• Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) (1622–73)
• Molina, Tirso de
• Molnár, Ferenc (1878–1952)
• Moncrieff, Gladys (1892–1976)
• Moncrieff, William Thomas (1794–1857)
• Monk, Meredith (1942– )
• monologue
• monopoly, theatrical
• Montdory (Guillaume) (1594–1653/4)
• Montez, Lola (1818–61)
• Montfleury (Zacharie Jacob) (c.1600–67)
• Montgomery, Elizabeth
• Montherlant, Henry de (1896–1972)
• Monti, Ricardo (1944– )
• Montigny, Adolphe (c.1812–1880)
• Moody, William Vaughn (1869–1910)
• morality play
• Moratín, Leandro Fernández de (1760–1828)
• Moreno, Rita (1931– )
• moresca
• Morley, Christopher (1937– )
• morris dance
• Mortimer, John Clifford (1923–2009)
• Morton, Thomas (c.1764–1838)
• Moscow Art Theatre
• Mostel, Zero (1915–77)
• Motley
• Moulin-Rouge, Bal du
• Mounet-Sully (Jean Mounet) (1841–1916)
• Mou Sen (Mou Sēn) (1963– )
• Mowatt, Anna Cora (1819–70)
• Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756–91)
• Mrożek, Sławomir (1930–2013)
• Mtshali, Thulani (c.1963–2002)
• mua roi nuoc
• Müller, Heiner (1929–95)
• multimedia performance
• mummers’ play
• Munday, Anthony (1560–1633)
• Muni, Paul (1896–1967)
• Munk, Kaj (1892–1944)
• Muñoz, Eunice (1928– )
• Murphy, Arthur (1727–1805)
• Murphy, Tom (1935– )
• Murray, Gilbert (1866–1957)
• Murray, T. C. (Thomas Cornelius) (1873–1959)
• Murrell, John (1945– )
• musical play
• music hall
• music in the theatre
• Musset, Alfred de (1810–57)
• Muthuswamy, Na (1936– )
• mystery plays
• N
• Nakamura Utaemon VI (1917–2001)
• Namiki Sōsuke (Senryū) (1695–1751)
• Napier, John (1944– )
• Nation, Théâtre de la
• National Theatre of Great Britain (Royal National Theatre)
• naturalism
• Natyasastra
• naumachia
• nautanki
• Ndao, Cheik Aliou (1933– )
• Neher, Caspar (1897–1962)
• Nekros̆ius, Eimuntas (1952– )
• Nelson, Richard (1950– )
• Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vladimir (1858–1943)
• neoclassicism
• Nesbitt, Cathleen (1888–1982)
• Nestroy, Johann Nepomuk (1801–62)
• Nethersole, Olga (1863/1870–1951)
• Neuber, Caroline (Weisenborn) (1697–1760)
• Neville, John (1925–2011)
• New Comedy
• Newton, Christopher (1936– )
• New York Shakespeare Festival/Joseph Papp Public Theatre
• Ngema, Mbongeni (1955– )
• Nichols, Mike (1931–2014)
• Nichols, Peter (1927– )
• Ninagawa Yukio (1935–2016)
• nō (noh)
• Noble, Adrian (1950– )
• Noda Hideki (1955– )
• Noer, Arifin C. (1941–c.1996)
• Nomura Manzō VI (1898–1978)
• Norman, Marsha (1947– )
• Norton, Thomas
• Novello, Ivor (David Ivor Davies) (1893–1951)
• Novo, Salvador (1904–74)
• Nowra, Louis (1950– )
• Ntshona, Winston (1941– )
• Nuñez, José Gabriel (1937– )
• Nunn, Trevor (1940– )
• O
• Oakley, Annie (1860–1926)
• Oberammergau
• Obey, André (1892–1975)
• Obolensky, Chloe (1942– )
• O’Brien, Timothy (1929– )
• O’Casey, Sean (1880–1964)
• Odéon
• Odeon
• Odets, Clifford (1906–63)
• Odin Teatret
• Oenslager, Donald (1902–75)
• Œuvre, Théâtre de l’
• Off-Broadway
• Offenbach, Jacques (1819–80)
• Off-Off-Broadway
• Ogunde, Hubert (Chief) (1916–90)
• Ogunyemi, Wale (1939–2001)
• Oida Yoshi (1933– )
• O’Keeffe, John (1747–1833)
• Okhlopkov, Nikolai (1900–67)
• Okuni (Izumo no Okuni) (fl.1590–1613)
• Old Comedy
• Old Vic Theatre
• Olimpico, Teatro
• Olivier, Laurence (1907–89)
• Olivier Theatre
• O’Neill, Eugene (1888–1953)
• O’Neill, James (1845–1920)
• Ong Keng Sen (1963– )
• onnagata
• Ōno Kazuo (1906–2010)
• Ontological Hysteric Theatre
• Open Theatre
• opera
• opéra-comique
• operetta
• oppressed, theatre of the
• origins of theatre
• Orlik, Emil (1870–1932)
• Orton, Joe (1933–67)
• Osanai Kaoru (1881–1928)
• Osborn, Paul (1901–88)
• Osborne, John (1929–94)
• Osofisan, Femi (1946– )
• Ostermeier, Thomas (1968– )
• Ostrovsky, Aleksandr (1823–86)
• O T’ae-sŏk (1940– )
• Ōta Shōgo (1939–2007)
• O’Toole, Peter (1932–2013)
• Otto, Teo (1904–68)
• Otway, Thomas (1652–85)
• Ouyang Yuqian (Ou-yang Yü-chien) (1889–1962)
• Owen, Alun (1925–94)
• Owens, Rochelle (1936– )
• P
• Page, Geraldine (1924–87)
• Page, Louise (1955– )
• Pais, Ricardo (1945– )
• Pak Sŭng-hŭi (1901–64)
• Palais Royal, Théâtre du
• Palitzsch, Peter (1918–2004)
• Palladio, Andrea (1508–80)
• Pallenberg, Max (1877–1934)
• Panikkar, Kavalam Narayana (1928–2016)
• p’ansori
• pantomime, British
• Papp, Joseph (1921–91)
• parades and processions
• Parker, Stewart (1941–88)
• Parks, Suzan-Lori (1963– )
• parody
• Parsi theatre
• Pasqual, Lluís (1951– )
• Passion play
• Pastor, Tony (1837–1908)
• pastoral drama
• patent theatres
• Pavlovsky, Eduardo (1933–2015)
• Payne, B. Iden (1881–1976)
• Payne, John Howard (1791–1852)
• Peele, George (1558–96)
• Peking opera
• Penhall, Joe (1967– )
• Pennington, Michael (1943– )
• penny theatres
• Pepys, Samuel (1633–1703)
• performance art/art performance
• Performance Group
• peripeteia
• Perlini, Amelio (‘Memé’) (1947– )
• Perry, João (1940– )
• perspective
• Petherbridge, Edward (1936– )
• Petit-Bourbon, Théâtre du
• Petrushevskaya, Lyudmila (1938– )
• Peymann, Claus (1937– )
• phallus
• Phelps, Samuel (1804–78)
• Philipe, Gérard (1922–59)
• Phillips, Robin (1942–2015)
• Phillips, Stephen (1864–1915)
• physical theatre
• Piaf, Édith (1915–63)
• Picard, Louis-Benoît (1769–1828)
• Picasso, Pablo (1881–1973)
• Piccolo Teatro di Milano
• Pierrot
• Pillai G., Shankara (1930–89)
• Piñera, Virgilio (1912–79)
• Pinero, Arthur Wing (1855–1934)
• Pinnock, Winsome (1961– )
• Pinter, Harold (1930–2008)
• Pintilie, Lucian (1933– )
• Pirandello, Luigi (1867–1936)
• Pirchan, Emil (1884–1957)
• Pisarev, Aleksandr (1803–28)
• Piscator, Erwin (1893–1966)
• Pisemsky, Aleksei (1821–81)
• Pitoëff, Georges (1884–1939) Ludmilla (1895–1951) Russian-French actor, director, designer; and Russian-French actress.
• Pix, Mary (1666–1709)
• Pixérécourt, René-Charles Guilbert de (1773–1844)
• Planché, J. R. (James Robertson) (1796–1880)
• Planchon, Roger (1931–2009)
• Plautus, Titus Maccius (c.254–184 bc)
• Playfair, Nigel (1874–1934)
• playhouse
• Pleasence, Donald (1919–95)
• Plowright, Joan (1929– )
• Plummer, Christopher (1929– )
• Podestá, José Juan (1858–1936)
• Poel, William (1852–1934)
• Poisson, Raymond (c.1633–90)
• Poliakoff, Stephen (1952– )
• Polish Laboratory Theatre
• Pollock, Sharon (1936– )
• Ponnelle, Jean-Pierre (1932–88)
• Popov, Oleg (1930– )
• Popova, Lyubov (1889–1924)
• pornography and performance
• Porres (Porras), Gaspar de (1550–c.1615)
• Porter, Cole (1891–1964)
• Porter, Eric (1928–95)
• Potter, Dennis (1935–94)
• Power family
• Praga, Marco (1862–1929)
• Prampolini, Enrico (1894–1956)
• Presnyakov, Vladimir (1974– ) and Oleg (1969– )
• Préville (Pierre-Louis Dubus) (1721–99)
• Price, Stephen (1783–1840)
• Priestley, J. B. (John Boynton) (1894–1975)
• Prince, Hal (Harold) (1928– )
• Príncipe, Corral del
• Pritchard, Hannah (1709–68)
• private theatres
• producer
• prologue
• promenade performance
• prompter
• proscenium
• protagonist
• Provincetown Players
• Prowse, Philip (1937– )
• Pryce, Jonathan (1947– )
• Prynne, William (1600–69)
• Przybyszewska, Stanisława (1901–35)
• Ptushkina, Nadezhda (1949– )
• public theatres
• Puccini, Giacomo (1858–1924)
• Puigserver, Fabià (1938–91)
• Punch and Judy
• puppet theatre
• Purcărete, Silviu (1950– )
• Purim play
• Pushkin, Aleksandr (1799–1837)
• Py, Olivier (1965– )
• Q
• Quayle, Anthony (1913–89)
• Queen's Men (Queen Elizabeth's Men)
• Quem Quaeritis trope
• Quin, James (1693–1766)
• Quinault, Philippe (1635–88)
• Quintero, José (1924–99)
• R
• Rabe, David (1940– )
• Rabinal Achi
• Rachel (Élisa Félix) (1821–58)
• Rachilde (Marguerite Eymery) (1860–1953)
• Racine, Jean (1639–99)
• Radlov, Sergei (1892–1958)
• Radok, Alfréd (1914–76)
• Radrigán, Juan (1937– )
• Radzinsky, Edvard (1936– )
• Raimund, Ferdinand (1790–1836)
• Rakesh, Mohan (1929–72)
• Rakotoson, Michèle (1948– )
• Rama VI (1880–1925)
• Rame, Franca (1929–2013)
• Ram lila
• Ramly, Lenin El- (1945– )
• Ramos-Perea, Roberto (1959– )
• Rana, Juan (Cosme Pérez) (fl. 1622–72)
• Rand, Sally (1904–79)
• randai
• rasa
• Rascón Banda, Víctor Hugo (1948–2008)
• ras lila
• Rattigan, Terence (1911–77)
• Raucourt, Mlle (Françoise-Marie-Antoinette-Josèphe Saucerotte) (1756–1815)
• Raupach, Ernst (1784–1852)
• Ravenhill, Mark (1967– )
• Ravenscroft, Edward (fl. 1671–97)
• Razumovskaya, Lyudmila (1946– )
• Reade, Charles (1814–84)
• realism and reality
• Reaney, James (1926–2008)
• recognition
• Redgrave, Michael (1908–85)
• Redgrave, Vanessa (1937– )
• Rees, Roger (1944–2015)
• regional repertory theatres, UK
• regional theatres, USA
• Regnard, Jean-François (1655–1709)
• Rehan, Ada (1857–1916)
• rehearsal
• Reid, Christina (1942–2015)
• Reid, Kate (1930–93)
• Reinhardt, Max (1873–1943)
• Réjane (Gabrielle Réju) (1856–1920)
• Renaissance
• Renaud, Madeleine (1900–94)
• Rendra, W. S. (1935–2009)
• Renée (1929– )
• Rengifo, César (1915–80)
• repertory playing
• République, Théâtre de la
• revenge tragedy
• reversal
• revolutionary modern drama (revol-utionary model drama)
• revue
• Revuelta, Vicente (1929–2012)
• Reza, Yasmina (1959– )
• Rhone, Trevor (1940–2009)
• Riantiarno, Nano (1949– )
• Riccoboni family
• Rice, Elmer (Elmer Reizenstein) (1892–1967)
• Rice, Thomas D. (1808–60)
• Rice, Tim (1944– )
• Rich, Christopher (c.1657–1714)
• Rich, John (Lun) (1692–1761)
• Richards, Lloyd (1922–2006)
• Richardson, Ian (1934–2007)
• Richardson, Ralph (1902–83)
• Richardson, Tony (1928–91)
• Richelieu, Cardinal Armand-Jean du Plessis (1585–1642)
• Ridiculous Theatrical Company
• Rigby, Terence (1937–2008)
• Rigg, Diana (1938– )
• Rihany, Naguib el- (1892–1949)
• Ringwood, Gwen Pharis (1910–84)
• riots
• Ristori, Adelaide (1822–1906)
• ritual and theatre
• Rix, Brian (1924– )
• RNT
• Robards, Jason (1922–2000)
• Robbins, Jerome (1918–98)
• Robertson, T. W. (Thomas William) (1829–71)
• Robeson, Paul (1898–1976)
• Robey, George (George Wade) (1869–1954)
• Robin Hood play
• Robins, Elizabeth (1862–1952)
• Robinson, Bill (‘Bojangles’) (1878–1949)
• Robinson, Lennox (1886–1958)
• Robson, Flora (1902–84)
• Robson, Frederick (1821–64)
• Rodgers, Richard (1902–79)
• Rodrigues, Nelson (1912–80)
• Rodríguez, Jesusa (1955– )
• Rogers, Will (1879–1935)
• Rojas, Fernando de (c.1465–c.1541)
• Rojas Zorrilla, Francisco de (1607–48)
• Rolland, Romain (1866–1944)
• Roller, Alfred (1864–1935)
• Romains, Jules (1885–1972)
• Roman theatre
• romanticism
• Romberg, Sigmund (1887–1951)
• Romeril, John (1945– )
• Romero, Mariela (1949– )
• Ronconi, Luca (1933–2015)
• Ronfard, Jean-Pierre (1929–2003)
• Roscius Gallus, Quintus (c.120–62 bc)
• Rose, Billy (1899–1966)
• Rosencof, Mauricio (1933– )
• Rosenthal, Jean (1912–69)
• Rose Theatre
• Rossi, Ernesto (1829–1906)
• Rostand, Edmond (1868–1918)
• Roswitha
• Rotimi, Ola (1938–2000)
• Rotrou, Jean (1609–50)
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712–78)
• Roux, Jean-Louis (1923–2013)
• Rovina, Hanna (1889–1980)
• Rovner, Eduardo (1942– )
• Rowe, Nicholas (1674–1718)
• Rowley, Samuel (c.1575–c.1624)
• Rowley, William (c.1585–1626)
• Royal Court Theatre
• Royal National Theatre
• Royal Shakespeare Company
• Royal Shakespeare Theatre
• royalties
• Różewicz, Tadeusz (1920–2014)
• Rozov, Viktor (1913–2004)
• Rozovsky, Mark (1937– )
• Rudkin, David (1936– )
• Rudman, Michael (1939– )
• Rueda, Lope de (c.1512–1565)
• Ruganda, John (1941–2007)
• Ruggeri, Ruggero (1871–1953)
• Ruiz de Alarcón y Mendoza, Juan (c.1581–1639)
• Rush, Geoffrey (1951– )
• Russell, Lillian (1861–1922)
• Russell, Willy (1947– )
• Ruzante (c.1495–1542)
• Rylance, Mark (1960– )
• S
• Sacco, Antonio (1708–88)
• Sackville, Thomas (1536–1608) Thomas Norton (1532–84) English politicians and dramatists.
• sacra rappresentazione
• Saddiki, Tayeb (1930–2016)
• Sadler's Wells Theatre
• Sadovsky, Prov (1818–72)
• sainete
• Saint-Denis, Michel (1897–1971)
• St Denis, Ruth (1879–1968)
• saint play
• Sakata Tōjūrō (1647–1709)
• Salazar Bondy, Sebastián (1924–65)
• Salcedo, Hugo (1964– )
• Salem, Ali (1936–2015)
• Salle des Machines
• Salmawy, Mohammed (1945– )
• Saltykov-Shchedrin, Mikhail (1826–89)
• Salvini, Tommaso (1829–1915)
• Salzburg Festival
• Sánchez, Florencio (1875–1910)
• Sánchez, Luis Rafael (1936– )
• Sanchez-Scott, Milcha (1953– )
• Sanchis Sinisterra, José (1940– )
• sandiwara
• Sandow, Eugen (Ernst Friedrich Möller) (1876–1925)
• Sanger, ‘Lord’ George (1827–1911)
• sanghyang
• Sannu, Yacub (1839–1912)
• Sanskrit theatre and drama
• Santana, Rodolfo (1944– )
• Santander, Felipe (1934–2001)
• Santareno, Bernardo (1957–81)
• Sardou, Victorien (1831–1908)
• Saro-Wiwa, Ken (1941–95)
• Saroyan, William (1908–81)
• Sartre, Jean-Paul (1905–80)
• Sastre, Alfonso (1926– )
• satire
• Satoh Makoto (1943– )
• satyr-play
• Savary, Jérôme (1942–2013)
• Savits, Jocza (1847–1915)
• Saxe-Meiningen
• Scamozzi, Vincenzo (1552–1616)
• Scaparro, Maurizio (1932– )
• Scarpetta, Eduardo (1853–1925)
• Scarron, Paul (1610–60)
• scenario
• scenography
• Schaubühne
• Schechner, Richard (1934– )
• Schiaretti, Christian (1955– )
• Schikaneder, Emanuel (1751–1812)
• Schiller, Friedrich (1759–1805)
• Schiller, Leon (1887–1954)
• Schinkel, Karl Friedrich (1781–1841)
• Schlegel, August Wilhelm (1767–1845)
• Schlemmer, Oskar (1888–1943)
• Schmidhuber de la Mora, Guillermo (1943– )
• Schneider, Alan (1917–84)
• Schnitzler, Arthur (1862–1931)
• Schoenaerts, Julien (1925–2006)
• Schönberg, Claude-Michel
• Schouwburg
• Schröder, Friedrich Ludwig (1744–1816)
• Schröder, Sophie Charlotte (Ackermann) (1714–93)
• Schumann, Peter
• Schwab, Werner (1958–94)
• Scofield, Paul (1922–2008)
• Scott, Dennis (1939–91)
• Scott, George C. (1927–99)
• Scribe, Augustin-Eugène (1791–1861)
• Scudéry, Georges de (1601–67)
• Segal, Zohra (1912–2014)
• Sellars, Peter (1957– )
• Semyonova, Ekaterina (1786–1849)
• Senda Koreya (1904–94)
• Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (5/4 bc–ad 65)
• Şerban, Andrei (1943– )
• Serlio, Sebastiano (1475–1554)
• Serumaga, Robert (1939–81)
• Servandoni, Jean-Nicolas (1695–1766)
• set/setting
• Settle, Elkanah (1648–1724)
• Sewell, Stephen (1953– )
• sex shows and dances
• Seyler, Athene (1889–1990)
• shadow-puppet theatre
• Shadwell, Thomas (c.1642–1692)
• Shaffer, Peter (1926–2016)
• Shakespeare, William (1564–1616)
• Shakespeare Memorial Theatre
• Shakhovskoy, Prince Aleksandr (1777–1846)
• Shange, Ntozake (Paulette Williams) (1948– )
• Sharman, Jim (1945– )
• Shatrov, Mikhail (Mikhail Marshak) (1932–2010)
• Shaw, Fiona (1958– )
• Shaw, George Bernard (1856–1950)
• Shaw, Glen Byam (1904–86)
• Shaw Festival
• Shawn, Wallace (1943– )
• Shchepkin, Mikhail (1788–1863)
• Sheldon, Edward (1886–1946)
• Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792–1822)
• Shelving, Paul (1888–1968)
• Shen Jing (Shen Ching) (1553–1610)
• Shepard, Sam (1943– )
• Sher, Antony (1949– )
• Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751–1816)
• Sherriff, R. C. (Robert Cedric) (1896–1975)
• Sherwood, Robert E. (1896–1955)
• Shiels, George (1886–1949)
• Shimizu Kunio (1936– )
• shimpa
• shingeki
• Shipenko, Aleksei (1961– )
• Shirley, James (1596–1666)
• shite
• Shubert brothers
• Sichuan opera
• Siddons, Sarah (1755–1831)
• Sierra, Gregorio Martínez
• Sieveking, Alejandro (1935– )
• Silva, António José da (1705–39)
• Sim, Alastair (1900–76)
• Simon, Barney (1933–95)
• Simon, Neil (1927– )
• Simonson, Lee (1888–1967)
• Simov, Viktor (1858–1935)
• sinakulo
• Sinden, Donald (1923–2014)
• Singspiel
• Sircar, Badal (1925– )
• Sissle, Noble
• site-specific performance
• Sjöberg, Alf (1903–80)
• Skelton, John (c.1464–1529)
• skene
• Skinner, Cornelia Otis (1901–79)
• Skinner, Otis (1858–1942)
• Slabolepszy, Paul (1948– )
• slapstick
• Slavkin, Viktor (1935–2014)
• Słowacki, Juliusz (1809–49)
• Sly, William (fl.1590–1608)
• Smith, Albert (1816–60)
• Smith, Anna Deavere (1950– )
• Smith, Maggie (1934– )
• Smithson, Harriet Constance (1800–54)
• Smock Alley Theatre
• Sobol, Joshua (1939– )
• socialist realism
• Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio
• Sofola, Zulu (1938–95)
• Soleil, Théâtre du
• soliloquy
• Sologub, Fyodor (1863–1927)
• Solórzano, Carlos (1922–2011)
• Somigliana, Carlos (1932–87)
• Sondheim, Stephen (1930– )
• Sophocles (c.495–406 bc)
• Sorescu, Marin (1936–96)
• Sorge, Reinhard Johannes (1892–1916)
• Sorma, Agnes (1865–1927)
• Sothern, E. A. (Edward Askew) (1826–81) and E. H. (Edward Hugh) (1859–1933)
• Southerne, Thomas (1660–1746)
• Sowande, Bode (1948– )
• Sowerby, Githa (1876–1970)
• Soyinka, Wole (1934– )
• Specht, Kerstin (1956– )
• spectator
• Sperr, Martin (1944–2002)
• Split Britches
• spoken Chinese theatre
• sport
• Spring Willow Society
• Squarzina, Luigi (1922–2010)
• Sriranga (Adya Rangacharya) (1904–86)
• Stafford-Clark, Max (1943– )
• stage design
• stage lighting
• stage manager
• Stage Society
• Stanfield, Clarkson (1793–1867)
• Stanislavsky, Konstantin (1863–1938)
• Stapleton, Maureen (1925–2006)
• Steele, Richard (1672–1729)
• Stein, Gertrude (1874–1946)
• Stein, Peter (1937– )
• Stepanova, Varvara (1894–1958)
• Stephens, Robert (1931–95)
• Stephens, Simon (1971– )
• Stephenson, Elie (1944– )
• Stern, Ernst (1876–1954)
• Sternheim, Carl (1878–1942)
• Stevenson, Juliet (1956– )
• Stewart, Ellen
• Stewart, Nellie (1858–1931)
• Stewart, Patrick (1940– )
• stock character
• stock company
• Stoklos, Denise (1950– )
• Stoppard, Tom (1937– )
• Storey, David (1933– )
• storm and stress
• Stranitzky, Joseph Anton (1676–1726)
• Strasberg, Lee (1901–82)
• Stratford Festival
• Strauss, Botho (1944– )
• street theatre
• Strehler, Giorgio (1921–97)
• Strindberg, August (1849–1912)
• striptease
• Strouse, Charles (1928– )
• Sturm und Drang
• Sturua, Robert (1938– )
• Styne, Jule (1905–94)
• Suassuna, Ariano (1927–2014)
• subsidy
• subtext
• Sudermann, Hermann (1857–1928)
• Sudraka Ancient Indian playwright of Mricchakatika (The Little Clay Cart).
• Sukhovo-Kobylin, Aleksandr (1817–1903)
• Sulerzhitsky, Leopold (1872–1916)
• Sullivan, Arthur (1842–1900)
• Sullivan, Barry (1821–91)
• Sumarokov, Aleksandr (1717–77)
• Sunarya, Asep Sunander (1953– )
• Sundari, Jaishanker (1889–1975)
• Supple, Tim (1962– )
• surrealism
• Sutherland, Efua (1927–96)
• Sütő, András (1927–2006)
• sutradhara
• Suzman, Janet (1939– )
• Suzuki Tadashi (1939– )
• Svoboda, Josef (1920–2002)
• Swann, Donald
• Swan Theatre
• Swinarski, Konrad (1929–75)
• symbolism
• Synge, John Millington (1871–1909)
• Szajna, Józef (1922–2008)
• Szyfman, Arnold (1882–1967)
• T
• tableau vivant
• Tabori, George (1914–2007)
• Tagore, Rabindranath (1861–1941)
• Tairov, Aleksandr (1885–1950)
• Takarazuka Revue
• Takeda Izumo II (1691–1756)
• Takemoto Gidayū (1651–1714)
• Talma, François-Joseph (1763–1826)
• tamasha
• Tandy, Jessica (1909–94)
• Tang Xianzu (T’ang Hsien-tsu) (1550–1617)
• Tanvir, Habib (1929–2009)
• Tarkington, Booth (1869–1946)
• Tarlton, Richard (d.1588)
• Tasso, Torquato (1544–95)
• Tate, Nahum (1652–1715)
• Tavira, Luis de (1948– )
• Taylor, C. P. (Cecil Philip) (1928–81)
• Taylor, Laurette (Cooney) (1884–1946)
• Taylor, Tom (1817–80)
• Taymor, Julie (1952– )
• Ta’zieh
• Teirlinck, Herman (1879–1967)
• Téllez, Fray Gabriel
• Tempest, Marie (1862–1942)
• Tendulkar, Vijay (1928–2008)
• tennis-court theatres
• Terayama Shūji (1935–83)
• Terence (Publius Terentius Afer) (195/185–159 bc)
• Terriss, William (1847–97)
• Terry, Ellen (1847–1928)
• Terry, Megan (1932– )
• Terry family
• teyyam
• Thacker, David (1950– )
• Thalbach, Katharina (1954– )
• Theatertreffen
• theatre
• theatre
• Theatre, the
• theatre design
• Théâtre-Français
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• theatre-in-education
• Théâtre National Populaire
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• theatron
• Theobald, Lewis (1688–1744)
• Thespis (fl.534 bc)
• Thiong’o, Ngugi, wa (1938– )
• Thiyam, Ratan (1948– )
• Thomas, Augustus (1857–1934)
• Thomas, Brandon (1856–1914)
• Thomas, Gerald (1954– )
• Thompson, Judith (1954– )
• Thompson, Mervyn (1935–92)
• Thorndike, Sybil (1882–1976)
• Throckmorton, Cleon (1897–1965)
• Tian Han (T’ien Han) (1898–1968)
• Tieck, Ludwig (1773–1853)
• Tillemans, Walter (1932– )
• Tilley, Vesta (Matilda Powles) (1864–1952)
• Tipton, Jennifer (1937– )
• Tirso de Molina (Gabriel Téllez) (1579–1648)
• Toller, Ernst (1893–1939)
• Tolstoy, Aleksei (Konstantinovich) (1817–75)
• Tolstoy, Lev (Leo) (1828–1910)
• Tomashefsky, Boris (c.1866–1939)
• Tom show
• topeng
• Torelli, Giacomo (1608–78)
• Torres Molina, Susana (1946– )
• total theatre
• touring
• Tourneur, Cyril (c.1575–1626)
• Tovstonogov, Georgy (1915–89)
• township musicals
• toy theatre
• tragedy
• tragicomedy
• Travers, Ben (1886–1980)
• Treadwell, Sophie (1885–1970)
• Tree, Ellen (1806–80)
• Tree, Herbert Beerbohm (1853–1917)
• Tremblay, Michel (1942– )
• Trenyov, Konstantin (1876–1945)
• Tretyakov, Sergei (1892–1939)
• Triana, José (1931– )
• Trissino, Gian Giorgio (1478–1550)
• Trotter, Catherine (Cockburn) (1679–1749)
• Tsubouchi Shōyō (1859–1935)
• Tsukiji Little Theatre
• Tsuruya Nanboku IV (1755–1829)
• Tsypin, George (1954– )
• Tucker, Sophie (1884–1966)
• Tuileries, Théâtre des
• Tune, Tommy (1939– )
• Turgenev, Ivan (1818–83)
• Turlupin (Henri Legrand) (1587–1637)
• Turrini, Peter (1944– )
• Tutin, Dorothy (1931–2001)
• Tyl, Josef Kajetán (1808–56)
• Tyler, Royall (1757–1826)
• Tynan, Kenneth (1927–80)
• U
• Udall, Nicholas (c.1505–1556)
• Ukala, Sam (1948– )
• unities
• Unity Theatre
• Unruh, Fritz von (1885–1970)
• Urban, Joseph (1872–1933)
• Usigli, Rodolfo (1905–79)
• Ustinov, Peter (1921–2004)
• U’Tamsi, Tchicaya (Gérard Félix) (1931–88)
• V
• Vaca, Jusepa (fl. 1602–34)
• Vakhtangov, Evgeny (1883–1922)
• Valdez, Luis (1940– )
• Valentin, Karl (1882–1948)
• Valle-Inclán, Ramón del (1866–1936)
• Vampilov, Aleksandr (1937–72)
• van Bridge, Tony (1917–2004)
• Vanbrugh, John (1664–1726)
• Van Druten, John (1901–57)
• Van Itallie, Jean-Claude (1936– )
• variety
• Varlamov, Konstantin (1848–1915)
• Vasari, Giorgio (1511–74)
• Vasiliev, Anatoly (1942– )
• vaudeville
• Vauthier, Jean (1910–92)
• Vedrenne–Barker seasons
• Vega (Carpio), Lope de (1562–1635)
• Vélez de Guevara, Luis (1579–1644)
• Veranna, Gubbi (1890–1972)
• Verdi, Giuseppe (1813–1901)
• Verdon, Gwen (1925–2000)
• Verfremdung
• Vestris, Madame (Lucia Elizabeth Bartolozzi) (1797–1856)
• Viana Filho, Oduvaldo (Vianinha) (1936–74)
• Vicente, Gil (c.1465–c.1536)
• vidushaka
• Viganò, Salvatore (1769–1821)
• Vigarani family
• Vigny, Alfred de (1797–1863)
• Vilalta, Maruxa (1932–2014)
• Vilar, Jean (1912–71)
• villain
• Villegas, Oscar (1943– )
• Vinaver, Michel (1927– )
• Vincent, Jean-Pierre (1942– )
• Visconti, Luchino (1906–76)
• Vishnevsky, Vsevolod (1900–51)
• Vitez, Antoine (1930–90)
• Vitrac, Roger (1899–1952)
• Viviani, Raffaele (1888–1950)
• Viviescas, Victor (1958– )
• Vodanovic, Sergio (1926–2001)
• Vogel, Paula (1951– )
• Volkov, Fyodor (1729–63)
• Volksbühne (people's theatre)
• Volonakis, Minos (1925–99)
• Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) (1694–1778)
• Vondel, Joost van den (1587–1679)
• Von Sydow, Max (1929– )
• voodoo
• Voss, Gert (1941–2014)
• Vychodil, Ladislav (1920–2005)
• Vysotsky, Vladimir (1938–80)
• W
• Wagner, Richard (1813–83)
• Wagner, Robin (1933– )
• Wagner, Wieland (1917–66)
• Wahba, Saad Eddin (1923–97)
• Wajda, Andrzej (1926– )
• Walcott, Derek (1930– )
• Walker, George F. (1947– )
• Wall, Max (1908–90)
• Wallace, Nellie (1870–1948)
• Waller, Lewis (1860–1915)
• Wälterlin, Oskar (1895–1961)
• Walters, Sam (1939– )
• Wanamaker, Sam (1919–93)
• Wang Shifu (Wang Shih-fu) (probably mid- to late-thirteenth century)
• Wannous, Sadallah (1941–97)
• Warchus, Matthew (1966– )
• Ward, Douglas Turner (1930– )
• Ward, Nick (1962– )
• Warner, David (1939– )
• Warner, Deborah (1959– )
• Warren, Mercy Otis (1728–1814)
• Warren, William (the Elder) (1762–1832)
• Washington Square Players
• Wasserstein, Wendy (1950–2006)
• Waterhouse, Keith (1929–2009)
• Waters, Ethel (1896–1977)
• Waterston, Sam (1940– )
• wayang kulit
• Webb, John (1611–72)
• Webber, Andrew Lloyd
• Weber, Joseph (1867–1942) and Lew Fields (1867–1941)
• Webster, Benjamin (1797–1882)
• Webster, John (c.1580–c.1633)
• Webster, Margaret (1905–72)
• Wedekind, Frank (1864–1918)
• Weigel, Helene (1900–71)
• Wei Liangfu (fl.1522–73)
• Weill, Kurt (1900–50)
• Weimar Court Theatre
• Wei Minglun (1941– )
• Weiss, Peter (1916–82)
• Wekwerth, Manfred (1929–2014)
• Welfare State International
• Weller, Michael (1942– )
• Welles, Orson (1915–85)
• well-made play (la pièce bien faite)
• wenming xi
• Werfel, Franz (1890–1945)
• Werkteater
• Wertenbaker, Timberlake (1951– )
• Wesker, Arnold (1932–2016)
• West, Mae (1893–1980)
• West, Timothy (1934– )
• White, George (1890–1960)
• White, Patrick (1912–90)
• Whitehall Banqueting House
• Whitelaw, Billie (1932–2014)
• Whiting, John (1917–63)
• Wignell, Thomas (1753–1803)
• Wijaya, Putu (1944– )
• Wilbrandt, Adolf von (1837–1911)
• Wilde, Oscar (1854–1900)
• Wilder, Thornton (1897–1975)
• Wild West shows
• Wilkinson, Norman (1882–1934)
• Wilkinson, Tate (1739–1803)
• Wilks, Robert (c.1665–1732)
• Williams, Bert (1876–1922)
• Williams, Clifford (1926–2005)
• Williams, Emlyn (1905–87)
• Williams, Harcourt (1880–1957)
• Williams, Tennessee (Thomas Lanier Williams) (1911–83)
• Williamson, David (1942– )
• Williamson, J. C. (James Cassius) (1844–1913)
• Williamson, Nicol (1938–2011)
• Wills, W. G. (1828–91)
• Wilson, August (1945–2005)
• Wilson, Lanford (1937–2011)
• Wilson, Robert (fl.1572–1600)
• Wilson, Robert (1941– )
• Wilton, Marie (1839–1919)
• Winge, Stein (1940– )
• Witkiewicz, Stanisław Ignacy (1885–1939)
• Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) (1881–1975)
• Woffington, Peg (c.1720–60)
• Wolfe, George C. (1954– )
• Wolff, Egon (1926– )
• Wolfit, Donald (1902–68)
• Wood, Charles (1932– )
• Wood, John (1930–2011)
• Wooster Group
• Worth, Irene (1916–2002)
• Wright, Garland (1946–98)
• Wu Hsing-kuo (pinyin, Wu Xingguo) (1953– )
• wujü (wu chü)
• Wycherley, William (1641–1715)
• Wyndham, Charles (1837–1919)
• Wynn, Ed (Isaiah Edwin Leopold) (1886–1966)
• Wynyard, Diana (Dorothy Isobel Cox) (1906–64)
• Wyspiański, Stanisław (1869–1907)
• X
• Xenopoulos, Gregorios (1867–1951)
• Xirgu, Margarita (1888–1969)
• Y
• Yacine, Kateb (1929–89)
• yakshagana
• Yassin, Mustapha Kamil (1925–2011)
• Yates, Mary Ann (1728–87)
• Yeats, William Butler (1865–1939)
• Yiddish theatre
• Ying Ruocheng (Ying Jo-ch’eng) (1929–2003)
• yokthe pwe
• Yoruba popular theatre
• Yoshizawa Ayame I (1673–1729)
• Young, Stark (1886–1963)
• youth, theatre for
• Yu Ch’i-jin (1905–74)
• Yung, Danny (1943– )
• Yusem, Laura (1939– )
• Yu Zhenfei (Yü Chen-fei) (1902–93)
• Z
• Zacconi, Ermete (1857–1948)
• Zadek, Peter (1926–2009)
• zaju (tsa-chü)
• Zakharov, Mark (1933– )
• Zaks, Jerry (1946– )
• Zamyatin, Evgeny (1884–1937)
• Zanni
• Zapolska, Gabriela (1857–1921)
• zarzuela
• zat pwe
• Zeami (Kanze Motokiyo) (1363–1443)
• Zeffirelli, Franco (1923– )
• Zemach, Nahum (1887–1939)
• Ziegfeld, Florenz (1869–1932)
• Zipprodt, Patricia (1925–98)
• Zola, Émile (1840–1902)
• Zorin, Leonid (1924– )
• Zorrilla, José (1817–93)
• Zuckmayer, Carl (1896–1977)
• Zweig, Stefan (1881–1942)
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