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Theatre of Bangladesh

Theatre of Bangladesh spans Sanskrit drama, folk jatra, and modern urban theater, with about 250 nonprofit group theaters defining the stage after the 1971 War of Liberation.

Theatre of Blood

Theatre of Blood (US title Theater of Blood) is a 1973 British black comedy horror film directed by Douglas Hickox, starring Vincent Price as actor Edward Lionheart, who murders theatre critics using deaths copied from Shakespeare plays; adapted for the National Theatre in 2005.

Theatre of China

Theatre of China covers traditional opera (xiqu, 戏曲), 300-plus regional sung genres with four skills and role types, and Western-derived spoken drama (huaju) from around 1900, through Yuan-Ming-Qing maturation, model theater, and today's heritage preservation.

Theatre of Cruelty

Theatre of Cruelty (theatre of cruelty), avant-garde drama theory by Antonin Artaud in two 1931 and 1933 manifestos collected in Le Theatre et son Double (1938); spiritual not physical cruelty, sensory staging, sole production The Cenci (1935), influential on Brook's 1964 season, the Living Theater, and later performance art.

Theatre of Denmark

Theatre of Denmark (teater i Danmark): Danish theatrical tradition from medieval liturgical drama through the 1722 Lille Grønnegade stage, Holberg's comedies, and the 1748 Royal Theatre to today's regional, touring and independent scenes.

Theatre of Dionysus (Θέατρο του Διονύσου)

Theatre of Dionysus (Θέατρο του Διονύσου), ancient Athenian theatre on the Acropolis' south slope where Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes premiered; Lycurgan stone phase (340-330 BC) seated 15,000-17,000; birthplace of Greek drama, now an excavated visitor site.

Theatre of Egypt

Theatre of Egypt is the tradition of staged drama in Egypt since the 19th century, blending European forms with local performance into a national drama in Egyptian Arabic.

Theatre of India

Theatre of India (भारतीय रंगमंच) covers Sanskrit classical drama rooted in the Natyashastra, regional folk forms such as Jatra, Yakshagana, Tamasha, and Pandwani, and modern theatre shaped by Parsi theatre, street theatre, and post-Independence directors like Habib Tanvir.

Theatre of Ireland

The Theatre of Ireland is the national theater tradition of Ireland, conventionally dated from 1897, when Yeats, Lady Gregory, and Edward Martyn founded modern Irish drama.

Theatre of Memory

Theatre of Memory, or Teatro de la memoria, is a current in Chilean and Southern Cone theater in which staged works construct and contest collective memory of the dictatorships of the 1970s and 1980s.

Theatre of Pain

Theatre of Pain is Mötley Crüe's third studio album, released June 21, 1985 on Elektra/Asylum. Known for Home Sweet Home and Smokin' in the Boys Room, it pivoted the band toward glam metal, went 4x platinum, and received a 40th-anniversary BMG box set in 2025.

Theatre of Pakistan

Theatre of Pakistan is the live stage tradition of Pakistan, spanning Urdu drama inherited from Parsi theater, a commercial Punjabi stage in Lahore, and political theater.

Theatre of Parium

Theatre of Parium: Roman theatre at ancient Parion (Parium), Kemer village, Biga, Çanakkale, Türkiye. Built under Vespasian, rebuilt under Commodus for gladiatorial fights, abandoned late 4th century AD; excavated since 2006 by OMU.

Theatre of Poland

Theatre of Poland: national theatrical tradition from medieval liturgical drama and the 1765 National Theatre of Stanisław August through Grotowski, Kantor, and post-1989 repertory and independent scenes.

Theatre of Pompey

Theatre of Pompey (Theatrum Pompei), Rome's first permanent stone theater, dedicated 55 BC by Pompey the Great on the Campus Martius, with a Venus Victrix temple workaround, the Curia where Caesar was assassinated, and remains under modern Rome.

Theatre of Sri Lanka

The theater of Sri Lanka is a layered tradition running from masked kolam folk drama and South Indian nadagam to urban nurthi, modern Sinhala and Tamil stage, and string-puppet Rukada Natya.

Theatre of the Oppressed

Theatre of the Oppressed (Teatro do Oprimido) is Augusto Boal's interactive theatre method, influenced by Freire, in which spectators become spect-actors who intervene in Forum, Image, Invisible, Rainbow of Desire, and Legislative Theatre scenes to rehearse responses to oppression.

Theatre of Turkey

Theatre of Turkey: traditional forms (meddah, Karagöz, ortaoyunu, village plays) plus Western-style modern theatre from the Tanzimat era; Şair Evlenmesi 1860, Dârülbedayi 1914, State Theatres 1949.

Theatre Olympics

The Theatre Olympics is an international invitational theater festival founded in Delphi, Greece, in 1993, with no medals or prizes; its largest edition drew 465 works from 35 countries.

Theatre Passe Muraille

Theatre Passe Muraille, French for "theatre beyond walls," is a professional theater company in Toronto founded in 1968 by Jim Garrard at Rochdale College, one of Canada's first alternative theaters.

Théâtre populaire

Théâtre populaire is a French movement seeking to bring theater to workers, provincial audiences, and the poor, embodied in the Théâtre du Peuple de Bussang (1895) and the TNP.

Theatre Royal Haymarket

The Theatre Royal Haymarket is a Grade I listed West End theater in London, first built in 1720 and the third oldest London playhouse still in use.

Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

Theatre Royal, Drury Lane is London's oldest continuously used theatre site, operating since 1663 under Charles II's patent to Thomas Killigrew. Current Grade I building by Benjamin Dean Wyatt dates from 1812; owned by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Theatre traditions by country and culture

Theatre traditions by country and culture surveys how theater arose independently worldwide, from India's Natyashastra and Java's ten centuries of wayang puppetry to Japan's Noh and China's 600-year-old Kunqu.

Theatre venues of Europe, Asia and Oceania: an overview

An overview of theater venues in Europe, Asia, and Oceania, comparing Europe's subsidized repertory ensembles, Asia's blend of traditional and Western-style stages, and Oceania's commercial performing-arts centers.

Theatre Workshop

Theatre Workshop was a British theater company founded in 1945 under director Joan Littlewood, based from 1953 at the Theatre Royal in Stratford, East London.

Theatre: The Myth of Reality

Theatre: The Myth of Reality (തീയേറ്റർ: ദ മിത്ത് ഓഫ് റിയാലിറ്റി) is a 2025 Malayalam drama directed by Sajin Baabu, starring Rima Kallingal and Sarasa Balussery as an isolated mother and daughter on a Kerala island; released 16 October 2025, streaming on Manorama Max, Grand Prix winner at the Western Gate festival.

Theatres in Scotland

Theatres in Scotland covers notable theater buildings, their capacities, and histories, from the Edinburgh Playhouse and Festival Theatre to Glasgow's Category A listed Theatre Royal, home of Scottish Opera.

Theatres in the United Kingdom

Theatres in the United Kingdom: live stage venues from medieval mystery plays, the 1576 Theatre and the Drury Lane/Covent Garden patent monopoly to Arts Council-funded regional rep and the 2025 record of over 37 million attendances.

Theatres in Wales

Theatres in Wales range from converted chapels, workmen's halls, and mines to the 1,900-seat Donald Gordon Theatre, with 123 assets supporting 4,079 workers and £57 million turnover in 2019.