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Ballet Philippines
Ballet Philippines is a professional classical and contemporary dance company resident at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila since its 1969 founding by Alice Reyes.
Ballets based on novels and prose fiction
Ballets based on novels and prose fiction are ballets whose stories come from novels or novellas rather than plays or fairy tales, documented since a danced Don Quixote in 1740.
Ballets by George Balanchine
The ballets of George Balanchine span 465 cataloged works from 1920 to 1982, including Serenade, Apollo, and Jewels, with more than 150 created for New York City Ballet.
Ballets by Jerome Robbins
Ballets by Jerome Robbins is the repertory of concert ballets choreographer Jerome Robbins created over more than fifty years, from Fancy Free in 1944 to Brandenburg in 1997.
Ballets by Marius Petipa
The ballets of Marius Petipa, the French-born choreographer who worked for the Russian Imperial Theatres from 1847, include Don Quixote, La Bayadère, The Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker.
Ballets Russes
Ballets Russes: Paris-based ballet company founded by Serge Diaghilev in 1909, active until his death in 1929; created over 100 ballets with Fokine, Nijinsky, Massine, Nijinska, and Balanchine, bringing modernism onto the dance stage.
Ballroom dance
Ballroom dance is partner dancing in a shared hold, from the waltz, quadrille, and minuet of European ballrooms to DanceSport's ten-dance Standard and Latin competition system and modern social styles.
Bánk bán
Bánk bán is a five-act Hungarian historical tragedy by József Katona, written between 1814 and 1819, and the basis of Ferenc Erkel's 1861 national opera.
Bano Qudsia
Bano Qudsia (بانو قدسیہ, 1928–2017), born Qudsia Chattha, Pakistani Urdu novelist and playwright, wife of Ashfaq Ahmed; author of Raja Gidh and the classic TV play Aadhi Baat; Sitara-i-Imtiaz and Kamal-e-Fun Award recipient.
Baojian Ji
Baojian Ji (宝剑记, The Sword Record) is a 52-scene Ming dynasty chuanqi drama by Li Kaixian (1502–1568), adapted from the Lin Chong story in the novel Water Margin.
Barbara Cook
Barbara Cook (1927–2017), American Broadway soprano and cabaret singer; original Marian in The Music Man (Tony), Cunegonde in Candide, Amalia in She Loves Me; reinvented as a concert interpreter of Sondheim and the American songbook.
Barbara Karinska
Barbara Karinska (Varvara Zhmoudsky, 1886-1983), Ukrainian-born costume designer, longtime Balanchine collaborator at New York City Ballet, inventor of the powder-puff tutu, Oscar winner for Joan of Arc.
Bare: A Pop Opera
Bare: A Pop Opera is a sung-through rock musical by Damon Intrabartolo and Jon Hartmere, following high school seniors at a Catholic boarding school; it premiered in Los Angeles in 2000.
Barnum (musical)
Barnum is a 1980 Cy Coleman-Michael Stewart-Mark Bramble circus musical about P.T. Barnum; it ran 854 Broadway performances, won three Tonys, and starred Jim Dale and Glenn Close.
Baron Vaughn
Baron Vaughn (born 1980, Portales, New Mexico) is an American comedian and actor, Bud on Grace and Frankie, Tom Servo in MST3K's 2017 revival, and co-creator of The New Negroes.
Barranca abajo
Barranca abajo is a three-act rural tragedy by the Uruguayan playwright Florencio Sánchez, premiered in Buenos Aires in 1905 and depicting an aging gaucho's loss of his inherited land.
Barrett Wilbert Weed
Barrett Wilbert Weed (born 1988, Boston) is an American musical theater actress who originated Veronica Sawyer in Heathers: The Musical and Janis Sarkisian in Mean Girls on Broadway, and voices Octavia in Helluva Boss.
Barry Cryer
Barry Cryer (1935–2022), English comedy writer and comedian from Leeds, wrote for Tommy Cooper, Morecambe and Wise, The Two Ronnies and Bob Hope, and was a panellist on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue from 1972; OBE in 2001.
Barry Humphries
Barry Humphries (John Barry Humphries, 1934–2023) was an Australian comedian and satirist, creator and performer of Dame Edna Everage, Sir Les Patterson, and Sandy Stone, honored with AO, CBE, and AC and farewelled at a 2023 Sydney Opera House state memorial.
Barry John (theatre director)
Barry John, born 1946, is a British-born Indian theater director and teacher who founded Delhi's Theatre Action Group in 1973 and trained actors including Shah Rukh Khan.
Barrymore family
The Barrymore family is an Anglo-American acting dynasty, dubbed the "Royal Family" of American theater, founded by Louisa Lane Drew and Maurice Barrymore and spanning at least seven generations from Lionel, Ethel, and John Barrymore to Drew Barrymore.
Batleika
Batleika is a Belarusian folk puppet theater named from Bethlehem, first recorded in the 16th century, whose two-tier stage and nativity plays resemble the vertep.
Bea Millan-Windorski
Bea Millan-Windorski is a Filipino-American pageant titleholder who won Miss Earth USA 2024, Miss Earth-Water 2024, and Miss Universe Philippines 2026, with advocacy in climate and marine conservation.
Beaches (musical)
Beaches is a Broadway musical based on Iris Rainer Dart's 1985 novel about the lifelong friendship of Cee Cee Bloom and Bertie White, which ran in 2026.
Beacon Theatre (New York City)
Beacon Theatre, New York City: 1929 Upper West Side movie palace at 2124 Broadway, designed by Walter W. Ahlschlager, now a ~2,800-seat MSG-operated landmark concert hall, home to the Allman Brothers Band's final show.
Beaker (Muppet)
Beaker is a Muppet character, the test-tube-shaped lab assistant to Dr. Bunsen Honeydew at Muppet Labs, known for "meep" speech and suffering his boss's inventions; co-winner of a 2004 BBC favorite-scientist poll.
Beaumont and Fletcher
Beaumont and Fletcher is the conventional name for English playwrights Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, whose collaborations from 1606 to 1613 established English tragicomedy as the dominant dramatic form.
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical is a 2013 Broadway jukebox-biographical musical with a book by Douglas McGrath and songs by Goffin/King and Mann/Weil. It won two 2014 Tony Awards, ran nearly six years on Broadway, and continues in tours and regional productions.
Beck Bennett
Beck Bennett (born 1984) is an American comedian and actor, an SNL cast member 2013-2021, star of AT&T's 'It's Not Complicated' ads, Good Neighbor co-founder, and Steve Lombard in Superman (2025).
Beetlejuice (musical)
Beetlejuice the Musical: Broadway adaptation of Tim Burton's 1988 film, score by Eddie Perfect, book by Brown and King, directed by Alex Timbers; three Broadway runs (2019–20, 2022–23, 2025–26), eight Tony nominations, national tour.