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The Silence of the Lambs (play)
The Silence of the Lambs (play): Gina Gionfriddo's 2026 stage adaptation of Thomas Harris's 1988 novel, directed by Nikolai Foster, premiered at Curve Leicester with John Partridge as Lecter and Mollie Gallagher as Starling, then toured the UK and Ireland.
The Silver Tassie
The Silver Tassie is an anti-war play in four acts by the Irish dramatist Seán O'Casey, finished in 1928 and rejected by Dublin's Abbey Theatre in its most famous refusal.
The Skin of Our Teeth
The Skin of Our Teeth is a 1942 allegorical comedy by Thornton Wilder about a New Jersey family surviving the Ice Age, the Flood, and war.
The Sleeping Beauty (Спящая красавица) (ballet)
The Sleeping Beauty (Спящая красавица) is a ballet in a prologue and three acts with music by Tchaikovsky, choreographed by Marius Petipa, premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg in 1890.
The Snow Maiden
The Snow Maiden (Снегурочка, "A Spring Tale") is an 1873 play by Alexander Ostrovsky, drawn from a Russian folk tale, later made into a famous Rimsky-Korsakov opera.
The Song of Death
The Song of Death (أغنية الموت) is a one-act play by the Egyptian playwright Tawfiq al-Hakim dramatizing blood revenge in a village in southern Egypt.
The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music: 1959 Broadway musical, the last Rodgers & Hammerstein collaboration, based on Maria von Trapp's memoir; ran 1,443 performances, won seven Tonys, and became the record-breaking 1965 film.
The Spanish Brabanter
The Spanish Brabanter (Spaanschen Brabander) is a comedy in verse by Amsterdam playwright Gerbrand Bredero, completed in 1617, about Jerolimo, a swindler posing as a wealthy grand seigneur.
The Star Without a Name
The Star Without a Name (Romanian: Steaua fără nume) is a romantic comedy in three acts by Mihail Sebastian, first staged in Bucharest in 1944 under a pseudonym.
The Steward of Christendom
The Steward of Christendom is a 1995 play by Sebastian Barry about Thomas Dunne, a former Dublin police chief looking back on his life serving the British crown.
The Stone Guest
The Stone Guest (Каменный гость) is a short drama in blank verse by Alexander Pushkin, written in 1830 as one of his four Little Tragedies and based on the Don Juan legend.
The Stone Host
The Stone Host (Камінний господар) is a 1912 drama in five acts by Lesia Ukrainka, retelling the Don Juan legend and first staged in Kyiv in 1914.
The Story (stage play)
The Story is a 2003 drama by American playwright Tracey Scott Wilson about a Black reporter's fabricated scoop, inspired by the Janet Cooke scandal; premiered at The Public Theater, revived at London's National Theatre in 2026 with Letitia Wright.
The Strong Breed
The Strong Breed is a 1963 one-act play by Nigerian playwright and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka about a stranger who becomes a village's ritual carrier of sins.
The Sultan's Dilemma
The Sultan's Dilemma (السلطان الحائر) is a 1960 play by Tawfiq al-Hakim in which a Mamluk sultan must choose between ruling by the sword and submitting to the law.
The Tale of Shuzenji
The Tale of Shuzenji (修禅寺物語, Shuzenji monogatari) is a one-act kabuki play by Okamoto Kido, published in 1911 and premiered at the Meijiza theater in Tokyo.
The Taming of the Shrew
The Taming of the Shrew is an early Shakespeare comedy, written around 1590-1 and first printed in the 1623 First Folio, about Petruchio's coercive taming of Katherina of Padua, its Sly induction, sources, and contested gender politics.
The Taming of the Shrew (ballet)
The Taming of the Shrew is John Cranko's two-act comic ballet after Shakespeare, music by Kurt-Heinz Stolze after Scarlatti, premiered by the Stuttgart Ballet in 1969 for Marcia Haydée and Richard Cragun.
The Tempest
Shakespeare's romance play The Tempest, written about 1610-1611 and first performed 1 November 1611 before King James. Features Prospero, Ariel, and Caliban; printed first in the 1623 First Folio; widely considered Shakespeare's last solo play.
The Tenderloins
The Tenderloins is an American comedy troupe formed in 1999 by Staten Island friends Joe Gatto, James Murray, Brian Quinn, and Sal Vulcano, creators of Impractical Jokers.
The Theatre and Its Double
The Theatre and Its Double (Le théâtre et son double) is Antonin Artaud's 1938 Gallimard collection of essays and Theatre of Cruelty manifestos; English 1958, Grove Press; foundational modern theatre theory.
The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations
The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations, also Les trente-six situations dramatiques, is Georges Polti's 1895 catalog of 36 plot patterns derived from Carlo Gozzi via Goethe, each defined by required roles and illustrated with examples from world drama.
The Thorn Hairpin
The Thorn Hairpin (Jingchai ji; 荆钗记) is a Chinese southern drama in which poor scholar Wang Shipeng marries Qian Yulian with a humble thornwood hairpin.
The Threepenny Opera
Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), Brecht-Weill-Hauptmann 1928 'play with music' after John Gay's Beggar's Opera, premiered 31 August 1928 in Berlin; songs include Mack the Knife; banned 1933, revived worldwide.
The Tidings Brought to Mary
The Tidings Brought to Mary (L'Annonce faite à Marie) is a drama in four acts and a prologue by French poet and diplomat Paul Claudel, first staged in Paris in December 1912.
The Tragedy of al-Husayn
The Tragedy of al-Husayn is a recurring subject of Arabic drama on the killing of Husayn, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson, at Karbala, best known through al-Sharqawi's 1969 Egyptian verse play.
The Tragedy of Atahualpa
The Tragedy of Atahualpa (Tragedia del fin de Atawallpa) is a cycle of Quechua conquest dramas staging Atahualpa's capture by Pizarro at Cajamarca, still performed in Peru and Bolivia.
The Tree Climber
The Tree Climber (Ya tali' al-shajarah) is a 1962 two-act play by Egyptian writer Tawfiq al-Hakim, his first in the mode of the Theater of the Absurd.
The Trial of Dedan Kimathi
The Trial of Dedan Kimathi is a 1976 play by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and Micere Githae Mugo dramatizing the 1956 trial of the Mau Mau leader.
The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest
The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest is a Spanish Golden Age play attributed to Tirso de Molina and the founding text of the Don Juan legend.