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The Trojan War Will Not Take Place
The Trojan War Will Not Take Place (La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu) is a two-act play by Jean Giraudoux, first performed in Paris in November 1935.
The Turning Point (1977 film)
The Turning Point is a 1977 American ballet drama directed by Herbert Ross, written by Arthur Laurents, starring Anne Bancroft and Shirley MacLaine; it earned 11 Oscar nominations without a win and debuted Baryshnikov and Leslie Browne.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Two Gentlemen of Verona is an early Shakespeare comedy, possibly his first, about friends Valentine and Proteus rivaling for Silvia; first printed in the 1623 Folio, notorious for its friendship-versus-love ending.
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (musical)
Stage musical adapted by Rachel Joyce from her 2012 novel, with music and lyrics by Passenger, directed by Katy Rudd; premiered at Chichester's Minerva Theatre, transferred to the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 2026, starring Mark Addy and Jenna Russell, Olivier-nominated for Best New Musical.
The Vagina Monologues
The Vagina Monologues, by V (formerly Eve Ensler), premiered in New York in 1996 and won an Obie. Built from over 200 interviews, its 17 monologues spawned V-Day, which raised over $120 million.
The Vivienne
The Vivienne was the drag persona of James Lee Williams (died January 2025), Welsh-born winner of RuPaul's Drag Race UK series one in 2019, known for celebrity impressions, musical theatre, and mainstream UK television.
The Vizier of the Lankaran Khanate
The Vizier of the Lankaran Khanate is an 1851 satirical comedy by Azerbaijani playwright Mirza Fatali Akhundov, the third of six comedies satirizing corrupt khanate rulers.
The Way of the World
The Way of the World is William Congreve's 1700 five-act Restoration comedy of manners, his final play, first staged at Lincoln's Inn Fields. Initially a commercial failure, it features Mirabell and Millamant's Proviso scene and is now considered the acme of Restoration comedy.
The Wedding
The Wedding (Wesele) is a 1901 symbolist drama in three acts by Polish playwright Stanisław Wyspiański, considered the most important Polish drama of the twentieth century.
The Will Rogers Follies
The Will Rogers Follies, also titled A Life in Revue, is a 1991 Broadway musical by Peter Stone, Cy Coleman, Comden and Green, directed and choreographed by Tommy Tune; it won six Tonys including Best Musical and ran 981 performances at the Palace Theatre.
The Winslow Boy
The Winslow Boy is Terence Rattigan's 1946 four-act play about the Archer-Shee case, in which a family fights to clear a naval cadet expelled for stealing a five-shilling postal order, later adapted to screen in 1948 and 1999.
The Witch of Edmonton
The Witch of Edmonton is a 1621 English tragicomedy by William Rowley, Thomas Dekker, and John Ford, based on the real witchcraft trial and execution of Elizabeth Sawyer that year.
The Wizard of New Zealand
The Wizard of New Zealand, Ian Brackenbury Channell, is Christchurch's official wizard, appointed Wizard of Christchurch in 1982 and proclaimed Wizard of New Zealand by PM Mike Moore in 1990; his $16,000 council contract ended in 2021.
The Zoo Story
The Zoo Story is a one-act play by Edward Albee, written in 1958 and premiered in Berlin in 1959, in which the stranger Jerry forces a conversation on the publishing executive Peter in Central Park.
Theater (structure)
A theater is a building, or part of one, constructed wholly or mainly for the public performance of plays, ranging from small studio spaces to opera houses.
Theater drapes and stage curtains
Theater drapes and stage curtains, known together as soft goods, are the cloth elements used to surround, conceal, and transform a theater stage, from the main curtain to backdrops.
Theater in the United States
Theater in the United States spans Broadway, nonprofit regional theaters, and community companies, from colonial-era stages and the 1935–1939 Federal Theatre Project to the postwar regional movement and today's $1.91 billion Broadway seasons.
Theater of Tegea
Theater of Tegea: Hellenistic theater of the Arcadian polis Tegea, east of its agora at Palaia Episkopi; 4th-century BC origin, marble cavea funded by Antiochus IV (175 BC), cavea 80 m, buried under a Byzantine church.
Theatre
Theatre, the art of live performance before an audience by actors using speech, song, gesture, and staging; Western theatre arose in Athens around 534 BC with Thespis, with independent Sanskrit and East Asian traditions.
Theatre companies of Asia, Africa and Oceania
Theatre companies of Asia, Africa and Oceania operate under state, private, and foundation models, from Nairobi's 1952 national theater to Mumbai's NCPA and Australia's thirty major companies.
Theatre companies of Southeast Asia
Theatre companies of Southeast Asia are producing groups across Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore, ranging from registered professional companies and artist-run collectives to traditional-form troupes like mak yong ensembles.
Theatre Company of the Philippines (Tanghalang Pilipino)
Tanghalang Pilipino, the resident drama company of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, was founded in 1987 and is the country's National Performing Arts Company for Theater.
Theatre director
Theatre director: the artist who unifies text, design, and performance under one vision. Also called stage director, regisseur, or Intendant. Emerged as a distinct creative profession in the late nineteenth century with Saxe-Meiningen, Antoine, Stanislavsky, Appia, and Craig.
Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier
The Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier is a Paris theater in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, founded by Jacques Copeau in 1913 and the second hall of the Comédie-Française since 1993.
Theatre festivals in Asia, Africa and Oceania
Theatre festivals in Asia, Africa and Oceania range from Bharat Rang Mahotsav in India, billed as the world's largest, to Cairo's CIFET and the Kampala and Kenya festivals.
Theatre for development
Theatre for development (TfD), also called popular theatre, is participatory community theatre rooted in Freire and Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, widespread since the 1970s in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, using research, devising, and forum-style performance to address local development issues.
Theatre for young audiences
Theatre for young audiences (TYA) is professional theater created by adult artists for children, teens, and family audiences, distinct from participatory youth theater, spanning touring ensembles, festivals, and mainstream stages.
Théatre Gallo-Romains
Gallo-Roman theatres (theatres gallo-romains): provincial Roman theatres of Gaul, Germania, and Britannia with cavea beyond a semicircle, reduced stage, dual theatre-amphitheatre use; Mandeure, 142 m, is the largest in Gaul.
Theatre historiography
Theatre historiography is the study of how theater history is researched, written, and periodized, examining what counts as evidence and where one era ends and another begins.
Theatre in Asia
Theatre in Asia is not one art form but hundreds of distinct traditions, most fusing drama, dance, and music, with roots in Indian epics and religious practice.