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Theatre in Cuba and the Spanish Caribbean
Theatre in Cuba and the Spanish Caribbean covers stage traditions in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic, from colonial religious performance to state-sponsored and exile theater.
Theatre in Ghana
Theatre in Ghana spans pre-colonial Akan ritual and storytelling, the colonial concert party, and the written drama of playwrights like Efua Sutherland and Ama Ata Aidoo.
Theatre in Kenya
Theatre in Kenya is the country's staged performance tradition, running from colonial regulation of indigenous performance through the Kamiriithu community theater of the 1970s to the Kenya National Theatre, built in 1951.
Theatre in Mexico
Theatre in Mexico is the performance tradition of present-day Mexico, from colonial religious drama and indigenous dance-dramas through the commercial stages of the nineteenth century and modern state institutions.
Theatre in Portugal
Theatre in Portugal is a national tradition running from medieval liturgical drama to the present, shaped by Gil Vicente and by Almeida Garrett's Romantic reform and National Theatre.
Theatre in Tanzania
Theatre in Tanzania is a performance tradition rooted in ngoma drum-dance events and Kiswahili popular drama, now competing with video film and Bongo Flava music.
Theatre in the Baltic states
Theatre in the Baltic states is the tradition of state-subsidized repertory theaters in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, marked by high attendance and auteur directing consolidated in Soviet-era Lithuania.
Theatre in the Netherlands and Flanders
Dutch-language theater is the theatrical tradition shared by the Netherlands and Flanders, from the chambers of rhetoric and the 1638 Amsterdam Schouwburg through Golden Age drama to the modern system.
Theatre in the Pacific Islands
Theatre in the Pacific Islands is modern scripted stage drama by island-based companies and universities across Hawai‘i, Fiji, Sāmoa, and Oceania, flourishing since the late 1960s alongside decolonization.
Theatre in the Roman provinces
Theatre in the Roman provinces was the performance culture of the Roman Empire outside Italy, spreading from the Greek East to Britain, with over 400 theaters cataloged.
Theatre in the United Kingdom
Theatre in the United Kingdom is a four-nation tradition running from medieval church drama to the West End, funded mostly by private money rather than the state.
Theatre in Uganda
Theatre in Uganda spans indigenous performance in the round, colonial and mission drama, and a national tradition built around the Uganda National Theatre from 1959.
Theatre in Ukraine
Theatre in Ukraine encompasses theatrical traditions in Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, and Church Slavonic, dating to 1619 and shaped by imperial censorship, the Berezil theater, and repression.
Théâtre Libre
The Théâtre Libre, or Free Theatre, was a private theater company founded by André Antoine in Paris in 1887 to stage naturalist drama outside commercial and censorship constraints.
Théâtre national algérien (المسرح الوطني الجزائري)
Théâtre national algérien (المسرح الوطني الجزائري) is Algeria's national theater, created by decree in 1963 and housed since independence in the former Opera of Algiers in central Algiers.
Théâtre national Mohammed V (محمد الخامس)
The Théâtre national Mohammed V (محمد الخامس) is Morocco's state-run national theater in Rabat, built in 1961–1962 and named for King Mohammed V; it hosts drama, opera, and ballet.
Theatre of ancient Greece
Theatre of ancient Greece, or ancient Greek drama: theatrical culture born in 6th-century BC Athens as tragedy, performed at the Dionysia and Lenaia festivals of Dionysus, with genres of tragedy, comedy (486 BC), and satyr play, pioneered by Thespis, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.
Theatre of ancient Rome
Theatre of ancient Rome: Roman drama and performance from the 364 BCE ludi scaenici through Plautus, Terence, mime, and pantomime, and the Theater of Pompey, the first permanent Roman playhouse of 55 BCE.
Theatre of Argentina
Theatre of Argentina is the national stage tradition of Argentina, founded in 1884 when the Podestá family adapted the gaucho novel Juan Moreira for their circus, later producing Florencio Sánchez.
Theatre of Australia
Theatre of Australia: the nation's live performance tradition, from 1789 convict staging of The Recruiting Officer and Robert Sidaway's 1796 Sydney theatre to the post-1955 national repertoire, First Nations companies like Ilbijerri, and Creative Australia's Partnership Framework funding.
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 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 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.