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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.
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.
Theatres in Warsaw
Theatres in Warsaw are anchored by the Teatr Wielki, home of the Polish National Opera and National Ballet, plus drama stages including the National Theatre, Polski Theatre, and TR Warszawa.
Theatresports
Theatresports is a competitive improvisational theater format created by Keith Johnstone in Calgary in the 1970s, in which two teams play scenes for points awarded by judges.
Theatrical play licensing
Theatrical play licensing is the business of granting permission to perform a copyrighted stage play for a royalty, with six licensing houses controlling nearly the entire market.
Theatrical superstitions
Theatrical superstitions are theatre-world taboos and rituals: never say "Macbeth" (the Scottish play) in a theatre, say "break a leg", leave a ghost light burning, and never whistle backstage, where sailors-turned-stagehands once cued scenery by whistle.
Theatro Municipal (Rio de Janeiro)
Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro: Brazil's principal opera house, inaugurated 14 July 1909 in Cinelândia, inspired by the Paris Opéra, home to its own symphony orchestra, choir, and ballet, with 2,252 seats today.
Theo Von
Theo Von (Theodor Capitani von Kurnatowski III, born 1980) is an American comedian from Covington, Louisiana, host of the podcast This Past Weekend since 2016, a former MTV Road Rules contestant, and interviewer of Donald Trump in 2024.
Therukoothu
Therukoothu (தெருக்கூத்து), literally "street play," is a Tamil open-air theater form of Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka that enacts stories from the Mahabharata and Ramayana through song, dance, and dialogue.
Thespis
Thespis (Θέσπις) of Icaria, sixth-century BCE Attic poet traditionally credited as inventor of tragedy and first actor at the City Dionysia; distinguished from namesake Thespis middleware and the Gilbert and Sullivan opera.
Theyyam (തെയ്യം)
Theyyam (തെയ്യം), also called Thira or Kaliyattam, is a North Malabar ritual art form of Kerala in which performers from Dalit communities embody deities; about 400 forms, season mid-October to May.
This Time Tomorrow
This Time Tomorrow is a 1970 collection of three plays by the Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, then publishing as James Ngugi, published in Nairobi.
Thomas Bernhard
Thomas Bernhard (1931–1989), Austrian novelist and playwright, author of Frost, Korrektur, and Heldenplatz; his final play sparked Austria's 1988 theater scandal and he banned Austrian publication of his works in his will.
Thomas D. Rice
Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice (1808–1860), American white blackface actor and playwright, creator of the Jim Crow character and "Jump Jim Crow" song-and-dance act; called the father of American minstrelsy, toured the US and Britain from 1836, and gave Jim Crow its name legacy.
Thomas Kail
Thomas Kail (Tommy Kail, born 1977, Alexandria, Virginia) is the American director of the musicals In the Heights and Hamilton, the 2016 Tony winner, the Disney+ Hamilton film, Fosse/Verdon, Grease Live!, Sweeney Todd, and Disney's live-action Moana.
Thomas Kyd
Thomas Kyd (1558–1594) was an English playwright who created the Elizabethan revenge tragedy with The Spanish Tragedy, one of the most popular plays of its age and a direct model for Shakespeare's Hamlet.