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Thomas Middleton
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) was an English Jacobean playwright and poet, one of the most successful dramatists of James I's reign, who co-wrote Timon of Athens with Shakespeare.
Thoppil Bhasi
Thoppil Bhasi (തോപ്പിൽ ഭാസി), born Thoppil Bhaskara Pillai, was an Indian Malayalam playwright, screenwriter, and film director regarded as one of the patriarchs of Malayalam theater; his 1952 play Ningalenne Communistakki transformed Malayalam theater.
Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975), American playwright and novelist; only writer to win Pulitzers in both fiction (The Bridge of San Luis Rey) and drama (Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth); author of The Matchmaker, basis for Hello, Dolly!, and Hitchcock collaborator on Shadow of a Doubt.
Three Sisters (Три сёстры) (play)
Three Sisters (Три сёстры) is Anton Chekhov's four-act 1901 play about the Prozorov sisters' fading dream of returning to Moscow, premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre on 31 January 1901 and awarded the Griboedov Prize in 1902.
Thrust stage
Thrust stage: a theatrical stage projecting into the audience with seating on three sides and a backstage area upstage; also called three-quarter stage. Used from Greek and Elizabethan theatres (Shakespeare's Globe) to the Guthrie, Olivier, and RSC theatres.
Thullal
Thullal (തുള്ളൽ) is a solo satirical dance-theater narrative tradition from Kerala, India, in which a single performer sings Malayalam verses with humorous social commentary, shaped in the eighteenth century by poet Kunchan Nambiar.
Tian Han (田汉)
Tian Han (田汉, 1898–1968), born Tian Shouchang, Chinese playwright and founder of modern huaju; lyricist of March of the Volunteers, PRC national anthem; died in prison in the Cultural Revolution, rehabilitated 1979.
Tick, Tick... Boom!
Tick, Tick... Boom! is Jonathan Larson's autobiographical musical, begun as the 1990 one-man rock monologue Boho Days, reworked by David Auburn into a three-actor Off-Broadway show in 2001, and adapted into a 2021 Netflix film directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda starring Andrew Garfield.
Tiffany Haddish
Tiffany Haddish, American stand-up comedian and actress; breakout as Dina in Girls Trip (2017), first black female stand-up comedian to host SNL, 2018 Emmy, 2021 Grammy for Black Mitzvah, author of The Last Black Unicorn.
Tig Notaro
Tig Notaro (Mathilde O'Callaghan Notaro), American deadpan stand-up comedian, writer, and actress. Known for her 2012 Largo "Hello. I have cancer" set, the album Live, One Mississippi, Jett Reno in Star Trek: Discovery, and the animated special Drawn.
Tightrope walking
Tightrope walking, or funambulism, is performing on a wire stretched between two points, from ancient rope dancing to circus tightwire, Blondin, Philippe Petit, and Nik Wallenda, distinct from slacklining.
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Tim Brooke-Taylor (1940-2020), English comedian, co-creator and star of The Goodies with Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie, and long-serving panellist on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue; also Rector of St Andrews 1979-82 and OBE 2011.
Tim Dillon (comedian)
Tim Dillon (born 1985, Island Park, New York) is an American stand-up comedian and host of The Tim Dillon Show podcast, known for contrarian satire, Netflix specials, and his 2025 firing from the Riyadh Comedy Festival.
Tim Heidecker
Tim Heidecker (born 1976, Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American comedian and musician, half of Tim & Eric, creator of On Cinema at the Cinema, Decker, and Mister America, and The Onion's Infowars creative director.
Tim Key
Tim Key (born 1976) is an English comedian, actor, writer and performance poet, winner of the 2009 Edinburgh Comedy Award for The Slutcracker, member of Cowards, co-writer and star of The Ballad of Wallis Island, and Task Consultant on Taskmaster.
Tim Minchin
Tim Minchin (Timothy David Minchin, born 1975) is an Australian pianist, satirical songwriter, comedian, actor and composer, Perrier Best Newcomer 2005, composer-lyricist of Matilda the Musical and Groundhog Day, and star of Upright.
Tim Robinson (comedian)
Tim Robinson, Detroit-born comedian and Second City alumnus, SNL performer and writer 2012-2016, creator of Detroiters, I Think You Should Leave, and HBO's The Chair Company; three-time Emmy winner.
Tim Vine
Tim Vine (born 1967) is an English one-liner comedian, actor, and writer, brother of Jeremy Vine, Perrier Best Newcomer 1995, star of Not Going Out and Taskmaster series 6, and twice winner of Dave's Funniest Joke of the Fringe.
Timothy Conigrave
Timothy Conigrave was an Australian actor and playwright best known for Holding the Man. The memoir detailed his lifelong relationship with John Caleo and their struggles with AIDS.
Tin Paishancha Tamasha
Tin Paishancha Tamasha (तीन पैशाचा तमाशा) is a 1978 Marathi musical play by P. L. Deshpande, adapted from Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera and staged in the tamasha folk-theater form.
Tinikling
Tinikling is a Philippine folk dance from Leyte in which dancers step between bamboo poles struck on the ground, imitating the tikling bird and avoiding the traps it evades.
Tirso de Molina
Tirso de Molina, pen name of the Mercedarian friar Gabriel Téllez (1579–1648), was a Spanish Golden Age dramatist, one of the greats beside Lope de Vega and Calderón.
To Mi Navhech
To Mi Navhech (तो मी नव्हेच) is a Marathi courtroom drama by Acharya Atre, first staged in 1962, based on the real murder trial of Madhav Kazi.
Todd Barry
Todd Barry (born 1964) is an American deadpan stand-up comedian and actor from New York and South Florida, creator of the 2014 all-improvised Crowd Work Tour special, known for The Wrestler, Louie, and Flight of the Conchords.
Todd Glass
Todd Glass (born 1964) is an American stand-up comedian from Philadelphia, also known for The Todd Glass Show podcast, his 2012 coming out on WTF, and the Netflix special Act Happy.
Toilet humour
Toilet humour, also called bathroom or lavatorial humour, is scatological comedy about bodily functions. Key facts: American-English term from 1931; explained by incongruity and benign-violation theories; spans Carry On films, fringe theatre, and the Skibidi Toilet internet phenomenon.
Tōkaidō Yotsuya Kaidan
Tōkaidō Yotsuya Kaidan, commonly Yotsuya Kaidan, is an 1825 kabuki ghost play by Tsuruya Nanboku IV and one of the most frequently adapted stories in Japanese theater and film.
Tokyo Ballet
The Tokyo Ballet is a Japanese ballet company founded in 1964 by Tadatsugu Sasaki, known for its long partnership with Maurice Béjart and 36 international tours across 33 countries.
Tom Allen (comedian)
Tom Allen (Thomas Paul Allen, born 1983) is an English comedian, author and presenter known for camp, ornate delivery; winner of So You Think You're Funny? and the BBC New Comedy Award 2005, host of The Apprentice: You're Fired and Bake Off: An Extra Slice.
Tom Attenborough
Tom Attenborough (born 1986) is an English theatre director, son of Michael and grandson of Richard Attenborough; former voice of Christopher Robin and Harry Potter, director of The Wasp, Speech and Debate, and Private Lives.