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Totie Fields
Totie Fields (Sophie Feldman), American stand-up comedienne of the 1960s-1970s, Ed Sullivan Show regular and Las Vegas headliner known for self-deprecating humor about her weight; died 1978 after leg amputation and mastectomy.
Tovah Feldshuh
Tovah Feldshuh (Terri Sue Feldshuh) is an American actress and playwright, a five-decade Broadway star known for Yentl, her Tony-nominated Golda Meir in Golda's Balcony, The Walking Dead, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and the 2022 Funny Girl revival.
Township theatre
Township theatre is a South African genre of performance created in and for the black townships, beginning with music and movement and shaped by apartheid and protest against it.
Toy theater
Toy theater (Juvenile Drama, Papiertheater) is a 19th-century miniature paper stage invented in England around 1811, sold as cut-out character and scenery sheets, with nearly 300 plays published by 1860 and Benjamin Pollock as its last major publisher.
Tracy Letts
Tracy Letts, American playwright, actor, and screenwriter; Steppenwolf ensemble member since 2002. Won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and Tony for August: Osage County and the 2013 Tony for acting in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; also wrote Killer Joe, Bug, Linda Vista, and The Minutes.
Tracy Morgan
Tracy Morgan (born 1968, Bronx) is an American comedian and actor, an SNL cast member 1996-2003, Tracy Jordan on 30 Rock (2006-2013), survivor of a fatal 2014 Walmart truck crash, and star of The Last O.G., Crutch, and The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins.
Tragedy
Tragedy: Greek-origin drama invented in sixth-century BCE Athens, performed at the City Dionysia, defined by Aristotle in the Poetics, and the ancestor of later tragic drama from Seneca to Shakespeare.
Tragic hero
A tragic hero is the protagonist of a tragedy whose own error, not vice or bad luck, brings a fall from prosperity to misery, as defined by Aristotle.
Tragicomedy
Tragicomedy: dramatic genre blending tragic and comic elements, first named in Plautus' Amphitryon and theorized by Guarini (1590) and Fletcher; Shakespeare's late plays and Beckett's Waiting for Godot are central examples.
Tranna Wintour
Tranna Wintour is a Montreal-based Canadian comedian and performer whose stage name honors Vogue editor Anna Wintour; she reached the top 4 of Big Brother Célébrités season 2 in 2022.
Translations (play)
Translations is a 1980 play by Brian Friel, first staged in Derry by the Field Day Theatre Company and set in an Irish-speaking Donegal hedge school in 1833.
Transmission and rediscovery of classical drama
The transmission and rediscovery of classical drama is the story of how ancient Greek and Roman plays survived through Byzantine copyists and chance manuscripts into Renaissance printed editions, with only 32 complete Greek tragedies extant.
Travesties
Travesties is a farce by Tom Stoppard, first staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London in 1974, imagining Joyce, Lenin, and Dadaist Tristan Tzara in 1917 Zurich.
Travis Wall
Travis Wall, American dancer-choreographer, SYTYCD Season 2 runner-up, Emmy-winning (2015, 2017) resident choreographer, founder of Shaping Sound dance company, and choreographer of The Wrong Man.
Trevor Dion Nicholas
Trevor Dion Nicholas, American musical theatre actor from Morgantown, West Virginia; originated the Genie in the West End Aladdin (WhatsOnStage Award) and played George Washington in West End Hamilton; West End credits include Hadestown, Next to Normal, and Hercules.
Trevor Nunn
Sir Trevor Robert Nunn, CBE (born 1940, Ipswich), English theatre director; RSC artistic director 1968-1986, National Theatre 1997-2003, Haymarket from 2011; directed Cats, Les Misérables, Nicholas Nickleby; Tony and Olivier award winner, knighted 2002.
Triboulet
Triboulet (Nicolas Ferrial, Le Févrial; 1479–1536) was court jester to Louis XII and François I of France. He inspired Victor Hugo's Le Roi s'amuse (1832) and Verdi's Rigoletto (1851), was drawn by Jean Clouet, and gave his name to a Paris weekly.
Trick deck
Trick deck, also called gimmicked or mechanical deck: a playing-card deck altered in length, cut, printing, or coating so magicians can perform card tricks without difficult sleight of hand; types include marked, stripper, Svengali, and invisible decks.
Trinidad Theatre Workshop
The Trinidad Theatre Workshop is a theater company and training institution in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, founded by Derek Walcott and others in 1959.
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog is Robert Smigel's cigar-chomping insult-comedy hand puppet, debuted on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on February 13, 1997, famous for "for me to poop on," remotes, and The Jack and Triumph Show.
Trixie Mattel
Trixie Mattel (Brian Michael Firkus, born 1989, Milwaukee) is an American drag queen, singer-songwriter, and comedian; Drag Race season 7 alum, All Stars 3 winner, Trixie Cosmetics founder, and co-host of The Bald and the Beautiful with Katya.
Troades
Troades ("The Trojan Women") is a first-century AD Latin tragedy in five acts by Seneca the Younger, reworking Euripides to dramatize the deaths of Astyanax and Polyxena after Troy's fall.
Troilus and Cressida
Troilus and Cressida is a Shakespeare play set during the Trojan War, following the Trojan prince Troilus's love affair with Cressida alongside the war between Troy and the Greeks.
True West (play)
True West is Sam Shepard's 1980 two-act dark comedy about brothers Austin and Lee swapping identities over a Hollywood script in their mother's kitchen near Los Angeles; a 1983 Pulitzer finalist, famous for the 1982 Steppenwolf Sinise-Malkovich staging and the 2000 Broadway revival with Hoffman and Reilly alternating leads.
Trump dance
Trump dance: the fist-pumping, hip-swaying dance Donald Trump performs to the Village People's YMCA at rallies, originated October 2020 in Florida and became a viral sports and TikTok trend after the 2024 election.
Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich
Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich (Царь Фёдор Иоаннович) is a verse tragedy by Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, banned for decades before opening the Moscow Art Theater in 1898.
Tsukiji Shōgekijō
Tsukiji Shōgekijō (築地小劇場, Tsukiji Little Theater) was a theater and company in Tokyo founded by Osanai Kaoru and Hijikata Yoshi in 1924 as Japan's first permanent shingeki theater.
Tsuruya Nanboku IV
Tsuruya Nanboku IV (鶴屋南北, 1755–1829) was an Edo kabuki playwright who established the realistic kizewamono genre and created the celebrated ghost play Tōkaidō Yotsuya Kaidan in 1825.
Tughlaq (play)
Tughlaq is a thirteen-scene historical play in Kannada by Girish Karnad, published in 1964, dramatizing the fourteenth-century Delhi Sultan Muhammad bin Tughlaq, whose idealism ends in tyranny.
Tuluat tiyatrosu
Tuluat tiyatrosu was an improvisational Turkish theater genre that arose from Orta oyunu and Western theater in 19th-century Istanbul; first performed in 1875, it flourished in Direklerarası.