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Wade Robson
Wade Robson, Australian-born dancer and choreographer for Britney Spears, 'N Sync, and Usher, two-time Emmy winner, host of MTV's The Wade Robson Project, and a Michael Jackson abuse accuser featured in Leaving Neverland.
Wagoto
Wagoto (和事, "soft style") is a kabuki acting style portraying delicate romantic emotion through soft movement and speech, completed in the Genroku era by Sakata Tōjūrō I.
Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot (En attendant Godot), Samuel Beckett's 1953 two-act tragicomedy about Vladimir and Estragon waiting endlessly for the never-arriving Godot; written 1948–49, premiered Théâtre de Babylone, Paris, and voted the 20th century's most important English-language play.
Waiting for Lefty
Waiting for Lefty is a one-act play by Clifford Odets, first performed in 1935, about New York taxi drivers holding a strike meeting during the Great Depression.
Waitress (musical)
Waitress is a Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles and book by Jessie Nelson, adapted from Adrienne Shelly's 2007 film about pie-maker Jenna; four Tony nominations, all-female creative team, 2021 return engagement, 2023 film.
Walang Sugat
Walang Sugat, an 1898 Tagalog sarswela by Severino Reyes with music by Fulgencio Tolentino, premiered June 14, 1902 at Teatro Libertad, Manila. Depicting lovers Julia and Tenyong during the 1896 Philippine Revolution, it founded the sarswela's Manila dominance and inspired the PETA musical Walang Aray.
Wales Millennium Centre
Wales Millennium Centre (Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru) is Wales' national performing arts centre in Cardiff Bay, opened November 2004; home of Welsh National Opera and seven other resident companies in a slate and bronze-steel building by Jonathan Adams.
Wallenstein
Wallenstein is a dramatic trilogy by Friedrich Schiller, first performed at Weimar in 1798 and 1799, dramatizing the final months of the imperial general Albrecht von Wallenstein.
Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress
Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress, also known as Progressland, is a rotating-theater Audio-Animatronics show at Magic Kingdom's Tomorrowland, built by General Electric for the 1964-65 New York World's Fair, moved to Disneyland in 1967 and Walt Disney World in 1975, closed July 6, 2026 for a reimagining reopening late spring 2027.
Waltz
Waltz: a 3/4-time turning couple dance from Austrian-Bavarian folk roots, fashionable in Vienna from the 1780s. Parent of the fast Viennese waltz (55-60 measures per minute), the English slow waltz, and American styles; UNESCO heritage since 2017.
Wanda Sykes
Wanda Sykes (born 1964, Portsmouth, Virginia) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, and writer, Emmy winner from The Chris Rock Show, star of Wanda at Large and Curb Your Enthusiasm, former NSA employee, and Netflix special headliner.
Wanted: The Legend of the Sisters Clarke
Wanted: The Legend of the Sisters Clarke, formerly Gun & Powder, is an American musical about Black twin sisters who passed as white as outlaws in 1893 Texas.
Washing Silk
Washing Silk (Huan Sha Ji, 浣纱记), also known as Wu Yue Chunqiu, is a Ming-dynasty chuanqi play by Liang Chenyu, first staged successfully in the reformed Kunshan singing style.
Water for Elephants (musical)
Water for Elephants is a 2024 Broadway musical adaptation of Sara Gruen's 2006 circus romance novel, with book by Rick Elice, music by PigPen Theatre Co., directed by Jessica Stone, starring Grant Gustin; it ran at the Imperial Theatre, earned seven Tony nominations, and is now touring North America.
Water puppetry
Water puppetry (múa rối nước) is a Vietnamese theater in which lacquered wooden puppets perform on water, a tradition dating to eleventh-century villages in the Red River Delta.
Wayang
Wayang: Indonesian umbrella term for puppet and figure theatre, including wayang kulit shadow puppets, wayang golek rod puppets, and wayang wong dance drama, narrated by a dalang with gamelan, UNESCO-inscribed in 2003/2008.
Wayang golek
Wayang golek is a form of rod-puppet theater from western Java, performed with carved wooden puppets, a dalang who speaks the lines, and Sundanese gamelan.
Wayang kulit
Wayang kulit is Indonesian leather shadow puppet theatre from Java and Bali: buffalo-hide figures behind a backlit screen, performed all night by a dalang with gamelan; UNESCO-inscribed in 2003/2008.
Wayang Kulit Kelantan
Wayang Kulit Kelantan, also called Wayang Kulit Siam, is the traditional Malay shadow puppet theater of Kelantan, Malaysia, in which a single puppeteer voices all characters behind an illuminated screen.
Wayne Sleep
Wayne Sleep OBE (born 1948, Plymouth) is a British ballet dancer, choreographer, and actor; shortest male Royal Ballet School entrant, Senior Principal Dancer, entrechat douze record holder, original Mr Mistoffelees in Cats, Diana's 1985 dance partner.
Wesley Enoch
Wesley Enoch (born 1969) is an Aboriginal Australian playwright and theater director, a Noonuccal Nuugi man from Queensland, best known for The 7 Stages of Grieving and Black Medea.
West End theatre
West End theatre: London's commercial theatre district around Leicester Square and Shaftesbury Avenue, with Broadway the peak of English-language commercial theatre; around 40 major venues, SOLT-run Olivier Awards, substantial overseas ticket sales.
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), performing arts academy of Edith Cowan University in Perth; 300+ public performances yearly; alumni include Hugh Jackman and Tim Minchin; moved to ECU City campus in 2026.
What.
what. is Bo Burnham's 2013 stand-up and musical comedy special, performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, featuring a staged water-bottle opening gag and themes of performance anxiety and artifice.
When We Dead Awaken
When We Dead Awaken (Når vi døde vågner) is a three-act play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, published in 1899 and the last he completed before his death in 1906.
Whitney Cummings
Whitney Cummings, American comedian and creator-star of NBC's Whitney and co-creator of CBS's 2 Broke Girls; six stand-up specials, Good For You podcast, EP on Roseanne, 2026 Big Baby tour.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is Edward Albee's 1962 three-act Broadway debut about George and Martha's night of psychological games, winner of the 1963 Tony for Best Play, denied the Pulitzer, filmed in 1966 with Elizabeth Taylor, and revived through 2026.
Who's on First?
"Who's on First?" is Abbott and Costello's baseball wordplay routine, debuting on radio March 24, 1938 on the Kate Smith Hour, with its definitive filmed version in The Naughty Nineties (1945) and honors including Time's best 20th-century comedy routine.
Why did the chicken cross the road?
The classic English riddle joke with the punchline "To get to the other side"; first printed in March 1847 in The Knickerbocker, a New York magazine, it is the archetypal example of anti-humor.
Wiener Volkstheater
Wiener Volkstheater (Viennese folk theater) denotes both the Alt-Wiener Volkstheater, Vienna's popular suburban theater from the early 1700s led by Raimund and Nestroy, and the Volkstheater Wien founded in 1889.