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Begum Barve
Begum Barve (बेगम बर्वे) is a two-act Marathi play written and directed by Satish Alekar in 1979, following an aging female impersonator who lives on fantasies of performing heroine roles again.
Bella Hull
Bella Hull is a British stand-up comedian, actor and writer based in London, a former Cambridge Footlights member and writer on Saturday Night Live UK. Her Fringe shows include Babycakes, Piggie, Doctors Hate Her and Mad Cow Disease.
Belly dance
Belly dance, known in Arabic as raqs sharqi, is a Western term for largely improvised solo dances of the Middle East and North Africa, defined by hip isolations.
Belvoir (theatre company)
Belvoir, also known as Company B, is a Sydney theater company founded in 1984 when 600 theater-lovers bought the Belvoir Street building, known for Cloudstreet, The Sapphires, and Counting and Cracking.
Ben Bailey
Ben Bailey (Benjamin Ray Bailey, born 1970, Bowling Green, Kentucky) is an American stand-up comedian who hosted over 550 episodes of Discovery Channel's Cash Cab, winning multiple Daytime Emmy Awards.
Ben Elton
Ben Elton, British comedian, novelist, and writer of The Young Ones, Blackadder, The Thin Blue Line, and Upstart Crow; author of 16 novels and the Queen musical We Will Rock You.
Ben Hoffman
Ben Hoffman, born Benjamin Isaac Hoffman, is an American comedian from Lexington, Kentucky who hosted Comedy Central's The Ben Show and records outlaw country as Wheeler Walker Jr.
Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson (1572–1637), English Renaissance playwright, poet, and masque writer second only to Shakespeare; author of Volpone and The Alchemist, publisher of the 1616 Workes, and informal first Poet Laureate.
Ben Joyce (actor)
Ben Joyce is a Welsh actor from Swansea, trained at Mountview Academy (graduated 2021), who made his West End debut as Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys (Trafalgar Theatre, 2021) and later played Marty McFly in Back to the Future The Musical at the Adelphi. Not to be confused with James Nelson-Joyce or other namesakes.
Ben Platt
Ben Platt (Benjamin Platt), American Tony, Grammy, and Emmy-winning actor and singer, son of producer Marc Platt; originated Dear Evan Hansen on Broadway (2017 Tony), starred in Pitch Perfect, Parade, Theater Camp, and albums Sing to Me Instead, Reverie, Honeymind.
BenDeLaCreme
BenDeLaCreme is the stage name of American drag performer and producer Benjamin Putnam, a Drag Race season 6 Miss Congeniality and All Stars 3 record holder who tours The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show worldwide.
Bengali drama
Bengali drama, or Bangla natok (বাংলা নাটক), is theater in the Bengali language, blending the folk jatra tradition with a modern stage that arose in colonial Calcutta.
Bengali farce
Bengali farce (প্রহসন, prahasana) is a comic dramatic genre of Bengali theater and print literature that flourished in 19th-century Calcutta, taking its name from Sanskrit drama.
Bengali folk drama
Bengali folk drama (Bengali: loko natyo) is traditional rural community theater of Bengal combining song, dance, dialogue, and ritual, with named forms including Gambhira, Alkap, and Chhau.
Bengali radio drama
Bengali radio drama (বেতার নাটক, betar natak) is drama written and produced for radio in Bengali, beginning in 1927 and a leading form of Bengali entertainment before television reached the region.
Bengali street theatre
Bengali street theatre, known as pathanatok (পথনাটক, road play), is drama performed in open public spaces rather than theaters, aiming at social awareness, protest, and opposing superstition.
Benjamin Millepied
Benjamin Millepied, born 1977 in Bordeaux, is a French choreographer and former New York City Ballet principal, ex-Director of Dance at the Paris Opera, founder of L.A. Dance Project, and Black Swan choreographer.
Benny Hill
Benny Hill (Alfred Hawthorne Hill, 1924 or 1925 to 1992) was a British comedian whose The Benny Hill Show ran on the BBC from 1955 and ITV Thames from 1969 to 1989, syndicated to over 80 countries.
Berezil
Berezil (Березіль) was a Ukrainian modernist theater and artistic association founded by Les Kurbas in Kyiv in 1922, the leading experimental stage of Soviet Ukraine until 1935.
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Berkeley Repertory Theatre (Berkeley Rep) is a nonprofit LORT B regional theatre in Berkeley, California, founded in 1968 by Michael Leibert; Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre 1997, two downtown stages, Ground Floor new-work center.
Berliner Ensemble
Berliner Ensemble (BE), also Theater am Schiffbauerdamm: German theatre company founded 1949 in East Berlin by Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel for epic theatre; based since 1954 at the Schiffbauerdamm, led since 2017 by Oliver Reese.
Bernadette Peters
Bernadette Peters, born Bernadette Lazzara in 1948, is an American actress, singer, and author, a Broadway star regarded as a foremost interpreter of Stephen Sondheim's songs, with 3 Tony Awards.
Bernard Manning
Bernard John Manning (1930–2007) was an English stand-up comedian and owner of Manchester's Embassy Club, famous via 1970s TV's The Comedians, later shunned by broadcasters for racist material; distinct from the 1886 D'Oyly Carte baritone of the same name.
Bernie Mac
Bernie Mac (Bernard Jeffrey McCullough, 1957–2008), Chicago stand-up comedian and actor; Kings of Comedy tour, The Bernie Mac Show (2001–2006), Ocean's Eleven films; died of pneumonia.
Bert Kreischer
Bert Kreischer (born 1972) is an American shirtless stand-up comedian, podcaster (Bertcast, 2 Bears 1 Cave), and actor famous for "The Machine" Russian train-robbery story, six Netflix specials, the 2023 film The Machine, and the 2026 Netflix series Free Bert.
Bert Williams
Bert Williams (Egbert Austin Williams, 1874–1922) was a Bahamian-born American comedian who led the team Williams and Walker and joined the Ziegfeld Follies in 1910.
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht (Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, 1898-1956), German Marxist playwright and director; created epic theater, the Verfremdungseffekt, The Threepenny Opera with Kurt Weill, and the Berliner Ensemble.
Bess Houdini
Bess Houdini (Wilhelmina Beatrice Rahner), stage assistant and wife of escape artist Harry Houdini, married him in 1894; after his 1926 death she held annual Halloween séances for ten years with a coded 'Rosabelle Believe' test message and $10,000 reward, ending in the 1936 Knickerbocker Hotel final séance.
Betrayal (play)
Betrayal is Harold Pinter's 1978 play, premiered at the National Theatre under Peter Hall, telling a seven-year affair among Emma, Robert and Jerry in reverse chronology from 1977 to 1968, based partly on Pinter's affair with Joan Bakewell.
Betsy Sodaro
Betsy Sodaro (born 1984, Leadville, Colorado) is an American actress and UCB improv comedian known for Animal Practice, Nancy on CBS's Ghosts, voice roles in Bob's Burgers and Duncanville, and the film Golden Arm.