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Yang Jiang (杨绛)
Yang Jiang (杨绛, born Yang Jikang 杨季康, 1911–2016) was a Chinese writer, translator, and foreign-literature scholar, wife of Qian Zhongshu; author of Xizao, Women Sa, and Ganxiao Liuji and translator of Don Quixote.
Years in theatre (1900–present)
Years in theater (1900–present) is a year-by-year chronology of theater since 1900, recording dated premieres, closures, censorship actions, and labor disruptions such as the 1919 Broadway shutdown.
Yerma
Yerma ("Barren") is Federico García Lorca's 1934 tragic poem about a childless rural wife who strangles her husband Juan after he admits he never wanted children. Second of the rural trilogy with Bodas de sangre and La casa de Bernarda Alba; premiered at Madrid's Teatro Español with Margarita Xirgu.
Yiddish melodrama
Yiddish melodrama is the sentimental, music-filled genre that dominated the Yiddish stage from the 1870s, first in Eastern Europe and then in New York's immigrant theaters.
Yiddish theatre
Yiddish theatre (Yiddish: ייִדיש־טעאַטער) is professional theater in the Yiddish language, founded by Avrom Goldfaden in Iași, Romania, in 1876, later centered in New York, Warsaw, Moscow, and São Paulo.
Yoftahe Negussie
Yoftahe Negussie (Amharic ዮፍታሔ ንጉሤ) was an Ethiopian playwright and poet, a founding figure of modern Amharic theater whose allegorical play Afajeshign, written before the 1935 Italian invasion, remains influential.
Yolina Lindquist
Yolina Serafina Lindquist, American beauty queen from Metropolis, Illinois, won Miss Cosmo 2025 in Ho Chi Minh City on 20 December 2025, the pageant's second titleholder and first American winner, succeeding Ketut Permata Juliastrid.
York Mystery Plays
The York Mystery Plays are a cycle of 48 medieval plays on Christian history, staged by York's craft guilds on Corpus Christi until their suppression in 1569.
Yoruba travelling theatre
The Yoruba travelling theatre was a professional itinerant theater tradition in southwestern Nigeria, whose touring companies performed Yoruba musical folk operas from the 1940s until the early 1990s.
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜, "Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees") is a 1747 Japanese puppet play, one of the three great masterpieces of ningyō jōruri, adapted for kabuki within a year.
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown: 1967 Clark Gesner musical based on Schulz's Peanuts strip; 1,597 Off-Broadway performances, 1971 and 1999 Broadway productions, 1985 animated TV special.
Youth America Grand Prix
Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) is a New York-based nonprofit ballet competition founded in 1999 by Larissa Saveliev, awarding scholarships to dancers ages 9 to 20.
Youth theatre
Youth theater is the practice in which young people make and perform theater themselves in voluntary, not-for-profit companies, distinct from professional theater made for young audiences.
Yu Ling
Yu Ling (于伶), born Ren Xigui, was a Chinese playwright and theater organizer who led left-wing spoken drama in isolated Shanghai during the War of Resistance.
Yuan qu
Yuan qu is the collective name for zaju, a sung drama, and sanqu, non-dramatic song verse, ranked with Tang poetry and Song ci as the Yuan dynasty's representative literature.
Yusra Warsama
Yusra Warsama (born 1985, Abu Dhabi) is a British Somali playwright, director, and screen actress raised in Manchester. Known for Rites, Of All the Beautiful Things in the World, Castle Rock series 2, Brides (2025), and Steal (2026).
Zach Zucker
Zach Zucker is an American clown comedian, creator of Stamptown, performer of alter ego Jack Tucker, and half of Zach & Viggo; a Gaulier graduate whose chaotic late-night variety show became a Netflix special.
Zakir Khan (ज़ाकिर ख़ान) (comedian)
Zakir Khan (ज़ाकिर ख़ान), born 1987 in Indore, is an Indian Hindi-language stand-up comedian, writer, and poet, winner of Comedy Central India's Best Stand-up Comedian 2012, with six specials including Tathastu and Papa Yaar, and the first Indian comedian to perform entirely in Hindi at Madison Square Garden.
Zamolxe
Zamolxe, Zalmoxis in English, is a 1921 dramatic poem in three acts by Romanian poet and philosopher Lucian Blaga, his debut play, centered on the god of the Geto-Dacians.
Zanni
Zanni (from Venetian Zani, Gianni, from Giovanni) is the comic servant stock character of commedia dell'arte, originating among Bergamasque porters in the Po Valley; it split into the cunning first zanni (Brighella) and foolish second zanni (Arlecchino), and gave English the word "zany".
Zarzuela
Zarzuela: Spanish lyric theater genre mixing sung numbers and spoken dialogue, born at the 17th-century Palacio de la Zarzuela near Madrid; home venues Teatro de la Zarzuela (1856) and Apolo; declared intangible cultural heritage in 2024.
Zat pwe
Zat pwe (ဇာတ်ပွဲ) is the classical dance-drama of Myanmar (Burma), an all-night outdoor performance combining song, dance, acting, and comic improvisation, with plots drawn chiefly from the Buddhist Jataka birth stories.
Zeami Motokiyo (世阿弥元清)
Zeami Motokiyo (世阿弥元清, c. 1363–c. 1443), also signed Ze-a or Ze-amida-butsu, was a Japanese nō actor, playwright, and theorist, son of Kan'ami, patronized by shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, author of the Fūshikaden and developer of mugen-nō.
Zeitstück
Zeitstück (German, plural Zeitstücke, literally "piece of the time") is a play treating current political and social events on stage, associated above all with Weimar drama.
Zeppo Marx
Zeppo Marx (Herbert Manfred Marx, 1901-1979), youngest Marx Brother, straight man in the first five Marx Brothers films; later talent agent behind Double Indemnity, Marman clamp maker, and cardiac pulse monitor patentee.
Zero Mostel
Zero Mostel (Samuel Joel Mostel, 1915-1977), American actor and painter; three Tonys for Rhinoceros, Forum, Fiddler on the Roof; blacklisted after 1955 HUAC; The Producers.
Zhan Hua Kui
Zhan Hua Kui is a chuanqi play by Suzhou playwright Li Yu, adapting Feng Menglong's story of the oil vendor Qin Zhong and the courtesan Wang Meiniang.
Zhang Xie Zhuangyuan
Zhang Xie Zhuangyuan (Top Graduate Zhang Xie) is a Southern Chinese drama (nanxi) play, the earliest extant in that tradition, written by the Nine Mountain Society of Wenzhou and preserved in the Yongle Dadian of 1408.
Zhizn Iskusstva
Zhizn Iskusstva (Жизнь искусства, "The Life of Art") was a Soviet theater and arts periodical in Petrograd, a newspaper from 1918 to 1922 and then a journal.
Zhu Quan
Zhu Quan (朱权, 1378–1448) was a Ming dynasty prince, the first Prince of Ning, remembered as a drama theorist and author of the Taihe Zhengyin Pu.