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Bourgeois drama
Bourgeois drama (French, drame bourgeois) is a genre of eighteenth-century European theater, theorized by Denis Diderot after 1750, that replaced kings and comic servants with middle-class characters in a serious genre between tragedy and comedy.
Bourgeois tragedy
Bourgeois tragedy (German: Bürgerliches Trauerspiel) is a form of tragedy whose characters are private people in bourgeois settings, arising in the 18th century with Lessing's Miss Sara Sampson.
Brad Garrett
Brad Garrett (Bradley Henry Gerstenfeld, born 1960) is an American stand-up comedian and actor, three-time Emmy winner as Robert Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond, voice actor, and owner of Brad Garrett's Comedy Club at the MGM Grand Las Vegas.
Brad Williams (comedian)
Brad Williams is an American stand-up comedian and actor with achondroplasia, 4'4" tall, known for Fun Size, The Degenerates, Starfish, Live on Short Street, and headlining Cirque du Soleil's Mad Apple.
Bran Nue Dae
Bran Nue Dae is an Australian stage musical by Jimmy Chi and the Broome band Kuckles, recognized as Australia's first Aboriginal musical and premiered in 1990.
Brandon Victor Dixon
Brandon Victor Dixon (born 1981, Gaithersburg, Maryland) is an American actor, singer, and producer: Tony nominee for The Color Purple, Shuffle Along, and Hell's Kitchen, Broadway's Aaron Burr in Hamilton, Emmy-nominated Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar Live, and Tony-winning producer of Hedwig and Moulin Rouge!.
Branislav Nušić
Branislav Nušić (Бранислав Нушић, 1864 to 1938, born Alkibijad Nuša) was a Serbian writer, playwright, and satirist whose comedies, above all Gospođa ministarka (1929), remain in the repertoire of theaters across the former Yugoslav region.
Bread and Puppet Theater
Bread and Puppet Theater, founded 1963 by Peter Schumann in New York and based since 1974 on a Glover, Vermont farm, is a nonprofit political puppet company known for giant papier-mâché puppets, street pageants, free sourdough bread, and the Domestic Resurrection Circus.
Break a leg
Break a leg: English theatrical idiom meaning good luck, used instead of "good luck" to avoid jinxing a performance. First printed theatrically in 1948; best-supported origin is the German Hals- und Beinbruch.
Breakdancing
Breakdancing, or breaking/b-boying, is an athletic hip-hop street dance from the 1970s Bronx, built on toprock, downrock, power moves, and freezes, codified by crews like Rock Steady, globalized in the 1980s, and debuted as an Olympic sport at Paris 2024.
Bregenzer Festspiele
Bregenzer Festspiele (Bregenz Festival): annual summer opera festival in Bregenz, Austria, founded 1946, famed for its Seebühne floating stage on Lake Constance with about 7,000 seats, two-year production cycles, and its 80th-anniversary 2026 season of La traviata.
Brenda Meaney
Brenda Meaney (born 1984) is an Irish-American actress, daughter of Colm Meaney and Bairbre Dowling; Trinity College Dublin BA and Yale MFA; Broadway Uncle Vanya (2024) and Bedbound (2023) with her father.
Brendan Behan
Brendan Behan (Breandán Ó Beacháin, 1923–1964), Irish playwright and novelist, author of The Quare Fellow, The Hostage and Borstal Boy; a former IRA prisoner who wrote in both Irish and English and died at 41 in Dublin.
Brendan Cole
Brendan Cole, New Zealand ballroom and Latin dancer born 1976 in Christchurch; first Strictly Come Dancing champion (2004, Natasha Kaplinsky), pro 2004-2017, 'bad boy of ballroom', now touring with The Legends.
Brendan Cowell
Brendan Cowell (born 1976, Cronulla, NSW) is an Australian actor, playwright, and director. Winner of the Patrick White Playwrights', Griffin, and Philip Parsons awards; wrote Ruben Guthrie and The Sublime; starred in Yerma, Noise, and Avatar: The Way of Water.
Brent Morin
Brent Morin (born 1986, South Windsor, Connecticut) is an American comedian, actor, and writer in Los Angeles, known as Justin Kearney on NBC's Undateable, for the Netflix special I'm Brent Morin, and for Merry Happy Whatever.
Brett Blake
Brett Blake (born 1987) is an Australian stand-up comedian from Perth, based in Melbourne, known for Bogan Genius, Little Turd, Taskmaster Australia season 5, and podcasts Work Hates and Flat Stick; distinct from the Annuity.com founder of the same name.
Brian Friedman
Brian Friedman (born 1977) is an American choreographer, creative director, and TV judge known for Britney Spears videos, So You Think You Can Dance, and Simon Cowell's X Factor and Got Talent franchises.
Brian Friel
Brian Friel (1929–2015), Irish playwright and short-story writer from Omagh and Derry, author of Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Translations, Faith Healer, and Dancing at Lughnasa; co-founder with Stephen Rea of the Field Day Theatre Company in 1980.
Brian Henson
Brian Henson (born 1963), American director, producer, and puppeteer, son of Jim Henson; Chairman of The Jim Henson Company, former CEO, director of The Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island.
Brian Posehn
Brian Posehn (born 1966, Sacramento, California) is an American comedian, actor, voice actor, and writer known for Mr. Show, Just Shoot Me's Kevin Liotta, The Sarah Silverman Program's Brian Spukowski, Bert on The Big Bang Theory and its 2026 spinoff, Comedians of Comedy, Grandpa Metal, and co-writing 45 Deadpool issues.
Brian Quinn (comedian)
Brian "Q" Quinn (born 1976) is an American comedian, actor, and producer, a member of The Tenderloins and star of truTV's Impractical Jokers, a former FDNY firefighter, and co-host of the Tell 'Em Steve-Dave! podcast.
Brian Regan (comedian)
Brian Regan is an American stand-up comedian known for his clean, observational humor. He has maintained a touring career for over three decades and won multiple American Comedy Awards.
Brian Rix
Brian Rix, Baron Rix (1924–2016), English actor-manager famous for Whitehall Theatre farces such as Dry Rot and Reluctant Heroes, later Mencap secretary general, chairman, and president, and a crossbench life peer campaigning for people with learning disabilities.
Brian Stokes Mitchell
Brian Stokes Mitchell (born 1957, Seattle) is a two-time Tony-winning American baritone and Broadway leading man, star of Ragtime, Kiss Me Kate, and Man of La Mancha, and former Actors Fund chairman.
Bridget Christie
Bridget Christie (born 1971) is an English stand-up comedian, actor, and writer from Gloucester, wife of Stewart Lee. She won the 2013 Edinburgh Comedy Award for A Bic for Her, created Channel 4's The Change, and appears on Taskmaster Series 13.
Bridget Everett
Bridget Everett (born 1972) is an American comedian, singer, and actor from Manhattan, Kansas, a Joe's Pub alt-cabaret mainstay with the Tender Moments, and the star, writer, and executive producer of HBO's Peabody-winning Somebody Somewhere (2022-2024).
Brighella
Brighella: commedia dell'arte stock character, the cunning first zanni and scheming servant from Bergamo, opposite Arlecchino; green-trimmed livery, bearded half mask, later reformed by Goldoni.
Bright Star (musical)
Bright Star is a 2016 bluegrass and Americana stage musical by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell about Alice Murphy and Billy Cane in North Carolina, premiered at the Old Globe, nominated for three Tonys.
Bristol Old Vic
Bristol Old Vic, also known as Bristol Theatre Royal, is a theater company in Bristol, England, based at the Theatre Royal, the oldest continuously working theater in the English-speaking world, opened in 1766.