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Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School is a British drama school in Bristol, England, founded in 1946, known for alumni including Patrick Stewart, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Olivia Colman.
BriTANicK
BriTANicK, also BriTANick, is the American sketch-comedy duo of Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher from Atlanta, YouTube and CollegeHumor veterans, SNL and Always Sunny writers, and 2026 directors of Pizza Movie.
British humour
British humour: the UK's comic tradition of irony, understatement, self-deprecation, sarcasm and class satire, rooted in music hall, reinvented by 1979 alternative comedy, anchored by the BBC and the Edinburgh Fringe, and consistently less appreciated by American audiences than by British ones.
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre: professional live theatre in New York City's 41 large (500-plus-seat) midtown theatres, defined by venue, not style. Records show $1.91 billion gross and 14.6 million attendances in 2025–2026; counterpart market is London's West End.
Brody Stevens
Brody Stevens (Steven James Brody, 1970-2019) was an American stand-up comedian and actor from the San Fernando Valley, known for energetic confrontational sets, warm-up work, Hangover roles, and the series Enjoy It!.
Brooks Wheelan
Brooks Wheelan (born 1986) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster from Cedar Rapids, Iowa; an SNL season 39 featured player fired after one season, known for Alive in Alaska and the Entry Level podcast.
Brotherhood (dance group)
Brotherhood, or Brotherhood Dance Crew, is a Vancouver-area hip-hop crew founded 2011 in Surrey, BC by Scott Forsyth; back-to-back World Hip Hop gold medalist (2013, 2014) and undefeated 2026 International Dance League regular-season winner, distinct from Brother(hood) Dance!.
Brüder-Grimm-Preis des Landes Berlin
The Brüder-Grimm-Preis des Landes Berlin, or Brothers Grimm Prize of the State of Berlin, was an award for children's and youth theater, presented biennially from 1961 and endowed with 10,000 euros.
Bryan Callen
Bryan Callen, American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster; MADtv original cast member, Hangover and Goldbergs actor, co-host of The Fighter and the Kid; subject of 2020 sexual misconduct allegations he denies.
Bryan Tanaka
Bryan Tanaka (born 1983, Olympia, Washington) is an American dancer, choreographer, and creative director who toured with Destiny's Child, Beyoncé, Rihanna, and Mariah Carey, choreographed "Video Phone", and played Officer Alex in Netflix's Beauty in Black.
Bryan Terrell Clark
Bryan Terrell Clark (born 1980, Baltimore) is an American actor and singer-songwriter, Broadway's original Marvin Gaye in Motown: The Musical and George Washington in Hamilton, also known for Thoughts of a Colored Man and Diarra From Detroit.
Bryony Corrigan
Bryony Corrigan (born 1992) is an English actress and founding member of Mischief Comedy, known for Vanessa in The Goes Wrong Show, Broadway's The Play That Goes Wrong, and West End Goes Wrong shows.
Buena Vista Social Club (musical)
Buena Vista Social Club is a 2025 Broadway musical at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, book by Marco Ramirez, directed by Saheem Ali, based on the 1997 Grammy-winning Cuban album and Wim Wenders documentary; five 2025 Tony Awards.
Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill, William Frederick Cody (1846-1917), American scout, buffalo hunter, and showman whose Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, opened 1883 in Omaha, toured the US and Europe and defined the frontier myth.
Bullets Over Broadway (musical)
Bullets Over Broadway is Woody Allen's 2014 Broadway jukebox musical, also called Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical, based on his 1994 film, directed by Susan Stroman at the St. James Theatre; it ran 156 performances, earned six Tony nominations, and closed at a loss.
Bun Hay Mean
Bun Hay Mean, also known as "Chinois marrant," was a French stand-up comedian and actor. He gained fame in 2014 for his shows that played on stereotypes.
Bungei Kyōkai
Bungei Kyōkai (文芸協会, Literary Arts Society) was a Japanese cultural and theatrical organization founded in 1906 around Tsubouchi Shōyō, a starting point of the shingeki new-drama movement.
Bunraku (文楽)
Bunraku, formally ningyō jōruri, is the Japanese puppet theater in which large puppets are manipulated by three visible puppeteers with a chanter and shamisen player.
Burgtheater
Burgtheater: Austria's national spoken-drama theatre in Vienna, founded 1741, made the German Nationaltheater by Joseph II in 1776, housed since 1888 in the Semper and Hasenauer Ringstrasse building with Klimt ceiling paintings, 1,140 seats, and three satellite venues.
Buried Child
Buried Child is a 1978 three-act play by Sam Shepard in which a decaying Illinois farm family confronts a long-buried family secret. It won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Burlesque (musical)
Burlesque: The Musical is a 2023 stage musical by Steven Antin adapted from the 2010 Cher and Christina Aguilera film, with songs by Aguilera, Sia, Diane Warren, Jess Folley, and Todrick Hall; it premiered in Manchester, reached the Savoy Theatre in 2025, and toured the UK in 2026.
Busu
Busu (附子) is one of the best-known kyogen, the Japanese comic theater performed alongside noh: a master leaves servants guarding a 'poison' barrel that actually holds sugar.
Butoh
Butoh (舞踏), also ankoku butoh or "dance of darkness," is a Japanese avant-garde dance theater founded by Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno, beginning with the 1959 performance Kinjiki; it debuted internationally at the 1980 Nancy festival and has no fixed style.
Bye Bye Birdie
Bye Bye Birdie: 1960 Broadway musical comedy by Strouse, Adams, and Stewart, directed by Gower Champion, satirizing Elvis Presley's Army draft through Conrad Birdie; 607 performances, four 1961 Tonys including Best Musical.
Cabaret
Cabaret: live entertainment format combining satirical song, music, and variety acts in an intimate venue with table seating. Founded in Montmartre in 1881 (Chat noir), flourished in Weimar Berlin, destroyed by the Nazis, revived worldwide.
Cabaret (musical)
Cabaret is a 1966 Kander and Ebb Broadway musical, book by Joe Masteroff, based on Isherwood's Berlin stories and I Am a Camera, set in 1929-30 Berlin; winner of eight Tonys, with the 1972 Fosse film and celebrated 1998 and 2021 revivals.
Cakewalk
The cakewalk is an African American strutting dance originating on Southern slave plantations, where the best couple "took the cake." It became a minstrel-show staple, a Broadway and Paris craze around 1900, and survives as a carnival game.
Caliban
Caliban, the 'savage and deformed slave' of Shakespeare's The Tempest (1611): son of Sycorax, enslaved by Prospero, name traced to Carib/cannibal derivations, and a four-century icon from stage monster to postcolonial symbol.
Call Me Madam
Call Me Madam: 1950 Irving Berlin Broadway musical comedy with book by Lindsay and Crouse, starring Ethel Merman as ambassador Sally Adams, inspired by Perle Mesta; 644 performances, three 1951 Tonys, 1953 film.
Cameron Esposito
Cameron Esposito (Cameron Anne Young Anastasia Esposito, born 1981) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster known for Rape Jokes, Take My Wife, the memoir Save Yourself, and the 2025 Dropout special Four Pills on bipolar disorder.