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Cameron Mackintosh
Cameron Mackintosh (born 1946, Enfield) is a British theatrical producer, knighted in 1996, behind Cats, Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, Mary Poppins, and the UK Hamilton; he owns eight London theatres and is estimated at £1.25 billion.
Can-can
Can-can (French cancan), Parisian high-kicking dance from the late 1820s quadrille, set to Offenbach's Galop Infernal, scandalized by police, staged at the Moulin Rouge by La Goulue and Jane Avril, immortalized by Toulouse-Lautrec.
Canada Lee
Canada Lee (Leonard Lionel Cornelius Canegata, 1907-1952), American actor, former jockey and boxer, star of Native Son, Lifeboat, Body and Soul, and Cry, the Beloved Country; blacklisted civil-rights advocate, not the Lee of productivity-gap economics papers.
Candy Spelling
Candy Spelling (Carole Gene Marer), born 1945, is an American author and Broadway producer, widow of TV producer Aaron Spelling and mother of Tori Spelling; her The Color Purple revival won the 2016 Tony for Best Revival of a Musical.
Canillita
Canillita is a one-act sainete by Uruguayan playwright Florencio Sánchez, first staged in Rosario, Argentina, in 1902; it gave the Río de la Plata the word canillita for a street newspaper seller.
Capitol Theatre, Sydney
Capitol Theatre, Sydney: heritage-listed 2,000-seat lyric theatre at 13 Campbell Street, Haymarket; built as New Belmore Markets 1892, Wirth Bros Hippodrome 1916, atmospheric picture palace opened 7 April 1928; Australia's only substantially intact atmospheric theatre.
Cariad Lloyd
Cariad Lloyd (born 1982, London) is a British comedian, actor, writer, and podcaster: Griefcast creator, Austentatious co-creator, 2011 Edinburgh Best Newcomer nominee, author of You Are Not Alone.
Cariñosa
Cariñosa (kaɾiˈɲosa), a Philippine courtship folk dance of Spanish colonial origin in the Maria Clara suite, danced with fan and handkerchief in 3/4 time; traced to Panay, often but never officially called the national dance.
Carla Guevara Laforteza
Carla Guevara Laforteza (Maria Carla Helena Amado Guevara-Laforteza), born 1975, is a Filipino musical theater actress and singer, a five-time Aliw awardee who played Kim and Gigi in London's Miss Saigon (1995–1997) and is the mother of KATSEYE leader Sophia Laforteza.
Carlo Goldoni
Carlo Goldoni was an Italian dramatist, born in Venice in 1707, who replaced the improvised commedia dell'arte with fully written comedies, producing about 120 plays.
Carlo Gozzi
Carlo Gozzi (1720–1806) was an Italian playwright and memoirist from Venice who revived commedia dell'arte in ten theatrical fairy tales, written against Goldoni's reforms, and authored Turandot.
Carlos Mencia
Carlos Mencia, born Ned Arnel Holness (1967, Honduras), is an American stand-up comedian who hosted Comedy Central's Mind of Mencia (2005–2008), faced joke-theft accusations after Joe Rogan's 2007 confrontation, and was charged with tax evasion in 2026.
Carmen Cusack
Carmen Cusack, born 1971 in Denver, is an American musical theater actress and singer. Known for Alice Murphy in Bright Star (Tony nomination, Theatre World Award), Elphaba in Wicked, Nellie Forbush in South Pacific, and Flying Over Sunset.
Carmen Suite (ballet)
Carmen Suite is a 1967 one-act ballet by Cuban choreographer Alberto Alonso, music by Rodion Shchedrin after Bizet for strings and 47 percussion instruments, created for Maya Plisetskaya at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, premiered 20 April 1967.
Carol Channing
Carol Channing (1921-2019), American Broadway star and singer, originated Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly!, winning Tonys and a Golden Globe.
Carol Leifer
Carol Leifer (born 1956/1957) is an American stand-up comedian and Emmy-winning TV writer known for Seinfeld, Saturday Night Live, Modern Family, and Hacks, plus a record 25 David Letterman appearances.
Caroline O'Connor (actress)
Caroline O'Connor (born 1962, Oldham, England) is a British-Australian musical theatre actress and singer; Olivier-nominated for Mack and Mabel, Broadway's A Christmas Story and Anastasia, and Nini Legs-in-the-Air in Moulin Rouge!.
Carrie Hope Fletcher
Carrie Hope Fletcher (born 1992, Harrow, London) is an English West End actress, author, and vlogger; longest-running London Éponine in Les Misérables, original Veronica in Heathers, and star of Lloyd Webber's Cinderella.
Carrie St. Louis
Carrie St. Louis, American musical theater actress known as Rose in Titanique, Glinda in Wicked, Sherrie in Rock of Ages, the final Lauren in Kinky Boots, and Dolly Parton on stage.
Carrot Top
Carrot Top, stage name of Scott Thompson, American prop comedian from Cocoa Beach, Florida; Luxor Las Vegas headliner since 2005, longest-running MGM Resorts comedy residency, known for custom props and topical jokes.
Cartel des Quatre
The Cartel des Quatre was an association of French theater directors Baty, Dullin, Jouvet, and Pitoëff, formed in Paris in 1927 to defend art theater against commercial boulevard theater.
Caryl Churchill
Caryl Churchill (born 3 September 1938, London) is a British playwright of Cloud Nine, Top Girls, and Serious Money, known for experimental form, feminist and socialist themes, Royal Court premieres, and the 2026 short play Triumph.
Casa con dos puertas, mala es de guardar
Casa con dos puertas, mala es de guardar is a three-act cloak-and-sword comedy in verse by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, written around 1629 and first printed in Madrid in 1640.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is Tennessee Williams's 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning three-act play about the Pollitt family's inheritance fight, Maggie and Brick's broken marriage, and its two disputed third acts, later filmed with Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor.
Catharsis (κάθαρσις)
Catharsis (κάθαρσις, katharsis) is the Greek term from Aristotle's definition of tragedy in the Poetics, meaning purification, purgation, or clarification of pity and fear; interpretations range from Bernays's medical model to Nussbaum's clarification, and psychology's emotional-release catharsis has mixed empirical support.
Cathleen ni Houlihan
Cathleen ni Houlihan is a one-act play by W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, first performed in Dublin in 1902, in which an old woman who is Ireland persuades a young groom to fight for her.
Cato, a Tragedy
Cato, a Tragedy is a 1713 play by Joseph Addison, premiered at Drury Lane to wide acclaim, dramatizing Cato's last days at Utica after Caesar's victory at Thapsus; it became George Washington's favorite play.
Cedric the Entertainer
Cedric the Entertainer (Cedric Antonio Kyles, born 1964, Jefferson City, Missouri), American comedian and actor; Kings of Comedy, Barbershop, The Steve Harvey Show, The Neighborhood, six NAACP Image Awards, Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Celia Pacquola
Celia Pacquola, also known for Rosehaven and Utopia, is an Australian comedian, writer, and actor born 1983 in Yarra Glen, Victoria. Raw Comedy winner (2006), MICF Most Outstanding Show winner (2026, Gift Horse), AACTA, Helpmann, and Silver Logie winner.
Celine Song
Celine Song (Song Ha-Young) is a Korean-born Canadian playwright and film director in New York, known for Endlings, the Oscar-nominated Past Lives (2023), and Materialists (2025).