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Center for Puppetry Arts
Center for Puppetry Arts: Atlanta nonprofit founded by Vincent Anthony, opened September 23, 1978 with Jim Henson and Kermit the Frog; largest US nonprofit solely dedicated to puppetry, with the world's largest Jim Henson puppet collection.
Central Academy of Drama (中央戏剧学院)
Central Academy of Drama (中央戏剧学院, Zhongxi) is China's first theatre-dedicated higher education institution, a Ministry of Education 'Double First-class' university in Beijing founded 1949-1950 from Yan'an's Lu Xun Art College, alma mater of Zhang Ziyi and Gong Li.
Cha-cha-cha (dance)
Cha-cha-cha (chachachá) is a Cuban partner dance and music genre created in early-1950s Havana by violinist Enrique Jorrín from the danzón-mambo, named for the onomatopoeic triple-step chassé on counts 4-and-1, standardized for ballroom in 1956.
Chachi Gonzales
Chachi Gonzales, born Olivia Irene Gonzales in 1996 in Houston, is an American hip-hop dancer, choreographer, and actress; youngest member of I.aM.mE, winners of America's Best Dance Crew Season 6 (2011), later an actress and YouTuber married to Jukka Hildén.
Chamber play
The chamber play (German: Kammerspiel) is a condensed drama with a small cast in one limited location, driven by dialogue and psychological intensity; August Strindberg wrote five in 1907.
Chandragupta
Chandragupta (চন্দ্রগুপ্ত) is a 1911 Bengali historical play by Dwijendralal Ray, dramatizing how Chandragupta Maurya, aided by Chanakya, defeated Dhanananda to gain the throne of Magadha.
Chandrakant Kulkarni
Chandrakant Kulkarni is an Indian theater and film director based in Mumbai since 1988, known for the eight-hour Elkunchwar trilogy and the National Award-winning film Aajcha Divas Majha.
Chaplin family
The Chaplin family, an acting dynasty from London music hall founders Charles Chaplin Sr. and Hannah Hill, through Charlie Chaplin, his four marriages, eleven children including Geraldine and Sydney, and the family companies holding his film rights.
Characters in Hamlet
Characters in Hamlet: the cast of Shakespeare's tragedy (Hamlet, Claudius, Gertrude, Ophelia, Polonius, Laertes, Horatio, Fortinbras), their roles and relationships, and how adaptation has recentered them.
Charlayne Woodard
Charlayne Woodard (born Charlaine Woodard, 1953, Albany, NY) is an American actress and playwright, Tony-nominated for Ain't Misbehavin', two-time Obie winner, and author of the solo plays Pretty Fire, Neat, In Real Life, and The Night Watcher.
Charles Frohman
Charles Frohman was an American producer who dominated theater through the Theatrical Syndicate. He was known for developing stars like Maude Adams and died on the Lusitania in 1915.
Charleston (dance)
The Charleston is a 1920s American jazz dance named for Charleston, South Carolina, popularized by the 1923 Broadway show Runnin' Wild with James P. Johnson's tune, rooted in Gullah Geechee steps, later absorbed into Lindy Hop and the quickstep.
Charleston White
Charleston White (born 1977, Fort Worth, Texas) is an American comedian, motivational speaker, and internet personality; juvenile murder conviction at 14, HYPE youth nonprofit founder, and figure of recurring arrests and viral controversies.
Charlie Drake
Charlie Drake (Charles Edward Springall, 1925–2006), English slapstick comedian, TV star of The Charlie Drake Show and The Worker, hitmaker of My Boomerang Won't Come Back, Golden Rose of Montreux winner.
Charlie Murphy (actor)
Charlie Murphy (Charles Quinton Murphy Jr., 1959 to 2017), American actor, writer, and comedian, Eddie Murphy's older brother, famed for Chappelle's Show True Hollywood Stories sketches about Rick James and Prince.
Checkmate (ballet)
Checkmate is a 1937 one-act ballet choreographed by Ninette de Valois to music by Arthur Bliss, which personifies a game of chess as a struggle between Love and Death.
Cheech & Chong
Cheech & Chong, the comedy duo of Richard "Cheech" Marin and Tommy Chong, rose from 1968 Vancouver to five platinum comedy records and Up in Smoke (1978), which launched the stoner comedy genre.
Chekhovian drama
Chekhovian drama is the playwriting style of Anton Chekhov, in which dramatic conflict moves beneath ordinary daily life through subtext, pauses, and a mixing of the comic and tragic.
Chelsea Handler
Chelsea Handler, American comedian, TV host, and six-time New York Times best-selling author; host of E!'s Chelsea Lately (2007-2014), the only female late-night host on air then, later Netflix specials, Dear Chelsea podcast, and Critics' Choice host.
Chelsea Manalo
Chelsea Anne Manalo (born 1999, Meycauayan, Bulacan) is a Filipino model who won Miss Universe Philippines 2024 as the first Black Filipino-American titleholder, placed Top 30 at Miss Universe 2024, and became the first Miss Universe Asia.
Chen Lijun (陈丽君) (actress)
Chen Lijun (陈丽君), born 1992 in Shengzhou, Zhejiang, is a Yue opera xiaosheng of the Zhejiang Xiaobaihua troupe, famous for New Dragon Gate Inn's Jia Ting and My Grand View Garden's Jia Baoyu, a Wenhua Award winner who crossed into film (Biao Ren) and The Pillowman.
Chèo
Chèo, also called hát chèo, is one of Vietnam's oldest theatrical genres, a sung folk opera combining song, dance, music, and drama, centered on the Red River Delta.
Cheri Oteri
Cheri Oteri (Cheryl A. Oteri, born 1962), American comic actress, Saturday Night Live cast member 1995-2000 known for cheerleader characters with Will Ferrell; Groundlings alumna, films Liar Liar and Scary Movie, Emmy-nominated for Just Shoot Me, voice of Gwendolyn Zapp in Big City Greens the Movie.
Cheryl Henson
Cheryl Henson, also known as Cheryl Lee Henson, is an American puppet builder and philanthropist. She has served as President of The Jim Henson Foundation since 1992.
Chester Mystery Plays
The Chester Mystery Plays are a cycle of medieval mystery plays from Chester, dramatizing the Bible from Creation to Last Judgment, performed by the city's craft guilds.
Cheyenne Jackson
Cheyenne Jackson (born 1975, Newport, Washington) is an American actor and singer known for Broadway roles in All Shook Up, Xanadu, and Finian's Rainbow, American Horror Story, Call Me Kat, United 93, and a 2015 Grammy nomination.
Chhau dance (ছৌ নাচ)
Chhau dance (ছৌ নাচ), also spelled Chau, is a masked and maskless martial dance-drama of eastern India with Seraikella, Purulia, and Mayurbhanj styles, inscribed by UNESCO in 2010, rooted in parikhanda sword-and-shield practice and performed at Chaitra Parva.
Chicago Theatre
Chicago Theatre (Balaban and Katz Chicago Theatre) is a 1921 Rapp & Rapp movie palace at 175 N. State Street, Chicago's oldest surviving downtown movie palace, seating 3,553, restored in 1986, with its famous marquee, a Chicago Landmark since 1983.
Chikamatsu Monzaemon (近松門左衛門)
Chikamatsu Monzaemon (近松門左衛門, 1653–1724), born Sugimori Nobumori, was a Japanese playwright for puppet jōruri (bunraku) and kabuki; over 100 plays including Sonezaki Shinjū and Kokusen'ya kassen, creator of sewamono domestic drama.
Children's Theatre Company
The Children's Theatre Company is a Minneapolis professional theater producing plays and musicals for young audiences, incorporated in 1975 and honored with a 2003 Special Tony Award.