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A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun is Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 Broadway drama about the Younger family of Chicago's South Side and their $10,000 insurance check; the first Broadway play by an African American woman, it won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award.
A secreto agravio, secreta venganza
A secreto agravio, secreta venganza is an honor tragedy by the Spanish playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca, printed in 1637 and set in Lisbon, where a husband murders his innocent wife.
A Stormy Night
A Stormy Night (O noapte furtunoasă) is an 1879 comedy in two acts by Romanian playwright Ion Luca Caragiale, considered a masterpiece of Romanian comic theater.
A Strange Loop
A Strange Loop, Michael R. Jackson's Pulitzer Prize-winning meta-musical about Usher, a Black gay Broadway usher writing a musical about himself, Off-Broadway 2019, Broadway 2022, Tony winner.
A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire is Tennessee Williams's 1947 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, premiered December 3, 1947 at the Barrymore Theatre under Elia Kazan with Marlon Brando and Jessica Tandy. Blanche DuBois versus Stanley Kowalski in New Orleans; themes of fantasy versus reality, dependence on men, desire and madness.
A Suspicious Person
A Suspicious Person (Sumnjivo lice, Сумњиво лице) is a two-act comedy by Serbian writer Branislav Nušić that satirizes police and bureaucratic corruption, finally premiered in Belgrade in 1923.
A View from the Bridge
A View from the Bridge is Arthur Miller's 1955 tragedy of Brooklyn longshoreman Eddie Carbone, who betrays immigrant cousins over his feelings for his niece; revised to two acts in 1956, revived on Broadway four times.
A Woman of No Importance
A Woman of No Importance is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first performed at London's Haymarket Theatre in 1893, in which a woman confronts the man who abandoned her.
Aadhe Adhure
Aadhe Adhure (आधे अधूरे; Halfway House) is a 1969 Hindi play by Mohan Rakesh about a middle-class family's moral disintegration, first staged in Delhi and now considered a landmark of modern Indian theater.
Aaron Tveit
Aaron Tveit, American actor and singer, Ithaca College 2005, originated Gabe in Next to Normal and Frank Abagnale Jr. in Catch Me If You Can, won the 2021 Tony for Best Lead Actor in a Musical as Christian in Moulin Rouge! The Musical, and stars as Freddie Trumper in the 2025 Chess revival.
Abbey Theatre
The Abbey Theatre (Amharclann na Mainistreach) is Ireland's national theater on Lower Abbey Street in Dublin, founded by W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, opening in 1904.
Abby Lee Miller
Abby Lee Miller (Abigale Lee Miller, born 1965, Pittsburgh) is an American dance instructor who founded the Abby Lee Dance Company and starred in Lifetime's Dance Moms (2011–2019); later convicted of bankruptcy fraud, treated for Burkitt lymphoma, and accused of racism by former dancers.
Abby Mueller
Abby Mueller is an American stage actress and singer from a Chicago acting family, known for originating Jane Seymour in Six and playing Carole King in Beautiful.
Abigail's Party
Abigail's Party is a 1977 British television comedy drama directed by Mike Leigh, first transmitted on BBC1 as a Play for Today, starring Alison Steadman, Tim Stern, and Janine Duvitski.
Aboriginal Australian theatre
Aboriginal Australian theatre is theatre created by Aboriginal Australian artists, from written plays to multimodal performance; its modern history began with the 1972 Tent Embassy.
Abritti
Abritti (আবৃত্তি) is the Bengali art of attractively reciting poetry or prose before an audience. Developed in 20th-century Bengal, it remains a living performative art in West Bengal and Bangladesh.
Absurd Person Singular
Absurd Person Singular is a three-act comedy by Alan Ayckbourn, first performed in Scarborough in 1972, in which the rising Hopcrofts outpace two declining couples across three Christmas Eves.
Accidental Death of an Anarchist
Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Morte accidentale di un anarchico) is a 1970 two-act tragic farce by Dario Fo and Franca Rame about Giuseppe Pinelli's 1969 death in Milan police custody after the Piazza Fontana bombing; staged in over 40 countries.
Achalayatan
Achalayatan (অচলায়তন) is a symbolic Bengali play by Rabindranath Tagore, first published in the magazine Prabasi in 1912, that questions empty ritual and rule-bound learning.
Acid Tests
The Acid Tests were 1965-66 LSD-centered multimedia parties hosted by Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, with the Grateful Dead (then the Warlocks) as house band; admission was $1, LSD became illegal in California on October 6, 1966, and the series ended with the Halloween 1966 Acid Test Graduation.
Act (drama)
Act (drama): a principal structural division of a play, opera, or musical, made of scenes and usually numbering one to five; historically five acts in Elizabethan drama, now typically two or three with an intermission.
Acting
Acting is the intentional, theatrical art of performing a role with voice and body. Key frameworks include Stanislavski's system, the American Method (Strasberg), Meisner, Adler, and Brecht's distancing effect.
Acting coach
Acting coach: a specialist giving one-on-one preparation for auditions, self-tapes, callbacks, and roles, distinct from acting classes; draws on Stanislavski-derived techniques (Meisner, Strasberg, Adler), with published LA rates from $85 to $300 per hour as of July 2026.
Actor
Actor: a performer portraying characters in theatre, film, or television. Also covers actor training history from Thespis and apprenticeship to LAMDA, Stanislavski's system, the American Method, and unions like Actors' Equity and SAG-AFTRA.
Actors Studio
The Actors Studio: New York membership workshop founded 1947 by Kazan, Crawford, and Robert Lewis; home of Method acting under Lee Strasberg; free lifelong membership by audition; West Hollywood branch and Pace University MFA.
Actors' Equity Association
Actors' Equity Association, founded May 26, 1913 in New York City, is the U.S. labor union for over 51,000 professional actors and stage managers in live theatre, affiliated with the AFL-CIO and FIA, negotiating over 40 contracts including the Broadway Production Agreement.
Adam Buxton
Adam Buxton (born 1969, London) is an English comedian, writer, actor, and podcaster; half of Adam and Joe with Joe Cornish (Takeover TV, The Adam and Joe Show, 6 Music), host of BUG and The Adam Buxton Podcast since 2015.
Adam Ferrara
Adam Ferrara (born 1966) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and host: Chief Needles Nelson on Rescue Me, Frank Verelli on Nurse Jackie, Tommy Manetti on The Job, co-host of Top Gear USA 2010-2016, two-time American Comedy Awards nominee.
Adam Hills
Adam Hills is an Australian stand-up comedian and TV host born without a right foot; host of The Last Leg (Channel 4, since 2012) and Spicks and Specks, MBE 2022, PDRL rugby player.
Adam Pascal
Adam Pascal (born 1970) is an American stage actor, singer, and director, the original Roger in Rent (1996), a Tony nominee; also starred in Aida, Cabaret, Memphis, and Pretty Woman, recorded Model Prisoner, and now directs regional musicals.