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Death and the King's Horseman
Death and the King's Horseman is Wole Soyinka's 1975 tragedy in five scenes, based on a real 1946 Oyo ritual-suicide episode; premiered in Ife, Nigeria, 1976, and cited by the Nobel Committee in 1986 as a 'drama of existence'.
Death Becomes Her (musical)
Death Becomes Her (musical), a Broadway musical comedy based on the 1992 Robert Zemeckis film, opened November 21, 2024 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, ran 666 performances, earned 10 Tony nominations with one win, and launched a North American tour in September 2026.
Death Note: The Musical
Death Note: The Musical (デスノート THE MUSICAL) is a Frank Wildhorn musical adapting the Death Note manga's first arc. Premiered Tokyo 2015, ran in Korea and elsewhere, and reached a fully staged English-language Barbican production in 2026.
Death of a Famous Actor
Death of a Famous Actor (Mingyou zhi si) is a 1927 Chinese spoken drama by Tian Han about a Peking opera star who dies on stage.
Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman is Arthur Miller's 1949 Pulitzer Prize- and Tony-winning Broadway tragedy of Willy Loman, a 63-year-old traveling salesman destroyed by his flawed pursuit of the American Dream; revived on Broadway in 1984, 1999, 2012, 2022, and 2026.
Debbie McGee
Debbie McGee (Debra Ann McGee, born 1958) is an English TV, radio and stage performer, Royal Ballet School-trained dancer, and widow-assistant of magician Paul Daniels; first female Magic Circle member (1991), Strictly 2017 runner-up.
Deirdre of the Sorrows
Deirdre of the Sorrows is a three-act tragedy by the Irish playwright J. M. Synge, based on the Ulster Cycle legend of Deirdre and the Sons of Uisneach.
Del Close
Del Close (1934–1999) was an American improviser, director, and teacher who created the Harold long-form format and taught Bill Murray, John Belushi, and Tina Fey at Chicago's Second City and iO.
Dem Rădulescu
Dem Rădulescu (Dumitru R. Rădulescu, 1931–2000), nicknamed "Bibanul", was a celebrated Romanian comedy actor of the National Theatre Bucharest, a UNATC professor, and star of films like the B.D. trilogy and O scrisoare pierdută.
Demetri Martin
Demetri Martin, American standup comedian, writer, and visual artist; Perrier Award 2003 for If I...; Daily Show youth correspondent; creator of Important Things; Netflix special Demetri Deconstructed (2024).
Demolished and converted theatres in provincial Britain and Ireland
The demolished and converted theaters of provincial Britain and Ireland range from civic rescue, as at Stockton's Georgian Theatre, to demolition, as at Oldham's Grand Theatre in 2025.
Demon Pond
Demon Pond (Yashagaike, 夜叉ヶ池) is a 1913 fantasy play by the Japanese writer Izumi Kyoka, set around a mountain lake in Echizen whose dragon god must be kept from flooding the village.
Denée Benton
Denée Benton (born 1991) is an American actress from Eustis, Florida, a Carnegie Mellon graduate known for her Tony-nominated Broadway debut as Natasha in Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, roles in Hamilton and Into the Woods, and Peggy Scott in HBO's The Gilded Age.
Denis Leary
Denis Leary (born 1957, Worcester, Massachusetts) is an American comedian and actor known for No Cure for Cancer, MTV rants, Rescue Me, Ice Age's Diego, and the Leary Firefighters Foundation.
Denise Gough
Denise Gough (born 1980, Ennis, Ireland) is an Irish actress, double Olivier winner for People, Places and Things and Angels in America, Tony-nominated, and known as Dedra Meero in Andor.
Dennis Miller
Dennis Miller (born 1953, Pittsburgh) is an American comedian and commentator, SNL Weekend Update anchor 1985-1991, Emmy-winning host of HBO's Dennis Miller Live 1994-2002, later a right-leaning talk radio and podcast voice.
Derek Klena
Derek Klena, also known as Derek Anthony Klena, is an American actor and singer known for Broadway roles in Anastasia, Jagged Little Pill, and Moulin Rouge!
Des Bishop
Des Bishop (Deasún Mac an Easpaig) is a New York-born, Ireland-based stand-up comedian known for RTÉ immersion series like The Des Bishop Work Experience and In the Name of the Fada, Mandarin-language Chinese stand-up, and current Grey Area Tour dates.
Desiree Burch
Desiree Leah Burch, American stand-up comedian and actor based in London; Fringe First winner for Tar Baby, breakthrough with Unf*ckable, voice of Too Hot To Handle, Taskmaster Series 12 and Live at the Apollo host.
Deus ex machina
Deus ex machina, Latin for "god from the machine" (Greek theos ek mechanes), is a plot device from ancient Greek theater where a crane lowered a god onstage to resolve the plot; now any contrived, unforeshadowed ending.
Devadasi (देवदासी)
Devadasi (देवदासी, also Jogini, Basavi, Devaradiyar): women dedicated to Hindu temple deities in South India who performed ritual dance and music; the practice was legally abolished from 1947 onward but persists in some districts.
Devised theatre
Devised theatre, also called devising or collaborative creation, is a method of making performance in which a group develops an original work collaboratively, without a pre-existing script or playwright.
Dhruvacharitam
Dhruvacharitam (ധ്രുവചരിതം) is the title shared by works on the boy saint Dhruva, including Kunchan Nambiar's Malayalam thullal published in 1928 and dasaka 17 of Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri's Sanskrit Narayaneeyam.
Diana Barrymore
Diana Barrymore (Diana Strange Blythe, 1921-1960), American actress and socialite, daughter of John Barrymore and Michael Strange; Broadway and Universal films, memoir Too Much, Too Soon (1957), died by suicide at 38.
Dianna Fuemana
Dianna Fuemana, born in 1973, is a Niuean-New Zealand playwright, screenwriter, and director whose 1998 solo play Mapaki broke ground for Pacific theater; she was named the 2026 Niue Artist in Residence.
Dias Gomes
Dias Gomes (1922–1999) was a Brazilian playwright and television author whose play O Pagador de Promessas won the Palma de Ouro at Cannes in 1962.
Dick Gregory
Dick Gregory (Richard Claxton Gregory, 1932–2017) was an American stand-up comedian, satirist, author, and civil rights activist who broke into national fame via the Chicago Playboy Club, marched with Martin Luther King Jr., ran for president in 1968, and wrote Nigger: An Autobiography.
Dick Smothers
Dick Smothers (Richard Remick Smothers, born November 20, 1938 or 1939) is the American comedian, bass player, and straight man of the Smothers Brothers, co-host of the censored, canceled CBS satire The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967-1969).
Die Schaubühne
Die Schaubühne was a weekly German-language magazine founded in Berlin in 1905 by the critic Siegfried Jacobsohn. Begun as a theater journal, it was renamed Die Weltbühne in 1918 and became a central Weimar political forum.
Diego Andres Rodriguez
Diego Andres Rodriguez, also credited as Diego Rodriguez, is an American actor and writer from McAllen, Texas, a University of Michigan BFA musical theatre graduate (2024) who made his Broadway debut as Artie and understudy Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard (2024-2025) and his West End debut as Che in Evita at the London Palladium (2025), earning an Olivier Award nomination.