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Dion Boucicault
Dion Boucicault, born Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot, was an Irish actor and playwright of the nineteenth century, known for the melodramas London Assurance, The Colleen Bawn, and The Shaughraun.
Dionysia (Διονύσια)
Dionysia (Διονύσια), the Attic festivals of Dionysus: the deme-level Rural Dionysia in Poseideon and the City or Great Dionysia in Elaphebolion, whose dramatic and dithyrambic competitions staged most surviving Greek drama.
Disney Theatrical Productions
Disney Theatrical Productions, now Disney Theatrical Group, is the Walt Disney Company's stage producing arm. Founded in 1993, its 10 Broadway titles, led by The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Frozen, have been seen by 240 million people.
Distancing effect
Distancing effect (Verfremdungseffekt, alienation effect) is Bertolt Brecht's epic-theatre technique of anti-illusive devices, songs, placards, and detached acting, coined after Mei Lanfang's 1935 Moscow performance, that keeps spectators critical rather than empathetic.
Dita Von Teese
Dita Von Teese, born Heather Renée Sweet in 1972, is an American burlesque dancer, model, and entrepreneur credited with re-popularizing burlesque, earning the moniker "Queen of Burlesque."
Diversity (dance troupe)
Diversity is a British street dance troupe from Essex and London, formerly Swift Moves Juniors, that won Britain's Got Talent series 3 in 2009, beating Susan Boyle, and tours narrative stage shows led by Ashley Banjo.
DMX512
DMX512 (Digital Multiplex, 512 channels), also ANSI E1.11 DMX512-A, is the 1986 USITT serial lighting-control standard: 512 8-bit channels per universe over RS-485 at 250 kbit/s, unidirectional, no error detection, still the fixture-level standard.
Doctor Faustus (play)
Doctor Faustus, also known as The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, is a tragedy by Christopher Marlowe in which a scholar sells his soul to the devil and is damned.
Documentary and verbatim theatre
Documentary and verbatim theater is performance built from trial transcripts, interviews, and documents, beginning with Erwin Piscator in 1925; verbatim theater reproduces real people's exact words.
Dog Day Afternoon (play)
Dog Day Afternoon is Stephen Adly Guirgis's 2026 Broadway play adapted from the 1975 film about John Wojtowicz's 1972 Brooklyn bank robbery, directed by Rupert Goold, starring Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach at the August Wilson Theatre, closed July 12, 2026 to negative reviews.
Dom Joly
Dom Joly (Dominic Joly, born 1967, Beirut) is an English comedian and travel writer, creator and star of Channel 4's hidden camera hit Trigger Happy TV (2000–2003) with its giant mobile phone, later author of The Dark Tourist and other travel books.
Domestic tragedy
Domestic tragedy is a genre of Elizabethan and Jacobean English drama portraying murder, adultery, and death in non-elite households, exemplified by Arden of Faversham and A Woman Killed with Kindness.
Dominic Holland
Dominic Holland (Dominic Anthony Holland), English stand-up comedian and author, Perrier Best Newcomer 1993; Radio 4 series, comic novels, memoir Eclipsed; father of actor Tom Holland.
Don Juan (ballet)
Don Juan, ou Le festin de pierre: 1761 Vienna ballet pantomime by Gluck, choreographed and danced by Gasparo Angiolini with Calzabigi; premiered 17 October 1761 at the Burgtheater; founding ballet d'action.
Don Juan Tenorio
Don Juan Tenorio is an 1844 verse drama by José Zorrilla in which Don Juan is saved at the last moment through the love of Doña Inés.
Don McKellar
Don McKellar (born 1963, Toronto) is a Canadian actor, screenwriter, and director of the Toronto New Wave, known for Last Night (1998), The Red Violin, Twitch City, and the Tony-winning The Drowsy Chaperone.
Don Quixote (ballet)
Don Quixote: Petipa-Minkus classical ballet, premiered Bolshoi Theatre Moscow 14/26 December 1869, based on a Cervantes episode about Kitri and Basilio; modern versions derive from Gorsky's 1900 revival, with stagings by Nureyev, Baryshnikov, Tomasson, and Acosta.
Don Rickles
Don Rickles (Donald Jay Rickles, 1926-2017), American insult comic and actor nicknamed Mr. Warmth and Merchant of Venom; ad-libbed nightclub roasts, Tonight Show regular, Mr. Potato Head in Toy Story, Emmy winner 2008.
Don's Party
Don's Party is a 1971 satirical play by David Williamson, in which university-educated friends watch the 1969 Australian election results and descend into drunken disappointment.
Dona Ganguly (দোনা গাঙ্গুলি)
Dona Ganguly (দোনা গাঙ্গুলি), born Dona Roy, is a Kolkata-based Odissi classical dancer, disciple of Kelucharan Mohapatra, founder of Diksha Manjari, and wife of cricketer Sourav Ganguly, married February 1997.
Donna Murphy
Donna Murphy, born 1959 in Queens, New York, is an American stage and screen actress, two-time Tony winner for Passion (1994) and The King and I (1996), Daytime Emmy winner, and the voice of Mother Gothel in Tangled.
Donnell Rawlings
Donnell Rawlings, American comedian, actor, and podcaster born in Washington, D.C.; Ashy Larry on Chappelle's Show, Day-Day on The Wire, Netflix special A New Day, weekly podcast.
Dorian Corey
Dorian Corey (c. 1937–1993), American drag performer, Pearl Box Revue star, and founder of the House of Corey, famed as a voice of Paris Is Burning (1990) for explaining shade, reading, and realness; after her death a mummified body was found in her closet.
Dorothea Jordan
Dorothea Jordan, also known as Mrs. Jordan or Dora Jordan, was an Irish actress famed for comic roles and breeches parts at Drury Lane from 1785 to 1809.
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles Music Center theater at 135 N Grand Avenue; opened 1964, Welton Becket design, ~3,200 seats; former LA Phil home and Oscars venue, now LA Opera's hall.
Doubt: A Parable
Doubt: A Parable is a 2004 play by John Patrick Shanley about a Bronx Catholic school principal who accuses a priest of misconduct on unconfirmed evidence.
Doug Benson
Doug Benson (born 1962, San Diego) is an American stand-up comedian and podcaster known for marijuana humor, Super High Me, Last Comic Standing season 5, Doug Loves Movies, and Getting Doug with High.
Doug Henning
Doug Henning (1947–2000), Canadian magician and illusionist, star of Broadway's The Magic Show and NBC's World of Magic specials; revived mass-interest in magic, later followed Transcendental Meditation and the Natural Law Party.
Doug Stanhope
Doug Stanhope (born 1967) is an American stand-up comedian from Worcester, Massachusetts, based in Bisbee, Arizona, known for confrontational libertarian, autobiographical comedy, festival wins, The Man Show, and over a dozen specials.
Douglas Hodge
Douglas William Hodge (born 1960, Plymouth) is an English actor, director, and composer; Tony and Olivier winner as Albin in La Cage aux Folles, originator of Willy Wonka at Drury Lane, and Alfred Pennyworth in Joker.