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Edinburgh International Festival
Edinburgh International Festival (EIF), founded 1947 by Rudolf Bing, is Edinburgh's curated August festival of music, opera, theatre and dance, distinct from the open-access Fringe; directed since 2022 by Nicola Benedetti.
Ediriweera Sarachchandra
Ediriweera Sarachchandra, born Eustace Reginold de Silva, was a Sri Lankan playwright and university teacher who created modern Sinhala theater, best known for his 1956 play Maname.
Edward Albee
Edward Albee (1928–2016), American playwright, author of The Zoo Story and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; three Pulitzer Prizes (A Delicate Balance, Seascape, Three Tall Women), Tony Awards, and founder of the Edward F. Albee Foundation artists' residency in Montauk.
Edward Gardner (conductor)
Edward Gardner is a British conductor, Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra since 2021 and Music Director of the Norwegian Opera and Ballet; former ENO music director (2007-15) and Bergen Philharmonic chief conductor (2015-24).
Edwin Booth
Edwin Booth, born Edwin Thomas Booth (1833–1893), was an American stage actor and theatrical manager, famed for his Hamlet and for founding the actors' club The Players in New York.
Efua Sutherland
Efua Sutherland (1924–1996) was a Ghanaian playwright and cultural activist who founded the Ghana Experimental Theatre and Drama Studio, wrote The Marriage of Anansewa, and pioneered modern Ghanaian theater.
Egmont
Egmont is a five-act tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, begun in 1775 and completed at Rome in 1787, dramatizing the execution of the Flemish count Lamoral of Egmont by the Spanish in 1568.
Egungun
Egungun (Egúngún) is a Yoruba masquerade tradition in which costumed performers make ancestral spirits visible among the living, practiced since at least the fifteenth century in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo.
Egyptian National Theater (المسرح القومي المصري)
The Egyptian National Theater, also known as Masrah Al Qawmi, is Egypt's state theater troupe, founded in Cairo in 1935 and performing at the National Theatre in Downtown Cairo.
Egyptian theatre
Egyptian theatre is the tradition of staged drama in Egypt, founded in Arabic by Ya'qub Sannu in 1870 and among the leading traditions in the Arab world.
Eiko Ishioka (石岡瑛子)
Eiko Ishioka (石岡瑛子, 1938–2012), Japanese graphic designer, art director, and Oscar-winning costume designer; Parco advertising, Miles Davis's Tutu, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Beijing 2008 Olympics.
Ekach Pyala
Ekach Pyala is a Marathi play by Ram Ganesh Gadkari, completed in 1917, which established Marathi tragic drama (shokantika) through its tragedy of the drink-ruined Sudhakar and his wife Sindhu.
El alcalde de Zalamea
El alcalde de Zalamea is a 1651 honor play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, in which farmer Pedro Crespo executes a captain who assaulted his daughter.
El arte nuevo de hacer comedias
El arte nuevo de hacer comedias is a 1609 verse treatise by Lope de Vega that set out the principles of the Spanish comedia nueva.
El caballero de Olmedo
El caballero de Olmedo (The Knight of Olmedo) is a tragicomedy by Lope de Vega in which the knight don Alonso is murdered by jealous rivals.
El campo
El campo (The Camp) is a two-act play by Argentine playwright Griselda Gambaro, premiered in 1968, that stages a concentration camp through absurdist theater and became a landmark of Latin American absurdism.
El castigo sin venganza
El castigo sin venganza ("Punishment without Revenge") is a tragedy by Lope de Vega about a duke's wife and his illegitimate son, finished in 1631.
El condenado por desconfiado
El condenado por desconfiado, also known as El mayor desconfiado, is a Spanish Golden Age theological drama published in 1635 and traditionally attributed to Tirso de Molina.
El desdén, con el desdén
El desdén, con el desdén is a Spanish Golden Age comedy by Agustín Moreto, first published in Madrid in 1654, where count Carlos wins the disdainful Diana by feigning disdain.
El mágico prodigioso
El mágico prodigioso is a religious drama in three acts and verse by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, written in 1637 for the Corpus Christi festivities of Yepes, Toledo.
El médico de su honra
El médico de su honra (The Physician of His Honour) is a Spanish Golden Age tragedy by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, first printed in Madrid in 1637.
El príncipe constante
El príncipe constante (The Constant Prince) is a religious drama by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, written around 1629 about the imprisoned Infante Fernando of Portugal.
El Risitas
El Risitas (Juan Joya Borja, 1956-2021) was a Spanish comedian from Seville whose wheezing laugh in a 2007 Ratones Coloraos interview became the Spanish Laughing Guy meme, the KEKW Twitch emote, and a recurring viral format.
El sí de las niñas
El sí de las niñas is a three-act prose comedy by the Spanish playwright Leandro Fernández de Moratín, premiered in Madrid in 1806 and considered the peak of the Spanish comedy of good manners.
El Teatro Campesino
El Teatro Campesino (The Farmworkers' Theater), Chicano theater company founded by Luis Valdez in 1965 on the Delano Grape Strike picket lines as the cultural wing of the United Farm Workers; created the acto skit form and the first Chicano Broadway play, Zoot Suit.
El vergonzoso en palacio
El vergonzoso en palacio (The Shy Man at Court) is a three-act verse comedy by the Spanish playwright Tirso de Molina, first published in 1624.
Elaine May
Elaine May (born Elaine Iva Berlin, April 21, 1932, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American comedian, playwright, screenwriter, and director, half of the comedy duo Nichols and May.
Elayne Boosler
Elayne Boosler is an American stand-up comedian, writer, and activist who became the first woman to star in her own cable special, Party of One, in 1986.
Electra (Sophocles play)
Sophocles' Electra (Ἠλέκτρα), a Greek tragedy of c. 420-410 BC set at Mycenae, in which Electra endures Clytemnestra and Aegisthus until Orestes returns, kills them, and ends the curse on the house of Atreus.
Eleonora Duse
Eleonora Duse (1858–1924), Italian stage actress called "the incomparable Duse"; rival of Sarah Bernhardt, pioneer of naturalistic acting, celebrated interpreter of Ibsen and D'Annunzio; toured internationally, influenced Stanislavski, died on tour in Pittsburgh.