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Eric Idle
Eric Idle (born 1943, South Shields) is a British comedian, songwriter, and founding member of Monty Python; he wrote "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life," created the Rutles and Spamalot, and survived pancreatic cancer.
Eric Morecambe
Eric Morecambe (John Eric Bartholomew, 1926-1984), English comedian, comic half of Morecambe and Wise with Ernie Wise; BBC Christmas specials drew 28 million viewers; died on stage at Tewkesbury in 1984.
Erica Schmidt
Erica Schmidt, American theater director, playwright, and screenwriter; wrote the Oscar- and BAFTA-nominated 2021 film Cyrano from her 2018 Goodspeed musical; Lucille Lortel Award for Humor Abuse; directed Orpheus Descending; married to Peter Dinklage.
Erik Bruhn
Erik Belton Evers Bruhn (1928-1986), Danish ballet dancer, choreographer and director trained in the Bournonville style at the Royal Danish Ballet; famed 1955 Albrecht in Giselle at the Met, director of the National Ballet of Canada, and namesake of the Erik Bruhn Prize.
Erik Jan Hanussen
Erik Jan Hanussen, born Hermann Steinschneider (1889-1933), was an Austrian clairvoyant and hypnotist of Jewish birth who courted the Nazis, predicted the Reichstag fire, and was murdered by the SA in March 1933.
Erika Henningsen
Erika Henningsen (born 1992, Moraga, California) is an American actress and singer, original Cady Heron in Broadway's Mean Girls, Fantine in the Les Misérables revival, and voice of Charlie Morningstar in Hazbin Hotel.
Ernie Wise
Ernie Wise, born Ernest Wiseman, was an English comedian and the straight man of Morecambe and Wise, whose 1977 Christmas show drew almost 29 million viewers.
Erotic dance
Erotic dance, also called exotic dance or striptease, is dance intended to produce sexual arousal, from ancient aulētrides and Salome dances to modern gentlemen's clubs, lap dancing, and dancer labor organizing.
Errol John
Errol John (1924–1988) was a Trinidadian actor and playwright who worked in Britain and is best known for Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, which won the Observer prize for best play in 1957.
Estates Theatre
Estates Theatre (Stavovské divadlo), Neoclassical Prague theatre opened 1783 by Count Nostitz; world premiere of Mozart's Don Giovanni in 1787; National Theatre drama and opera stage since 1920.
Esther Povitsky
Esther Povitsky (Esther Lauren Povitsky, born 1988), also known as Little Esther, is an American stand-up comedian, actress, and podcast host from Skokie, Illinois, known for co-creating Freeform's Alone Together, starring in Hulu's Dollface, and her 2020 Comedy Central special Hot for My Name.
Estonian national theatres
Estonian national theaters are the Estonian National Opera, Estonia's opera and ballet house, and the Estonian Drama Theatre, the country's largest spoken-word theater, both in Tallinn.
Estragon
Estragon (Gogo) is one of the two tramps in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (En attendant Godot, 1948–49), the boot-bound, forgetful half of the Vladimir–Estragon double act, first played by Pierre Latour in Paris in 1953.
Ethel Merman
Ethel Merman (Ethel Agnes Zimmermann, 1908–1984), American Broadway singer and actress, star of Girl Crazy, Anything Goes, Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Madam, and Gypsy, famed for her unamplified belting voice.
Étienne Decroux
Étienne Decroux (1898–1991), French actor and mime teacher, creator of corporeal mime, also called mime corporel dramatique. Student of Jacques Copeau, teacher of Marcel Marceau and Barrault, author of Paroles sur le mime (1963), known for the counterweight-based 'gymnastique dramatique' technique distinct from Lecoq's and Marceau's mime.
Euan Morton
Euan Morton, born Iain Douglas George Middleton, is a Scottish actor and singer known for playing Boy George in the musical Taboo and King George III in Hamilton.
Eugène Ionesco
Eugène Ionesco (Eugen Ionescu, 1909-1994), Romanian-born French playwright of the Theatre of the Absurd; wrote La Cantatrice chauve (1950) and Rhinocéros (1959); elected to the Académie française in 1970.
Eugene O'Neill
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888-1953), American playwright, first US playwright to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1936) and winner of four Pulitzer Prizes for Beyond the Horizon, Anna Christie, Strange Interlude, and Long Day's Journey into Night.
Eugene O'Neill Theater Center
Eugene O'Neill Theater Center: nonprofit new-work development organization in Waterford, Connecticut, founded 1964 by George C. White. Home of the National Playwrights Conference, Music Theater Conference, and National Theater Institute; two Tony Awards and the 2016 National Medal of Arts.
Euripides
Euripides (Εὐριπίδης, c. 485/4 to 407/6 BC) was an Athenian tragic poet, the third great fifth-century tragedian alongside Aeschylus and Sophocles, and the tragedian whose plays survive in the largest number.
Eva Noblezada
Eva Noblezada (born 1996, San Diego) is a Filipino American musical theater actor, two-time Tony nominee, known as Kim in Miss Saigon, Eurydice in Hadestown, Daisy in The Great Gatsby, and Sally Bowles in Cabaret, wife of Reeve Carney.
Eve Ensler
Eve Ensler, now known as V (born 1953), American playwright and activist; author of The Vagina Monologues (1996) and founder of V-Day, One Billion Rising, and City of Joy in the DRC.
Evening Standard Theatre Awards
Evening Standard Theatre Awards, now London Standard Theatre Awards: annual London theatre prizes founded in 1955 by the Evening Standard, judged by critics, oldest UK drama awards, renamed under Evgeny Lebedev.
Every Brilliant Thing
Every Brilliant Thing: interactive solo play by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe about a child's list of things worth living for after his mother's suicide attempt; premiered 2013, Broadway revival 2026 with Radcliffe, Hargitay, and Ross.
Every Man in His Humour
Every Man in His Humour is a comedy by Ben Jonson, first performed in 1598 by the Lord Chamberlain's Men, in which each character is ruled by a single obsession.
Experimental theatre
Experimental theatre (experimental theater) presents innovative works and develops new stage concepts and techniques, breaking conventions of plot, realism, and passive audiences; related to but distinct from avant-garde theatre, with roots in Jarry, Meyerhold, Brecht, Beckett, and the Living Theatre.
Experimental theatre in the Arab world
Experimental theatre in the Arab world (المسرح التجريبي) is a body of theatrical practice and critical writing, active since the 1960s, that breaks with inherited dramatic form and questions the primacy of the written text.
Exploding Plastic Inevitable
Exploding Plastic Inevitable (EPI), also staged as Andy Warhol Up-Tight, was Warhol and Paul Morrissey's 1966–67 multimedia show at The Dom and on US tour, pairing the Velvet Underground and Nico with films, strobes, slides, and Factory dancers.
Expressionism (theatre)
Expressionist theatre: early 20th-century German non-realistic drama conveying inner emotion via distortion, Stationendrama structure, typified unnamed characters, stylized acting; key figures Sorge, Toller, Kaiser, Hasenclever.
Ezra Sosa
Ezra Jochen Sosa (born 2000, Provo, Utah) is an American Latin ballroom dancer and choreographer, a SYTYCD season 16 Top 6 finalist and Dancing with the Stars pro partnered with Anna Delvey, Jordan Chiles, and Julia Stiles.