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Fabula palliata
Fabula palliata is the Latin comic genre of Roman comedies staged with Greek characters, settings, and dress, adapting Greek New Comedy, as in the surviving plays of Plautus and Terence.
Fabula togata
Fabula togata, meaning "drama in a toga," was a genre of Roman comedy that portrayed Roman characters in Roman settings, in contrast to the Greek-dressed fabula palliata.
Fairy-tale and legend ballets
Fairy-tale and legend ballets are ballets adapted from literary wonder tales by writers like Perrault and Hoffmann and from folklore, including The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Cinderella, and The Firebird.
Faith Healer
Faith Healer is a 1979 play by Irish playwright Brian Friel, consisting of four monologues in which three characters give conflicting accounts of the healer Frank Hardy.
Faith Prince
Faith Prince (born 1957, Augusta, Georgia) is an American Broadway singer-actress who won the 1992 Tony Award for Miss Adelaide in the Guys and Dolls revival, with nominations for Jerome Robbins' Broadway, Bells Are Ringing, and A Catered Affair, plus TV roles on Huff and Spin City.
Fancy Free (ballet)
Fancy Free, a 1944 one-act ballet by choreographer Jerome Robbins with Leonard Bernstein's first stage score, premiered at Ballet Theatre on April 18, 1944, and inspired On the Town.
Fanne Foxe
Fanne Foxe, stage name of Annabel Battistella (1936–2021), Argentine-American striptease dancer whose 1974 Tidal Basin jump during a traffic stop with Congressman Wilbur Mills ended his career and made her famous.
Fantasmic!
Fantasmic! is Disney's nighttime water spectacular, premiering May 13, 1992 at Disneyland's Rivers of America, with a 1998 Hollywood Studios version and a former Tokyo DisneySea run; Mickey battles villains led by Maleficent's dragon, which burned in 2023.
Farce
Farce: comic dramatic genre producing laughter through ridiculous situations and physical action; from Latin farcire "to stuff," shaped in 15th-century France, culminating in Pierre Pathelin and Molière.
Fatiha El-Ghorri
Fatiha El-Ghorri, British-Moroccan stand-up comedian from Hackney known for hijabi, sweary stereotype-smashing comedy; Taskmaster series 19, Cockney Stacking Doll tour and Fringe debut, Best Newcomer nominee, Donkey short, and book The Perks of My Hijab.
Feast of Fools
Feast of Fools (fête des fous, festum stultorum): medieval liturgical feast of the Circumcision on 1 January in which subdeacons led worship; developed in northern France, condemned 1435–1445, later reassessed as orderly liturgy.
Federico García Lorca
Federico García Lorca was a Spanish poet and playwright, author of Bodas de sangre, Yerma, and La casa de Bernarda Alba, executed at the start of the Spanish Civil War in 1936.
Femi Osofisan
Femi Osofisan, who publishes poetry as Okinba Launko, is a Nigerian playwright and University of Ibadan professor known for socially engaged drama drawing on Yoruba myth and history.
Fences (play)
Fences, August Wilson's 1986 play, sixth of his Pittsburgh Cycle, follows Troy Maxson, a former Negro League player and Pittsburgh garbage collector, in 1957; it won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize and Tony for Best Play.
Ferdinand Raimund
Ferdinand Raimund, full name Ferdinand Jakob Raimann (1790–1836), was an Austrian actor and playwright of the old Viennese popular theater, known for fairy-tale magic plays like Der Verschwender (1834).
Ferenc Molnár
Ferenc Molnár, born Ferenc Neumann, was a Hungarian novelist, playwright, and journalist whose youth novel The Paul Street Boys and play Liliom gained worldwide fame.
Fern Brady
Fern Brady (Fern Marie Brady), born 1986 in Bathgate, Scotland, is a stand-up comedian, Taskmaster series 14 contestant, and author of the autism memoir Strong Female Character and Netflix special Autistic Bikini Queen.
Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof: 1964 Broadway musical by Bock, Harnick, and Stein, based on Sholem Aleichem's Tevye stories; 3,242 performances, nine Tonys, six Broadway productions, Yiddish and Regent's Park revivals.
Field Day Theatre Company
Field Day Theatre Company, also known as Field Day, is a Northern Irish theater company founded in Derry in 1980 by Brian Friel and Stephen Rea.
Fifteen Strings of Cash
Fifteen Strings of Cash (十五贯) is a kunqu play adapted by the Zhejiang Kunqu-Su Troupe in 1956, whose runaway success is credited with reviving the kunqu opera genre.
Filip Dikmen
Filip Dikmen (born 1996, Landskrona) is a Swedish comedian and influencer known for the Instagram characters Chantelle and Suleyman, the 2018 Guldtuben Instagram award, TV shows such as Let's Dance 2022 and Förrädarna, and a 2024 law degree.
Fire performance
Fire performance, also known as fire dancing or firedancing, is a performing art in which entertainers manipulate open flame with props such as poi, staffs, fans, and hoops before an audience.
First Folio
The First Folio (Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories & Tragedies, 1623) is the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays, 36 plays edited by Heminge and Condell, preserving 18 plays otherwise lost.
Five Evenings
Five Evenings is a 1958 two-act play by the Soviet playwright Alexander Volodin, in which Ilyin returns to Leningrad after seventeen years and spends five evenings with Tamara.
Five Modern Nō Plays
Five Modern Nō Plays (Kindai Nōgakushū, 近代能楽集) is a 1956 collection by Yukio Mishima that reworks classical nō libretti as modern dramas, translated by Donald Keene in 1957.
Flatulence humor
Flatulence humor, or fart jokes, is toilet humor based on flatulence. The oldest recorded joke, a Sumerian proverb from 1900 BC, is a fart joke; the genre spans Aristophanes, Chaucer, Swift, Le Pétomane, and Blazing Saddles.
Flatulist
A flatulist, or professional farter, is an entertainer who performs controlled, often musical passing of gas. Key figures: Roland le Petour of medieval England, Joseph Pujol (Le Pétomane) of the Moulin Rouge, and Mr Methane.
Flea circus
Flea circus: a sideshow in which fleas pull carts, race chariots, and spin carousels under magnification. Also known as performing flea shows; popular 1830s–1960s in England and Germany, pioneered by Louis Bertolotto, sustained by harnessed human fleas and, elsewhere, pure mechanical illusion.
FlipTop Battle League
FlipTop Battle League, the first Filipino rap battle league, founded February 2010 in Manila by Anygma (Alaric Riam Yuson); a cappella pre-written battles in English and Filipino, over 2.8 billion YouTube views.
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. (1867 or 1869, Chicago – July 22, 1932, Hollywood), American Broadway impresario, creator of the annual Ziegfeld Follies revues (1907–1931), producer of Show Boat (1927), discoverer of stars including Fanny Brice, Eddie Cantor, and Marilyn Miller.