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Adam Rapp
Adam Rapp (born 1968, Joliet, Illinois), brother of actor Anthony Rapp, is an American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter; Pulitzer finalist for Red Light Winter, Tony-nominated for The Sound Inside, and Tony-winning Best Musical book writer for The Outsiders.
Adelchi
Adelchi is a historical tragedy in five acts by Alessandro Manzoni, published in Milan in 1822, dramatizing the fall of the Lombard kingdom to the Franks in 772–774.
Adele Astaire
Adele Astaire (Adele Marie Austerlitz, 1896/1898–1981), American dancer and elder sister of Fred Astaire, starred with him in vaudeville and Broadway-London musicals including Lady, Be Good! and Funny Face, retired in 1932 to marry Lord Charles Cavendish, and is known from a 1936 Selznick screen test, her only surviving footage.
Adelphi Theatre
Adelphi Theatre, London West End venue at 409-412 Strand; founded 1806 as the Sans Pareil by John Scott, renamed Adelphi 1819; present fourth building, Art Deco, opened 1930 by Ernest Schaufelberg, Grade II listed; co-owned by LW Theatres and Nederlander.
Adina Verson
Adina Verson is a nonbinary American actor and singer (they/she) based in New York, known for originating Rifkele in Broadway's Indecent and Poppy White in Only Murders in the Building, with a 2025 Drama Desk Ensemble Award for Liberation.
Adowa
Adowa is a dance-drumming genre of the Akan people of Ghana, performed at funerals and festivals, and the most widespread social dance of the Asante.
Adrienne Warren
Adrienne Warren, born 1987 in Virginia, is an American stage and screen actress who won the 2020 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical as Tina Turner in Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, later starring in The Last Five Years, The Woman King, and Rustin.
Aeschylus (Αἰσχύλος)
Aeschylus (Αἰσχύλος, c. 525/4–456/5 BCE), Athenian tragic poet born at Eleusis, father of Greek tragedy; author of the Oresteia, the only surviving complete trilogy, of seven surviving plays among roughly eighty, and of the second-actor innovation recorded by Aristotle.
African Beauty International
African Beauty International: name shared by three unrelated organisations, a Belgian non-profit charity in Aalst founded by Thecla Mbunwe, a South African pageant franchise holder owned by Bokang Montjane-Tshabalala, and a US wholesale distributor.
African dance
African dance covers traditional, neo-traditional, and contemporary dance forms of Africa and its diaspora, unified by inseparable music and movement, the Germaine Acogny Technique, École des Sables, and the African Dance Biennial.
African diaspora and Black Atlantic theatre
African diaspora and Black Atlantic theater is the set of theatrical traditions created by people of African descent across the Atlantic world, framed by Paul Gilroy's 1993 book The Black Atlantic.
African playwrights
African playwrights are the writers of performed drama across the continent, working in indigenous languages, English, French, and Portuguese, and blending traditional performance with written theater.
African, Oceanic and diaspora theatre (overview)
African, Oceanic and diaspora theater is a family of performance traditions rooted in ritual, festival, and oral art, staged for whole communities and only later supplemented by scripted drama.
After the Rain (ballet)
After the Rain is a one-act ballet in two parts choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon to music by Arvo Pärt, premiered by New York City Ballet in 2005.
Afternoon of a Faun (Nijinsky)
L'Après-midi d'un faune: Nijinsky's 1912 Ballets Russes ballet to Debussy's Prélude, after Mallarmé, with Bakst designs; angular Greek-inspired choreography whose erotic final gesture scandalized Paris.
Agitprop (Агитпроп)
Agitprop (Агитпроп), short for agitation and propaganda, was a Soviet Communist Party department created in 1920 and the name for short, mobile political theater developed in Russia and Weimar Germany.
Agnatavasam
Agnatavasam (Ajnathavasam, അജ്ഞാതവാസം) is an 1890 Malayalam play by Kuttykunju Thankachi, widely considered the first Malayalam play by a woman, on the Pandavas' year in disguise.
Agnes de Mille
Agnes de Mille (1905–1993), American dancer and choreographer; created Rodeo and the Oklahoma! Dream Ballet, choreographed Carousel and Brigadoon, founded the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.
Ailsa Davidson
Ailsa Davidson, Scottish actress from Ellon, Aberdeenshire, trained at Guildford School of Acting; known as Veronica Sawyer in Heathers the Musical West End and film, and as Marie Curie in the 2024 Charing Cross Theatre premiere.
Aisling Bea
Aisling Bea (Aisling Cliodhnadh O'Sullivan, born 1984, Kildare) is an Irish comedian, actor, and writer; BAFTA Breakthrough Talent winner for This Way Up, first female 8 Out of 10 Cats team captain, Taskmaster cast member.
AJ Pritchard
AJ Pritchard (Alex Joseph Pritchard, born 1994) is a British dancer and TV personality, a Strictly Come Dancing professional 2016–2019, later a reality TV contestant and GB News presenter.
Ajoka Theatre (اجوکا تھیٹر)
Ajoka Theatre is a Lahore company founded by Madeeha Gauhar in 1984, known for socially engaged productions including Bulha and Dara and for cross-border theatre work.
Akinwumi Isola
Akinwumi Isola (Akínwùmí Ìṣọ̀lá; 1939 to 2018) was a Nigerian playwright, novelist, actor, and professor who wrote principally in Yoruba, known for Efunsetan Aniwura and films adapted by Tunde Kelani.
Akiva Schaffer
Akiva Schaffer (born 1977, Berkeley, California) is an American comedy writer-director, Lonely Island member with Andy Samberg and Jorma Taccone, SNL Digital Shorts creator, and director of Hot Rod, Popstar, and The Naked Gun (2025).
Al Madrigal
Al Madrigal (Alessandro Liborio Madrigal, born 1971, San Francisco) is an American comedian and actor, The Daily Show's first Senior Latino Correspondent (2011) and co-founder with Bill Burr of the All Things Comedy podcast network.
Al Murray
Al Murray (born 1968) is the English comedian behind The Pub Landlord, a jingoistic bar-room character created at the 1994 Edinburgh Fringe, winner of the 1999 Perrier Award, star of Time Gentlemen Please and Al Murray's Happy Hour, and 2015 FUKP candidate against Nigel Farage in South Thanet.
Al Nash
Al Nash (Alex Nash), English comedian, actor, writer and producer known for viral Instagram sketch comedy (over 100 million views), the Yes Mama! double act, and as an original cast member of Saturday Night Live UK.
Al Roberts (comedian)
Al Roberts, also known as Alastair Roberts, is a British comedian and actor. He is best known for his role as Al in the BAFTA-winning sitcom Stath Lets Flats.
Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934, Leeds) is an English playwright, actor, and diarist of Beyond the Fringe fame, known for Talking Heads, The Madness of George III, The History Boys, and The Lady in the Van.
Alan Bersten
Alan Bersten (born 1994, Minnetonka, Minnesota) is an American ballroom dancer and choreographer, DWTS troupe member from Season 20, pro from Season 25, and Season 28 mirror ball champion with Hannah Brown.