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Ganggangsullae
Ganggangsullae (강강술래) is a Korean folk performance in which women join hands in a circle, sing, and dance under the full moon, mainly on Chuseok night.
Gao Xingjian (高行健)
Gao Xingjian (高行健), born 1940 in Ganzhou, is a Chinese-born French novelist, playwright, painter, and filmmaker; first Chinese-language Nobel Literature laureate (2000), author of Soul Mountain, exiled to Paris since 1987.
Garba (ગરબા) (dance)
Garba (ગરબા) is Gujarat's devotional circular folk dance performed during Navratri around a lit earthen pot or image of Amba, worshiping Shakti; distinct from stick-based dandiya raas, it was inscribed by UNESCO on the Intangible Cultural Heritage list on 6 December 2023 as India's 15th entry.
Gary Delaney
Gary Delaney (born 1973, Solihull) is an English one-liner comedian and comedy writer, a Mock the Week regular, author of Pundamentalist, husband of Sarah Millican, and distinct from actor Rob Delaney.
Gary Gulman
Gary Gulman (born 1970, Peabody, Massachusetts) is an American stand-up comedian known for wordplay and specials about depression, including The Great Depresh (HBO, 2019), the memoir Misfit (2023), Born on 3rd Base (Max, 2023), and the solo show Grandiloquent.
Gary Morton
Gary Morton (Morton Goldaper), American stand-up comedian and television producer, second husband of Lucille Ball from 1961; warm-up comic and executive producer of The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy, and Life with Lucy; died 1999. Distinct from the British union official and other namesakes.
Gary Owen (comedian)
Gary Owen (born 1974, Cincinnati) is an American stand-up comedian and actor, first white host of BET's ComicView, known for Think Like a Man, Ride Along, Daddy Day Care, and his No Hard Feelings theater tour.
Gas Light
Gas Light is Patrick Hamilton's 1938 British stage thriller about a husband who manipulates his wife into doubting her sanity; it inspired the 1940 and 1944 Gaslight films and the term gaslighting.
Gate Theatre, Dublin
The Gate Theatre is a producing theater in Dublin, founded in 1928 by Hilton Edwards and Micheál MacLiammóir, housed since 1930 in an 18th-century Rotunda room on Parnell Square.
Gavin Creel
Gavin Creel (1976–2024) was an American Broadway musical theater actor from Findlay, Ohio who won the 2017 Tony Award for Hello, Dolly! and the 2014 Olivier Award for The Book of Mormon, and co-founded Broadway Impact.
Gawdland
Gawdland (ก็อดแลนด์), stage name of Thai drag performer Tharathep Thaweephon born 2002, won RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs the World Season 3, becoming the first Thai, Asian, and non-English-speaking-country winner, after placing third on Drag Race Thailand season 3.
Gayopakhyanam
Gayopakhyanam (గయోపాఖ్యానం) is a Telugu verse drama by Chilakamarti Lakshmi Narasimham about Gaya, a Gandharva king, and a war between Krishna and Arjuna, among the most performed Telugu plays.
Gcina Mhlophe
Gcina Mhlophe, full name Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe, is a South African storyteller, author, playwright, and anti-apartheid activist, born in Durban in 1958, known for reviving oral storytelling.
Geek show
Geek show: a carnival and circus sideshow act in which a performer called a geek, often a marginalized alcoholic or addict, appeared to bite heads off live chickens or snakes; documented from a 1918 Billboard ad, declined after 1960s animal-rights pressure, distinct from the modern 'geek' identity label.
Geisha (芸者)
Geisha (芸者; Kyoto geiko 芸妓, trainees maiko 舞妓) are professional Japanese banquet entertainers performing dance, song, and shamisen in hanamachi districts such as Kyoto's five and Tokyo's six, with Edo-period male origins, Meiji-era hanamachi formation, and steep modern decline.
Gene Kelly
Gene Kelly (1912-1996), American dancer, choreographer, actor, and director of Hollywood musicals including Singin' in the Rain and An American in Paris, known for athletic vernacular dance style and integrated film choreography.
Gene Saks
Gene Saks (Jean Michael Saks, 1921–2015) was an American stage and film director and actor, a three-time Tony winner who directed eight Neil Simon plays on Broadway and films including The Odd Couple and Mame.
General Tom Thumb
General Tom Thumb, stage name of Charles Sherwood Stratton (1838-1883), was a Bridgeport-born little person entertainer managed by P.T. Barnum, billed as an eleven-year-old English marvel, received by Queen Victoria, and famous for his 1863 wedding to Lavinia Warren.
Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead
"Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" is a catchphrase from the first season of Saturday Night Live, introduced by Chevy Chase in 1975 to mock weeks-long death-watch coverage of the Spanish dictator.
Genroku kabuki
Genroku kabuki (元禄歌舞伎) is the kabuki theater of the Genroku era and surrounding decades, roughly 1688–1704, when regional acting styles, role types, and professional playwrights took form.
Geoffrey Durham
Geoffrey Durham (born 1949), English comedy magician and actor, stage name The Great Soprendo; Crackerjack, The Best of Magic, Countdown, Magic Circle Maskelyne Award, married to Victoria Wood.
George and Willie Muse
George and Willie Muse, also billed as Eko and Iko or the Ambassadors from Mars, were African American albino brothers from Truevine, Virginia, taken from their sharecropping family and exhibited in circus sideshows until their mother Harriett reclaimed them in 1927 and won back wages from Ringling Brothers.
George Balanchine (გიორგი ბალანჩივაძე)
George Balanchine (გიორგი ბალანჩივაძე, 1904–1983), Georgian-Russian-born choreographer, father of American ballet; co-founded School of American Ballet and New York City Ballet, created over 425 works including Serenade, Agon, and The Nutcracker.
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Irish playwright, critic, and Fabian socialist, wrote over fifty plays including Pygmalion, Man and Superman, and Saint Joan; only person to win both the Nobel Prize in Literature (1925) and an Academy Award (1938).
George Carlin
George Carlin (1937–2008), American stand-up comedian and social critic, famed for the 'Seven Dirty Words' routine, FCC v. Pacifica, 14 HBO specials, 22 albums, 4 Grammys.
George Farquhar
George Farquhar (1677?–1707) was an Irish playwright, one of the last major writers of Restoration comedy; his late comedies The Recruiting Officer and The Beaux' Stratagem are still performed.
George Furth
George Furth, born George Schweinfurth, was an American playwright and librettist. He is best known for writing the books for Stephen Sondheim's Company and Merrily We Roll Along.
George Gobel
George Gobel (1919–1991), American comedian George Leslie Goebel, nicknamed Lonesome George; deadpan host of The George Gobel Show (NBC 1954–1959, CBS 1959–1960), catchphrases 'Well, I'll be a dirty bird,' later a Hollywood Squares panelist.
George Lopez
George Lopez, born 1961 in Mission Hills, Los Angeles, is a Mexican-American stand-up comedian and actor whose ABC sitcom George Lopez (2002-2007) and TBS show Lopez Tonight made him a leading Latino figure in US television.
George M. Cohan
George M. Cohan (1878–1942) was an American composer, playwright, producer, and performer of Providence, Rhode Island birth, the "Yankee Doodle Boy" who shaped Broadway musical comedy and wrote "Over There."