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George S. Kaufman
George S. Kaufman (George Simon Kaufman, 1889–1961), American Broadway playwright, director, and Algonquin Round Table wit; collaborator of Moss Hart, Edna Ferber, and the Gershwins; two Pulitzer Prizes for Of Thee I Sing and You Can't Take It With You.
George Salazar
George Ernest Salazar (born 1986) is an American actor, singer, and musician known for originating Michael Mell in Be More Chill on and off Broadway, and for Grover in The Lightning Thief, Superstore, and Disney's Snow White.
George Wallace (American comedian)
George Wallace (born 1952, Atlanta) is an American stand-up comedian and actor, not the Alabama governor; known for clean observational comedy, Las Vegas residencies at the Flamingo and Westgate, the 1995 American Comedy Award, and the 2025 sitcom Clean Slate with Laverne Cox.
Georgian drama
Georgian drama (ქართული დრამატურგია) is the tradition of dramatic literature and theater in the Georgian language, whose written form began in the late 18th century.
Georgina Castle
Georgina Castle (born 1992) is an English musical theatre actress and singer trained at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, known for West End roles as Regina George in Mean Girls, Lucy in 50 First Dates: The Musical, Sophie in Mamma Mia!, and daughter of Andrew Castle.
Geppetto
Geppetto is the old woodcarver of Collodi's Pinocchio (1881-83), also called Mastro Geppetto, who carves and names the puppet Pinocchio, sells his coat for the boy's schoolbook, and is later found in the fish's belly; distinct from the Italian GPT-2 model GePpeTto.
German-language theatre tradition
The German-language theater tradition is the theater culture of Germany, Austria, and German-speaking Switzerland, defined by a dense network of publicly funded repertory theaters with permanent ensembles and director-centered staging.
Gerome Ragni
Gerome Ragni (1935 or 1942–1991), Pittsburgh-born American actor and lyricist, co-wrote with James Rado the book and lyrics of Hair (1967), the first Broadway rock musical, with music by Galt MacDermot, playing Berger.
Gerry Dee
Gerry Dee (Gerard Francis-John Donoghue, born 1968) is a Canadian comedian, actor, and host; a former phys-ed teacher, he created and starred in CBC's Mr. D (2012–2018) and hosts Family Feud Canada since 2019.
Gershwin Theatre
Gershwin Theatre, formerly the Uris Theatre (1972), is a Broadway house at 222 West 51st Street, New York, with 1,933 seats, Broadway's largest capacity; renamed for George and Ira Gershwin in 1983 and home of Wicked since 2003.
Gertrude Lawrence
Gertrude Lawrence (Gertrud Alexandra Dagmar Klasen, 1898–1952), British actress, singer, and dancer; muse of Noël Coward in Private Lives, star of Lady in the Dark, Tony-winning originator of Anna in The King and I, died during its 1951 Broadway run.
Ghanaian concert party
The Ghanaian concert party is a twentieth-century traveling comic variety theater combining music, slapstick comedy, drama, and highlife music, performed largely in local languages by itinerant troupes.
Ghoomar
Ghoomar (घूमर), a women's circular folk dance of Rajasthan named for ghoomna (whirling); Bhil in origin, adopted by Rajput households, danced at weddings, Holi, Gangaur and Teej.
Ghost light (theatre)
Ghost light (theatre): a single bulb left burning on an otherwise dark stage overnight, a safety light against falls into the orchestra pit, wrapped in ghost-appeasing superstition, dated to 1849 and sometimes called an Equity Light.
Ghosts (play)
Ghosts (Gengangere/Gjengangere) is Henrik Ibsen's three-act family drama of 1881 about Helene Alving, her son Oswald, and inherited syphilis. Banned or refused across Scandinavia, it premiered in Chicago in 1882 and became a landmark of naturalist drama.
Gia Gunn
Gia Gunn, stage name of Gia Keitaro Ichikawa, Japanese-American drag performer on RuPaul's Drag Race season 6 and All Stars 4, the first openly trans woman in a full All Stars season, The Switch runner-up, came out in 2017.
Giant (play)
Giant, Mark Rosenblatt's debut play directed by Nicholas Hytner, dramatizes Roald Dahl's 1983 antisemitism scandal at Gipsy House; it won three Olivier Awards and ran on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre in 2026 with Tony-winning John Lithgow as Dahl.
Gil Vicente
Gil Vicente (c. 1465–c. 1536), Portuguese court dramatist and poet, founder of Portuguese theatre; author of the Auto da Visitação (1502) and Auto da Barca do Inferno, published posthumously in the 1562 Copilaçam.
Gilbert and Sullivan
Gilbert and Sullivan were the Victorian English partnership of librettist W. S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan, creators of thirteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, including HMS Pinafore and The Mikado.
Gilbert Gottfried
Gilbert Gottfried (1955-2022), American stand-up comedian and voice actor, famed for his screeching voice as Iago in Aladdin and the Aflac duck, and for boundary-pushing jokes including the first public 9/11 joke.
Gillian Murphy
Gillian Murphy, American ballerina and longtime American Ballet Theatre principal dancer (2002-2025), famed for Odette/Odile in Swan Lake and her 32 fouettés; retired July 18, 2025 at the Met after 29 years with ABT.
Gina Yashere
Gina Yashere (Gina Obedapo Iyashere, born 1974) is a British-Nigerian stand-up comedian from Bethnal Green, London, a former Otis lift engineer, first British comic on Def Comedy Jam, Daily Show British Correspondent, and co-creator of Bob Hearts Abishola.
Giovanni Pernice
Giovanni Pernice (born 1990, Palermo) is an Italian professional dancer, 2012 Italian Open Latin champion and Guinness record holder, who spent nine series on Strictly Come Dancing, won the 2021 series with Rose Ayling-Ellis, and now stars on Ballando con le Stelle.
Girish Chandra Ghosh
Girish Chandra Ghosh (গিরিশচন্দ্র ঘোষ; 1844–1912) was a Bengali playwright, actor, and director known as a father of modern Bengali theater, and a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna.
Girish Karnad (ಗಿರೀಶ್ ಕಾರ್ನಾಡ್)
Girish Karnad (ಗಿರೀಶ್ ಕಾರ್ನಾಡ್), 1938–2019, Kannada playwright, actor and film director; wrote Yayati, Tughlaq, Hayavadana, Naga-Mandala; Jnanpith, Padma Bhushan awardee; led FTII and Sangeet Natak Akademi.
Girl Crazy
Girl Crazy is a 1930 Gershwin Broadway musical comedy (Alvin Theatre, 272 performances) with book by Bolton and McGowan, songs like I Got Rhythm, and star-making roles for Ginger Rogers and Ethel Merman.
Giselle
Giselle, or Giselle, ou Les Wilis, is a Romantic ballet in two acts with music by Adolphe Adam, premiered at the Paris Opéra in 1841.
Gleb Savchenko (Глеб Савченко)
Gleb Savchenko (Глеб Савченко), born 1983 in Moscow, is a Russian dancer, choreographer, model, and actor; a Dancing with the Stars pro in the US, UK, Australia, and Russia, absent from DWTS Season 35.
Glengarry Glen Ross
Glengarry Glen Ross is David Mamet's 1983 drama about cutthroat Chicago real estate salesmen; it won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize and was filmed in 1992 with Pacino and Lemmon, plus a 2025 Broadway revival.
Glenn Robbins
Glenn Robbins, Australian comedian and actor born 1956 in Melbourne, known as Uncle Arthur on The Comedy Company, Russell Coight in All Aussie Adventures, and Kel Knight in Kath & Kim.