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Globe Theatre
Globe Theatre: Elizabethan open-air playhouse built 1599 on Bankside, Southwark, from timbers of the Theatre; home of Shakespeare's Lord Chamberlain's/King's Men; burned 1613, rebuilt 1614, demolished 1644; reconstructed 1997 as Shakespeare's Globe.
Gloria Obianyo
Gloria Obianyo (born 1995) is a British actress trained at Rose Bruford College. Known for Uriel in Good Omens, Dune, High Life, and Outlander; she won the 2022 Ian Charleson Award for Paradise and the 2026 UK Theatre Award for As You Like It.
Glossary of ballet
Glossary of ballet, also called ballet terminology or list of ballet terms: the predominantly French vocabulary of classical ballet, covering positions, steps, pointe work, and school differences (Cecchetti, French, Russian/Vaganova, RAD), with over 1,100 to 1,400 recorded terms.
Glossary of dance moves
Glossary of dance moves: reference lists naming and defining steps and figures across styles, from ballet dictionaries and ballroom syllabi to bachata, breaking, Chinese dance terms, and computational movement vocabularies.
Go-go dancing
Go-go dancing: the 1960s high-energy nightclub dance style performed by young women at venues like the Whisky A Go Go, and the social dancing to Washington D.C.'s go-go music created by Chuck Brown.
Godfrey (comedian)
Godfrey (Godfrey C. Danchimah Jr., born 1969) is a Nigerian American stand-up comedian and actor from Chicago, known for Zoolander, Soul Plane, his specials Black By Accident, Regular Black, and Rebel With a Cause, and the podcasts In Godfrey We Trust and One 54.
Goethe's Faust
Goethe's Faust (Faust. Eine Tragödie) is Goethe's two-part verse tragedy on the scholar who wagers his soul to Mephistopheles, written over about 60 years: Urfaust circa 1775, Fragment 1790, Faust I 1808, Faust II published 1833.
Goli
Goli is a masked dance and masquerade tradition of the Baoulé people of central Côte d'Ivoire, adopted from the neighboring Wan people between 1900 and 1910.
Gombey
The Gombey is a Bermudian tradition of masked, costumed dancers and drummers blending African, British, Caribbean, and Native American influences, with roots reaching back to the 18th century.
Good Night, and Good Luck (play)
Good Night, and Good Luck is a 2025 Broadway play by George Clooney and Grant Heslov, adapted from their 2005 film about Edward R. Murrow's clash with Senator McCarthy.
Gottmik
Gottmik, stage name of Kade Gottlieb (born 1996), is an American drag performer and makeup artist, the first trans man on RuPaul's Drag Race, runner-up of US Season 13, later on All Stars 9, known for white-face makeup and singles like RIOT.
Grade II listed theatres in the United Kingdom
Grade II listed theaters in the United Kingdom are theater buildings of special architectural or historic interest that cannot be altered, extended, or demolished without consent.
Grady Stiles
Grady Stiles, or "Lobster Boy," was a sideshow performer with ectrodactyly who was convicted of murdering his daughter's fiancé before being killed in a plot by his family.
Graeme Garden
Graeme Garden (David Graeme Garden, born 1943, Aberdeen) is a Scottish comedian and qualified doctor, a member of The Goodies and deviser of BBC Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue; OBE 2011.
Graham Chapman
Graham Chapman (1941–1989) was a British comedy writer, actor, and physician, a founding member of Monty Python and John Cleese's writing partner. He played King Arthur in Holy Grail and Brian in Life of Brian, and wrote A Liar's Autobiography.
Gran Teatro de La Habana
Gran Teatro de La Habana, officially the Gran Teatro de La Habana "Alicia Alonso," is Cuba's principal opera house in Centro Habana, maintaining the 1838 Teatro Tacón auditorium.
Grand Guignol
Grand Guignol (Grand-Guignol) was the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol at 20 bis rue Chaptal, Paris, founded by Oscar Méténier in 1897, a 290-seat horror-and-farce theatre famous for realistic blood effects, over one thousand plays, resident doctor, and closure in November 1962.
Grand Opera House, Belfast
The Grand Opera House is a Victorian theater on Great Victoria Street in Belfast, Northern Ireland, designed by Frank Matcham and opened in 1895 as the Grand Opera House Theatre and Cirque.
Grand Order of Water Rats
Grand Order of Water Rats: British showbusiness charity and fraternity founded in 1889 by music hall performers; motto "Philanthropy, Conviviality and Social Intercourse"; first King Rat Harry Freeman; HQ at the Water Rats pub, Gray's Inn Road; charity no. 292201.
Grand Poobah
Grand poobah: an English idiom for an important, high-ranking or pompous person, derived from Pooh-Bah, the multi-office-holding character (Lord-High-Everything-Else) in Gilbert and Sullivan's 1885 comic opera The Mikado.
Greek chorus
Greek chorus (choros, χορός): masked singing and dancing collective of ancient Greek tragedy, comedy, and satyr play, funded by chorēgoi, composed of citizen volunteers, and widely reimagined in modern theater.
Greek mime
Greek mime (μῖμος) was an ancient unmasked comic genre imitating everyday life through speech, dance, and improvisation; originating in Sicily, it became the dominant popular theater of the Roman world.
Greek tragedy
Greek tragedy: Athenian 5th-century BCE drama of Dionysian festivals, myth-based plots, three actors, masked chorus of twelve or fifteen, staged with satyr plays at the Great Dionysia.
Green room
Green room: the backstage lounge in theaters, concert venues, and TV studios where performers wait and relax offstage; also called greenroom. Distinct from the dressing room; name origin uncertain, first clear theatrical use in Shadwell's A True Widow (1679).
Greg Davies
Greg Davies (born 1968, St Asaph, Wales) is a Welsh stand-up comedian and actor, aka Mr Gilbert in The Inbetweeners, host of Taskmaster since 2015, creator of Man Down and The Cleaner, and a 6 ft 8 in arena touring comic.
Greg Giraldo
Greg Giraldo (1965-2010) was an American stand-up comedian, Columbia and Harvard Law graduate, and former Skadden Arps lawyer, known for Comedy Central celebrity roasts, Last Comic Standing judging, and albums Good Day to Cross a River and Midlife Vices.
Greg Hemphill
Greg Hemphill (born 1969, Glasgow) is a Scottish actor, writer and director, not the American speaker Greg E. Hill, co-creator with Ford Kiernan of Chewin' the Fat and Still Game, where he plays Victor McDade.
Greg Proops
Greg Proops (Gregory Everett Proops, born 1959, Phoenix, Arizona) is an American stand-up comedian, improviser, and voice actor known for Whose Line Is It Anyway? (US and UK), voicing Bob the Builder, his podcast The Smartest Man in the World, and the book The Smartest Book in the World.
Greg Warren (comedian)
Greg Warren, St. Louis stand-up comedian and former Procter & Gamble Jif/Pringles salesman, All-American Mizzou wrestler, specials The Salesman and The Champ, co-host of The Consumers on Nate Bargatze's Nateland.
Gregg Turkington
Gregg Turkington (born 1967, Darwin, Australia), also known as Neil Hamburger, is an Australian-born American anti-comedian, actor, and co-creator with Tim Heidecker of On Cinema at the Cinema, star of Entertainment (2015) and actor in Ant-Man and Fremont.