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Gregory Kelly (actor)
Gregory Kelly (1891–1927) was an American Broadway and silent film actor, original star of Seventeen and Kaufman's The Butter and Egg Man, first husband of Ruth Gordon; distinct from later actors named Greg or Gregory Kelly.
Gretchen Cryer
Gretchen Cryer (born 1935, Dunreith, Indiana) is an American playwright, lyricist, and actress who wrote and starred in I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road, her 1978 feminist musical with composer Nancy Ford.
Grizabella
Grizabella, the Glamour Cat, is the shunned outcast feline of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats, based on an unpublished T. S. Eliot poem, who sings Memory and ascends to the Heaviside Layer; created by Elaine Paige in 1981, played on Broadway by Tony winner Betty Buckley and, in 2026, by Chasity Moore and three UK tour actresses.
Grotesco criollo
Grotesco criollo, also called grotesco argentino, is an Argentine theater genre arising in 1920s and 1930s Buenos Aires, created by Armando Discépolo with works like Mateo and Stéfano.
Grotesque theatre
Grotesque theatre (teatro del grottesco) is an Italian dramatic movement of the 1910s and 1920s, named after Luigi Chiarelli's comedy La maschera e il volto.
Group Theatre (New York)
The Group Theatre was a New York theater ensemble founded in 1931 by Lee Strasberg, Harold Clurman, and Cheryl Crawford, active until 1941 and known for popularizing the Method.
Group Theatre movement
The Group Theatre movement is a Bengali tradition of non-professional, non-commercial amateur theater marked by experiment and social purpose, begun in Bengal by the group Bohurupee.
Grover Dale
Grover Dale (born 1935, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania), American dancer, choreographer, and director; original Snowboy in West Side Story, Tony-winning co-director of Jerome Robbins' Broadway, founder of Answers4Dancers.
Guerrilla theatre
Guerrilla theatre uses surprise political performances in public places before unsuspecting audiences, coined in 1965 for the San Francisco Mime Troupe and later by ACT UP and the Guerrilla Girls.
Gujarati one-act play
The Gujarati one-act play, or ekanki, is a one-act dramatic form in Gujarati that grew out of Parsi theater and became a major literary genre by the 1930s and 1940s.
Gujarati theatre
Gujarati theatre is the stage drama tradition of the Gujarati language in western India, from the folk form Bhavai to professional companies founded in Bombay from 1878 onward.
Gulf theatre
Gulf theatre is the theatrical tradition of the Arabian Peninsula Gulf states, principally Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, beginning with Kuwaiti school theater in the mid-1930s.
Gülnihal
Gülnihal is an 1875 five-act prose play by the Ottoman writer Namık Kemal, written in exile in Famagusta and often regarded as his most successful.
Gummo Marx
Gummo Marx (Milton Marx, 1892-1977), fourth performing Marx Brother, vaudeville Nightingales member who left for the Army, replaced by Zeppo, then became a dress businessman and theatrical agent.
Gustaf Gründgens
Gustaf Gründgens (1899–1963), German actor, director, and intendant; famous as Goethe's Mephisto; headed the Prussian State Theatre under the Nazis, later led Düsseldorf and Hamburg theatres; model for Klaus Mann's Mephisto.
Guthrie Theater
The Guthrie Theater is a center for theater performance, production, education, and professional training in Minneapolis, Minnesota, founded in 1963, with a rotating repertory of classic plays.
Guthrie Theater (building)
Guthrie Theater building: Jean Nouvel's midnight-blue 2006 riverfront theater complex in Minneapolis, replacing Ralph Rapson's 1963 original; three stages (1,100 thrust, 700 proscenium, studio), $125 million, 178-foot Endless Bridge cantilever.
Guy Menga
Guy Menga, born Gaston Guy Bikouta Menga, was a Congolese novelist, playwright, and radio broadcaster, considered a founding father of Congolese theater; his 1966 play La Marmite de Koka-Mbala became a classic of French-language African theater.
Guz Khan
Guz Khan (Ghulam Dustgir Khan, born 1986, Coventry) is an English comedian and actor, creator and star of BBC's Man Like Mobeen, RTS award winner, two-time BAFTA nominee, and star of Stuffed and Prime Video's Bait.
Gwen Verdon
Gwen Verdon (Gwyneth Evelyn Verdon, 1925-2000), American Broadway dancer and four-time Tony winner, original Lola in Damn Yankees, Charity in Sweet Charity, Roxie Hart in Chicago, Grammy winner for Redhead, and Bob Fosse's wife and collaborator.
Gypsy Rose Lee
Gypsy Rose Lee (Rose Louise Hovick, born Seattle, 1911 or 1914; died 1970) was America's most famous burlesque stripper, known for a witty, barely-revealing tease act, two mystery novels, the 1957 memoir Gypsy, and the 1959 Broadway musical based on her life.
Habima Theatre
Habima (הבימה) is Israel's national theater company, based on Habima Square in Tel Aviv. Founded in Moscow, it gained worldwide fame with the 1922 production of The Dybbuk.
Haji Gara
Haji Gara (Hacı Qara), fully titled Sərgüzəşti-mərdi-xəsis (The Adventures of the Miser), is an 1852 comedy by Azerbaijani playwright Mirzə Fətəli Axundzadə, a landmark of realist drama satirizing a greedy merchant.
Haldun Taner
Haldun Taner (1915–1986) was a Turkish playwright, short-story writer, and academic who introduced epic theater to Turkey with Keşanlı Ali Destanı (1964) and founded Devekuşu Kabare Tiyatrosu in 1967.
Hamartia (μαρτία)
Hamartia (ἁμαρτία), from Aristotle's Poetics, is the error through which a tragic protagonist falls from good to bad fortune; often mistranslated "tragic flaw", its meaning ranges from ignorance of fact to moral error.
Hamatsa mask
A Hamatsa mask is a carved red cedar ceremonial mask of the Kwakwaka'wakw people of British Columbia, worn by dancers in the Hamatsa winter dance and often depicting man-eating monster birds with hinged beaks.
Hamburg Dramaturgy
The Hamburg Dramaturgy (Hamburgische Dramaturgie) is a collection of 104 essays by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, written 1767 to 1769 as critic at the Hamburg National Theatre, where he served as the world's first appointed dramaturg.
Hamilton (play)
Hamilton (play): 1917 Broadway play in four acts by Mary P. Hamlin and George Arliss about Alexander Hamilton under Washington's administration; 80 performances at the Knickerbocker Theatre, filmed in 1931; distinct from the 2015 musical.
Handspring Puppet Company
Handspring Puppet Company: South African puppetry company founded 1981 by Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones; makers of the War Horse horse puppets and Little Amal, with Kentridge collaborations and a Special Tony Award.
Hanif Kureishi
Hanif Kureishi, British-Pakistani playwright, screenwriter and novelist born 1954 in Bromley; My Beautiful Laundrette, The Buddha of Suburbia, CBE 2008, and the 2022 Rome fall behind the memoir Shattered.