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Heidelberg Thingstätte
Heidelberg Thingstätte: Nazi-era open-air amphitheatre on the Heiligenberg above Heidelberg, built 1934–1935 by the Reich Labour Service to designs by Hermann Alker, opened by Goebbels on 22 June 1935, seating about 20,000, now an unfenced cultural monument.
Heidi Thomas
Heidi Thomas (born 1962, Garston, Liverpool) is a British playwright and screenwriter, creator of Call the Midwife and adapter of Cranford, Little Women, and Ballet Shoes; John Whiting Award winner, OBE 2022.
Heiner Müller
Heiner Müller (1929–1995), German dramatist, poet, and theater director from Eppendorf, Saxony; Brecht's foremost successor and critic, author of Die Hamletmaschine, Quartett, and FATZER, key figure of postdramatic theater.
Helen Bauer
Helen Bauer is a British stand-up comedian, actor, and writer who started in Berlin's comedy scene, was a 2018 BBC New Comedy Award finalist, earned a 2019 Edinburgh Best Newcomer nomination, and hosts the Trusty Hogs podcast.
Helen J. Shen
Helen J. Shen (born 2000, Basking Ridge, NJ) is an American actor, singer and writer, she/they, who originated Claire in Broadway's Tony-winning Maybe Happy Ending (2024), earning Theatre World and Clive Barnes Awards and a 2026 Grammy nomination.
Helen Menken
Helen Menken (Helen Meinken, 1901-1966) was an American Broadway and radio actress, Humphrey Bogart's first wife, star of Seventh Heaven and The Old Maid, and organizer of the Stage Door Canteen and the Tony Awards.
Hell's Kitchen (musical)
Hell's Kitchen is a jukebox musical with music and lyrics by Alicia Keys and book by Kristoffer Diaz, semi-autobiographically following 17-year-old Ali in 1990s Manhattan. Premiered at the Public Theater in 2023, ran on Broadway at the Shubert 2024–2026, won two 2024 Tonys and a 2025 Grammy, and is on a North American tour.
Hello and Goodbye
Hello and Goodbye is a two-act play by the South African playwright Athol Fugard, first performed in Johannesburg in 1965 with Fugard in the role of Johnnie.
Helpmann Awards
Helpmann Awards: annual Australian live performance awards established 2001 by Live Performance Australia, named after Sir Robert Helpmann; equivalent of the Tony and Olivier Awards, with JC Williamson and Sue Nattrass lifetime awards; last presented 2019.
Henning Wehn
Henning Wehn (born 1974, Hagen, Germany) is a London-based German stand-up comedian, the self-styled German Comedy Ambassador to the UK since 2003, known for panel shows like QI and Would I Lie to You? and tours such as Acid Wehn.
Henny Youngman
Henny Youngman (Henry Youngman, 1906-1998), British-born American comedian and violinist, the "King of the One-Liners," famous for "Take my wife, please," rapid-fire delivery of 250 jokes in 45 minutes, and a career from the Borscht Belt to Goodfellas.
Henriad
Henriad is the scholarly name for Shakespeare's second tetralogy of history plays, Richard II through Henry IV Parts 1-2 to Henry V (written 1595-1599), an epic of Lancastrian kingship featuring Prince Hal and Falstaff, distinct from the first tetralogy of Henry VI and Richard III.
Henry Irving
Sir Henry Irving (John Henry Brodribb, 1838-1905), English actor-manager, ran London's Lyceum Theatre from 1878 with Ellen Terry, starred in The Bells and Hamlet, and was the first actor knighted (1895).
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 1, Shakespeare's 1596–97 history play (Henry IV, Part One), follows Prince Hal, Falstaff, and Hotspur to the battle of Shrewsbury; first printed 1598, seven quartos by 1622.
Henry VI, Part 1
Henry VI, Part 1 is Shakespeare's 1623 First Folio history play, likely co-written with Thomas Nashe, dramatizing England's loss of France, Joan of Arc, and the seeds of the Wars of the Roses.
Hercules Furens
Hercules Furens ("The Mad Hercules") is a Latin tragedy by Seneca, adapting Euripides' Heracles, in which Juno drives Hercules mad and he kills his wife and children.
Here There Are Blueberries
Here There Are Blueberries is a documentary play by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich (Tectonic Theater Project) about the 2007 arrival of the Höcker album, 116 Nazi photos of Auschwitz staff at leisure, at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; a 2024 Pulitzer finalist opening on Broadway in 2026.
Hernani
Hernani, or Castilian Honor, is a romantic drama in five acts by Victor Hugo, premiered at the Comédie-Française in Paris on 25 February 1830, sparking the celebrated "battle of Hernani."
Heroic drama
Heroic drama is a genre of English Restoration theater, popular from about 1660 to 1700, in which idealized heroes confront conflicts of love and honor in rhymed verse.
Hessisches Staattheater Wiesbaden
Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden (Hessian State Theater Wiesbaden), a five-section German state theater opened 16 October 1894 as a royal court theater built by Fellner and Helmer for Kaiser Wilhelm II; hosts the International May Festival.
Hindi one-act play
The Hindi one-act play, called ekanki (एकांकी), is a short dramatic form in Hindi literature that completes a story in a single act, treated as an independent genre distinct from the full-length natak.
Hindi radio drama
Hindi radio drama (हिन्दी रेडियो नाटक) is dramatic fiction broadcast in Hindi, in which story and character are conveyed entirely through dialogue, sound effects, and music on All India Radio.
Hindi theatre
Hindi theatre (हिन्दी रंगमंच) is the tradition of stage drama in Hindi, developed from the late nineteenth century onward in north India and in Delhi and Mumbai.
Hinge and Bracket
Hinge & Bracket was a British comedy double act in which George Logan and Patrick Fyffe played elderly spinsters Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket.
Hippolytus (Ἱππόλυτος) (play)
Hippolytus (Ἱππόλυτος) is Euripides' extant tragedy (Hippolytus Stephanephoros), staged 428 BC at the City Dionysia with first prize, retelling Aphrodite's revenge on chaste Hippolytus through Phaedra's passion and false accusation, distinct from his lost earlier Hippolytus Kalyptomenos.
Historias para ser contadas
Historias para ser contadas (Stories to Be Told) is a 1956 cycle of satirical short plays by Argentine dramatist Osvaldo Dragún, premiered in Buenos Aires.
History of ballet
History of ballet: from Renaissance court dance and the 1581 Balet comique de la Royne through Louis XIV's 1669 academy, Romantic pointe work, Petipa's Russian classics, Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, and Balanchine's New York City Ballet.
History of Broadway theatre
Broadway is professional commercial theater in Manhattan, distinguished by a minimum capacity of 500, reaching a peak production in the 1920s after consolidating its district around Times Square.
History of dance
History of dance: the record of human structured movement as ritual, courtship, rite of passage, protest, and art. Covers ancient Greece, India's Natyashastra, Christian dance, modern figures, and dance historiography.
History of theatre
History of theatre: performed drama from prehistoric ritual through Greek and Indian literary theatre, Roman, medieval mystery plays, Elizabethan playhouses, and modern global theatre, with its historiography.