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Alan Carr
Alan Carr (Alan Graham Carr, born 1976, Weymouth) is an English camp comedian and presenter, host of sixteen series of Channel 4's Chatty Man (2009–2016), BAFTA and NTA winner, author of Look Who It Is! and Alanatomy, and star of Changing Ends.
Alan Davies
Alan Davies, English stand-up comedian, actor and writer from Loughton, Essex; star of Jonathan Creek (1997) and permanent panellist on QI since 2003; began stand-up in 1988, Time Out Best Young Comic 1991.
Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner (1918–1986), American lyricist and librettist of Lerner and Loewe, wrote My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, Camelot, and Gigi, winning Oscars for An American in Paris and Gigi.
Alan King
Alan King, born Irwin Alan Kniberg (1927-2004), American stand-up comedian and actor famous for angry cigar-wielding monologues on suburbia, Ed Sullivan Show guest, 1972 Oscars host, Casino and Rush Hour 2 actor.
Alárìnjó
Alárìnjó is the traditional traveling masquerade theater of the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria, an itinerant masked performance art that grew out of the egungun cult.
Alcestis
Alcestis is a Greek tragedy by Euripides, first performed in 438 BC, about a wife who dies for her husband and is rescued by Heracles.
Aleksandra Isaeva
Aleksandra Isaeva (Олександра Ісаєва), born 2004, is a Ukrainian Latin dancer, multiple Ukrainian National Latin Champion ranked in the world's top 21 Latin dancers, based in Italy with partner Cristian Priori, who joined Strictly Come Dancing as a 2026 professional dancer.
Alex Boniello
Alex Boniello (born 1990) is an American actor, musician, and Tony-winning producer known as Connor Murphy in Dear Evan Hansen, the Voice of Moritz in Deaf West's Spring Awakening, and a co-producer of Hadestown.
Alex Brightman
Alex Brightman (Alexander Michael Brightman, born 1987, Santa Clara, California) is an American Broadway actor and writer, a two-time Tony nominee for originating Dewey Finn in School of Rock and Beetlejuice, now starring as Josh Skinner in Schmigadoon! and voicing roles in Hazbin Hotel.
Alex Edelman
Alex Edelman, American stand-up comedian and writer from Brookline, Massachusetts; creator of Just for Us about attending a white nationalist meeting in Queens; won a 2014 Edinburgh Best Newcomer award, a 2024 special Tony, and an Emmy.
Alex Horne
Alex Horne is a British comedian, author and podcaster, creator and co-host of Taskmaster (Dave, then Channel 4 from 2020) and frontman of The Horne Section, a six-piece musical comedy band with its own Channel 4 sitcom.
Alex Moffat
Alex Moffat (born 1982, Chicago) is an American actor and comedian, an SNL cast member 2016–2022 known for Joe Biden and Eric Trump impressions and the Weekend Update character Guy Who Just Bought a Boat, later on Broadway in The Cottage. Not the Sydney keynote speaker of the same name.
Alex Newell
Alex Newell (Alexander Eugene Newell, born 1992, Lynn, Massachusetts) is an American nonbinary actor and singer, Glee's Unique Adams, and the 2023 Tony winner for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Shucked.
Alexander Godunov
Alexander Godunov (Александр Борисович Годунов), Soviet-born ballet dancer and actor, Bolshoi premier danseur who defected to the US in 1979, danced with American Ballet Theatre, and appeared in Witness and Die Hard.
Alexander Holtmann
Alexander Holtmann (born 1978, Bad Segeberg) is a German-Finnish actor, Stella Adler Academy graduate, who built his career in Mexico, playing Humboldt in Humboldt in Mexico (2017), Sheldon in The Chosen, and roles in Control Z and The Mosquito Coast.
Alexei Sayle
Alexei Sayle (born 1952, Liverpool) is an English comedian, actor, and author, first compère of the Comedy Store (1979) and a founder of British alternative comedy, known for The Young Ones, Alexei Sayle's Stuff, and memoirs including Stalin Ate My Homework.
Alexis Warr
Alexis Warr, fully Alexis Warr Burton, is an American dancer and choreographer from Highland, Utah, who won So You Think You Can Dance season 17 in 2022.
Ali Louis Bourzgui
Ali Louis Bourzgui (born 1999) is a Moroccan-American Broadway actor, singer, and songwriter. Tony winner 2026 for David in The Lost Boys; Broadway debut as Tommy in The Who's Tommy (2024); Orpheus in Hadestown; half of folk duo Resident Lightweight.
Ali Siddiq
Ali Siddiq is a Houston-based stand-up comedian and storyteller who served six years in Texas prison for drug trafficking and turned that life into the four-part YouTube series The Domino Effect, an independent path that led to a 2026 NAACP Image Award.
Ali Stroker
Ali Stroker, full name Alyson Mackenzie Stroker, is an American actress and singer who in 2019 became the first wheelchair user to win a Tony Award.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (ballet)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a full-length narrative ballet created in 2011 for The Royal Ballet by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, with a score by Joby Talbot.
Alkap
Alkap (আলকাপ), also known as panchras, is a Bengali folk song-drama mixing song, dance, dialogue, comedy, and social satire, performed overnight in Murshidabad and Malda villages.
All My Sons
All My Sons is Arthur Miller's 1947 three-act Broadway drama about Joe Keller, whose wartime sale of defective airplane parts killed 21 pilots. Directed by Elia Kazan, it won the 1947 New York Drama Critics' Circle and Tony awards and received three Broadway revivals.
All the Way (play)
All the Way, a 2012 Robert Schenkkan docudrama play about Lyndon B. Johnson's first year and the Civil Rights Act of 1964; premiered at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, won the 2014 Tony for Best Play, adapted into a 2016 HBO film.
All the world's a stage
"All the world's a stage" opens Jaques's Seven Ages of Man monologue in Shakespeare's As You Like It (Act 2, Scene 7), likening life to a play with seven roles, echoing the 1599 Globe theatre and the motto Totus mundus agit histrionem.
All's Well That Ends Well
All's Well That Ends Well, Shakespeare's problem comedy printed in the 1623 First Folio, adapted from Boccaccio's Decameron via Painter; Helena wins reluctant Bertram through a bed trick; first recorded performance 1741.
Allegra Fulton
Allegra Fulton is a Canadian actor and director from Toronto, known for Frida K., The Shape of Water, Maps to the Stars, Moonshine, and Chapelwaite; daughter of Gloria Montero.
Allyn Ann McLerie
Allyn Ann McLerie (1926–2018), also billed as Allyn McLerie, was a Quebec-born, Brooklyn-raised Broadway actress, singer, and dancer who created Amy Spettigue in Where's Charley?, won a 1949 Theatre World Award, and became a screen character actress in Calamity Jane, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, and The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.
Alvin Ailey
Alvin Ailey (1931–1989), American choreographer born in Rogers, Texas, founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1958 and created Revelations (1960), the most widely seen modern dance work, plus 79 ballets.
Alyssa Edwards
Alyssa Edwards (Justin Dwayne Lee Johnson, born 1980) is an American drag performer, choreographer, and dance teacher from Mesquite, Texas. Drag Race season 5 and All Stars 2 alum, Global All Stars winner, owner of Beyond Belief Dance Company, star of Netflix's Dancing Queen.