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Just for Laughs
Just for Laughs (Juste pour rire) is the Montreal-founded bilingual comedy festival and media company established in 1983, known for the world's largest comedy festival, Gags, ComedyPRO, and its 2024 sale to ComediHa!.
Just in Time (musical)
Just in Time is a Broadway jukebox bio-musical about singer Bobby Darin, opening April 26, 2025 at Circle in the Square with Jonathan Groff, book by Warren Leight and Isaac Oliver, directed by Alex Timbers; it recouped $12.5 million and tours from 2027.
Justin Collette
Justin Collette is a Canadian actor, writer, and musician from Moncton, New Brunswick, known for Beetlejuice on Broadway and as Dewey Finn in School of Rock.
Justin Peck
Justin Peck (born 1987) is an American choreographer and Resident Choreographer of New York City Ballet, the second in its history, and a three-time Tony winner for Carousel, Illinoise, and Buena Vista Social Club.
K. T. Muhammed
K. T. Muhammed (കെ. ടി. മുഹമ്മദ്; 1927 or 1929 – 2008) was a Malayalam playwright, screenwriter, and film director from Kerala whose plays attacked superstition in Malabar's Muslim community.
Kà
KÀ (Kà) is a Cirque du Soleil resident show directed by Robert Lepage at the MGM Grand Las Vegas; announced 2002, opened 2005, costing about 165 million USD, with a pivoting mobile stage platform.
Kabarett
Kabarett is a German-language form of small-scale stage art combining sketches, chansons, monologues, and parodies into programs satirizing politics and current events, first staged in Berlin in 1901.
Kabuki (歌舞伎)
Kabuki (歌舞伎) is a Japanese classical all-male theatre combining dance, music, and drama, founded in Kyoto in 1603 by Okuni; women were banned in 1629, and onnagata men play female roles, with mie poses, kumadori makeup, and revolving stages. UNESCO-listed in 2008.
Kabuki kyōgen
Kabuki kyōgen (歌舞伎狂言) is the Japanese term for a play performed in kabuki theater, also denoting the script itself; from the mid-Edo period kyōgen became a general word for drama.
Kahapon, Ngayon at Bukas
Kahapon, Ngayon at Bukas (Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow) is a 1903 Tagalog allegorical drama by Aurelio Tolentino, the most famous seditious play of the American colonial period.
Kai Widdrington
Kai Widdrington (born 1995, Southampton) is an English professional ballroom and Latin dancer, son of footballer Tommy Widdrington, a former World Junior Latin champion, DWTS Ireland pro, and Strictly Come Dancing professional since 2021.
Kalidasa (कालिदास)
Kalidasa (कालिदास), classical Sanskrit poet and dramatist of the 1st century BCE to 6th century CE, author of Abhijnanashakuntalam, Meghaduta, Raghuvamsha, Kumarasambhava, Vikramorvashiyam, Malavikagnimitram, and Ritusamhara.
Kalinda
Kalinda, also spelled Calinda or Kalenda, is a ritualized stick-fighting martial art and dance from Trinidad and Tobago, performed by two armed fighters to drumming and call-and-response singing.
Kaliya Damana
Kaliya Damana (কালীয় দমন, "the subduing of Kaliya") is a one-act devotional play, or Ankiya Nat, by Assamese saint Srimanta Sankaradeva, depicting Krishna subduing the serpent Kaliya in the Yamuna.
Kam Patterson
Kam Patterson (Kameron Patterson), born 1999 in Orlando, Florida, is an American stand-up comedian and actor, a Kill Tony podcast regular and Comedy Mothership performer who joined Saturday Night Live as a featured player in season 51 (2025).
Kameron Saunders
Kameron N. Saunders, St. Louis-born American choreographer, dancer, and actor, 2022 Princess Grace Award winner in choreography, Eras Tour dancer for Taylor Swift (2023–2024), and creator of Proper Conduct for English National Ballet (2026).
Kamigata rakugo
Kamigata rakugo (上方落語) is the tradition of Japanese solo comic storytelling that developed in the Kyoto–Osaka region, performed in Kansai dialect and known for shamisen accompaniment and stage props.
Kamishibai (紙芝居)
Kamishibai (紙芝居, paper theater) is Japanese picture-card storytelling performed with illustrated boards slid through a small wooden stage; born as street entertainment around 1930 with Ōgon Bat, used for wartime propaganda, displaced by television, and now an educational medium in Japan and abroad.
Kanaga mask
The Kanaga mask is a Dogon ritual mask from Mali, topped by a double-barred cross, worn by the male Awa society at the dama funerary rite.
Kanan Gill
Kanan Gill (Kanan Singh Gill), Indian stand-up comedian, actor, and author born 1989, known for Pretentious Movie Reviews with Biswa Kalyan Rath, the specials Keep It Real, Yours Sincerely, and Is This It?, and the 2024 novel Acts of God.
Kanna hy kô hystoe
Kanna hy kô hystoe is a 1965 Afrikaans verse play by South African writer Adam Small, written in Kaaps and regarded as a classic of Afrikaans literature.
Kannada theatre
Kannada theatre (Kannada rangabhoomi, ಕನ್ನಡ ರಂಗಭೂಮಿ) is the stage tradition of Karnataka, India, spanning folk forms like Yakshagana and Doddata and a modern era begun in the 1880s.
Kany (dancer)
Kany (Kany Diabaté Ahn, 카니 디아바테 안) is a French-Senegalese dancer and choreographer known for Beyoncé's "MY POWER" (Black Is King), K-pop work for KEY, SHINee, and VIVIZ's "MANIAC", the 2026 World Cup anthem "Dai Dai", and a Big Planet Made contract.
Kanyadaan
Kanyadaan (कन्यादान) is a 1983 Marathi prose play by Vijay Tendulkar in which an inter-caste marriage between a Brahmin woman and a Dalit poet tests idealistic social reform.
Kanyasulkam
Kanyasulkam (కన్యాశుల్కం, "bride price") is a landmark Telugu-language social play by Gurajada Apparao, first staged in 1892, satirizing bride price and child marriage in colonial Andhra.
Kapil Sharma (कपिल शर्मा)
Kapil Sharma (कपिल शर्मा), born 1981 in Amritsar, is an Indian stand-up comedian and TV host who won The Great Indian Laughter Challenge 3 (2007), hosted Comedy Nights with Kapil and The Kapil Sharma Show, and now leads Netflix's The Great Indian Kapil Show.
Karel Čapek
Karel Čapek (1890–1938) was a Czech writer, playwright, and journalist, a central figure of interwar Czechoslovak literature best known for the play R.U.R., credited with introducing the word "robot" into many languages.
Karen Kilgariff
Karen Kilgariff (born 1970, Petaluma, California) is an American comedian, writer, and podcast host, co-host of My Favorite Murder with Georgia Hardstark, former Ellen head writer, Mr. Show cast member, and CEO of Exactly Right Media.
Karen Olivo
Karen Olivo, American stage actor and educator (born 1976, Manhattan), Tony winner as Anita in the 2009 West Side Story revival, originated Vanessa in In the Heights and Satine in Moulin Rouge!, left Broadway in 2021, teaches in Madison, Wisconsin.
Karl Wallenda
Karl Wallenda (1905-1978), German-born founder of the Great Wallendas and Flying Wallendas high-wire troupe, Ringling headliner from 1928, seven-person pyramid creator, died falling from a wire in San Juan, Puerto Rico.