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Ama Ata Aidoo
Ama Ata Aidoo (Christina Ama Aidoo, 1942–2023) was a Ghanaian playwright, novelist, and poet; first published African woman playwright with The Dilemma of a Ghost, author of Changes, Ghana's Minister of Education 1982–83.
Amanda Seales
Amanda Seales (born 1981), also known as Amanda Diva, is an American comedian and actress who played Tiffany DuBois on HBO's Insecure, had the 2019 HBO special I Be Knowin', hosts Smart Funny & Black, and holds a Columbia master's in African American studies.
Amanda Tori Meating
Amanda Tori Meating, also known as Amanda Philipps, is an American drag performer and wig stylist from Ohio based in New York City, placed 12th on RuPaul's Drag Race season 16 and came out as trans in 2024.
American Ballet Theatre
American Ballet Theatre (ABT), founded 1939 as Ballet Theatre by Richard Pleasant and Lucia Chase, is a New York ballet company renamed ABT in 1957, named America's National Ballet Company by Congress in 2006, first US dance company to perform in the Soviet Union (1960).
American burlesque
American burlesque, also known as burlesque theatre, is a variety theater form that began as musical parody, popularized by Lydia Thompson's 1868 tour, and evolved into bawdy striptease comedy.
American Conservatory Theater
American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.), founded 1965 by William Ball, is a San Francisco nonprofit theater and actor-training conservatory, a Tony Award winner performing at the Toni Rembe and Strand theaters.
American Indian Dance Theatre
American Indian Dance Theatre (AIDT), founded 1987 by Hanay Geiogamah and Barbara Schwei, is a professional intertribal Native American dance company touring authentic tribal dances, the first such national troupe.
American Theatre Critics Association
The American Theatre Critics Association, now the American Theatre Critics/Journalists Association, is the national association of professional theater critics in the United States, founded in 1974.
Aminta
Aminta is a pastoral dramatic poem by Torquato Tasso, written for the Este court of Ferrara around 1573, telling of the shepherd Aminta's love for the nymph Silvia.
Amy Dowden
Amy Dowden (born 1990, Caerphilly) is a Welsh professional ballroom and Latin dancer, first Welsh professional on Strictly Come Dancing from 2017, runner-up with Karim Zeroual in 2019, and an MBE-recognized Crohn's disease and breast cancer advocate.
Amy Schumer
Amy Schumer (born 1981, Manhattan) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, writer, and producer, creator of Inside Amy Schumer and star-writer of Trainwreck (2015). Emmy and Peabody winner; memoirist; Life & Beth creator; divorced Chris Fischer in 2025.
Amy Spanger
Amy Spanger, born 1971 in Newbury, Massachusetts, is an American Broadway actress who originated Sherrie in Rock of Ages, Holly in The Wedding Singer (Drama Desk nominee), and Lois in Kiss Me, Kate, and played Roxie Hart in Chicago.
An Actor's Work on Himself
An Actor's Work on Himself (Работа актёра над собой) is a book on actor training by Konstantin Stanislavski, published in 1938, presenting the first half of his influential acting "system".
An Enemy of the People
An Enemy of the People (En folkefiende), Henrik Ibsen's 1882 five-act play, premiered 13 January 1883 in Christiania; Dr Stockmann's contaminated Baths report pits truth against the town's majority and economic interests.
An Ideal Husband
An Ideal Husband is Oscar Wilde's 1895 four-act society comedy, third after Lady Windermere's Fan and A Woman of No Importance, premiered at the Haymarket on 3 January 1895, in which politician Sir Robert Chiltern is blackmailed by Mrs Cheveley over a sold cabinet secret.
An Inspector Calls
An Inspector Calls, J. B. Priestley's three-act play written in 1944–45 and first staged in Moscow in 1945, set in 1912 Brumley, where Inspector Goole exposes the Birling family's roles in Eva Smith's suicide.
An Ordinary Miracle
An Ordinary Miracle (Обыкновенное чудо) is a three-act fairy-tale comedy by Soviet playwright Yevgeny Schwartz, completed in 1954 and first staged in Moscow and Leningrad in 1956.
Anastasia (ballet)
Anastasia is Kenneth MacMillan's ballet about Anna Anderson, the Romanov claimant: a 1967 one-act for Deutsche Oper Berlin expanded to three acts for The Royal Ballet, premiered 22 July 1971 at Covent Garden.
Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus
Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus: late-4th-century-BC Greek theatre in the Sanctuary of Asklepios, attributed by Pausanias to Polykleitos the Younger, with 14,000 seats, famed for its acoustics, and hosting the Athens and Epidaurus Festival since 1955.
Andi Osho
Andi Osho (Yewande Osho, born 1973) is a British stand-up comedian and actor, a regular on Stand Up For The Week and the only person to win two Celebrity Mastermind episodes.
André De Shields
André De Shields is an American actor, singer, director, and choreographer whose career spans five decades and includes a Tony win for Hadestown.
André Gregory
André Gregory (born 1934, Paris) is a French-born American theater director and actor, founder of the Manhattan Project, best known for My Dinner with André (1981) with Wallace Shawn and Louis Malle.
Andrew Bovell
Andrew Bovell (born 1962, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia) is an Australian playwright and screenwriter whose interlocking multi-character plays include Speaking in Tongues, which he adapted into the award-winning film Lantana (2001).
Andrew Dice Clay
Andrew Dice Clay, born Andrew Clay Silverstein (1957), is an American stand-up comedian and actor whose offensive "Diceman" persona, MTV lifetime ban, SNL boycotts, and 1990 arena sellouts made him a defining shock comic.
Andrew Durand
Andrew Durand (born 1986, Georgia) is an American Broadway actor, Boston Conservatory-trained, known for originating Elmer McCurdy in Dead Outlaw (2025 Tony nomination), plus Shucked, War Horse, Head Over Heels, and Kneehigh's Umbrellas of Cherbourg in the West End.
Andrew Rannells
Andrew Rannells, Omaha-born American actor and singer, originated Elder Price in The Book of Mormon (Tony nomination, Grammy), played Elijah on Girls, Whizzer in Falsettos, and stars on Broadway and in film and TV.
Andrew Schulz
Andrew Cameron Schulz (born 1983) is a New York comedian and podcaster, host of Flagrant and The Brilliant Idiots, known for crowd-work comedy and self-releasing specials like INFAMOUS on YouTube, distinct from the pitcher Andrew Schultz and the composer Andrew Schultz.
Andrew Upton
Andrew Upton (born 1966, Sydney) is an Australian playwright and adaptor, co-Artistic Director of Sydney Theatre Company with Cate Blanchett 2008-2012 and sole director 2013-2015; creator of Hanging Man, Riflemind, The Present, and the 2026 novel Krank Fuss.
Andromaque
Andromaque is a five-act verse tragedy by the French dramatist Jean Racine, first performed in 1667 and his first major success, telling of Hector's captive widow Andromache.
Andy Blankenbuehler
Andy Blankenbuehler, born 1970 in Cincinnati, is an American Broadway choreographer and director; three-time Tony winner for In the Heights, Hamilton, and Bandstand, also Olivier Award winner, later writer-director-choreographer of Only Gold.