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Ken Page
Ken Page (Kenneth Page, 1954–2024), St. Louis-born Broadway actor and cabaret singer; originated Old Deuteronomy in Cats, won a 1978 Drama Desk Award for Ain't Misbehavin', and voiced Oogie Boogie in The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Kenneth Halliwell
Kenneth Halliwell (1926-1967), English actor, writer, and collage artist, partner of playwright Joe Orton; defaced Islington library books with him, imprisoned six months, killed Orton in 1967.
Kenneth Lonergan
Kenneth Lonergan, American playwright, screenwriter, and director from New York; author of This Is Our Youth, Lobby Hero, The Waverly Gallery; writer-director of You Can Count on Me, Margaret, and Oscar-winning Manchester by the Sea.
Kenneth Tynan
Kenneth Peacock Tynan (1927–1980) was an English theater critic and writer, the National Theatre's first literary manager, celebrated for championing John Osborne's Look Back in Anger.
Kenny Ireland
Kenny Ireland (George Ian Kenneth Ireland, 1945-2014) was a Scottish actor and theatre director, known for Benidorm's Donald Stewart, Acorn Antiques, and as Royal Lyceum Edinburgh artistic director 1993-2003.
Kenny Kramer
Kenny Kramer, American comedian and entrepreneur, Larry David's neighbor at Manhattan Plaza and inspiration for Seinfeld's Cosmo Kramer; ran the Kramer Reality Tour and ran twice for NYC mayor.
Keo Motsepe
Keo Motsepe (Keoikantse Motsepe, born 1989, Pretoria) is a South African dancer and choreographer, eight-time South African Latin champion, first South African on Burn the Floor, and Dancing with the Stars' first black professional dancer.
Keren
Keren (外連, also read geren) is the Japanese term for the spectacular, visually startling staging effects of kabuki theater, including flying actors (chūnori), instant costume changes, and trick stage machinery.
Kerry Butler
Kerry Butler (born 1971, Brooklyn) is an American Broadway actress and singer who originated Penny in Hairspray, Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, and Tony-nominated Kira in Xanadu, and starred as Barbara in Beetlejuice.
Kerry Ellis
Kerry Jane Ellis, English musical theatre actress and singer, born Suffolk 1979. First British Elphaba in Wicked (West End and Broadway Gershwin Theater), original Meat in We Will Rock You, chart-topping albums with Brian May including Anthems and Golden Days.
Kerry O'Malley
Kerry O'Malley, American actress from Nashua, New Hampshire; sister of Mike O'Malley. Broadway's Baker's Wife in Into the Woods (2002 revival, Drama Desk nominee) and Betty Haynes in White Christmas; TV roles in Brotherhood, Snowpiercer, Shameless.
Ketoprak
Ketoprak, also spelled kethoprak, is a traditional Javanese staged drama combining dialogue, song, dance, comedy, and gamelan music, performing stories from Javanese legend, history, and everyday life.
Kevin Bridges
Kevin Bridges, Scottish stand-up comedian from Clydebank near Glasgow; broke through on Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow (2009), holds the OVO Hydro record of 63 sell-out shows, known for observational working-class humor.
Kevin Del Aguila
Kevin Del Aguila (born 1969, Bakersfield, California) is an American Broadway performer, playwright, and Emmy-winning children's TV writer; Tony-nominated as Osgood in Some Like It Hot, Drama Desk winner, and book writer of Altar Boyz and Dog Man: The Musical.
Kevin Hart
Kevin Hart, born in Philadelphia in 1979, is an American stand-up comedian and actor whose films have earned more than $4 billion at the box office.
Kevin McDonald
Kevin Hamilton McDonald (born 1961, Montreal) is a Canadian comedian and actor, co-founder of The Kids in the Hall; starred in Brain Candy, voiced Pleakley in Lilo & Stitch, and appeared in That '70s Show and Galaxy Quest. Distinct from film director Kevin Macdonald and other namesakes.
Kevin Meaney
Kevin Meaney (Kevin Gerard Meaney, 1956–2016) was an American stand-up comedian and actor known for "That's not right," his mother impression, HBO's 1986 special, CBS's Uncle Buck, and Broadway's Hairspray.
Kevin Nealon
Kevin Nealon (born 1953, Bridgeport, Connecticut), American comedian and actor; SNL cast member 1986–1995 and Weekend Update anchor 1991–1994; also Doug Wilson on Weeds, host of Hiking with Kevin, and author of I Exaggerate.
Khayal
Khayal (ख्याल) is a music-dominant folk theater tradition of Rajasthan in which characters sing their dialogues, often called a folk opera, known since the early 18th century.
Kia Forum
Kia Forum, formerly The Forum and Great Western Forum, is a 17,505-seat indoor arena in Inglewood, California. Opened 1967 for the Lakers and Kings, converted to a music-only venue in 2014, Kia naming rights since 2022.
Kịch nói
Kịch nói, meaning spoken drama, is the form of modern Vietnamese theater that uses spoken dialogue rather than song, created in the early twentieth century under French colonial rule.
Kịch thơ
Kịch thơ is a form of Vietnamese verse drama in which dialogue is written in verse, which took shape in the 1930s and flourished from about 1935 to 1945.
Kichakavadha
Kichakavadha (कीचकवध, "The Slaying of Kichaka") is a 1907 Marathi prose play by Krishnaji Prabhakar Khadilkar retelling a Mahabharata episode as coded political commentary; the British banned it in 1910.
Kim's Convenience (play)
Kim's Convenience (김씨네 편의점) is Ins Choi's 2011 Toronto Fringe comedy-drama about a Korean Canadian family's Toronto corner store, remounted by Soulpepper in 2012 and adapted into the five-season CBC sitcom.
Kimberly Akimbo (musical)
Kimberly Akimbo is a Broadway musical by David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori about a New Jersey teen with a rapid-aging condition. It won five 2023 Tonys, including Best Musical, and opened in London in 2026.
King Charles III (play)
King Charles III is Mike Bartlett's 2014 blank-verse "future history play," premiered at the Almeida under Rupert Goold, imagining King Charles refusing royal assent to a press bill; Olivier winner, Broadway 2015-16, BBC adaptation 2017.
King's Head Theatre
The King's Head Theatre is a producing theater in Islington, London, founded in 1970 by Dan Crawford in the back room of the King's Head pub.
King's Men (playing company)
King's Men: London playing company formed May 1603 when James I granted royal patronage to the former Lord Chamberlain's Men, Shakespeare's company; patent named Fletcher, Shakespeare, Burbage, and six others; performed until theaters closed in 1642.
Kingdom of Dreams
Kingdom of Dreams (किंगडम ऑफ ड्रीम्स) was a live-entertainment complex in Sector 29, Gurugram, opened 2010, home of the musicals Zangoora and Jhumroo; sealed since July 2022 over unpaid lease dues, distinct from same-named companies elsewhere.
Kinjeketile
Kinjeketile is a 1969 Swahili play by Tanzanian playwright Ebrahim Hussein, considered a landmark of Tanzanian theater, which dramatizes the Maji Maji rebellion (1905–1907) against German colonial rule and its spirit medium Kinjeketile Ngwale.