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Kisaeng (기생)
Kisaeng (기생), also called gwan-gi, were government-attached female entertainers of Goryeo and Joseon who performed yeoak song, dance, and music at state feasts; legally gwan-nobi slaves, about 700 existed under Injong, reorganized into gwonbeon under Japanese rule until 1940.
Kishida Kunio
Kishida Kunio (岸田國士, 1890–1954) was a Japanese playwright, novelist, and theater critic known for his theory of "pure theater" and for founding the theater company Bungakuza.
Kismet (musical)
Kismet is a 1953 Broadway musical by Robert Wright and George Forrest, adapted from Alexander Borodin's music, with book by Lederer and Davis from Knoblock's 1911 play. It ran 583 performances at the Ziegfeld Theatre, won three Tonys including Best Musical, and became a 1955 MGM film.
Kiswahili radio drama
Kiswahili radio drama is scripted fictional drama broadcast in Kiswahili across East Africa, especially Tanzania and Kenya, used for entertainment and edutainment, with radio plays recorded there since 1954.
Kit Culkin
Kit Culkin (Christopher Cornelius Culkin, born 1944) is an American former Broadway stage actor, in Becket and Hamlet, best known as the father and manager of Macaulay Culkin; estranged from his seven children with Patricia Brentrup.
Kitchen sink realism
Kitchen sink realism: a British late-1950s/early-1960s movement in theatre, novels, film and TV (also 'kitchen sink drama') portraying working-class domestic life, from Look Back in Anger to Coronation Street's legacy.
KitKatClub
KitKatClub (Kitty), Berlin fetish and techno nightclub founded 1994 in Kreuzberg by Kirsten Krüger and Simon Thaur. Köpenicker Straße address, strict door policy, fetish dress code, no-photos rule, consent rules, Electric Monday and Nachspiel parties.
Kitty Flanagan
Kitty Flanagan is an Australian comedian, writer, and actress (Full Frontal, Utopia, Fisk, Have You Been Paying Attention?), star and co-creator of the ABC sitcom Fisk as Helen Tudor-Fisk, multiple AACTA and Silver Logie winner, and author of 488 Rules for Life.
Kizewamono
Kizewamono, also called masewamono, is a category of kabuki plays of the sewamono class known for realism, shaped by Tsuruya Nanboku IV and Kawatake Mokuami.
Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees
The Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees (KKNK) is an annual Afrikaans-language arts festival held for eight days around Easter in Oudtshoorn, South Africa, first staged in 1995.
Knock-knock joke
Knock-knock joke: a five-line call-and-response pun joke, also known from the Macbeth porter scene claim. Fixed "Knock knock/Who's there" frame; 1930s American fad; pun punchline.
Kōbō Abe (安部公房)
Kōbō Abe (安部公房, 1924–1993), Japanese avant-garde novelist and playwright raised in Manchuria; author of The Woman in the Dunes (1962), translated into 30+ languages; founded Abe Kōbō Studio in 1973.
Kōdan
Kōdan (講談), formerly called kōshaku, is a traditional Japanese narrative art in which a seated performer reads war tales and biographies aloud, striking a desk with a paper fan.
Komedya
Komedya is a Philippine verse drama descended from the Spanish comedia, first staged in Cebu in 1598 and best known in its moro-moro form dramatizing battles between Christians and Moors.
Kongi's Harvest
Kongi's Harvest is a satirical play by the Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, written in 1965, that portrays a civilian dictator's consolidation of power in a fictional post-independence African state.
Konstantin Stanislavski (Константин Сергеевич Алексеев)
Konstantin Stanislavski (Konstantin Sergeyevich Alekseev, 1863–1938), Russian actor, director, and teacher who co-founded the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898 and created the Stanislavski system of psychological-realistic actor training, the source of American Method acting.
Korea National Ballet
Korea National Ballet (국립발레단), or Korean National Ballet, is South Korea's first professional ballet company, founded in 1962 within the National Dance Company; a state-run, Seoul-based ensemble whose repertoire includes Grigorovich, Bart, and Neumeier full-lengths, led since August 2026 by Kim Joo-won.
Kori King
Kori King: Boston drag performer, comedian, and digital creator, RuPaul's Drag Race season 17 contestant (not an acting coach), famous for the Koriverse Cameo parody characters, CAA signing, and 2026 Black Barbie Tour.
Kotéba
Kotéba is a form of popular satirical theater of the Bambara people of Mali, combining dance, music, and improvised sketches that mock antisocial behavior after the harvest.
Kōwakamai
Kōwakamai (幸若舞) is a Japanese medieval narrative performing art in which performers chant stories from military chronicles while dancing, favored by Sengoku warlords like Oda Nobunaga.
Krechinsky's Wedding
Krechinsky's Wedding (Свадьба Кречинского) is an 1855 comedy by Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin, written partly in prison, about a ruined gambler who pawns a fake diamond brooch.
Krishnah Gravidez
Krishnah Marie Gravidez, Filipina beauty queen from Baguio; Miss World Philippines 2024, Top 8 and Miss World Asia at Miss World 2025 in Hyderabad, India; Universal Records artist behind the single Rainbow.
Kristin Linklater
Kristin Linklater (1936–2020), Orkney-born Scottish voice teacher, creator of the Linklater Voice Method and author of Freeing the Natural Voice (1976); taught at NYU, co-founded Shakespeare & Company, and was Columbia professor.
Kristina Rihanoff (Кристина Пшеничных)
Kristina Rihanoff (Кристина Пшеничных, Kristina Pshenichnykh), born 1977 in Vladivostok, is a Russian professional ballroom dancer, choreographer and author, a Strictly Come Dancing professional 2008–2015, Blackpool Top 12 Latin finalist, and founder of Soo Yoga and Bespoke Ballroom in Northampton.
Krumping
Krumping (krump) is an explosive street dance created in early-2000s South Central Los Angeles by Tight Eyez and Big Mijo, growing out of Tommy the Clown's 1990s clowning and popularized by the 2005 documentary Rize.
Ksenia Karelina (Ксения Карелина)
Ksenia Karelina (Ксения Карелина), also Ksenia Khavana, a Russian-American former ballerina and Los Angeles esthetician, was sentenced in Russia to 12 years for treason over a $51.80 donation to Razom for Ukraine and freed in the April 10, 2025 Abu Dhabi prisoner swap for Arthur Petrov.
Kuchipudi (కూచిపూడి)
Kuchipudi (కూచిపూడి), the classical dance-drama of Andhra Pradesh named for its home village in Krishna district; founded around Siddhendra Yogi, known for Bhama Kalapam, men performing female roles, and the tarangam brass-plate dance.
Kunal Kamra
Kunal Kamra (कुणाल कामरा), born 1988 in Mumbai, is an Indian stand-up comedian of political satire, host of the podcast Shut Up Ya Kunal, known for the 2020 Supreme Court contempt case and the 2025 Eknath Shinde 'gaddar' controversy.
Kunqu
Kunqu (昆曲, Kunju, Kunqiang, Kunshanqiang): China's oldest surviving opera genre, from Kunshan near Suzhou. Six-hundred-year history; Wei Liangfu's shuimo diao; first UNESCO intangible heritage list, 2001; called ancestor of a hundred operas.
Kurata Hyakuzō
Kurata Hyakuzō (倉田百三, 1891–1943) was a Japanese playwright and critic from Hiroshima Prefecture whose 1917 religious drama The Priest and His Disciples became a Taishō-era bestseller.