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Kutiyattam
Kutiyattam, also spelled Koodiyattam, is a form of Sanskrit theatre performed in Kerala, southern India, in temple theatres and among India's oldest living theatrical traditions, inscribed by UNESCO.
Kutrala Kuravanji
Kutrala Kuravanji (திருக்குற்றாலக் குறவஞ்சி) is a Tamil kuravanji dance-drama composed around 1720 by Thirikuda Rasappa Kavirayar, praising Shiva as Kutralanathar at Courtallam and considered the genre's most famous work.
Kwame Kwei-Armah
Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE, born Ian Roberts in 1967, is a British actor, playwright, and director known for Elmina's Kitchen and for leading Baltimore Center Stage and the Young Vic.
Kyiv Academic Young Theater (Київський національний академічний Молодий театр)
The Kyiv Academic Young Theater, also known as Molodyy Teatr, is a municipal drama theater in Kyiv, Ukraine, founded in 1979 and housed since 1985 at 17 Prorizna Street.
Kyle Dunnigan
Kyle Dunnigan (born 1971) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and comedy writer known for celebrity impressions and his Emmy-winning work on Inside Amy Schumer.
Kyle Kinane
Kyle Kinane, American stand-up comedian from Addison, Illinois, Columbia College Chicago graduate (BA '02), known for Death of the Party (2010), Whiskey Icarus, Loose in Chicago, Dirt Nap, and as the voice of Comedy Central promos since 2011.
Kynren
Kynren – An Epic Tale of England is a 90-minute outdoor night show in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, staged by about 1,000 volunteers for 11Arches charity since 2016, covering 2,000 years of history; expanded in 2026 with The Storied Lands show park.
Kyōgen
Kyōgen (狂言) is a form of Japanese comic theater performed in colloquial dialogue, staged with noh on the same program under the joint name nōgaku.
L'histoire de Manon
L'histoire de Manon (Manon) is Kenneth MacMillan's 1974 three-act Royal Ballet, based on Prévost's 1731 novel, set to arranged Massenet music with Georgiadis designs; titled L'Histoire de Manon at the Paris Opera since 1990.
La Bayadère (Баядерка)
La Bayadère (Баядерка) is a ballet choreographed by Marius Petipa to music by Ludwig Minkus, with a scenario by Petipa and Sergei Khudekov. It premiered in St. Petersburg in 1877, originally in.
La dama boba
La dama boba (The Foolish Lady) is a 1613 comedy by Lope de Vega about two sisters, the foolish Finea and the learned Nise, and their suitors.
La dama duende
La dama duende is a 1629 cloak-and-sword comedy by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, set in Madrid, where a widow's hidden door convinces a guest a ghost haunts him.
La Farce de Maître Pathelin
La Farce de Maître Pathelin, also known as Maistre Pierre Pathelin, is an anonymous French comic play of the mid-15th century, considered a masterpiece of medieval farce.
La fille mal gardée
La Fille mal gardée (The Wayward Daughter), ballet-pantomime by Jean Dauberval premiered at Bordeaux on 1 July 1789 as Le ballet de la paille; the oldest ballet in the classical repertory, best known through Ashton's 1960 Royal Ballet production to Hérold-Lanchbery music.
La fille mal gardée (Ashton)
La fille mal gardée (Ashton) is Frederick Ashton's 1960 Royal Ballet staging of Dauberval's 1789 ballet, with music by Hérold arranged by John Lanchbery, created by Nadia Nerina, David Blair, and Stanley Holden, famous for the Fanny Elssler pas de deux and clog dance.
La Goulue
La Goulue (Louise Weber, c. 1865/1866–1929) was a French cancan dancer, star of the Moulin Rouge in Belle Époque Paris, nicknamed for draining customers' glasses, and immortalized in Toulouse-Lautrec's 1891 poster.
La gringa
La gringa is the title of two Spanish-language plays: a 1904 comedy by Florencio Sánchez about Gauchos and Italian immigrants, and a 1996 play by Carmen Rivera about identity.
La Nona
La Nona is a 1977 tragicomedy by the Argentine playwright Roberto Cossa, in which a Buenos Aires family of Italian immigrant descent is ruined by its centenarian grandmother's insatiable hunger.
La Scala
La Scala (Teatro alla Scala) is Milan's opera house, opened 3 August 1778 with Salieri's L'Europa riconosciuta, designed by Piermarini, rebuilt after 1943 wartime damage, restored 2002-2004, staging about 250 performances a year.
La Sylphide
La Sylphide: Romantic two-act ballet premiered 12 March 1832 at the Paris Opéra, choreographed by Filippo Taglioni for Marie Taglioni; the surviving version is Bournonville's 1836 Copenhagen staging with Løvenskiold's music.
La verdad sospechosa
La verdad sospechosa (The Suspicious Truth) is a three-act verse comedy by Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, written around 1620, about a compulsive liar in Madrid.
La Voix (drag queen)
La Voix, stage name of Christopher Dennis (born 1980), is a British drag queen, singer and comedian from Stockton-on-Tees; runner-up on RuPaul's Drag Race UK series 6, Britain's Got Talent 2014 semi-finalist, first drag queen on Strictly Come Dancing 2025, later cast as Miss Hannigan in Annie.
Laban movement analysis
Laban movement analysis (LMA), or Laban/Bartenieff movement analysis, is Rudolf Laban's system and language for observing and describing human movement through Body, Effort, Space, and Shape categories, used in dance, therapy, and computational motion research.
LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner
LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner: performance art collective formed in 2014 by actor Shia LaBeouf, Luke Turner, and Nastja Säde Rönkkö, known for #IAMSORRY, #ALLMYMOVIES, and #HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US.
Lacey Schwimmer
Lacey Schwimmer (born 1988), American ballroom and West Coast Swing dancer from the Schwimmer dance family; SYTYCD Season 3 fourth-place finalist and first SYTYCD alum to become a Dancing with the Stars pro (Season 7, Lance Bass), later founder of The Ballroom Project convention.
LaChanze
LaChanze (Rhonda LaChanze Sapp, born 1961) is an American Broadway actor and producer, Tony winner as Celie in The Color Purple (2006), Ti Moune originator in Once on This Island, and Tony-winning producer of Kimberly Akimbo and Topdog/Underdog.
Lady Bunny
Lady Bunny (Jon Ingle, born 1962) is an American drag comedian, DJ, and singer who moved from Atlanta to New York with RuPaul, founded the Wigstock festival, and is known for bawdy, politically laced insult comedy.
Lady Windermere's Fan
Lady Windermere's Fan is a four-act society comedy by Oscar Wilde, first performed at London's St James's Theatre in February 1892 and his first hit play.
Laganja Estranja
Laganja Estranja (Jay Jackson, born 1988) is an American drag performer, choreographer, and cannabis-rights activist from Dallas who competed on RuPaul's Drag Race season 6, auditioned in drag for So You Think You Can Dance, released 'Legs' with Rye Rye, and came out as transgender in 2021.
Lahna Turner
Lahna Turner, American stand-up comedian, musician, and filmmaker, wife of the late comedian Ralphie May; known for musical comedy albums like Limeade and the special A Song About It, the Pounds of Power comics, and co-directing the Come What May documentary.