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Laurieann Gibson
Laurieann Gibson (born 1969, Toronto), also known as BoomKack, is a Canadian choreographer and creative director who choreographed Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" and "Telephone" and won the 2010 MTV VMA for Best Choreography.
Lavani (लावणी)
Lavani (लावणी) is Maharashtra's Marathi folk song-dance genre blending music, dance, and acting; known for shringarik and baithaki/phadachi types, Peshwai-era shahirs like Honaji Bala, dholki accompaniment, and ongoing scholarly and stage revival.
Lavell Crawford
Lavell Maurice Crawford, born 1968 in St. Louis, Missouri, is an American stand-up comedian and actor, runner-up on Last Comic Standing season 5 and known for playing Huell Babineaux on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.
Lazarus (musical)
Lazarus is a musical with music and lyrics by David Bowie, book by Enda Walsh, premiering off-Broadway in 2015 and inspired by The Man Who Fell to Earth.
Lazy Susan (drag queen)
Lazy Susan, drag persona of Robbie Sinclair Ten Eyck (born 1991), Melbourne (Naarm) drag queen and filmmaker; won Drag Race Down Under season 4 in December 2024; later judge on Drag Race Down Under vs The World (2026); distinct from Lazi Susan, DJ Lazy Susan, and Layla Zee Susan.
Lazzi
Lazzi (singular lazzo) are rehearsed, repeatable comic routines of the commedia dell'arte: short mimetic or spoken interludes of stage business, acrobatics, or gags inserted into improvised scenarios, performed chiefly by zanni characters and cataloged by titles such as lazzo della mosca.
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme is Molière's five-act prose comédie-ballet with music by Lully, premiered 14 October 1670 at Chambord for Louis XIV. It satirizes bourgeois M. Jourdain's bid for nobility via the mamamouchi Turkish ceremony and Ballet des nations.
Le Chat Noir
Le Chat Noir, the Black Cat cabaret of Montmartre, Paris, founded by Rodolphe Salis in November 1881 and closed in 1897; the first artistic cabaret, with its own weekly journal, shadow theatre by Henri Rivière, and Steinlen's 1896 poster.
Le Cid
Le Cid: five-act verse tragi-comédie by Pierre Corneille, premiered 7 January 1637 at the Théâtre du Marais, adapted from Guillén de Castro's Las Mocedades del Cid, sparking the Querelle du Cid.
Le Jeu d'Adam
Le Jeu d'Adam, also titled Ordo representationis Adae or The Play of Adam, is a twelfth-century Anglo-Norman religious drama in French verse, generally the earliest surviving work of French vernacular theater.
Le Jeu de la feuillée
Le Jeu de la feuillée is a satirical verse drama by Adam de la Halle, written in Arras around 1276, ancestor of the sotie and moralité.
Le Jeu de Robin et Marion
Le Jeu de Robin et Marion is a short musical play in Old French by the trouvère Adam de la Halle, written around 1282–83 for the Angevin court at Naples.
Le Miracle de Théophile
Le Miracle de Théophile is a 663-line Old French miracle play by Rutebeuf, written around 1263, in which the Virgin Mary rescues Theophilus from his pact with the devil.
Le Pétomane
Le Pétomane, stage name of Joseph Pujol (Josep Pujol i Mauri, 1857–1945), French Catalan music-hall flatulist who headlined the Moulin Rouge in the early 1890s, out-earning Sarah Bernhardt, using controlled rectal air intake rather than intestinal gas.
Leah Purcell
Leah Purcell (born 1970, Murgon, Queensland), Goa-Gunggari-Wakka Wakka Murri playwright, actor, director, and novelist; known for The Drover's Wife as play (2016), novel (2019), film (2021) and opera (2026); AACTA, Helpmann and APSA Jury Grand Prize winner; Member of the Order of Australia (2021).
Lebanese drama
Lebanese drama (المسرح اللبناني) is the tradition of staged theater and playwriting in Lebanon and among Lebanese emigrants, beginning with Maroun al-Naqqash's 1847 production in Beirut.
Lee Evans (comedian)
Lee Evans (born 1964) is a retired English stand-up comedian and actor known for frantic physical comedy, the 1993 Perrier Award, pioneering arena tours, films like There's Something About Mary, and his 2014 retirement announcement.
Lee Mack
Lee Mack (Lee Gordon McKillop, b. 1968, Southport) is an English stand-up comedian, actor and writer: creator of Not Going Out, Would I Lie to You? team captain, The 1% Club host, BAFTA winner 2019.
Lee Soo-geun (이수근)
Lee Soo-geun (이수근, 李壽根), born 1975, is a South Korean comedian and MC who debuted via KBS's 2003 18th open recruitment, starred in Gag Concert, 1 Night 2 Days, Knowing Bros, and New Journey to the West, won the 2011 KBS Entertainment Daesang, and released the 2021 Netflix stand-up special The Sense Coach.
Lee Strasberg
Lee Strasberg (Israel Strasberg, 1901–1982), American director and acting teacher who created Method Acting from Stanislavski's System: Group Theatre co-founder (1931), Actors Studio artistic director 1951–1982, founder of the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute (1969), known for affective and sense memory training.
Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute
The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, founded in 1969 by Lee and Anna Strasberg, is an NAST-accredited Method acting school with New York and West Hollywood campuses, conservatory and AOS programs, and alumni including Al Pacino and Lady Gaga.
Leela Samson
Leela Samson (born 1951, Coonoor), Bharatanatyam dancer of the Kalakshetra bani trained under Rukmini Devi Arundale; Kalakshetra director 2005–2012, Sangeet Natak Akademi and CBFC chairperson, founder of Spanda Dance Company, Padma Shri 1990.
Legacy Effects
Legacy Effects is an American practical special effects studio in San Fernando, California, founded in 2008 by four supervisors from Stan Winston Studio, known for animatronics and prosthetic makeup.
Lehron ke Rajhans
Lehron ke Rajhans (लहरों के राजहंस) is a 1963 Hindi play by Mohan Rakesh about Nanda, the Buddha's half-brother, torn between worldly life and monkhood.
Lehrstück
The Lehrstück (plural Lehrstücke, "learning play") is a short dramatic form developed by Bertolt Brecht between 1926 and 1933, in which learning happens through performance itself.
Leland Hayward
Leland Hayward (1902-1971), born in Nebraska City, Nebraska, was an American talent agent and Broadway, film, and television producer whose agency merged with MCA in 1945 and whose productions included Mister Roberts, South Pacific, Gypsy, and The Sound of Music.
Lemi Ponifasio
Lemi Ponifasio, Samoan-born New Zealand choreographer, director, and designer, founded the company MAU in Auckland in 1995; known for ceremonial works like Tempest: Without a Body, Stones in Her Mouth, and Jerusalem.
Len Goodman
Len Goodman (Leonard Gordon Goodman, 1944–2023), British ballroom dancer and head judge of Strictly Come Dancing (2004–2016) and Dancing with the Stars (2005–2022, 31 seasons), founder of the Goodman Dance Academy in Dartford, four-time British Exhibition champion.
Lena Hall
Lena Hall (Celina Consuela Gabriella Carvajal, born 1980), American actress and singer; 2014 Tony winner as Yitzhak in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Kinky Boots' original Nicola, Snowpiercer's Miss Audrey, and Ali Cooper in Apple TV+'s Your Friends & Neighbors.
Lenny Bruce
Lenny Bruce (Leonard Alfred Schneider, 1925–1966), American stand-up comedian and satirist whose freestyle material on sex, religion, and race led to obscenity arrests, a 1964 conviction, and a 2003 posthumous pardon, making him a free-speech landmark.