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Limmy
Limmy (Brian Limond, born 1974, Glasgow) is a Scottish comedian and streamer whose Limmy.com and Limmy's World of Glasgow podcast led to Limmy's Show on BBC Two Scotland (2009–2013, two Scottish BAFTAs), books, Limmy's Homemade Show, and a Twitch career.
Lindsay Mendez
Lindsay Mendez (Lindsay Michelle Mendez), American musical theater actress from Norwalk, California; won the 2018 Tony for Best Featured Actress as Carrie Pipperidge in Carousel's revival, 2024 nominee for Merrily We Roll Along.
Lindsey Ferrentino
Lindsey Ferrentino, American Olivier-nominated playwright and screenwriter; wrote Ugly Lies the Bone, Amy and the Orphans, The Queen of Versailles book, and The Fear of 13; 2016 Kesselring Prize winner.
Lindy Hop
Lindy Hop, also called the original swing dance, is a partnered African American vernacular jazz dance created in Harlem in the late 1920s, centered on the swingout, developed at the integrated Savoy Ballroom, and revived worldwide in the 1980s.
Line dance
Line dance: a partnerless choreographed group dance performed in rows to a repeated step sequence, especially to country music; emerged from 1970s disco and country-western bars, with soul line dancing and viral revivals on TikTok.
Lip sync
Lip sync is the alignment of mouth movement with sound in film, TV, streaming, conferencing and performance, also called sincronización labial. Tolerances span about 30 ms in live broadcast to over 100 ms in streaming; causes, standards, and AI methods differ.
Lisa Lampanelli
Lisa Lampanelli, born Lisa Marie Lampugnale in Trumbull, Connecticut, is a retired American stand-up comedian known for insult comedy and celebrity roasts who retired in 2018.
Lisa McGee
Lisa McGee (born 1980, Derry) is a Northern Irish screenwriter and playwright, creator and sole writer of Derry Girls (2018–2022), also known for The Deceived, Raw, and the 2026 Netflix series How to Get to Heaven from Belfast.
List of acting techniques
List of acting techniques: named systems for actor training and role preparation, mostly derived from Stanislavski's System, including Strasberg's Method, Adler, Meisner, Chekhov, Spolin, Viewpoints, Practical Aesthetics, and voice and classical approaches.
List of ballets by title
List of ballets by title: alphabetical indexes of choreographic works maintained by companies (Royal Ballet, National Ballet of Canada), choreographer catalogues (Balanchine, Robbins), and archives, with titles, choreographers, composers, and premiere dates.
List of British comedians
British comedians: UK performers in stand-up, sketch, and TV comedy, from music hall and working men's clubs through 1979 alternative comedy to today's circuit, with the Comedy Store, Edinburgh Comedy Awards, and a £1 billion live sector.
List of circus skills
The list of circus skills, also known as circus arts, covers the physical abilities such as juggling, balancing, and aerial work that performers combine into circus acts.
List of comedians
List of comedians: surveys comedian rosters and rankings. Also known as comedian directories or stand-up rankings; covers working databases (Open Comedy 14,089+), ranked lists (Dave survey won by Daniel Kitson, Rolling Stone top ten), and gender imbalance in comedy lists.
List of dance styles
List of dance styles: overview of dance genres and styles, from ballet, jazz, contemporary, tap, hip hop, and ballroom to traditional forms like Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Flamenco, Balinese dance, and compas, with genre-versus-style distinctions.
List of dances
List of dances: catalogs of world dance forms such as ballet, bharatanatyam, polka, hula, and hora, organized by function, geography, lineage, or context, spanning classical, folk, and contemporary traditions.
List of drag queens
List of drag queens: notable drag queens (drag queens) such as RuPaul, Lily Savage, Crystal LaBeija, Sasha Velour, Jiggly Caliente, and Pabllo Vittar, with definitions, milestones, and their role in culture and politics.
List of early-modern British women playwrights
Early-modern British women playwrights, from Elizabeth Cary (The Tragedie of Mariam, 1613) through Aphra Behn, Mary Pix, Delarivier Manley, Catharine Trotter, and Susanna Centlivre, with firsts in staging and professional authorship.
List of entertainers who died during a performance
A list of entertainers who died during a live performance, from Molière in 1673 to nightclub deaths in the 2020s, mostly from heart attacks, falls, or gunfire.
List of entertainers who performed in blackface
Entertainers who performed in blackface, from T. D. Rice's 1830s Jim Crow act through minstrel managers like Christy, Emmett, and Dockstader, Black performers such as Bert Williams, and film-era figures Al Jolson, Temple, Garland, and Rooney.
List of extant ancient Greek and Roman plays
The List of extant ancient Greek and Roman plays is a collection of surviving classical drama. It features 32 Greek tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and 26 Latin comedies.
List of genres
List of genres: overviews genre taxonomies across literature (poetry, drama, fiction, nonfiction; epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy), theatre (farce, melodrama, tragicomedy), and music, with definitions, history, and why no list is definitive.
List of Indian folk dances
Indian folk dances are the regional and community dance traditions of India, performed at festivals, harvests, and weddings by community members rather than trained professionals.
List of London venues
List of London venues: the city's theatres, music, arts and entertainment spaces. Key figures: 39 West End theatres (47 SOLT members), 94 grassroots music venues, 263 theatres, Wembley, The O2, Barbican.
List of mudras (dance)
Mudras in Indian classical dance: codified hand gestures (hastas) listed as 28 asamyukta and 24 samyukta for Bharatanatyam, 24 basic Kathakali mudras, and other classical forms' vocabularies.
List of national theatres
National theatres: institutions representing a nation's language and culture, from the Comédie-Française (1680) and Prague's National Theatre (1868) to buildingless companies like the National Theatre of Scotland, with a country-by-country list.
List of rock musicals
The list of rock musicals covers musical theater works with rock-influenced scores or jukebox rock songs, from Hair (1967), Jesus Christ Superstar, and Grease to Rent and Mamma Mia!
List of roles and awards of Subodh Bhave
Roles and awards of Subodh Bhave (सुबोध भावे), Marathi actor-director known for Balgandharva, Lokmanya: Ek Yug Purush, and Katyar Kaljat Ghusali; lists his stage, TV and film roles and 30-plus awards.
List of Saturday Night Live cast members
Roster of Saturday Night Live cast members, also called the Not Ready for Prime Time Players era onward: 172 credited performers since 1975, Kenan Thompson's record 24-season tenure, repertory versus featured tiers, and the Season 52 lineup.
List of Sesame Street Muppets
The Muppets of Sesame Street are the puppet characters of the educational series, owned by Sesame Workshop. Core cast includes Elmo, Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Abby Cadabby, Bert, Ernie, Oscar, and Grover; newer characters include Julia, Ji-Young, and Tango.
List of the longest-running Broadway shows
Ranks Broadway productions by total performances of a single run. The Phantom of the Opera leads with 13,981 performances (1988-2023); the 1996 Chicago revival, The Lion King, Wicked, and The Book of Mormon head the still-running shows.