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List of theatre awards
List of theatre awards: index of stage prizes, including the Tonys (1947, Broadway), Olivier Awards (1976, London), Drama Desk (1955), Drama League (1935), Theatre World (1944 debut honors), and Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
List of Tony Award records
Tony Award records: Roger Berlind's 25 wins, Harold Prince's 21, Audra McDonald's 11 nominations and 6 acting wins, The Producers' 12 and Hamilton's 16 nominations.
Literary and historical sources of ballets
Literary and historical sources of ballets is an overview of how novels, plays, and fairy tales become ballet scenarios, covering adaptation, fidelity, and famous examples like Giselle.
Lithuanian National Drama Theatre
The Lithuanian National Drama Theatre is Lithuania's state drama theater at Gedimino Avenue 4 in Vilnius, founded in 1940 and staging classical and modern plays at home and abroad.
Liturgical drama
Liturgical drama is a modern, nineteenth-century term for the sung Latin religious plays and dialogues performed in medieval Western church services, most famously the Easter Quem quaeritis dialogue.
LIV (nightclub)
LIV is a megaclub opened in 2008 inside the Fontainebleau Miami Beach, run by David Grutman, named for the Roman numeral 54, with the Spider LED dome, roughly $45 million annual revenue, and a Las Vegas sibling venue.
Live at the Apollo (TV series)
Live at the Apollo, also titled Jack Dee Live At The Apollo, is a BBC stand-up comedy series recorded at London's Hammersmith Apollo before 3,000-plus audiences, running 20 series from 2004 until the BBC axed it in 2026.
Living skeleton
Living skeleton: billing for extremely thin sideshow and circus performers, from Claude Seurat in the 1820s to Isaac W. Sprague, Artie Atherton, and Peter Robinson of Freaks (1932); distinct from hunger artists, declined in the early twentieth century.
Liz Cackowski
Liz Cackowski (born 1977) is an American comedy writer, producer, and actress, an SNL writer 2003–2006, Community and The Last Man on Earth writer, co-writer of Wine Country, and wife of Akiva Schaffer.
Liz Kingsman
Liz Kingsman, Australian-born UK-based comedian and writer, creator and star of One Woman Show (also One-Woman Show), the Olivier-nominated Fleabag-genre parody featuring Wildfowl; formerly of sketch trio Massive Dad and the series Parlement.
Liz Miele
Liz Miele, New Jersey-born stand-up comedian who started at 16 in NYC, known for viral jokes like Feminist Sex Positions, YouTube specials including Space Camp, the book Why Cats Are Assholes, and 2026 SiriusXM Raw Comedy advocacy.
Liza Colón-Zayas
Liza Colón-Zayas, Bronx-born American actress and LAByrinth Theater Company member since 1992, plays Tina Marrero on The Bear; first Latina to win the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series (2024), also Jean DeWolff in Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
Liza Treyger
Liza Treyger is a Ukrainian-born American stand-up comedian and actress. She debuted on NBC's Last Comic Standing in 2014 and released her Netflix special in 2025.
Loie Fuller
Loïe Fuller (Marie Louise Fuller, 1862–1928), American dancer and lighting designer, pioneer of modern dance; creator of the Serpentine Dance (1892), star of the Folies Bergère, patent holder for stage lighting, and subject of Fuller v. Bemis.
Loknatak
Loknatak (लोकनाट्य) is the Hindi term for the traditional folk theater of India: plays created and staged by ordinary people without formal training, rooted in local tradition.
Lola Montez
Lola Montez, stage name of Eliza Rosana Gilbert (c. 1818-1821 to 1861), Irish-born dancer and adventuress who faked a Spanish identity, was mistress and Countess of Landsfeld under King Ludwig I of Bavaria, and toured America and Australia with the notorious Spider Dance.
London fringe theatre
London fringe theater is the network of small, mostly independent theaters outside London's commercial West End, including pub theaters, which emerged in the late 1960s after censorship ended.
London Palladium
The London Palladium is a Grade II listed, 2,286-seat West End theatre at 8 Argyll Street, London, designed by Frank Matcham and opened 26 December 1910. Owned by LW Theatres, famed for variety, Sunday Night at the London Palladium, over 40 Royal Variety Performances, and its annual pantomime.
Long Day's Journey into Night
Long Day's Journey into Night is a four-act tragedy by Eugene O'Neill, written 1939 to 1941 and following the Tyrone family through a single August day in 1912.
Loni Love
Loni Love, born 1971 in Detroit, is an American comedian, actress, and TV host who co-hosted the daytime talk show The Real, winning a 2018 Daytime Emmy, after a decade working as an electrical engineer.
Look Back in Anger
Look Back in Anger is John Osborne's 1956 play, first staged at the Royal Court Theatre, London, the first kitchen sink drama, starring the archetypal angry young man Jimmy Porter, and credited with launching the Angry Young Men movement.
Lope de Vega
Lope de Vega (Félix Lope de Vega Carpio, 1562–1635), Spanish Golden Age playwright and poet, creator of the comedia nueva and author of Fuente Ovejuna and El castigo sin venganza; Cervantes's great rival, Armada veteran of 1588.
Lord Chamberlain's Men
The Lord Chamberlain's Men (later the King's Men) was Shakespeare's Elizabethan acting company, founded 1594 under the Lord Chamberlain, a sharer partnership playing at the Theatre, Curtain, Globe, and Blackfriars, renamed the King's Men in 1603 under James I.
Lorenzaccio
Lorenzaccio is an 1834 five-act prose drama by Alfred de Musset, considered the masterpiece of French Romantic drama, depicting the assassination of Duke Alexandre de Médicis.
Lorraine Hansberry
Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965), American playwright and civil rights activist, first African American woman with a Broadway play, A Raisin in the Sun (1959); youngest and first Black winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award.
Lorraine Vélez
Lorraine Vélez, also spelled Loraine Velez, is an American singer and actress specializing in musical theatre, twin sister of Lauren Vélez; Broadway Dreamgirls and Rent (Mimi), West End Fame, Miss Saigon, Rent, Porgy and Bess, plus TV and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse credits.
Los derechos de la salud
Los derechos de la salud is a three-act drama by Florencio Sánchez, premiered in Buenos Aires in 1907, about a family concealing a woman's tuberculosis from her.
Lothario
Lothario: heartless libertine in Nicholas Rowe's The Fair Penitent (1703), also the Cervantes Don Quijote name; origin of the common noun for a seducer, 'the Gay Lothario.'
Lotta Crabtree
Lotta Crabtree (Charlotte Mignon Crabtree, 1847-1924) was an American actress, child star of the California Gold Rush, highest-paid US actress of the 1880s, donor of San Francisco's Lotta's Fountain, and philanthropist who left over $4 million to charity.
Lotus Weinstock
Lotus Weinstock (1943–1997), born Marlene Weinstock, American stand-up comedian, author of The Lotus Position, Belly Room mainstay at the Comedy Store, engaged to Lenny Bruce, mother of violinist Lili Haydn.