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Lou Costello
Lou Costello (Louis Francis Cristillo, 1906–1959), American comedian from Paterson, New Jersey, the funnyman half of Abbott and Costello, star of Buck Privates and performer of Who's on First?.
Lou Sanders
Lou Sanders, British stand-up comedian, writer and actor; won Taskmaster series 8 (2019), Edinburgh shows including Shame Pig, memoir What's That Lady Doing? (2023), co-host of Unforgivable.
Lou Wall
Lou Wall is an Australian comedian, composer, and content creator known for multimedia musical comedy. Their shows include Breaking the Fifth Wall (MICF 2025 Most Outstanding Show nominee), The Bisexual's Lament, and Where Are All the Tall Grandmas?
Louie Anderson
Louie Anderson, born Louis Perry Anderson, was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and author who hosted Family Feud from 1999 to 2002 and won a 2016 Emmy for playing Christine Baskets on FX's Baskets.
Louie Spence
Louie Spence, born 1969, is a British dancer and television personality, star of Sky1's Pineapple Dance Studios and artistic director of Pineapple Dance Studios in Covent Garden.
Louis C.K.
Louis C.K. (born 1967, Washington, D.C.-raised partly in Mexico City) is an American stand-up comedian and creator of FX's Louie. He admitted 2017 sexual misconduct, rebuilt via self-released specials and a 2022 Grammy, and returned to Netflix in 2026 with Ridiculous.
Louis Jouvet
Louis Jouvet (1887-1951), French actor, director, and head of the Théâtre de l'Athénée from 1934; co-founder of the Cartel des quatre, creator of Giraudoux's major plays and Molière's Dom Juan, and film actor in Quai des Orfèvres.
Louis Nowra
Louis Nowra (born 1950, birth name Mark Doyle) is an Australian playwright, novelist, and screenwriter best known for Così, Summer of the Aliens, and the screenplay Map of the Human Heart.
Love for Love
Love for Love is a Restoration comedy of manners by William Congreve, first performed in 1695 at Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, where it ran 13 days successively.
Love Is a Labyrinth
Love Is a Labyrinth (Amor es más laberinto) is a 1688 Baroque comedy by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Juan de Guevara, first performed in 1689.
Lucian Blaga
Lucian Blaga (1895–1961), Romanian philosopher, poet, playwright, and diplomat from Lancrăm, Transylvania; author of Poemele luminii, Meșterul Manole, and four philosophical trilogies; professor at Cluj, Academy member, silenced after 1948.
Lucy Beaumont (comedian)
Lucy Ann Beaumont (born 1983) is an English stand-up comedian, actor, and writer from Hull, winner of the 2012 BBC New Comedy Award and 2013 Chortle Best Newcomer, creator of To Hull and Back and Meet the Richardsons, and a Taskmaster series 16 contestant.
Lucy Porter
Lucy Porter, English stand-up comedian and writer (also a Radio 4 panel regular). First gig 1995 in Chester; 16 Edinburgh Fringe shows; Celebrity Mastermind Champion; married to comedian Justin Edwards.
Ludruk
Ludruk is a traditional folk theater from East Java, Indonesia, combining drama, humor, gamelan music, and social critique, performed in Javanese and identified with Surabaya's cultural identity.
Luis Valdez
Luis Valdez (born 1940, Delano, California) is the American playwright and director called the godfather of Chicano theater, founder of El Teatro Campesino in 1965 during the Delano Grape Strike and creator of Zoot Suit, the first Latino play on Broadway.
Luminița Gheorghiu
Luminița Gheorghiu (1949–2021) was a Romanian stage and film actress, Bulandra Theatre member and Ion Cojar student, celebrated for Mioara in The Death of Mr. Lazarescu and the lead in Child's Pose.
Lustspiel
Lustspiel is the traditional German-language term for comedy, the counterpart of Trauerspiel, or tragedy. In a narrower sense it names a bourgeois German comedy form, exemplified by Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm.
Lynn Ahrens
Lynn Ahrens (born 1948, New York) is an American lyricist and librettist, of the Ahrens and Flaherty team behind Ragtime, Once on This Island, Seussical, and Anastasia, and a Schoolhouse Rock songwriter and Tony, Emmy-winning writer.
Lynn Manning
Lynn Manning (1955-2015) was a Los Angeles poet, playwright, actor, and blind judo world champion, blinded by a 1978 bar shooting, who co-founded the Watts Village Theater Company and wrote the award-winning solo play Weights.
Lysistrata (Λυσιστράτη)
Lysistrata (Λυσιστράτη), Aristophanes' comedy first performed at the Lenaia in 411 BC, in which Greek women wage a sex strike and seize the Acropolis to force peace in the Peloponnesian War; the last of his three peace plays.
M. Butterfly
M. Butterfly is David Henry Hwang's 1988 Tony-winning play, also staged as a 2022 Huang Ruo opera, about diplomat Rene Gallimard's 20-year affair with the male spy Song Liling, based on the 1986 Boursicot case.
M'hijo el dotor
M'hijo el dotor is a 1903 three-act play by the Uruguayan playwright Florencio Sánchez, his first major success, dramatizing the clash between a rural father and his city-educated son.
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is August Wilson's 1982/1984 drama set in a 1927 Chicago recording studio, the only American Century Cycle play not set in Pittsburgh, first staged at Yale Rep and on Broadway in 1984.
Macbeth
Macbeth (The Tragedy of Macbeth) is Shakespeare's Scottish tragedy of a general who murders King Duncan to seize the throne. Written around 1606 for James I, sourced from Holinshed, first printed in the 1623 First Folio with possible Middleton additions.
Macduff (Macbeth)
Macduff is the Thane of Fife in Shakespeare's Macbeth: a loyal Scottish noble who discovers Duncan's body, flees to England to join Malcolm, whose family Macbeth slaughters, and who kills Macbeth as the man not of woman born.
Macedonian National Theatre
The Macedonian National Theatre (Makedonski naroden teatar, MNT) is the national professional theater of North Macedonia, founded in Skopje on 31 January 1945 as the country's first professional theater.
Mack and Mabel
Mack and Mabel: 1974 Jerry Herman–Michael Stewart Broadway musical about silent-film director Mack Sennett and star Mabel Normand; flopped after 66 performances, eight Tony nominations, cult score.
Madame de Sade
Madame de Sade (Sado kōshaku fujin, サド侯爵夫人) is a 1965 three-act play by Mishima Yukio in which the Marquis de Sade is built entirely through the words of six women.
Maddie Ingoldsby
Maddie (Madison) Ingoldsby is a British ballroom dancer from Bournemouth, eight-time amateur 10-dance world champion, who joined Strictly Come Dancing as a professional in 2026, its second youngest pro ever, partnered with Cach Mercer.
Madison (dance)
The Madison, also called Madison Time dance, is an American line dance from around 1957, danced in forward-facing rows to Ray Bryant's "Madison Time" with caller-prompted figures, popularized on Baltimore's Buddy Deane Show.