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Maxine Feibelman
Maxine Feibelman (also Feibelmann), Bernie Taupin's first wife and seamstress for Elton John's touring band, is the 'Maxine' of the 'With love to Maxine' credit on 'Tiny Dancer' (Madman Across the Water, 1971); Taupin described the song as capturing 1970 California, not one person.
Mayar Khela
Mayar Khela (মায়ার খেলা, "The Play of Illusion") is a Bengali musical play written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1888 and reworked by him into a dance drama in 1939.
Maybe Happy Ending (어쩌면 해피엔딩)
Maybe Happy Ending (어쩌면 해피엔딩) is a Korean original musical by Hue Park and Will Aronson about obsolete helper robots in near-future Seoul; it opened on Broadway in 2024 and won six 2025 Tony Awards including Best Musical.
Mayerling (ballet)
Mayerling is a three-act ballet choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan for The Royal Ballet, premiering at Covent Garden in 1978 and dramatizing the 1889 Mayerling incident.
Maz Jobrani (مازیار جبرانی)
Maz Jobrani, also known as Maziyar Jobrani, is an Iranian-American stand-up comedian and actor. He is known for his solo specials and challenging stereotypes about Middle Eastern culture.
Mazepa
Mazepa is a five-act verse tragedy by the Polish Romantic poet Juliusz Słowacki, written in Paris in 1839 and first staged in Budapest in 1847.
Mbongeni Ngema
Mbongeni Ngema (1955-2023), South African playwright, composer and director, creator of Sarafina!, co-creator of Woza Albert! with Percy Mtwa and Barney Simon, and author of Asinamali; died in a car crash 27 December 2023.
McNeal (play)
McNeal is a one-act play by Ayad Akhtar about novelist Jacob McNeal using AI to write. Its 2024 Broadway premiere at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont starred Robert Downey Jr. in his Broadway debut, directed by Bartlett Sher, with an AI digital likeness of Downey by AGBO.
Me and My Girl
Me and My Girl, also known as Me & My Girl, is a British musical comedy by Noel Gay, first staged in London in 1937, known for The Lambeth Walk.
Measure for Measure
Measure for Measure is Shakespeare's dark comedy, first published in the 1623 First Folio and first recorded on 26 December 1604 at James I's court, drawing on Cinthio and Whetstone and often classed as a problem play.
Meddah
The meddah is a solo storyteller of traditional Turkish theater who imitates voices, dialects, and characters, performing seated with only a staff and a handkerchief.
Medea (Μήδεια) (play)
Medea (Μήδεια), Euripides' 431 BCE Greek tragedy set in Corinth: Medea kills Jason's new bride, King Creon, and her own two sons, then escapes in Helios' chariot. Covers structure, the contested infanticide, translations, and modern adaptations.
Medea in the Mirror
Medea in the Mirror (Medea en el espejo) is a 1960 play by the Cuban dramatist José Triana, reworking the Medea myth through María, a mulata who murders her family.
Medieval theatre
Medieval theatre: European dramatic performance from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance, from liturgical Easter rites such as the Quem Quaeritis to vernacular guild-staged mystery cycles on pageant wagons, plus morality plays and the modern historiography of "liturgical drama."
Meisner technique
Meisner technique: Sanford Meisner's American actor-training method, built on the repetition exercise, emotional preparation, and improvisation, teaching actors to live truthfully under imaginary circumstances without Strasberg-style emotional memory.
Melodrama
Melodrama, or mélodrame, is a genre of dramatic theater combining music with spoken drama, heightened emotion, and spectacular staging that dominated nineteenth-century Europe and America.
Menander (Μένανδρος)
Menander (Μένανδρος), 342–291 BC, Athenian New Comedy playwright; wrote 108 plays, only Dyskolos survives complete; model for Plautus and Terence and for later European comedy.
Merce Cunningham
Merce Cunningham (1919–2009), American dancer and choreographer, founder of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company; pioneered chance operations, independent music and dance, and dance technology; legacy held by the Merce Cunningham Trust.
Mercy Otis Warren
Mercy Otis Warren (1728–1814), American poet, political playwright, satirist, and Anti-Federalist historian of the American Revolution; author of The Adulateur, The Group, Poems Dramatic and Miscellaneous (1790), and the three-volume History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution (1805).
Methil Devika (മേതിൽ ദേവിക)
Methil Devika (മേതിൽ ദേവിക), born 1976 in Dubai, is an Indian Mohiniyattam dancer, choreographer, and dance scholar; Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar 2007, PhD in Mohiniyattam, creator of Sarpatatwam and The Crossover.
Method acting
Method acting, or the Method, is Lee Strasberg's American adaptation of Stanislavski's System, built on affective memory, taught via the Group Theatre and Actors Studio, and distinct from Adler and Meisner techniques.
Mexican hat dance
Mexican hat dance, or Jarabe Tapatío, is Mexico's national dance from Jalisco: a charro-china courtship zapateado medley standardized by the SEP in 1924, ending with La Diana.
Meyerhold's biomechanics
Meyerhold's biomechanics is Vsevolod Meyerhold's post-revolutionary system of physical actor training, an alternative to Stanislavsky's psychological System, built on reflex theory, Taylorist efficiency, and principles such as otkaz, posil, stoika, and tormos.
MGI All Stars
MGI All Stars is a special veteran-focused edition of the Miss Grand International beauty pageant, announced December 4, 2025. Open to women and trans women aged 20-40 with prior international pageant experience; first edition held May 2026 in Bangkok, won by Colombia's Vanessa Pulgarin.
Mia Carragher
Mia Carragher (Mia Rose Carragher), born 2004 in Liverpool, is a British actress and dancer, daughter of Jamie Carragher, who plays Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games: On Stage at the Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre, her professional stage debut, after training at Tring Park and Lee Strasberg.
Mic drop
Mic drop: deliberately dropping or miming dropping a microphone to end a speech or performance triumphantly. 1980s rap and comedy origins; popularized by Eddie Murphy (1983) and Obama's 2012 Fallon and 2016 Correspondents' Dinner drops.
Micaela Diamond
Micaela Diamond, American stage and screen actress; Broadway debut as Babe in The Cher Show (2018); Tony-nominated Lucille Frank in Parade (2023); originated Fritz in Sondheim's Here We Are; stars in Grotesquerie and Awake and Sing!.
Michael Arden
Michael Arden (Michael Jerrod Moore, born 1982, Midland, Texas) is an American Broadway director and former actor; three-time Tony winner for Parade, Maybe Happy Ending, and The Lost Boys, husband of Andy Mientus.
Michael Attenborough
Michael Attenborough (born 1950), English theatre director, son of Richard Attenborough; Principal Associate Director of the RSC (1990-2002) and Artistic Director of London's Almeida Theatre (2002-2013), CBE 2013.
Michael Bennett (theater)
Michael Bennett (Michael Bennett DiFiglia, 1943-1987) was an American Broadway dancer, choreographer, director, and producer, creator of A Chorus Line (1975), winner of seven Tony Awards, and director-choreographer of Dreamgirls.