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Musical theatre
Musical theatre: theatrical storytelling combining song, spoken dialogue, and dance; components are book, music, lyrics, choreography, staging; evolved from operetta and vaudeville; Show Boat (1927) and Oklahoma! (1943) shaped the modern book musical.
Mustapha Matura
Mustapha Matura, born Noel Mathura (1939 to 2019), was a Trinidadian playwright based in London whose witty, politically pointed plays made him a leading figure of Black British theater.
My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady: 1956 Lerner and Loewe Broadway musical adapted from Shaw's Pygmalion, starring Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews, running 2,717 performances, winning six Tonys, and filmed in 1964 with Audrey Hepburn.
My Life in Art
My Life in Art (Моя жизнь в искусстве) is the autobiography of Konstantin Stanislavsky, founder of the Moscow Art Theatre and creator of the Stanislavski system, published in 1924.
My Poor Marat
My Poor Marat (Мой бедный Марат) is a 1965 play by Aleksei Arbuzov about three young people in besieged Leningrad, one of the Soviet repertoire's most staged works.
Mykhailo Starytsky
Mykhailo Starytsky (Михайло Старицький, 1840–1904) was a Ukrainian writer, poet, and playwright who headed the first professional Ukrainian theater in 1883 and worked closely with his cousin, composer Mykola Lysenko.
Myki Meeks
Myki Meeks, stage name of Michael Reichert (born 1995), is an Orlando-based American drag performer who won RuPaul's Drag Race Season 18 in 2026 with four challenge wins, a Drew Barrymore Snatch Game, and a $200,000 prize.
Mykola Kulish
Mykola Kulish (Микола Куліш) was a Ukrainian playwright, called the most famous of the twentieth century, who led VAPLITE, worked with Les Kurbas at Berezil, and was executed at Sandarmokh in 1937.
Myna Mazailo
Myna Mazailo (Мина Мазайло) is a satirical comedy in four acts by the Ukrainian playwright Mykola Kulish, completed in 1928 and first staged in 1929.
Myrtle Corbin
Myrtle Corbin (Josephine Myrtle Corbin, 1868–1928) was an American sideshow performer, the "Four-Legged Girl," born with dipygus giving her two pelves and four legs; she toured with Barnum & Bailey, married James Clinton Bicknell, and died in Cleburne, Texas.
Mystère (Cirque du Soleil)
Mystère is Cirque du Soleil's first permanent Las Vegas resident show, premiered December 25, 1993 at Treasure Island. Directed by Franco Dragone under a 10-year Mirage Resorts contract, it features Chinese poles, trapeze, bungee, Taiko drums, and the Baby character in 90 minutes.
Mystère de la Passion
Mystère de la Passion is a French medieval Passion play genre staging the life of Christ, best known through Arnoul Gréban's roughly 34,000-verse version of about 1450.
Mystery play
Mystery plays are medieval European biblical dramas, typically organized in guild-performed cycles from Creation to Last Judgment, staged on pageant wagons at Corpus Christi; surviving English cycles include York, Chester, Towneley/Wakefield, and N-Town.
N-Town Plays
The N-Town Plays, once known as the Ludus Coventriae or Hegge plays, are a cycle of East Anglian biblical dramas copied around 1468 in a single surviving manuscript.
Nabanna
Nabanna (নবান্ন), "The New Harvest", is a 1944 Bengali play by Bijon Bhattacharya portraying the 1943 Bengal famine, first staged by IPTA in Calcutta and regarded as a breakthrough in modern Indian theater.
Nadagam
Nadagam (නාඩගම්) is a Sinhala musical drama genre of coastal Sri Lanka, derived from the Tamil Natakam, which flourished there from the mid-18th through the 19th century.
Naked Cowboy
The Naked Cowboy is Robert John Burck II, the Times Square street performer who since December 1997 has sung in cowboy boots, a hat, and briefs, earning about $150,000 a year through a trademarked brand with franchises, lawsuits, and a 2009 mayoral run.
Namiki Sōsuke
Namiki Sōsuke (並木宗輔), also recorded as Namiki Senryū, was a Japanese jōruri playwright, 1695 to 1751, ranked the leading puppet playwright after Chikamatsu and co-author of the three great 1740s masterpieces, including Kanadehon Chūshingura.
Nanny McPhee (musical)
Nanny McPhee The Musical, a West End stage adaptation of the 2005 Emma Thompson film and Christianna Brand's Nurse Matilda, opens at the Aldwych Theatre, London, from 6 November 2027, with book and lyrics by Thompson, music by Gary Clark, and direction by Katy Rudd.
Nanxi
Nanxi (南戏), also called xiwen, was a form of Chinese musical drama arising in Wenzhou around the 1120s, regarded as the earliest mature form of Chinese opera.
Napoli (ballet)
Napoli is a three-act ballet by August Bournonville, premiered 29 March 1842 by the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen. Music by Helsted, Paulli, and Gade; famous for its Act III pas de six and tarantella; considered Denmark's national ballet.
Naqali
Naqali (نقالی, naqqāli) is a professional Iranian dramatic storytelling tradition in which the naqqāl recounts epic and religious narratives, especially Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, in verse or prose.
Nataka
Nataka (नाटक) is the principal genre of classical Sanskrit drama, taking its plot from well-known stories of celebrated kings or divine heroes such as Rama.
Natalie Lowe
Natalie Lowe, born 1980, is an Australian ballroom dancer and choreographer who was an eleven-time Australian champion and appeared for seven seasons on the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing.
Natalie Palamides
Natalie Palamides, American clown-comedian from Pittsburgh; creator of LAID (2017 Edinburgh Best Newcomer) and Nate: A One Man Show (Netflix 2020, Amy Poehler-produced); her 2024 show Weer plays both halves of a couple.
Natalka Poltavka
Natalka Poltavka (Наталка Полтавка) is a two-act musical play in Ukrainian by Ivan Kotliarevsky, written in 1819 and considered the founding work of the Ukrainian musical stage.
Natasha Hodgson
Natasha Hodgson, British writer-performer; co-writer, co-composer and original Ewen Montagu in Operation Mincemeat (SpitLip), 2024 Olivier winner; also The Sink creator and Kill the Beast member; distinct from the NTU historian of the same name.
Natasha Leggero
Natasha Leggero, American stand-up comedian, actress, and writer from Rockford, Illinois. Chelsea Lately panelist, creator and star of Comedy Central's Another Period, co-host of The Endless Honeymoon Podcast with Moshe Kasher, author of The World Deserves My Children.
Nate Bargatze
Nate Bargatze, Nashville-area clean stand-up comedian ('The Nicest Man in Stand-Up'), star of Netflix specials The Tennessee Kid and The Greatest Average American, Prime Video's Hello World, 2023 SNL host and 2025 Emmys host.
Nate Jackson (comedian)
Nate Jackson (born 1983, Lacey, Washington) is an American stand-up comedian, the 'King of Crowd Work', founder of Tacoma's Super Funny Comedy Club, and star of the 2025 Netflix special Nate Jackson: Super Funny; distinct from the NFL player and LA Times editor of the same name.