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Nathania Ong
Nathania Ong (born 1998) is a Singaporean musical theatre actress, first Singaporean to play Éponine in Les Misérables on the West End and Eliza Hamilton in London's Hamilton; also Cinderella in Into the Woods and Elle Woods in Legally Blonde Singapore.
Nathaniel Lees
Nathaniel Lees (born 1952) is a New Zealand actor and theatre director of Samoan descent; he played Uglúk in The Two Towers and Mifune in the Matrix sequels, directed award-winning New Zealand stage productions, and teaches acting.
National Arts Centre
The National Arts Centre is a federally chartered performing arts complex in Ottawa, opened in 1969, operating four stages under a bilingual mandate to develop the performing arts across Canada.
National Arts Festival
The National Arts Festival is an annual multi-disciplinary arts festival held in Makhanda, South Africa. Founded in 1974, it is the country's longest running arts festival.
National Ballet of Canada
The National Ballet of Canada is a classical ballet repertory company based in Toronto. Founded in 1951, it has 70 dancers, its own orchestra, and performs at the Four Seasons Centre.
National Ballet of China (中央芭蕾舞团)
National Ballet of China (中央芭蕾舞团, China National Ballet, Zhongyang Baleiwutuan): China's national ballet company, founded December 1959 in Beijing under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism; director Feng Ying; known for Red Detachment of Women, Swan Lake, Peony Pavilion, and over 200 repertoire works.
National Ballet School of Canada
Canada's National Ballet School is an independent ballet training institution in Toronto, co-founded by Celia Franca and Betty Oliphant in 1959 to train dancers for Canada's ballet scene.
National Black Theatre (Redfern)
The National Black Theatre was an Aboriginal theater company and cultural center in Redfern, Sydney, that operated from 1972 to 1977 and pioneered all-Indigenous theater in Australia.
National School of Drama (राष्ट्रीय नाट्य विद्यालय)
National School of Drama (राष्ट्रीय नाट्य विद्यालय, NSD), New Delhi: India's national theatre training institution, founded 1959 by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, autonomous under the Ministry of Culture since 1975, offering a three-year Dramatic Arts diploma.
National School of Drama Repertory Company
The National School of Drama Repertory Company, also known as the NSD Repertory Company, is the professional theater ensemble of the National School of Drama in New Delhi, founded in 1964.
National Theater of Korea (국립극장)
The National Theater of Korea (국립극장) is South Korea's flagship state-run performing arts complex on Namsan mountain in Seoul, founded in 1950 as Asia's first national theater.
National theatre
A national theater is a theater institution designated by a state, monarch, or nationalist movement to represent a nation's language and dramatic culture, typically sustained by public funding.
National Theatre (Albania)
National Theatre (Teatri Kombëtar), Tirana's main theatre, a 1938-1940 Giulio Bertè building of the Circolo Skanderbeg complex, demolished 17 May 2020 after two-year protests; replaced by a Bjarke Ingels-designed theatre.
National Theatre Bucharest
The National Theatre Bucharest, or Teatrul Național București, is Romania's principal state-funded repertory theater, staging some 40 titles across seven halls and drawing over 170,000 spectators a year.
National Theatre in Belgrade
The National Theatre in Belgrade (Narodno pozorište u Beogradu) is Serbia's national theater, founded in 1868 and housing drama, opera, and ballet ensembles on Republic Square in central Belgrade.
National theatre movements in the Balkans
National theater movements in the Balkans were organized efforts to create national theaters championing the national language, with Bulgarian theater emerging in 1856 and Slovenian drama in 1789.
National Theatre of Ghana
The National Theatre of Ghana is a performing arts center in Accra, built with Chinese assistance and opened in 1992, housing Ghana's national drama, dance, and orchestra companies.
National Theatre of Greece
The National Theatre of Greece (Ethniko Theatro) is the Greek state's national theater company, based in Athens and founded by an act of parliament in 1930.
National Theatre of Japan (国立劇場)
The National Theatre of Japan (Kokuritsu Gekijō) is a state-founded theater in Chiyoda, Tokyo, opened in 1966 to preserve kabuki and other traditional performing arts.
National Theatre of Nigeria
The National Theatre of Nigeria is a national theater complex in Lagos, built in 1976 for FESTAC '77 and renamed the Wole Soyinka Centre in 2025.
National Theatre, Prague
The National Theatre (Národní divadlo) is the Czech Republic's national opera, drama, and ballet institution, housed in a Neo-Renaissance building on Prague's Vltava riverfront that opened in 1881.
National theatres of the Nordic countries
The national theaters of the Nordic countries are the state-supported flagship and touring stages of the region, including Denmark's Royal Theatre, Finland's Finnish National Theatre, and Norway's touring Riksteatret.
National Youth Theatre
National Youth Theatre (National Youth Theatre of Great Britain), British youth theatre charity founded 1956 by Michael Croft; free auditions for ages 14-25 (30 if disabled), ~5,000 auditionees yearly, alumni include Mirren, Craig, Pugh.
Naturalism (theatre)
Naturalism (theatre), or Le théâtre naturaliste, a late 19th-century movement theorized by Émile Zola and staged by Antoine's Théâtre Libre (1887), Brahm's Freie Bühne (1889), and Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre (1898), portraying characters as products of heredity and environment.
Naumachia
Naumachia (ναυμαχία) was the Roman staged naval battle spectacle, and the basin staging it; first held by Julius Caesar in 46 BC, largest under Claudius (19,000 combatants, Fucine Lake, AD 52), fought by naumachiarii, condemned criminals and war captives, last recorded under Philip the Arab in AD 248.
Nautch (नाच)
Nautch (नाच, naach) is the anglicized Hindi word for dance, used by the British as an umbrella term for Indian dancing entertainments and performers. Once patronized by colonial elites, it was criminalized by the 1892 anti-nautch campaign and survives in Kathak and baiji traditions.
Neal Brennan
Neal Brennan (born 1973, Villanova, Pennsylvania) is an American comedian, writer, director, and podcaster, co-creator of Chappelle's Show and Half Baked, known for the experimental Netflix specials 3 Mics, Blocks, and Crazy Good.
Nederlands Dans Theater
Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT), contemporary dance company founded 1959 in The Hague by Harkarvy, Verstegen, and Birnie after leaving the Nederlands Ballet; now NDT 1 and NDT 2, over 620 works, shaped by Jiří Kylián from 1975.
Negro Ensemble Company
Negro Ensemble Company (NEC), founded 1967 in New York by Douglas Turner Ward, Robert Hooks, and Gerald Krone, is a Black repertory theater company. Producer of over 200 plays, home of A Soldier's Play and The River Niger, distinct from Chicago's Black Ensemble Theater.
Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre
Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, founded 1928 by the Lewisohn sisters and Rita Morgenthau, is a two-year NAST-accredited acting conservatory at 340 East 54th Street, New York, and the birthplace of Sanford Meisner's Meisner Technique.