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Octet (musical)
Octet is Dave Malloy's a cappella chamber musical about eight internet addicts in a church-basement support group, premiered Off-Broadway at Signature Theatre in May 2019, extended three times, and now adapted as a Lin-Manuel Miranda film.
Odia drama
Odia drama is the theatrical tradition of the Odia language of Odisha, India, spanning Sanskrit plays, folk forms like Jatra and Pala, and modern drama beginning with Babaji in 1877.
Odin Teatret
Odin Teatret: experimental theatre laboratory founded by Eugenio Barba in Oslo in 1964, based in Holstebro, Denmark since 1966; known for barter exchanges, ISTA theatre anthropology, and its 2022 split from Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium.
Odissi
Odissi, also spelled Orissi, is a classical Indian dance from the temples of Odisha, one of eight Sangeet Natak Akademi-recognized classical dances, defined by chauka and tribhanga stances and a repertoire of mangalacharan, batu, pallavi, abhinaya, and moksha, revived and codified in the 1950s.
Oedipus (Icke play)
Oedipus is Robert Icke's contemporary stage adaptation of Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus, set on a politician's election night with a real-time countdown clock. Premiered in Dutch in Amsterdam in 2018, it won 2025 Olivier Awards in the West End with Mark Strong and Lesley Manville and transferred to Broadway's Studio 54 in 2025.
Oedipus at Colonus
Oedipus at Colonus (Οἰδίπους ἐπὶ Κολωνῷ) is a tragedy by the Greek playwright Sophocles, the final work of his life, staged posthumously at Athens in 401 BCE.
Oedipus Rex (Οἰδίπους Τύραννος)
Oedipus Rex (Οἰδίπους Τύραννος, Oidipous Tyrannos, Oedipus the King) is Sophocles' tragedy in which Oedipus's plague investigation reveals he killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta; first performed c. 429–420s BCE, Aristotle's model tragedy.
Of the woman came the beginning of sin, and through her we all die
Of the woman came the beginning of sin, and through her we all die is a play by Lily Houghton that premiered Off-Off-Broadway at Medicine Show Theatre, New York, October 3-20, 2019, and became the film Forbidden Fruits.
Off-Broadway
Off-Broadway is professional theater in New York City venues seating 100 to 499, between Broadway (500+) and Off-Off-Broadway (under 100). It emerged in the early 1950s, has its own union contracts, League, Alliance, and Obie Awards, and feeds shows like Rent and Hamilton to Broadway.
Off-color humor
Off-color humor, also known as vulgar humor, is comedy built on rude, risqué material, typically sexual or scatological, that audiences find slightly shocking; the phrase dates to about 1855.
Off-Off-Broadway theatre
Off-Off-Broadway theatre is New York theater staged in houses of fewer than 100 seats, launched around 1959 in Greenwich Village cafés and churches as an experimental scene.
Oggu Katha
Oggu Katha (ఒగ్గు కథ) is a Telangana folk ballad tradition in which hereditary priests narrate the legends of Mallanna, Beerappa, and Yellamma to the oggu drum.
Ogtay Elgiz
Ogtay Elgiz, also known as Ogtay Eloglu (Oqtay Eloğlu), is a play by the Azerbaijani playwright Jafar Jabbarli, written in the early 1920s and staged from 1922.
Oh, Mary!
Oh, Mary! is an American dark comedy play by Cole Escola. It won two 2025 Tony Awards and premiered Off-Broadway in 2024, before transferring to Broadway and the West End.
Oh! Calcutta!
Oh! Calcutta is a highly notorious, erotic revue of sketches and songs about sex, conceived by critic Kenneth Tynan and featuring music by the Open Window.
Ohnsorg-Theater
The Ohnsorg-Theater is a Hamburg folk theater performing almost exclusively in Low German. Founded in 1902, it became nationally famous through NDR television broadcasts from 1954.
Ojapali
Ojapali (ওজাপালি) is a traditional narrative performance art of Assam, India, in which the lead singer, the oja, narrates mythological stories in verse, supported by singing-dancing palis.
Okamoto Kidō
Okamoto Kidō (岡本綺堂, 1872–1939) was a Japanese playwright and novelist, a leading playwright of the Shin Kabuki movement and author of Hanshichi Torimonochō, which founded the Edo-period detective story genre.
Okwui Okpokwasili
Okwui Okpokwasili, born 1972 in the Bronx to Nigerian parents, is an American performer and choreographer known for Bronx Gothic and Poor People's TV Room.
Old Comedy
Old Comedy is the earliest phase of ancient Athenian comic drama, a fifth-century-BC tradition of political satire known chiefly through the eleven surviving plays of Aristophanes.
Olga Khokhlova (Ольга Степановна Хохлова)
Olga Stepanovna Khokhlova (Ольга Степановна Хохлова), 1891–1955, Ukrainian-born Ballets Russes dancer and first wife of Pablo Picasso; married 1918, son Paulo 1921, separated 1935, muse of his neoclassical "Olga period."
Olga Koch (Ольга Альфредовна Кох)
Olga Koch (Ольга Альфредовна Кох) is a Russian-born, London-based stand-up comedian, actor, and writer, daughter of former Russian deputy prime minister Alfred Koch, Edinburgh Best Newcomer nominee in 2018 for Fight.
Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), Irish poet, essayist, dramatist, and novelist of the London literary world, author of The Vicar of Wakefield, The Deserted Village, and She Stoops to Conquer; founding member of Johnson's Club, not the Canadian poet or the university.
Oliver Smith (designer)
Oliver Smith (1918–1994), American scenic designer and producer, not the jeweler or eyewear brand. Designed My Fair Lady, West Side Story, Camelot; co-directed American Ballet Theatre 1945–1980; papers at Library of Congress.
Olympe de Gouges
Olympe de Gouges (Marie Gouze, 1748–1793) was a French playwright and pamphleteer, author of the 1791 Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen and the antislavery play L'Esclavage des Nègres; she was the only woman executed for her political writings during the French Revolution.
Omid Djalili
Omid Djalili, born 1965 in London to Iranian parents, is a British stand-up comedian and actor who broke through at the Edinburgh Fringe in 1995 and starred in The Infidel.
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever: Burton Lane–Alan Jay Lerner musical about hypnosis and reincarnation; Broadway 1965 with Barbara Harris, 1970 Minnelli film with Barbra Streisand, 2011 revival with Harry Connick, Jr.
On the Town (musical)
On the Town: 1944 Broadway musical by Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green from the ballet Fancy Free; three sailors on 24-hour New York leave; 462 performances; 1949 MGM film with Kelly and Sinatra.
Once on This Island
Once on This Island is a 1990 one-act musical by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, adapted from Rosa Guy's novel My Love, My Love, retelling The Little Mermaid in the French Antilles; it ran 469 Broadway performances and won the 2018 Tony for Best Revival.
Ondine (ballet)
Ondine (ballet): Frederick Ashton's 1958 three-act Royal Ballet work, also known as Undine, freely adapted from Fouqué's 1811 tale, with a commissioned Hans Werner Henze score and designs by Lila de Nobili, created for Margot Fonteyn.