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One Day (musical)
One Day: The Musical is a stage adaptation of David Nicholls's 2009 novel One Day, with a book by David Greig, music and lyrics by Johnnyswim's Abner and Amanda Ramirez, directed by Max Webster; it premiered at Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum in 2026 and transfers to the Garrick Theatre, London, from 17 November 2026.
One Man, Two Guvnors
One Man, Two Guvnors: Richard Bean's 2011 farce adapting Goldoni's Servant of Two Masters to 1963 Brighton; National Theatre premiere, James Corden's Tony-winning Broadway run, Grant Olding songs.
Onegin (Cranko)
Onegin is John Cranko's three-act ballet after Pushkin's verse novel, premiered 13 April 1965 by Stuttgart Ballet to Tchaikovsky music arranged by Kurt-Heinz Stolze, with no music from Tchaikovsky's opera; a worldwide narrative-ballet staple.
Onna kabuki
Onna kabuki (女歌舞伎) was the earliest phase of kabuki in Japan, performed by women and courtesans from about 1603 until the shogunate banned female performers in 1629.
Onya Nurve
Onya Nurve, stage name of Justin Woody, is an American drag performer from Cleveland, Ohio and the winner of RuPaul's Drag Race season 17 (2025), the first Ohioan to win, with four challenge wins and a Snatch Game victory as Eddie Murphy.
Opera
Opera (オペラ): sung theater in which music carries the drama, originating in Florence with Peri and Rinuccini's Dafne (1597); distinct from musicals by being entirely sung, with a history running through Venice's first public opera house (1637) to modern houses like the Met.
Opernhaus am Taschenberg
Opernhaus am Taschenberg, also called the Klengelsches Opernhaus, was an opera house in Dresden opened in 1667 with room for 2,000 spectators and became a Catholic court chapel in 1707.
Ophelia
Ophelia is Hamlet's beloved, Polonius's daughter, and Laertes's sister in Shakespeare's Hamlet; she goes mad in Act 4 Scene 5 and drowns, possibly by suicide, becoming an enduring icon in art, opera, film, and pop music.
Orange Justice
Orange Justice is a Rare Fortnite dance emote added May 1, 2018 at Season 4 Battle Pass Tier 26, based on Orange Shirt Kid's losing #Boogiedown contest entry, originally called the Random, later subject of a 2019 lawsuit by his mother Rachel McCumbers.
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF), founded by Angus L. Bowmer in Ashland, Oregon on July 2, 1935, is a major nonprofit rotating repertory theater with three theaters, a 1983 Tony Award, and a 2026 ten-show season.
Oresteia (Ὀρέστεια)
Oresteia (Ὀρέστεια): Aeschylus's three-play trilogy, Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides, staged at the City Dionysia in 458 BCE, winning first prize; the only complete Greek tragic trilogy surviving, ending in the founding of the Areopagus.
Orfeu da Conceição
Orfeu da Conceição is a 1956 musical play by Vinicius de Moraes that transposes the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to a Rio de Janeiro favela during Carnaval.
Original Skin
Original Skin is an autobiographical one-woman play by South African writer Phillippa Yaa de Villiers about being a mixed-race child adopted by a white family in apartheid South Africa.
Orpheus Descending
Orpheus Descending is Tennessee Williams's 1957 Broadway drama, a revision of Battle of Angels recasting the Orpheus and Eurydice myth as wandering guitarist Val Xavier and Lady Torrance in a Southern town.
Orta oyunu
Orta oyunu, "play in the middle," is a traditional Turkish improvised folk theater, related to Karagöz shadow theater, with Kavuklu and Pişekâr as its main comic characters.
Osanai Kaoru
Osanai Kaoru (小山内薫, 1881–1928) was a Japanese playwright, director, and theater critic who founded the Free Theatre in 1909 and the Tsukiji Little Theatre, Japan's first permanent modern theater.
Othello (character)
Othello is the Moorish general and title character of Shakespeare's tragedy Othello, the Moor of Venice; his marriage to Desdemona is destroyed by Iago's manipulation, ending in her murder and his suicide.
Oti Mabuse
Oti Mabuse (Otlile Mabuse, born 1990) is a South African dancer who won Strictly Come Dancing in 2019 and 2020, the first professional to win two years running.
Otto Waalkes
Otto Waalkes (Otto Gerhard Waalkes, 'Otto'), German comedian, musician, actor, and cartoonist born 1948 in Emden; creator of the Ottifanten, star of Otto – Der Film (1985), German voice of Sid in Ice Age.
Our American Cousin
Our American Cousin is Tom Taylor's 1858 three-act comedy, also called the Lincoln assassination play, in which Asa Trenchard inherits an English estate; E. A. Sothern's stammering Lord Dundreary made it a transatlantic hit.
Our Country's Good
Our Country's Good is a 1988 play by Timberlake Wertenbaker about convicts and officers staging a play in Australia's first penal colony, premiering at London's Royal Court Theatre.
Our Town
Our Town is Thornton Wilder's 1938 three-act Pulitzer Prize-winning play about life, love, and death in Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, staged on a bare set with a fourth-wall-breaking Stage Manager; among the most performed American plays.
Ouyang Yuqian
Ouyang Yuqian (欧阳予倩, born Ouyang Liyuan, 1889–1962) was a Chinese playwright, Peking opera performer, film director, and drama educator, a founder of modern spoken drama (huaju) in China.
P. T. Barnum
P.T. Barnum (Phineas Taylor Barnum, 1810-1891) was an American showman who built Barnum's American Museum in New York, promoted Tom Thumb and Jenny Lind, and co-founded the Barnum & Bailey circus.
Pacific Overtures
Pacific Overtures is a 1976 Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman musical, directed by Harold Prince, about Commodore Perry's 1853 opening of Japan, told from a Japanese viewpoint with Kabuki elements.
Paddington: The Musical
Paddington: The Musical is a West End stage musical based on Michael Bond's Paddington books and the 2014 film, with music by Tom Fletcher, book by Jessica Swale, direction by Luke Sheppard, opening at the Savoy Theatre in November 2025 and winning seven Olivier Awards in 2026.
Paddy Young
Paddy Young, Scarborough-born British stand-up comedian, actor and writer; Edinburgh Comedy Awards best newcomer nominee 2023 for Hungry, Horny, Scared; SNL UK Weekend Update co-anchor and Andy Burnham impersonator.
Paint Your Wagon (musical)
Paint Your Wagon is a 1951 Lerner and Loewe Broadway musical set in the 1853 California Gold Rush, running 289 performances at the Shubert Theatre, later adapted into the 1969 Joshua Logan film starring Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood, and known for 'They Call the Wind Maria.'
Pala gan
Pala gan (পালাগান) is a narrative folk song-theater of rural Bengal, originating in Mymensingh, in which a lead singer presents stories through song, dialogue, and dance at fairs and festivals.
Palace Theatre (New York City)
Palace Theatre, 1564 Broadway, New York: 1913 vaudeville flagship built by Martin Beck, designed by Kirchhoff & Rose, home of "playing the Palace"; movie palace from 1932, Broadway house since 1966, lifted 30 feet in the TSX Broadway renovation and reopened in 2024 with 1,648 seats.