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Pete Holmes
Pete Holmes (Peter Benedict Holmes) is an American stand-up comedian from Lexington, Massachusetts, creator and star of HBO's Crashing, host of the You Made It Weird podcast since 2011, former TBS late-night host, and voice of the E-Trade baby.
Peter Brook
Peter Stephen Paul Brook (1925–2022), British theatre and film director; directed RSC landmark King Lear, Marat/Sade, and the trapeze Midsummer Night's Dream, founded CIRT and the Bouffes du Nord in Paris, staged the nine-hour Mahabharata, and wrote The Empty Space.
Peter Cook
Peter Cook (1937–1995) was an English comedian, satirist and writer who led the British satire boom of the early 1960s as a founder of Beyond the Fringe.
Peter Hall (director)
Peter Hall (1930–2017) was an English theater and opera director who founded the Royal Shakespeare Company, led the National Theatre from 1973 to 1988, and directed the English-language premiere of Waiting for Godot in 1955.
Peter Kay
Peter John Kay (born 1973) is an English comedian from Bolton known for Phoenix Nights, Car Share, and observational stand-up; his 2010-11 tour played to 1.2 million people and he holds The O2's only monthly comedy residency.
Peter Morgan
Peter Morgan (born 1963) is a British screenwriter and playwright, creator of The Crown, writer of The Queen, Frost/Nixon, The Deal, and The Last King of Scotland, known for fact-based dramas about public figures.
Petros Adamian
Petros Adamian (Պետրոս Ադամյան) was an Armenian tragedian, poet, and painter who worked in the Ottoman and Russian empires and is regarded as the founder of the Armenian professional theatrical school.
Petrushka (ballet)
Petrushka (Петрушка) is Stravinsky's 1911 burlesque ballet in four scenes, choreographed by Fokine with libretto and designs by Benois for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, premiered 13 June 1911 at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, with Nijinsky as the lovesick puppet killed by the Moor.
Petrushka theater
Petrushka theater (театр Петрушки) was the Russian folk puppet theater of the pre-revolutionary era, a street show around a comic glove puppet performed by an itinerant puppeteer behind a screen.
Phan Phương Oanh
Phan Phương Oanh, born 2003 in Hanoi, is Miss World Vietnam 2025 (crowned 29 March 2025), a National Economics University International Business graduate, former Hoa hậu Việt Nam 2022 Top 10 finalist, and Miss World 2026 Director of External Relations.
Phantasmagoria
Phantasmagoria (French: fantasmagorie) was a horror entertainment in which a hidden magic lantern projected ghosts onto screens, smoke, or walls, popular from 1792 through the 19th century.
Phèdre
Phèdre is a five-act verse tragedy by Jean Racine, first performed at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris on 1 January 1677, retelling the myth of Phaedra's fatal passion for her stepson Hippolytus.
Phil Ellis
Phil Ellis is an English stand-up comedian, actor and writer from Preston, winner of the 2014 Edinburgh Comedy Award panel prize for Funz and Gamez, a Taskmaster series 20 contestant, and creator of the Bath Mat tour.
Phil Hanley
Phil Hanley is a Canadian stand-up comedian from Oshawa, Ontario, a Comedy Cellar regular known for crowd work and dyslexia-centered humor, the 2022 special Ooh La La, and the 2025 memoir Spellbound.
Phil Wang
Phil Wang (Philip Nathaniel Sin Goi Wang, born 1990) is a British-Malaysian stand-up comedian, Cambridge Footlights president, Taskmaster series 7 contestant, and author of Sidesplitter, with Netflix specials Philly Philly Wang Wang and Wang in There, Baby!.
Philip Mosley
Philip Mosley is an English ballet dancer and administrator for The Royal Ballet. He is known for his character roles and his inspiration for the 2000 film Billy Elliot.
Philippe Petit
Philippe Petit (born 1949) is a French high-wire artist who made eight crossings on an illegally rigged cable between the World Trade Center's Twin Towers on 7 August 1974, 1,350 feet up, for about 45 minutes without a net; subject of Man on Wire and The Walk.
Phill Jupitus
Phill Jupitus (born 1962, Newport, Isle of Wight), also Porky the Poet, English comedian, poet, broadcaster and actor; Never Mind the Buzzcocks team captain 1996, BBC 6 Music breakfast host, musicals including Hairspray.
Phillipa Soo
Phillipa Soo (born 1990) is an American actress and singer who originated Eliza Hamilton in Broadway's Hamilton, winning a Grammy and earning Tony and Emmy nominations; also known for Amelie, Into the Woods, Camelot, Doctor Odyssey, and the children's book Piper Chen Sings.
Phoebe Robinson
Phoebe Robinson is an American stand-up comedian, writer, and actress best known as co-creator and co-star of 2 Dope Queens with Jessica Williams, a podcast turned HBO series.
Phyllis Diller
Phyllis Diller (Phyllis Ada Driver, 1917–2012), American stand-up comedian widely considered the first woman solo stand-up comic; creator of the Fang persona, Bob Hope collaborator, and concert pianist as Dame Illya Pillya.
Physical theatre
Physical theatre is a body-centered form of theatre emphasizing movement over dialogue; an umbrella term covering mime, dance, clowning, and devised work, with pioneers including Lecoq, Decroux, Grotowski, and DV8's Lloyd Newson.
Piccolo Teatro (Milan)
Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d'Europa, Italy's first public repertory theatre, founded 14 May 1947 by Giorgio Strehler, Paolo Grassi, and Nina Vinchi; opened with Gorky's The Lower Depths, runs three venues, and celebrates its 80th anniversary in 2027.
Pierrot
Pierrot, from Italian Pedrolino of commedia dell'arte, is the white-faced, white-clad servant character of French pantomime, made famous by Giaratoni (1673) and Deburau, and central to Watteau's painting and modern mime.
Pieter-Dirk Uys
Pieter-Dirk Uys, born 1945 in Cape Town, is a South African actor, playwright, and political satirist best known for performing the Afrikaner socialite Evita Bezuidenhout since the late 1970s.
Piff the Magic Dragon
Piff the Magic Dragon (John van der Put) is an English comedy magician in a dragon costume, AGT Season 10 finalist (2015), headlining the Flamingo Las Vegas since 2015 with chihuahua sidekick Mr Piffles.
Pina Bausch
Pina Bausch (1940-2009), German choreographer and dancer, founder of Tanztheater Wuppertal; pioneered Tanztheater, blending dance, theatre, and speech; known for Café Müller, Nelken, Vollmond, and her question-based rehearsal method.
Ping pong show
A ping pong show (Thai: โชว์ปิงปอง) is a Thai sex show in which women eject objects, especially ping pong balls, from the vagina, performed mostly for tourists.
Pipa Ji
Pipa Ji (琵琶記), also translated The Tale of the Pipa or The Lute, is a Chinese nanxi play by Gao Ming, honored as the ancestor of southern drama.
Pippin (musical)
Pippin is a 1972 Stephen Schwartz and Roger O. Hirson musical, directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, about Charlemagne's son searching for meaning under the Leading Player's control. It ran 1,944 Broadway performances, won five Tonys, and its 2013 circus-styled revival won Best Revival.