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Pranit More
Pranit More (born 1991) is an Indian stand-up comedian and former radio jockey from Mumbai, also known as Maharashtrian Bhau, a Bigg Boss 19 second runner-up famous for crowd-work shows and the 2026 Rs 370 biryani controversy and FIR.
Pratibimb
Pratibimb (प्रतिबिंब, "Reflection") is a Marathi play by Mahesh Elkunchwar, part of the theater of the absurd, in which an office worker wakes to find his reflection missing.
Pratimanataka
Pratimanataka (प्रतिमानाटकम्, The Statue Play) is a seven-act Sanskrit drama attributed to Bhasa, drawn from the Ramayana and named for the statue-house scene where Bharata learns of his father's death.
Praveenar Singh (ประวีณา สิงห์)
Praveenar Singh (ประวีณา สิงห์), also known as Veena Praveenar Singh, is a Thai actress of Indian heritage who won Miss Universe Thailand 2025 and placed first runner-up at Miss Universe 2025.
Premieres of the Ballets Russes
The premieres of the Ballets Russes were the first performances of ballets staged by Sergei Diaghilev's company, which debuted in Paris in 1909 and dissolved after his death in 1929.
Premio Nacional de Teatro
Premio Nacional de Teatro is the name of national theater awards in Spain, Argentina, and Costa Rica, including Spain's annual Ministry of Culture prize worth 30,000 euros.
Present Laughter
Present Laughter is a 1942 comedy of manners by Noël Coward about vain matinee idol Garry Essendine, a self-portrait role Coward played first; notable Garrys include Ian McKellen, Kevin Kline, Andrew Scott, and Tracy-Ann Oberman's gender-switched Geri.
Pride (musical)
Pride is a 2026 British stage musical based on the 2014 film, with book and lyrics by Stephen Beresford, music by Christopher Nightingale, Josh Cohen, and DJ Walde, directed by Matthew Warchus. It premiered at Cardiff's Sherman Theatre and the National Theatre's Dorfman before transferring to the Bridge Theatre in November 2026.
Princess Maleine
La Princesse Maleine, Maeterlinck's 1889 five-act symbolist drama for a puppet theatre, adapted from Grimm's Jungfrau Maleen, made famous by Mirbeau's 1890 Le Figaro review.
Princess Theatre (Melbourne)
Princess Theatre, Spring Street Melbourne (Princess's Theatre and Opera House): heritage theatre site in use since 1854; William Pitt's 1886 French Second Empire building with sliding roof, restored 1989, capacity 1,500.
Prisiadki
Prisiadki (присядка) are deep-squat dance movements of Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian male folk dance, divided into half-squats and full squats, also used in Ukrainian national martial arts and plyometric training.
Prithvi Theatre
Prithvi Theatre is a 200-seat non-profit thrust-stage theatre in Juhu, Mumbai, inaugurated 5 November 1978 by Shashi and Jennifer Kapoor in memory of Prithviraj Kapoor, founder of the touring Prithvi Theatres company (1944).
Prix de Lausanne
Prix de Lausanne: annual international ballet competition for dancers aged 15–18, held since 1973 at the Théâtre de Beaulieu, Lausanne; video preselection, jury of nine, scholarships to partner schools and companies; 14 prize winners in 2026.
Production play
The production play (производственная пьеса) is a genre of Soviet drama in which conflict centers on the workplace, widespread after World War II and most popular in the 1970s.
Prometheus Bound
Prometheus Bound (Προμηθεὺς δεσμώτης, Prometheus Vinctus) is a Greek tragedy of disputed authorship in the Aeschylean corpus, showing the chained Titan defying Zeus through visitors including Oceanus, Io, and Hermes.
Promises, Promises (musical)
Promises, Promises is a 1968 Broadway musical with music by Burt Bacharach, lyrics by Hal David, and book by Neil Simon, adapted from Billy Wilder's film The Apartment; it ran 1,281 performances and was revived on Broadway in 2010 with Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth.
Prop
Prop (short for "property") is the movable object used in theater, film, or TV performance that is neither set nor costume. Covers etymology, prop categories, the props department, and reuse.
Proscenium
Proscenium, or picture-frame stage (Dutch lijsttheater, German Guckkastenbühne): a theatre form with an arch separating auditorium from stagehouse; its etymology, history, masking, fourth wall, and comparison with thrust and arena stages.
Prospero
Prospero, the magician-duke of Milan in Shakespeare's The Tempest, exiled with Miranda, Ariel, and Caliban; deposed by Antonio, he raises the tempest, rules the island, and abjures his rough magic.
Prosthetic makeup
Prosthetic makeup is a special effects discipline using sculpted silicone, foam latex, or gelatine appliances applied to performers to create aging, wounds, and creatures; pioneered by Lon Chaney and Dick Smith, recognized by the Emmy category Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup.
Protima Bedi (प्रोतिमा गौरी बेदी)
Protima Bedi (प्रोतिमा गौरी बेदी, born Protima Gupta, 1948-1998), Indian model turned Odissi dancer and disciple of Kelucharan Mohapatra; founder of Nrityagram, the dance village near Hesaraghatta, Bangalore, inaugurated in 1990; died in a Himalayan landslide in 1998.
Provincetown Players
The Provincetown Players was an American amateur theater company founded in 1915 by Greenwich Village writers to stage experimental new plays, launching Eugene O'Neill's career.
Provincial Anecdotes
Provincial Anecdotes (Провинциальные анекдоты) is a 1968 diptych of two tragicomic one-act plays by the Soviet Russian playwright Alexander Vampilov, set in a provincial hotel.
Psychodrama
Psychodrama is an action-based psychotherapy founded by Jacob L. Moreno, using role-play techniques such as role reversal, doubling, and mirroring, mostly in group format; evidence shows large effects versus passive controls but no advantage over active controls.
Public speaking
Public speaking: delivering speeches to live audiences to inform, persuade, or entertain, also called rhetoric or oratory. Covers its Greek rhetorical roots, elocution movement, Toastmasters training, delivery modes, and speech anxiety management.
Pulcinella
Pulcinella (Polichinelle, Punch) is the Neapolitan comic mask of the Commedia dell'arte, created around 1600 and credited to actor Silvio Fiorillo: white costume, hooked-nose black mask, squeaky voice, gluttonous trickster and symbol of Naples.
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Annual Columbia University award of $15,000 for a distinguished play by an American author dealing with American life; first given in 1918, withheld 15 times, known for the 1963 Albee controversy and musical winners like Hamilton.
Punch (play)
Punch is a 2024 James Graham play based on Jacob Dunne's memoir Right From Wrong about his 2011 one-punch killing of James Hodgkinson and the restorative justice meetings with the victim's parents; it won two 2026 Olivier Awards.
Punch and Judy
Punch and Judy, the traditional British glove-puppet seaside show, descends from commedia dell'arte's Pulcinella and was first recorded by Samuel Pepys in Covent Garden on 9 May 1662; its slapstick violence, swazzle voice, and dwindling modern circuit distinguish it from other puppet traditions.
Punchdrunk (theatre company)
Punchdrunk, British immersive theatre company founded in 2000 by Felix Barrett; pioneers of masked, free-roaming shows; Sleep No More ran in New York from 2011 and Shanghai from 2016; permanent Woolwich home since 2022.