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Randai
Randai is the folk theater of the Minangkabau people of West Sumatra, Indonesia, combining silat movement, singing, dance, music, storytelling, and acting in a circular staging.
Randy Feltface
Randy Feltface is a purple felt puppet stand-up comedian created in 2003 by Australian puppeteer Heath McIvor, formerly of the Sammy J and Randy duo (Barry Award 2010), known for solo specials like Randy Writes a Novel and NBC's Bring The Funny.
Randy Rainbow
Randy Rainbow (born 1981, Huntington, NY) is an American comedian and satirist whose YouTube musical parodies and mock interviews of political figures, starting with the 2010 Mel Gibson video, earned Emmy nominations, the album A Little Brains, A Little Talent, and memoirs Playing With Myself and Low-Hanging Fruit.
Rasa Lila
Rasa Lila (रासलीला, also Raslila) is a devotional dance-drama of northern India whose central episode is Krishna's circular night dance with the gopis of Braj.
Raslila
Raslila (रासलीला), also written Ras Lila, is a devotional folk drama of North India's Braj region in which episodes from Krishna's life are enacted through dance, music, and song.
Realism (theatre)
Realism (theatre), also realist theatre or theatrical realism: the 19th-century movement portraying real life on stage, founded in France by Dumas fils and Augier, theorized by Zola, Shaw, and Strindberg, staged via box sets and the fourth wall, and spread by Ibsen, Chekhov, and Stanislavski.
Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1995–96
Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1995–96 covers season 21 (September 30, 1995–May 18, 1996) debuts including Get Off the Shed!, Leg Up, Nightline, Spade in America, Mary Katherine Gallagher, and the Spartan Cheerleaders, created during the show's major post-season-20 cast rebuild.
Redd Foxx
Redd Foxx (John Elroy Sanford, 1922–1991) was an American stand-up comedian, party-record pioneer with over 50 albums, and star of NBC's Sanford and Son (1972–77) as Fred Sanford, influencing Pryor, Rock, Eddie Murphy, and Jamie Foxx.
Redgrave family
The Redgrave family, a British acting dynasty spanning six generations from Cornelius and Roy Redgrave through Sir Michael Redgrave, Rachel Kempson, Vanessa, Corin, and Lynn, and the Richardson and Jemma Redgrave generation.
Redwood (musical)
Redwood (musical): original Broadway musical at the Nederlander Theatre, conceived by Tina Landau and Idina Menzel, music by Kate Diaz, starring Menzel as Jesse; ran February 13 to May 18, 2025, a New York Times Critic's Pick with no Tony nominations.
Reel (dance)
The reel, also known as the Scottish reel or Ruidhleadh, is a lively folk dance and tune type of Scotland and Ireland, recorded as early as 1590.
Regent Theatre, Melbourne
The Regent Theatre, Melbourne is a heritage-listed 1929 Collins Street picture palace, designed by Cedric Ballantyne for Hoyts; it survived a 1945 fire, 1970 closure and demolition threats, and reopened in 1996 as a live theatre.
Regietheater
Regietheater (director's theater) is German-language theatre and opera staging shaped by the director's independent interpretation, opposed to Werktreue; contested since Jessner's 1919 Wilhelm Tell and the 1968 generation.
Regina Taylor
Regina Taylor (born 1960, Dallas) is an American actress and playwright, Golden Globe winner for I'll Fly Away, first Black Juliet on Broadway, and author of Crowns, Oo-Bla-Dee, and Drowning Crow.
Reginald D. Hunter
Reginald Darnell Hunter, American stand-up comedian from Albany, Georgia, based in the UK since 1997; three-time Perrier nominee at Edinburgh Fringe, panel-show regular, and figure of the 2013 PFA awards N-word controversy.
Regional theater in the United States
Regional theater in the United States: professional nonprofit resident theater outside Broadway, begun by Margo Jones and Nina Vance in 1947, symbolized by the 1963 Guthrie Theater, and organized today around LORT's 82 member theaters and TCG's Theatre Facts research.
Rekha Shankar
Rekha Shankar (Rekha Lakshmi Shankar, born 1990) is an American comedian, writer, and actress from Philadelphia, host of Dropout's Smartypants, executive story editor on Grand Crew and Digman!, and maker of the indie film Vidhya's Guide to the Afterlife. Distinct from singers named Rekha on music platforms.
Renaissance theatre
Renaissance theater is the theater of Renaissance Europe, driven by Italy's rediscovery of Vitruvius and perspective scenery, with England evolving a commercial Elizabethan drama from medieval mystery plays.
Rent (musical)
Rent is a rock musical by Jonathan Larson, loosely based on Puccini's La Bohème. It premiered in 1996 and ran for 17 years, becoming a Broadway phenomenon.
Repertory theatre
Repertory theatre: a resident company performing several plays in short runs or rotation, unlike single long-run productions; anchored by the British rep movement from 1907 (Horniman's Manchester Gaiety) and the Moscow Art Theatre model since 1898.
Republican-era Turkish theatre
Republican-era Turkish theatre (Cumhuriyet Dönemi Türk Tiyatrosu) is the Western-style theatrical tradition of Turkey from 1923 onward, when the new state treated theater as a vehicle for spreading republican principles.
ReQuest Dance Crew
ReQuest Dance Crew: all-female hip-hop crew from Auckland, New Zealand, founded 2006 by Parris Goebel at 15; polyswag style; ABDC's first non-North American crew; HHI world champion; featured in Bieber's 'Sorry'.
Respect for Acting
Respect for Acting, Uta Hagen's 1973 Macmillan book written with Haskel Frankel, is a Stanislavski-based acting manual built on her object exercises, substitution, and nine character questions; a durable standard text reissued in a 2023 expanded edition.
Restoration comedy
Restoration comedy, also called comedy of manners, is English satirical comedy of roughly 1660 to 1710, written after Charles II reopened the theatres; known for sexual explicitness, witty aristocratic dialogue, and plays like The Country Wife and The Way of the World.
Reuben Kaye
Reuben Kaye (born Reuben Krum, 1984, Melbourne) is an Australian comedian, singer and drag cabaret artist; stage name honors Danny Kaye. Known for The Butch Is Back, Live and Intimidating, Apocalipstik, and as Artistic Director of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2026–2027.
Revenge tragedy
Revenge tragedy is a genre of English Renaissance drama in which an avenger destroys both the guilty and usually himself, exemplified by Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy and Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Revue
Revue: a light theatrical entertainment of sketches, songs, and dances without a plot, satirizing current events. Originated in 19th-century France; flourished as Ziegfeld Follies, Scandals, and Vanities in America; declined with television.
Rhinoceros (play)
Rhinocéros (Les Rhinocéros, The Rhinoceros) is Eugène Ionesco's 1959 three-act, four-tableau absurdist play in which a French town's inhabitants become rhinoceroses until only Bérenger resists; premiered in Düsseldorf 1959 and Paris 1960.
Rhod Gilbert
Rhod Gilbert (born 1968, Carmarthen) is a Welsh stand-up comedian and TV presenter known for angry routines, Work Experience, and his 2022 head and neck cancer documentary A Pain in the Neck.
Rhona Cameron
Rhona Cameron (born 1965) is a Scottish stand-up comedian, writer and actor, winner of Channel 4's 1992 comedy award, host of Gaytime TV, star of the sitcom Rhona, author of 1979, and Una Struan in The Chief.