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Rose Matafeo
Rose Matafeo (born 1992) is a New Zealand comedian, actress, and writer of Samoan and Scottish-Croatian descent, winner of the 2018 Edinburgh Comedy Award for Horndog and creator-star of the sitcom Starstruck.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is Tom Stoppard's 1966 absurdist, metatheatrical retelling of Hamlet from the viewpoint of two doomed minor characters; it moved from the Edinburgh Fringe to the National Theatre and Broadway, winning the 1968 Tony for Best Play, and was filmed in 1990.
Rosie Sheehy
Rosie Sheehy, Welsh actress from Port Talbot and RADA graduate (2015), twice Olivier Best Actress nominee for Machinal (2025) and Guess How Much I Love You? (2026), with stage credits including Oleanna, The Oresteia, and screen work in Chernobyl and Pillion.
Ross Bryant
Ross Bryant is an American comedian, improviser, and writer based in Los Angeles, known for The Improvised Shakespeare Company, Dropout shows, and Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Ross Noble
Ross Noble (born 1976, Newcastle upon Tyne) is an English stand-up comedian known for semi-improvised, surreal tangents and audience interaction; Perrier nominee, 15 world tours, Freewheeling on Dave, and Igor in Young Frankenstein.
Roundhouse (venue)
The Roundhouse, Camden, London: a Grade II listed 1846-7 railway turntable engine shed on Chalk Farm Road, later a Gilbey gin warehouse, 1960s rock venue (Pink Floyd, Hendrix), closed 1983, reopened 2006 after £30m rebuild with 3,300 standing capacity.
Roxie Hart
Roxie Hart is the murderous, fame-seeking chorus girl at the center of Maurine Dallas Watkins's 1926 play Chicago and its musical, inspired by Beulah Annan's 1924 trial; played by Gwen Verdon (1975), Ann Reinking (1996 revival), and many celebrity replacements.
Roxxxy Andrews
Roxxxy Andrews (Michael Feliciano) is an American drag performer from Orlando, Florida, runner-up on Drag Race season 5 (2013) to Jinkx Monsoon and on All Stars 9 alongside Vanjie, famed for her double wig reveal and lip syncs.
Roy Chubby Brown
Roy Chubby Brown, stage name of Royston Vasey (born 1945, Grangetown, Middlesbrough), English blue stand-up comedian in flying helmet and patchwork suit; huge video sales, no TV series, repeated venue bans.
Roy Hudd
Roy Hudd (1936-2020), English comedian, actor and broadcaster; host of BBC Radio 2's The News Huddlines (1975-2001), Coronation Street's Archie Shuttleworth, and president of the British Music Hall Society.
Roy Wood Jr.
Roy Wood Jr. (Roy Norris Wood Jr., born 1978) is an American comedian from Birmingham, Alabama, a Daily Show correspondent 2015-2023, 2023 White House Correspondents' Dinner headliner, host of CNN's Have I Got News for You, and author of the memoir The Man of Many Fathers. Not the musician Roy Wood or the singer Roy Woods.
Royal Academy of Dance
Royal Academy of Dance (RAD), founded 1920 in London as the Association of Teachers of Operatic Dancing, is a global ballet exam board and teacher-training body with graded and vocational exams in over 80 countries.
Royal Alexandra Theatre
The Royal Alexandra Theatre is a 1907 Beaux-Arts playhouse on King Street West in Toronto, recognized as the oldest legitimate theater in continuous operation in North America.
Royal Court Theatre
Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, London: Grade II listed 1888 playhouse, home since 1952 of the English Stage Company, Britain's new-writing producing theatre of Look Back in Anger, Saved and Top Girls.
Royal Danish Theatre
Royal Danish Theatre (Det Kongelige Teater), Denmark's national stage founded in 1748 under Frederik V at Kongens Nytorv, houses drama, opera, ballet, and the Royal Danish Orchestra across three Copenhagen buildings.
Royal Dramatic Theatre
The Royal Dramatic Theatre (Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern, Dramaten) is Sweden's national stage for spoken theatre, founded by Gustav III in 1788 and housed since 1908 in Fredrik Lilljekvist's Jugend building at Nybroplan, Stockholm. Distinguishing facts: wholly state-owned limited company, six stages led by Stora scenen (770 seats), about 1,000 performances and 210,000 visitors yearly.
Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, also known as the Edinburgh Tattoo, is an annual show of military bands, dancing, and drilling held each August at Edinburgh Castle.
Royal Exchange, Manchester
The Royal Exchange, Manchester: a producing theatre-in-the-round opened 15 September 1976, a seven-sided steel pod inside the Grade II listed former cotton exchange on St Ann's Square, seating 759, rebuilt after the 1996 IRA bomb.
Royal National Theatre
Royal National Theatre (National Theatre): publicly funded producing theatre company on London's South Bank in Denys Lasdun's 1976 Brutalist building; Royal prefix 1988; three auditoria; Indhu Rubasingham its first woman artistic director from 2025.
Royal Shakespeare Company
Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), British theatre company founded 1961 by Peter Hall in Stratford-upon-Avon; performs at the Royal Shakespeare, Swan, and The Other Place theatres; runs First Encounters schools tours and Matilda The Musical; charity 212481.
Royal Variety Performance
The Royal Variety Performance is the UK's annual royal charity variety gala, begun as a Royal Command Performance on 1 July 1912 before George V, held since 1921 in aid of the Royal Variety Charity and Brinsworth House, now televised to over 152 million viewers.
Rudolf Benesh
Rudolf Benesh (1916–1975) was a British accountant and amateur painter who, with his wife Joan, devised Benesh Movement Notation, now used by over 50 dance organizations.
Rudolf Laban
Rudolf Laban (1879–1958) was a dancer, choreographer, and movement theorist born in Bratislava who created Labanotation, a dance notation system still taught and certified today.
Rudolf Nureyev
Rudolf Nureyev (Рудольф Нуреев, 1938-1993) was a Soviet Kirov Ballet dancer who defected in Paris in 1961, partnered Margot Fonteyn at The Royal Ballet, led the Paris Opera Ballet 1983-1989, and restaged Petipa classics still danced there.
Rufus Hound
Rufus Hound, born Robert James Blair Simpson in 1979, is an English comedian, actor, and presenter known for Celebrity Juice, Mock the Week, the CBBC sitcom Hounded, and West End roles in One Man, Two Guvnors, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and The Wind in the Willows.
Rukmini Devi Arundale
Rukmini Devi Arundale (1904–1986), Indian theosophist, dancer, and choreographer; revived and renamed sadhir as Bharatanatyam, founded Kalakshetra in 1936, first woman nominated to the Rajya Sabha, and founding chair of the Animal Welfare Board of India.
Rukmini Harana (Sankaradeva)
Rukmini Harana (ৰুক্মিণী হৰণ, "The Abduction of Rukmini") is a one-act devotional play by Assamese saint-poet Srimanta Sankaradeva, dramatizing Krishna's rescue of Rukmini from an arranged marriage.
Rukmini Vijayakumar
Rukmini Vijayakumar (born 1980) is a Bengaluru-based Bharatanatyam dancer, choreographer, and actress; founder of the Raadha Kalpa Dance Company, LshVa art space, and the Raadha Kalpa Method training system, known for Sukanya at the Royal Opera House and films like Bhajarangi and Kaatru Veliyidai.
Russell Howard
Russell Howard (born 1980) is a British stand-up comedian and TV presenter known for Mock the Week, Russell Howard's Good News, The Russell Howard Hour, and large-scale world comedy tours.
Russell Kane
Russell Kane, English stand-up comedian, actor, and writer; won the 2010 Edinburgh Comedy Award and Melbourne Barry Award, hosts the Evil Genius podcast, and tours the show HyperActive.