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Russell Peters
Russell Peters (born Russell Dominic Peters, 1970), Canadian stand-up comedian. Broke out via his 2004 Comedy Now! special on YouTube; first comedian to sell out Toronto's Air Canada Centre (2007); Peabody and Emmy winner for Hip-Hop Evolution.
Russian and Soviet theatre tradition
The Russian and Soviet theater tradition is a director-led lineage of theatrical practice running from 18th-century imperial court theaters to today's state-subsidized Russian theaters, shaped by ongoing state control.
Russian political jokes
Russian political jokes, also called Soviet jokes or anekdoty, are humorous oral narratives satirizing Soviet rulers and everyday life; under Stalin roughly 200,000 people were imprisoned for telling them.
Rustaveli National Theatre
The Rustaveli National Theatre is a drama theater in Tbilisi, Georgia, housed since 1901 in a baroque and rococo building and named after the medieval poet Shota Rustaveli.
Ruth St. Denis
Ruth St. Denis (Ruth Dennis, 1879–1968), American modern dance pioneer and Denishawn co-founder with Ted Shawn; creator of Radha (1906), teacher of Graham, Humphrey, and Weidman.
Ruthie Ann Miles
Ruthie Ann Miles (Ruthie Ann Blumenstein), Korean-American stage and TV actress born 1983; Tony winner 2015 as Lady Thiang in The King and I; originated Imelda Marcos in Here Lies Love; 2023 Sweeney Todd Tony nominee.
Ruthie Henshall
Ruthie Henshall (Valentine Ruth Henshall, born 1967) is an English musical theatre actress and Olivier Award winner (She Loves Me, 1995), the only British actress to play all three leading female roles in Chicago, known for Les Misérables, Cats, Billy Elliot, and her memoir The Showgirl and the Prince.
Ruy Blas
Ruy Blas is a five-act drama in verse by Victor Hugo, first performed on 8 November 1838 to open the Théâtre de la Renaissance in Paris, and set in 17th-century Spain.
Ryan Stiles
Ryan Stiles (Ryan Lee Stiles, born 1959, Seattle) is an American-Canadian improv comedian and actor, longest-running performer on the British Whose Line Is It Anyway?, co-executive producer of the US version, and Lewis on The Drew Carey Show.
Rylee Arnold
Rylee Arnold (born 2005) is an American pro dancer on Dancing with the Stars from Provo, Utah; Lindsay Arnold's youngest sister; DWTS Juniors runner-up; type 1 diabetes advocate; partners included Harry Jowsey, Stephen Nedoroscik, Scott Hoying, and Connor Wood.
Ryota Yamasato (山里亮太)
Ryota Yamasato (山里亮太), born 1977 in Chiba, is a Japanese comedian of the duo Nankai Candies, MC of Nippon TV's DayDay., host of TBS Radio's Fumō na Giron, and creator of the secretive solo live tour Yamasato Ryota no 140.
Sa'dallah Wannous (سعد الله ونوس)
Sa'dallah Wannous (سعد الله ونوس) was a Syrian playwright whose politically critical plays made him one of the Arab world's leading dramatists until his death in 1997.
Sabre Dance
Sabre Dance (Սուսերով պար) is a 1942 orchestral movement from the final act of Aram Khachaturian's ballet Gayane, originally called Dance of the Kurds, famous for its xylophone melody and circus, cartoon, and film uses.
Sadaarame
Sadaarame (ಸದಾರಮೆ) is a Kannada comedy play by Bellave Narahari Shastri, one of the most popular works of early Kannada company theater, filmed as a talkie in 1935 and 1956 and revived as Miss Sadaarame.
Safdar Hashmi
Safdar Hashmi (1954–1989), Indian playwright, poet, and CPI(M) activist, co-founded Jana Natya Manch (Janam) street theatre group in 1973; killed 1 January 1989 performing Halla Bol in Jhandapur, Sahibabad; commemorated through Sahmat and Studio Safdar.
Saïd Ben Mohamed
Saïd Ben Mohamed (Saïd Mahomet), Moroccan itinerant performer in French police registers: an acrobat registered 1845–46 (born Ayt Hha, domiciled Oran) and possibly a lyric singer 1874–77 (born Mogador); alias 'Le Petit sans Pareil' unattested.
Sainete
The sainete is a short, comic Spanish theatrical piece, usually one act with popular characters and settings, given shape by Ramón de la Cruz in eighteenth-century Madrid.
Sainete criollo
The sainete criollo is a short, one-act musical theater genre from Buenos Aires and Montevideo that portrays immigrant life in conventillo tenements from the late 19th century.
Saint Joan
Saint Joan is a chronicle play in six scenes and an epilogue by George Bernard Shaw about the trial and execution of Joan of Arc, first performed in New York in 1923.
Şair Evlenmesi
Şair Evlenmesi (The Marriage of the Poet) is an 1859 one-act comedy by the Ottoman writer İbrahim Şinasi that satirizes arranged marriage and is regarded as the first original Turkish play.
Sakharam Binder
Sakharam Binder (सखाराम बाइंडर) is a 1972 Marathi play by Vijay Tendulkar about a Bombay bookbinder who keeps discarded women as servants and sexual partners.
Sal Iacono
Sal Iacono, "Cousin Sal" (born 1971), American comedian, Emmy-winning writer, and attorney; cousin of Jimmy Kimmel, writer on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, host of Against All Odds podcast and FS1's Lock It In.
Sal Vulcano
Sal Vulcano, born Salvatore Edward Anthony Vulcano in 1976, is an American stand-up comedian and actor from Staten Island, best known as co-creator, executive producer, and star of truTV's Impractical Jokers.
Salle Le Peletier
Salle Le Peletier, also known as the Opéra Le Peletier, was the Paris Opéra's home on the rue Le Peletier from 1821 until it burned in 1873.
Sally Murphy (actress)
Sally Murphy (born 1962, Chicago) is an American actress and Steppenwolf ensemble member since 1993, known for originating Broadway roles in The Grapes of Wrath, Carousel, August: Osage County, and Linda Vista, and for films Scent of a Woman, Fearless, and Pollock.
Sally Rand
Sally Rand (Helen Gould Beck, 1904-1979), American burlesque dancer famous for her ostrich-feather fan dance and bubble dance at Chicago's 1933 Century of Progress World's Fair; repeatedly arrested for indecency, performed into her seventies.
Salome (play)
Salomé is a one-act tragedy by Oscar Wilde, written in French in Paris in 1891–92; the only work Wilde wrote in another language, banned from the British stage until 1930.
Salsa (dance)
Salsa (dance): a Latin partner dance family from Cuban son and mambo, named by Fania Records in 1960s New York; danced at 160–220 BPM in Casino, LA On1, NY On2, and Cali styles.
Sam Campbell (comedian)
Sam Campbell is an Australian absurdist comedian based partly in the UK, winner of the 2018 Barry Award and 2022 Edinburgh Comedy Award, Taskmaster series 16 champion, and creator of Channel 4's Make That Movie.
Sam Hyde
Samuel Whitcomb Hyde, known as Sam Hyde, is an American comedian and writer born in 1985 who co-founded Million Dollar Extreme and created the livestream show Fishtank.