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Sarah Kane
Sarah Kane (1971–1999), English playwright and director from Brentwood, Essex; author of Blasted, Phaedra's Love, Cleansed, Crave, and 4.48 Psychosis, central to in-yer-face theatre and modern European drama.
Sarah Kendall
Sarah Kendall (born 1976) is an Australian comedian and writer from Newcastle, NSW, based in London; Perrier 2004 and Edinburgh Comedy Award 2015 nominee, creator of Radio 4's Australian Trilogy and Sky/ABC's Frayed, and Taskmaster Series 11 champion.
Sarah Millican
Sarah Millican, English stand-up comedian born 1975 in South Shields; former civil servant who won the 2008 Edinburgh Comedy Best Newcomer Award for Sarah Millican's Not Nice, hosted The Sarah Millican Television Programme on BBC Two, and released the Late Bloomer special on Netflix and Channel 4.
Sarah Sherman
Sarah Sherman (born 1993), stage name Sarah Squirm, is an American body-horror comedian from Great Neck, Long Island, an SNL featured player hired in 2021, later repertory, known for Helltrap Nightmare and the HBO special Live + In The Flesh.
Sarah Silverman
Sarah Silverman (born 1970, Bedford, New Hampshire) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, and writer known for taboo-pushing comedy, The Sarah Silverman Program, two Primetime Emmys, and the 2025 special PostMortem.
Sarah Stiles
Sarah Stiles, American stage and screen actress born 1979 in Massachusetts, two-time Tony nominee for Hand to God and Tootsie, known for Avenue Q, Billions, Get Shorty, The Crew, and voicing Spinel in Steven Universe.
Saroj Khan
Saroj Khan (सरोज खान, born Nirmala Nagpal, 1948; died 2020) was Hindi cinema's pioneering female choreographer, known as Masterji. She choreographed over 2,000 songs for 344 films, including Hawa Hawai, Ek Do Teen and Dola Re Dola, winning 3 National Film Awards and 8 Filmfare Awards.
Sarswela
Sarswela (also spelled sarsuwela) is a Philippine form of musical theater derived from the Spanish zarzuela, dialogue-heavy like an operetta, and used for political protest under American rule.
Sarugaku Dangi
Sarugaku Dangi (申楽談儀, Talks on Sarugaku) is a 1430 record of Noh master Zeami's comments on his art, written down by his second son Kanze Motoyoshi.
Sascha Radetsky
Sascha Radetsky, born in 1977, is an American ballet dancer and actor who danced as a soloist with American Ballet Theatre and played Charlie in the film Center Stage.
Sasha Velour
Sasha Velour (Alexander Hedges Steinberg, born 1987) is a Brooklyn-based gender-fluid drag queen, artist, and illustrator who won RuPaul's Drag Race season 9 in 2017 with the rose-petal "So Emotional" lip-sync, and later created NightGowns, Smoke & Mirrors, The Big Reveal, and Travesty.
Sattriya
Sattriya (সত্ৰীয়া নৃত্য) is Assam's classical dance, created in the 15th century by Srimanta Sankardeva within Vaishnavite satras, recognized by the Sangeet Natak Akademi on 15 November 2000 as India's eighth classical dance form.
Satya Harishchandra
Satya Harishchandra (సత్య హరిశ్చంద్ర) is the Telugu dramatic and literary tradition around King Harishchandra of Ayodhya, whose refusal to speak an untruth costs him his kingdom, family, and freedom.
Savion Glover
Savion Glover (born 1973) is an American tap dancer and Tony-winning choreographer, star of Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk, known for free-style hard core hoofing and Happy Feet.
Savoy Theatre, London
The Savoy Theatre is a West End theater in London, built in 1881 for Richard D'Oyly Carte and the first theater lit entirely by electricity.
Sawing a woman in half
Sawing a woman in half, also called Sawing Through a Woman, is the classic stage magic illusion first performed by P.T. Selbit in London on 17 January 1921, with Horace Goldin's head-and-feet box variant and patent following in 1921-1923.
Scaramouche
Scaramouche (Italian: Scaramuccia, meaning "skirmish") is a boastful, cowardly braggart soldier of the commedia dell'arte, made famous by the Neapolitan actor Tiberio Fiorilli in Paris from 1640.
Scenic design
Scenic design, also called set design or stage design, is the creation of scenery, furniture, and props for plays and musicals. Rooted in Appia and Craig's New Stagecraft, it now spans drafting, models, lighting, and digital projection.
Scenic painting
Scenic painting is the craft of painting theatrical scenery, backcloths, flats, floors, and props, traditionally in distemper (glue and pigment) on linen, now in vinyl acrylics, using paint frames, gridding, scumbling, glazing, and aging, and differing physically from projection in its response to stage light.
Schmigadoon! (musical)
Schmigadoon! is a 2026 Broadway musical with book, music, and lyrics by Cinco Paul, adapted from the Apple TV+ series; it won the 2026 Tony for Best Musical at the Nederlander Theatre.
Scholarship on acting theory
Scholarship on acting theory is the academic study of acting as a practice and cultural phenomenon, covering histories, semiotic and phenomenological accounts, and studies of performance traditions.
School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play
School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play is a 2017 comedy by Jocelyn Bioh set in 1986 at Ghana's Aburi Girls Boarding School, where queen bee Paulina is challenged by new student Ericka for the Miss Ghana pageant spot; it won the Lortel Award for Best Play and reached Broadway in 2026.
School of American Ballet
The School of American Ballet is a ballet academy in New York City, founded in 1934 by Lincoln Kirstein and George Balanchine, and the official school of New York City Ballet since 1948.
Science fiction theatre
Science fiction theatre: live stage drama with sf premises, from the 1823 Frankenstein adaptation Presumption and Čapek's R.U.R. (1921) to Willingham's 328-play catalog and today's growing genre playwriting.
Scrim (material)
Scrim (theatrical gauze): open-weave fabric, opaque when front-lit and transparent when backlit, used for stage reveals and ghost effects; also coarse cloth for upholstery and sail making; sharkstooth gauze is the standard type.
Sean Hughes (comedian)
Sean Hughes (born John Hughes, 1965–2017), Irish stand-up comedian, author, and actor; youngest Perrier Award winner (1990, age 24), star of Sean's Show, and original Never Mind the Buzzcocks team captain 1996–2002; died of liver-related cardiac arrest; £4m estate left to Shelter.
Sean Lock
Sean Lock (1963–2021) was an English stand-up comedian, writer and actor, team captain on 8 Out of 10 Cats and its Countdown spin-off, creator of 15 Storeys High, and 2000 British Comedy Award best standup winner.
Sean Mathias
Sean Mathias, Welsh theatre and film director born 1956 in Swansea, directed Bent (stage and film), the Tony-nominated Indiscretions, and McKellen-Stewart Waiting for Godot and No Man's Land; Artistic Director of Theatre Royal Haymarket and Windsor.
Seann Walsh
Seann Walsh (born 1985) is an English stand-up comedian from Brighton, Chortle Best Newcomer 2009, known for observational comedy, the 2018 Strictly Come Dancing kissing scandal with Katya Jones, and I'm a Celebrity 2022.
Sebastian Maniscalco
Sebastian Maniscalco (born 1973, Arlington Heights, Illinois) is an American stand-up comedian and actor known for physical, observational Italian-American family comedy, seven specials, films like The Irishman and About My Father, and record-breaking arena tours.