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Shakuntala (play)
Shakuntala (Abhijñānaśākuntalam), Kalidasa's seven-act Sanskrit play of the late 4th/early 5th century CE, dramatizes Shakuntala and King Dushyanta's romance, separation by a curse, and reunion through a recognition ring; first translated by William Jones in 1789.
Shalimar Seiuli
Shalimar Seiuli (Saoaumaga Atisone Seiuli), Samoan fa'afafine dancer and 1993 Miss Island Queen, was arrested in 1997 after being picked up by Eddie Murphy's SUV in West Hollywood; she died in a fall in Los Angeles on 22 April 1998, ruled accidental but doubted by her community, and her life inspired the play Girl on a Corner.
Shane Gillis
Shane Gillis, American stand-up comedian born 1987 in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, host of Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast, fired from SNL in 2019, later hosted SNL three times, Netflix's Tires and Beautiful Dogs.
Shantata! Court Chalu Ahe
Shantata! Court Chalu Ahe (शांतता! कोर्ट चालू आहे; "Silence! The Court Is in Session") is a Marathi play by Vijay Tendulkar, first performed in 1967, in which amateur actors' mock trial becomes a real inquisition.
Shari Lewis
Shari Lewis (Phyllis Naomi Hurwitz, 1933/1934–1998), American ventriloquist and puppeteer, creator of sock puppet Lamb Chop; twelve Emmys, Peabody, NBC and PBS children's television, conductor.
Shari Sebbens
Shari Sebbens (born 1985) is a Bardi Jabirr Jabirr Australian actor and theatre director from Darwin, known for Kay in The Sapphires, a 2013 Logie for Redfern Now, the STC Richard Wherrett Fellowship, and directing Fences and City of Gold.
Sharman Macdonald
Sharman Macdonald (born 1951, Glasgow) is a Scottish playwright, screenwriter, and novelist, mother of Keira Knightley. Her first play When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout won the 1984 Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright award; The Winter Guest was directed by Alan Rickman on stage and film.
Sharmishtha
Sharmishtha (শর্মিষ্ঠা) is a Bengali drama in five acts by Michael Madhusudan Dutt, published in 1859 and regarded as the first successful original Bengali play in the Western style.
Sharon Washington (actress)
Sharon Washington (born 1959) is an American actress and playwright, a Yale School of Drama MFA who grew up in a NYPL custodial apartment, wrote and performs the solo play Feeding the Dragon, appeared in The Scottsboro Boys and Joker, and was nominated for a 2023 Tony for New York, New York.
Shay Latukolan
Shay Latukolan (born 1992) is a Dutch choreographer and movement director based in Amsterdam, best known for choreographing Jungle's viral "Back On 74" video and Volcano visual album.
She Stoops to Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer; or, The Mistakes of a Night is Oliver Goldsmith's 1773 comedy of manners, premiered at Covent Garden on 15 March 1773, in which Marlow mistakes the Hardcastle house for an inn and Kate Hardcastle poses as a barmaid.
She-tragedy
She-tragedy is a form of English pathetic tragedy, popular from the 1690s into the early eighteenth century, centered on a suffering heroine rather than a fallen male hero.
Shea Couleé
Shea Couleé (Jaren Merrell), Chicago non-binary drag performer, winner of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 5 (2020) and All Stars 7 finalist, first drag queen cast in the MCU as Slug in Ironheart, debut album 8 (2023).
Shecky Greene
Shecky Greene (Fred Sheldon Greenfield, 1926–2023), American comedian and actor, Las Vegas lounge headliner from the 1950s to 1970s, opening act for Elvis Presley in 1956 and Sinatra, earned up to $150,000 a week, known for fully improvised acts, played Pvt. Braddock on Combat!.
Sheila Atim
Sheila Atim MBE (born 1991) is a Ugandan-born British actress, singer, composer, and playwright who won Olivier Awards in 2018 and 2022 and appeared in The Woman King.
Shelby Chong
Shelby Chong, born Shelby Fiddis, is an American comedian, actress and producer, wife and stage partner of Tommy Chong; Cheech & Chong film actress and associate producer, opener on their reunion tours.
Shelley Berman
Shelley Berman (1925–2017), Chicago-born comedian and actor of the Compass Players/Second City lineage, pioneered seated telephone-monologue stand-up; his Inside Shelley Berman was the first gold-record comedy album and first non-musical Grammy winner, and he played Nat David on Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Shelley Plimpton
Shelley Plimpton (born 1947, Rosebury, Oregon) is an American actress who created Crissy in Hair Off-Broadway 1967 and on Broadway 1968, singing "Frank Mills"; mother of Martha Plimpton with Keith Carradine.
Shen Jing
Shen Jing (沈璟, 1553–1610) was a Ming dynasty playwright and music theorist from Wujiang, Suzhou, who founded the Wujiang school and compiled a tune manual of 652 patterns.
Shepherd's Bush Empire
Shepherd's Bush Empire, also O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire, is a Grade II listed 1903 Frank Matcham variety theatre on Shepherd's Bush Green, London, built for Oswald Stoll, BBC Television Theatre from 1953 to 1991, and a 2,000-capacity live music venue since 1994.
Shiamak Davar
Shiamak Davar (born 1961), the 'Guru of Contemporary Dance' in India, choreographer of Dil To Pagal Hai (National Award) and founder of SDIPA, fused Western jazz with Indian movement into the Shiamak Style.
Shifters (play)
Shifters is a two-hander play by Benedict Lombe about Dre and Des, Black British former lovers reunited at a funeral. Staged at the Bush Theatre in 2024, it transferred to the Duke of York's Theatre, won a 2025 Black British Theatre Award, and reached Off-Broadway in 2026.
Shiki Theatre Company
Shiki Theatre Company, also known as Gekidan Shiki, is a Yokohama-based Japanese theater company founded in 1953 that stages Western musicals and original works in its own theaters.
Shin Lim
Shin Lim (Liang-Shun Lim, born 1991, Vancouver) is a Canadian-American sleight-of-hand artist, 2015 FISM close-up card magic world champion, two-time America's Got Talent winner (2018, 2019), known for silent card routines set to music and his Limitless Las Vegas residency.
Shingeki
Shingeki (新劇, "new drama") is a form of Japanese theater consisting of spoken drama staged in a Western style, developed from the late Meiji period onward in opposition to kabuki, nō, kyōgen, and shinpa.
Shingeki theatre companies
Shingeki theater companies, typically called gekidan, are Japanese membership theater companies staging modern realist drama, including Gekidan Mingei, the Shiki Theatre Company, and Seinen Gekijo.
Shingeki undō
Shingeki undō (新劇運動) was the Japanese "new drama" movement creating modern Western-style spoken theater opposed to kabuki and shimpa, begun in the late Meiji period and consolidated by the Tsukiji Little Theatre in 1924.
Shirley Ballas
Shirley Ballas (Shirley Annette Rich, born 1960, Wallasey), the "Queen of Latin", is a three-time British Open Latin champion, 10-time US Latin champion, Strictly Come Dancing head judge since 2017, and ISTD President since 2024.
Shoba Narayan (actress)
Shoba Narayan is an American actress, singer, and Bharatanatyam dancer on Broadway: Great Comet (2016), Eliza Hamilton on tour, Nessarose in Wicked, Jasmine in Aladdin, and the voice of Emily in Hazbin Hotel. Distinct from the Indian author of the same name.
Shōjo Tsubaki (少女椿)
Shōjo Tsubaki (少女椿) is Maruo Suehiro's 1984 ero-guro manga about the orphan Midori in a freak-show troupe, adapted into the 1992 anime by Hiroshi Harada, a 2011 stage play, and the 2016 live-action film Midori: The Camellia Girl.