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Sholem Aleichem (שלום עליכם)
Sholem Aleichem, the pen name of Shalom Rabinovitz (1859–1916), was a founding father of modern Yiddish literature whose Tevye stories inspired the musical Fiddler on the Roof.
Shosagoto
Shosagoto (所作事), also called furigoto, is the kabuki dance drama category, in which stories are told chiefly through dance and gesture to music with little spoken dialogue.
Show What I Am World Tour
SHOW WHAT I AM World Tour, IVE's second world tour (2025-2026), supporting Ive Secret and Revive+; 28 shows in 20 cities, opening at KSPO Dome Seoul, with solo stages for all six members, closing in Taipei.
Showgirl
Showgirl: a female performer in musical theater or revue, in flamboyant feathered, sequined costume. Line runs from Paris Folies Bergere through Ziegfeld Follies (1907-1931) to Las Vegas (Lido de Paris, 1958; Jubilee!, closed 2016).
Shūji Terayama (寺山修司)
Shūji Terayama (寺山修司, 1935–1983) was a Japanese avant-garde poet, tanka poet, playwright, and filmmaker who founded the experimental theater troupe Tenjo Sajiki in 1967 and led the angura theater movement with city plays and films such as Denen ni Shisu.
Shura Baryshnikov
Shura Baryshnikov, daughter of Mikhail Baryshnikov and Jessica Lange, is an American dancer, choreographer, and director; Associate Professor of the Practice at Brown University and director of the award-winning cinematic opera Svadba (2023).
Shyama
Shyama (শ্যামা) is a Bengali dance drama by Rabindranath Tagore, first published in 1939 and adapted from his poem Parishodh, about a court dancer who saves a merchant at a fatal cost.
Sid and Marty Krofft
Sid and Marty Krofft were Canadian-born puppeteer brothers whose company Sid & Marty Krofft Pictures created 1970s Saturday-morning shows H.R. Pufnstuf, Land of the Lost, and Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, plus Donny & Marie.
Sid Caesar
Sid Caesar (Isaac Sidney Caesar, 1922-2014), American comedian and star of Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour, pioneer of live TV sketch comedy whose writers included Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Carl Reiner, and Woody Allen.
Sideshow
A sideshow is a secondary attraction beside a circus or carnival, from "outside shows" (1850s), featuring ten-in-one freak shows (1904 CNE), working acts, and now performance art; Barnum's Joice Heth (1835) is its landmark case.
Sidi Abderrahman al-Majdub
Sidi Abderrahman al-Majdub is a Moroccan play by Tayeb Saddiki, first performed in the mid-1960s, built on the life and verse of a 16th-century Sufi folk poet.
Siener in die Suburbs
Siener in die Suburbs is an Afrikaans play by P.G. du Plessis, first published in 1971, about poor white residents of Johannesburg's southern suburbs in the 1950s.
Sierra Boggess
Sierra Boggess (born 1982, Denver) is an American Broadway and West End actress and soprano, Olivier-nominated for originating Christine Daae in Love Never Dies and known for Ariel in The Little Mermaid and the Phantom 25th Anniversary concert.
Simon Amstell
Simon Amstell is a British comedian and presenter, host of Popworld (2000-2006) and Never Mind the Buzzcocks (2006-2009), later a confessional stand-up, creator of Grandma's House, Carnage, Benjamin, and the book Help.
Simon Brodkin
Simon Brodkin (born 1977, Sheffield), also known as Lee Nelson, is a British comedian, doctor-turned-comedian, and prankster. Known for the P45 handed to Theresa May, banknotes thrown at FIFA's Sepp Blatter, and his own-name stand-up shows 100% Simon Brodkin, Screwed Up, and Unleashed.
Simon McBurney
Simon McBurney (born 1957, Cambridge) is an English actor, writer, director, and co-founder of Complicité, known for Mnemonic, A Disappearing Number, The Encounter, opera work, and the Yomiuri and Konrad Wolf prizes.
Simon Prast
Simon Prast (born 1962) is a New Zealand actor and director, founder and founding Artistic Director of Auckland Theatre Company (1992–2003). Not to be confused with Simon Proust, the French conductor.
Sinbad (comedian)
Sinbad, stage name of David Adkins (born 1956, Benton Harbor, Michigan), is an American clean stand-up comedian and actor known for A Different World, HBO specials like Brain Damaged, films Houseguest and Jingle All the Way, and his 2026 comeback after a 2020 stroke.
Sindhi drama
Sindhi drama (سنڌي ڊرامو) is the dramatic tradition of the Sindhi language, formalized as a modern stage art with Mirza Qaleech Baig's Laila Majnu in 1880.
Sindhu Vee
Sindhu Vee (Venkatanarayanan), born 1969 in New Delhi, is a UK-based stand-up comedian, writer, and actor; ex-Barclays investment banker, Edinburgh Best Newcomer nominee for Sandhog, Mrs. Phelps in Matilda the Musical.
Sinhabahu
Sinhabahu (සිංහබාහු) is a Sinhala musical drama by Ediriweera Sarachchandra, first staged in 1961, based on the Mahavamsa legend of a son who kills his lion father.
Sinhala Nadagam
Sinhala Nadagam (සිංහල නාඩගම්) is a fully sung Sinhala folk musical drama combining song, dance, and acting, developed in coastal Sri Lanka from about 1750.
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (SPI), also Order of Perpetual Indulgence: international order of queer and trans drag nuns founded in San Francisco, Easter 1979; vows to promulgate universal joy and expiate stigmatic guilt; AIDS-era safer-sex pioneers with 65+ houses in 10 countries.
Site-specific theatre
Site-specific theatre is performance created for and conditioned by a particular non-theatrical location or found space, also called site-specific or site-responsive performance; it emerged from 1960s art and theatre trends and now spans heritage sites, community projects, and digital platforms.
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore) is a 1921 three-act play by Luigi Pirandello in which six unfinished characters interrupt a rehearsal.
Six Degrees of Separation (play)
Six Degrees of Separation is John Guare's 1990 play about con man Paul posing as Sidney Poitier's son, based on David Hampton; Broadway 1990-92, 485 performances, Drama Critics' Circle Best Play, filmed 1993.
Sizwe Bansi Is Dead
Sizwe Bansi Is Dead is a landmark anti-apartheid play created by Athol Fugard with actors John Kani and Winston Ntshona, first performed in Cape Town in 1972.
Skandgupta
Skandgupta (स्कंदगुप्त) is a 1928 Hindi historical drama by Jaishankar Prasad, dramatizing Gupta emperor Skandagupta's defense against the Huns and Shakas from 455 to 466.
Sketch comedy
Sketch comedy: short, self-contained comic scenes built on one escalated premise, from vaudeville and variety stages to Your Show of Shows, Saturday Night Live, In Living Color, Key & Peele, and today's clip-driven internet format.
Sklar Brothers
The Sklar Brothers, Randy and Jason Sklar, are identical twin comedians from St. Louis known for ESPN Classic's Cheap Seats, Netflix's What Are We Talking About, and sports-comedy podcasts.