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Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan (Terence Alan Milligan, 1918–2002) was a comedian, writer and poet, born in British India, who co-created the BBC radio comedy The Goon Show.
SpongeBob SquarePants (musical)
The SpongeBob Musical is a 2016 Chicago-premiered, 2017-2018 Broadway stage adaptation of SpongeBob SquarePants with a book by Kyle Jarrow, songs by Bowie, Aerosmith, Sara Bareilles, and others, 12 Tony nominations, and a 2019 Nickelodeon TV version.
Sprechstück
Sprechstück is the term Peter Handke used for his early 1960s stage works, in which language itself rather than plot is the content of the theater.
Spring Awakening (play)
Spring Awakening (Frühlings Erwachen, 'A Children's Tragedy') is Frank Wedekind's 1891 German play about adolescents confronting sexuality against repressive adults; banned and censored, staged 1906 by Max Reinhardt, and adapted into the 2006 Tony-winning rock musical.
Square dance
Square dance: a dance for four couples in a square formation, prompted by a caller; descended from English country dance and the French quadrille, with traditional (Eastern) and modern Western styles standardized by CALLERLAB.
Sri Krishna Rayabaram
Sri Krishna Rayabaram (శ్రీ కృష్ణ రాయబారం) is a Telugu mythological verse drama by the poet duo Tirupati Venkata Kavulu about Krishna's embassy to avert the Kurukshetra war.
St Lucia Arts Guild
The St Lucia Arts Guild was a Saint Lucian theater company founded in Castries in 1950 by the twins Derek and Roderick Walcott, staging Caribbean drama for 21 years.
St. Clair Bayfield
St. Clair Bayfield (John St. Clair Roberts, 1875–1967), English-born Broadway character actor, common-law husband and manager of singer Florence Foster Jenkins from 1909 to 1944; namesake of the Actors' Equity Foundation's St. Clair Bayfield Award.
St. James Theatre
St. James Theatre (originally Erlanger's Theatre), a 1,709-seat Broadway musical house at 246 W 44th St, New York, built 1927 by Warren & Wetmore; home of Oklahoma!, The Producers, Frozen; now owned by ATG Entertainment.
Staatstheater Stuttgart
Staatstheater Stuttgart (Württembergische Staatstheater): Germany's three-division state theatre combining Staatsoper Stuttgart, Stuttgarter Ballett, and Schauspiel Stuttgart in the 1912 Max Littmann Opernhaus; largest multi-division house in Europe, now facing a billion-euro renovation review.
Staffan Westerberg
Staffan Westerberg (1934–2026) was a Swedish director, playwright, actor, and puppeteer best known for the surrealistic children's television program Vilse i pannkakan, broadcast by Sveriges Television in 1975.
Stage (theatre)
Stage (theatre): the defined performance area of a theatre, arranged for sightlines, acoustics, scenery, and performer movement. Main configurations are proscenium, thrust, and theatre in the round, differing in where the audience sits.
Stage Entertainment
Stage Entertainment is an Amsterdam-based musical theater producer founded in 1998 by Joop van den Ende, operating 16 European theaters, with about 2,000 staff and 7 million annual visitors, owned wholly by Advance since 2018.
Stage lighting
Stage lighting: the craft of controlling intensity, distribution, angle, and color of light on a performance stage for visibility, emphasis, mood, and composition. Spans theatre, concerts, and film/TV; history runs from gas (1816) and limelight (1837) through DMX512 and LED fixtures.
Stage management
Stage management: the theatrical discipline of coordinating rehearsals, documentation, and live performance. Key elements: the prompt book, cue calling ("LX 12, go"), paper tech, the SM/DSM/ASM team, UK SM NOS 2026 standards, and Stern & Gold's standard 13th-edition text.
Stagecraft
Stagecraft: the technical aspects of theatrical, film, and video production, covering scenery, lighting, costumes, props, sound, rigging, and stage management, distinct from scenography, with roots in Greek and Renaissance theatre and extended uses in music performance and ILM's virtual production system.
Stagecraft software
Stagecraft software is the family of computer programs used in technical theater, including drafting tools such as Vectorworks Spotlight and WYSIWYG, which integrates CAD, plots, data, visualization, and virtual show control.
Stand-up comedy
Stand-up comedy: a solo comedian delivers rehearsed comic monologues directly to a live audience. Also known as stand-up. Roots in minstrelsy and vaudeville; modern clubs emerged in 1970s America; today spans clubs to 10,000-plus-seat arenas.
Standing ovation
A standing ovation happens when audience members rise and applaud at the end of a performance or speech, the most visible form of audience praise.
Stanislavski's system
Stanislavski's system (Станиславского система), also called the Stanislavski Method or Method of Physical Actions, is Konstantin Stanislavski's theory and methodology of stage acting, developed at the Moscow Art Theatre from 1906 to 1938 around the art of experiencing.
Stanley Kowalski
Stanley Kowalski is Stella's husband in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), a Polish-American WWII veteran whose conflict with Blanche DuBois ends in rape; Marlon Brando originated the role.
Stanley Townsend
Stanley Townsend (born 1961) is a Dublin-born Irish actor and co-founder of Rough Magic Theatre Company, based in London. Known for Shining City, Phedre, Quirke, Saddam's Tribe, and recent roles in Kaos, The Regime and Star Wars: Andor.
StarKid Productions
StarKid Productions (Team StarKid), Chicago comedic musical theatre company founded 2009 at University of Michigan; A Very Potter Musical went viral on YouTube; 15 musicals, 320M+ views, Billboard #1 cast albums, national tours, 2024 London Palladium debut.
Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act
Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act, often shortened to Statements, is a 1972 play by Athol Fugard about an illegal interracial affair in apartheid South Africa.
Station drama
A station drama (German: Stationendrama, also Stationenstück) is a drama made up of relatively independent scenes, or stations, linked by a central protagonist rather than a causal plot.
Stavros Halkias
Stavros Halkias, Baltimore-born Greek-American stand-up comedian and podcaster, co-founded Cum Town, hosts Stavvy's World, released Netflix's Fat Rascal (2023), and acts in Tires, Bugonia, and Tony.
Steen Raskopoulos
Steen Raskopoulos, Australian-born UK-based character comedian and improviser, The Bear Pack duo with Carlo Ritchie, Sydney Best Newcomer 2013, Edinburgh nominee 2014, star of The Office Australia (2024).
Stella Adler
Stella Adler was an American actress and acting teacher whose New York studio taught an approach built on imagination and script analysis rather than emotional recall.
Stella Adler technique
The Stella Adler technique is an approach to actor training that builds characters from imagination and script analysis rather than the actor's own emotional memory.
Steph Tisdell
Steph Tisdell (Stephanie Tisdell) is a Yidinji Australian comedian, actor, writer, and author from Mount Isa, Brisbane-based; Deadly Funny 2014 winner, creator of Identity Steft and The Pyramid, star of Total Control and Class of '07, and author of the 2024 YA novel The Skin I'm In.