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August: Osage County
August: Osage County is Tracy Letts's 2007 three-act Oklahoma family drama, premiered at Steppenwolf and on Broadway from December 2007, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award, and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, adapted to film in 2013.
Augusto Boal
Augusto Boal (Augusto Pinto Boal, 1931-2009), Brazilian director and creator of Theatre of the Oppressed (Teatro do Oprimido), including Forum Theatre and the spect-actor; arrested in 1971, exiled, returned 1984; methods spread to over 100 countries.
Aunty Donna
Aunty Donna is a Melbourne absurdist sketch comedy trio (Broden Kelly, Mark Samual Bonanno, Zachary Ruane) formed in 2011, known for the Netflix series Big Ol' House of Fun, ABC's Coffee Café, the Grouse House platform, and the Drem world tour.
Austin P. McKenzie
Austin P. McKenzie (born 1993, Mesa, Arizona) is an American actor and musician known as Melchior in Deaf West's Broadway Spring Awakening and young Cleve Jones in When We Rise; also Speech & Debate, Unhinged.
Australian Ballet School
The Australian Ballet School is a Melbourne classical ballet school founded in 1964 to train dancers for The Australian Ballet, whose members are about 75% its graduates.
Auto da Índia
Auto da Índia (Farsa chamada Auto da Índia) is a one-act farce by the Portuguese playwright Gil Vicente, first performed in 1509 at Almada before Queen Dona Leonor.
Auto de los Reyes Magos
The Auto de los Reyes Magos is a short 12th- or 13th-century Castilian verse play on the Magi's visit to Herod, the oldest surviving text of Spanish theater.
Auto sacramental
The auto sacramental is a one-act Spanish allegorical play on the Holy Eucharist, performed in the streets at Corpus Christi from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century.
Avadhya
Avadhya (अवध्य) is a Marathi play by Chintaman Tryambak Khanolkar, staged in 1972 in a production directed by and starring Amol Palekar, remembered as a landmark of experimental Marathi theater.
Avantgardey (アバンギャルディ)
Avantgardey (アバンギャルディ) is a Japanese all-female dance team formed February 2022 by choreographer akane of Babuly Dance fame, known for bob haircuts, school uniforms, and AGT 2023 finals.
Avenue Q
Avenue Q: adult puppet musical by Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx (music/lyrics) and Jeff Whitty (book), parodying Sesame Street. Off-Broadway 2003, Broadway John Golden Theatre 2,534 performances, 2004 Tonys for Best Musical, Score, Book, beating Wicked.
Avital Ash
Avital Ash, American actor, writer, director, and stand-up comedian from Miami Beach based in Los Angeles; creator of 7p/10e (two CBS pilots), Antisocial Distance, segment director of Give Me An A, voice in Oxenfree, and 2023 Edinburgh Fringe show Avital Ash Workshops Her Suicide Note.
Awa Dance Festival
Awa Odori (阿波踊り), the Awa Dance Festival, is Tokushima Prefecture's over-400-year-old bon-dance street festival held each August, largest in Tokushima City with about 1.3 million visitors over four days, danced by ren troupes to shamisen and drums.
Ayoade Bamgboye
Ayoade Bamgboye, British-Nigerian stand-up comedian, actor and writer (born London, raised Lagos), won Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer 2025 with her debut show Swings and Roundabouts and joined the Saturday Night Live UK cast.
Baba Bhaskar
Baba Bhaskar is an Indian film choreographer, director, actor, and writer working mainly in Tamil and Telugu cinema. Known for Magadheera, Velaiyilla Pattathari, and Petta choreography; Filmfare South winner for Singam (2011); directed Kuppathu Raja (2019); Bigg Boss Telugu 3 runner-up.
Baba Moustapha
Baba Moustapha, real name Mahamat Moustapha, was a Chadian playwright and jurist, born around 1952, whose plays won prizes at the interafrican theater contest run by Radio France Internationale.
Bachata (dance)
Bachata (dance): Dominican partnered social dance from the 1960s, three steps plus a tap on beat 4, styles Dominican/traditional, moderna, and sensual; UNESCO heritage 2019.
Bada Lee
Bada Lee (born 1995, Incheon) is a South Korean dancer and choreographer, leader of crew BEBE and winner of Street Woman Fighter 2 (2023), creator of the viral "Smoke" challenge, with K-pop choreography for aespa, Kai, Taemin, and others.
Baharul Islam (actor)
Baharul Islam (বাহাৰুল ইছলাম), Assamese theatre and film actor, director, playwright, NSD graduate (1987–1990), founder of Seagull Theatre (1990), Heer Ranjha with TARA ART London, Best Actor for Alifa.
Bai Pu
Bai Pu (白樸), born 1226, was a Chinese playwright and ci poet, one of the Four Masters of Yuan qu, known for the play Rain on the Wutong Tree.
Bailey Sok
Bailey Sok (Bailey Drew Sok, 베일리 석, born 2004) is a Korean-American dancer and K-pop choreographer behind Red Velvet's Psycho and Taeyang's Vibe, who debuted in 2025 with The Black Label's co-ed group ALLDAY PROJECT.
Balacarita
Balacarita (बालचरितम्, "The Deeds of the Boy") is a Sanskrit drama attributed to Bhāsa, one of the earliest surviving plays on the Krishna legend, covering his birth to Kamsa's death.
Balanchine ballet premieres
Balanchine ballet premieres are the first performances of the ballets of George Balanchine, who created over 425 works from about 1920 until his death in 1983.
Ballad opera
Ballad opera is a genre of English musical theater combining spoken dialogue with songs set to popular tunes, begun by John Gay's The Beggar's Opera in 1728.
Balladyna
Balladyna is a five-act romantic drama by the Polish poet Juliusz Słowacki, written in 1834 and published in 1839, one of the most important Polish Romantic dramas.
Ballet
Ballet: theatrical dance form originating in 15th-century Italian Renaissance courts, codified in France under Louis XIV, shaped by Romantic and Russian classical eras; known for turnout, pointe work, and companies like the Paris Opera Ballet.
Ballet choreography
Ballet choreography is the art of composing dance for ballet, blending movements, mime, music, and scenic design into a unified stage work, a term once meaning written dance records.
Ballet Comique de la Reine
The Ballet Comique de la Reine, or Balet comique de la Royne, is a French court ballet staged in Paris in 1581, regarded as the first true ballet de cour.
Ballet conductor
A ballet conductor leads a ballet company's orchestra from the pit while watching the stage, adjusting tempo in real time so the music serves the dancers, and helps shape new works.
Ballet dancer
Ballet dancer: a performer trained in ballet's standardized classical technique, including en pointe work. Distinguished by vocational training from childhood, company ranks, and injury rates near 1.24 per 1000 dance hours.