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Stephanie J. Block
Stephanie J. Block (born 1972, Brea, California) is an American musical theater actress; originated Elphaba on Wicked's first national tour and won the 2019 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical for The Cher Show.
Stephen Daldry
Stephen Daldry (Stephen David Daldry, born 1960, Dorset) is an English director of theatre, film, and television; Royal Court artistic director 1992–1998, director of An Inspector Calls, Billy Elliot, The Hours, The Reader, and The Crown, with three Oscar nominations, three Tony Awards, and an Emmy.
Stephen Flaherty
Stephen Flaherty (born 1960, Pittsburgh) is an American musical theatre composer; with lyricist Lynn Ahrens he wrote Ragtime (1998 Tony), Once on This Island, Seussical, and Anastasia, earning Oscar, Golden Globe, and Grammy nominations.
Stephen Frost
Stephen Frederick Eustace Frost (born 1955) is an English actor and comedian, AKA Steve Frost, of the Oblivion Boys double act, the Comedy Store Players, and Whose Line Is It Anyway?.
Stephen K. Amos
Stephen K. Amos (Stephen Kehinde Amos, born 1967) is a British stand-up comedian of Nigerian heritage, host of The Stephen K Amos Show and What Does The K Stand For?, RTS-winning documentary maker, and memoirist.
Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Steppenwolf Theatre Company is a Chicago ensemble theater founded in 1974 by Gary Sinise, Jeff Perry, and Terry Kinney, based at 1650 N. Halsted St. Known for Balm in Gilead, The Grapes of Wrath, August: Osage County, and Purpose; winner of the 1985 Regional Theatre Tony and the National Medal of Arts.
Stereophonic (play)
Stereophonic, David Adjmi's Tony-winning play with music about a 1970s rock band recording an album, directed by Daniel Aukin with songs by Will Butler; most Tony-nominated play ever, five 2024 Tony wins including Best Play.
Steve Byrne
Steve Byrne (born 1974, Freehold, New Jersey) is an American stand-up comedian of Korean and Irish descent, creator and star of TBS's Sullivan & Son and writer-director of The Opening Act.
Steve Martin
Steve Martin (Stephen Glenn Martin), American comedian, actor, writer, and bluegrass banjoist born 1945 in Waco, Texas; Disneyland performer turned stand-up's biggest 1978 concert draw, star of The Jerk and Roxanne, and co-creator of Only Murders in the Building.
Steven Berkoff
Steven Berkoff (born Leslie Steven Berks, 1937, Stepney) is an English dramatist, director and actor of Russian-Jewish descent, creator of 'Berkovian' total theatre (East, Greek, West, Decadence) and Hollywood screen villain.
Steven Wright
Steven Alexander Wright (born 1955) is an American deadpan one-liner comedian from the Boston scene, Grammy-nominated for I Have a Pony and I Still Have a Pony and winner of the 1989 Oscar for The Appointments of Dennis Jennings.
Stevie Martin
Stevie Martin is a British comedian and writer, ex-Massive Dad sketch trio, viral online sketches with Lola-Rose Maxwell (45 million views), Edinburgh show Clout, and Taskmaster series 19 contestant.
Stewart Lee
Stewart Graham Lee, born 1968, is an English stand-up comedian and writer known for self-analyzing, repetition-heavy shows and the BAFTA-winning BBC Two series Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle.
Sticky Vicky
Sticky Vicky, stage name of Victoria María Aragüés Gadea (Vicky Leyton), was a Spanish cabaret performer whose vaginal magic show ran in Benidorm for over 35 years until her 2016 retirement; she died 29 November 2023.
Stolen Happiness
Stolen Happiness (Ukrainian: Украдене щастя) is a five-act social and psychological drama by Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko, first staged in Lviv in 1893 and regarded as his most important work for the theater.
Stomp dance
The stomp dance is a call-and-response dance of southeastern Native American peoples, performed at night around a sacred fire and maintained by the Muscogee, Cherokee, Seminole, and Chickasaw.
Straight man
Straight man (comedic foil): the serious performer in a double act, sketch, or farce who reacts rationally to a comic partner's absurdity, setting up jokes. Known in vaudeville, manzai (tsukkomi), and xiangsheng (penggen); alternatives include voice of reason.
Stratford Festival
The Stratford Festival, a classical repertory theatre in Stratford, Ontario, founded 1953 by Tom Patterson with Tyrone Guthrie; known for its thrust stage, 700+ performances a season, and 2027 75th season.
Stratford Festival Theatre
The Stratford Festival Theatre is a 1,833-seat thrust-stage theater in Stratford, Ontario, opened in 1957 as the first permanent thrust-stage theater in North America, with its stage conceived by Tyrone Guthrie and Tanya Moiseiwitsch.
Street and carnival performance as community practice
Street and carnival performance as community practice is performance in streets, squares, and carnivals where local people write, make, and perform, from Terceira's carnival to Nepali street theater.
Street dance
Street dance: umbrella term for improvisational urban social styles (breaking, popping, locking, waacking, house, krump) rooted in hip-hop culture and public-space cyphers and battles; distinct from the Olympic sport of breaking.
Street performance
Street performance (busking) is live entertainment in public spaces for voluntary donations, spanning music, juggling, miming, and magic. Rules range from permit-free cities like Boston and Austin to licensed systems in Dublin, Toronto, and Singapore's 1997 Busking Scheme.
Strip club
Strip club, also called gentlemen's club or sexual entertainment venue: an age-restricted bar where dancers perform striptease. Covers the independent-contractor business model, lap dancing's 1980 origin, zoning, and Washington's 2024 strippers' bill of rights.
Stripper
Stripper (exotic dancer): a performer doing erotic, partly nude dance, aka striptease; history from 1893 Little Egypt and Minsky burlesque to Gypsy Rose Lee, plus club typology, labor organizing, and male stripping research.
Striptease
Striptease: an erotic dance of gradual disrobing, coined as a word in the late 1920s and born in American burlesque. Covers Gypsy Rose Lee, the Minsky-era New York scene, neo-burlesque, pole fitness mainstreaming, and UK SEV licensing effects on dancers.
Stubby Kaye
Stubby Kaye (Bernard Kotzin, 1918–1997), American comic actor and singer. Created Nicely-Nicely Johnson in Broadway's Guys and Dolls (1950) and Marryin' Sam in Li'l Abner (1956), repeating both roles on film, and played Marvin Acme in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Studio 54
Studio 54, 254 West 54th Street, New York, is a Broadway theater and former legendary disco. Built 1927 as Gallo Opera House, nightclub 1977-1986, Roundabout Theatre Company home since 1998, $105 million renovation planned.
Stuff Happens
Stuff Happens is a 2004 play by David Hare dramatizing the political run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, blending public records with imagined private conversations.
Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑) is a 1746 five-act Japanese puppet play about the exile of Sugawara no Michizane and triplet brothers, counted among the three great gidayu masterpieces.
Sumidagawa
Sumidagawa (隅田川) is a 23.5-kilometer river in eastern Tokyo that flows from the Arakawa into Tokyo Bay, and the name of a body of linked literary works.