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Tacarra Williams
Tacarra Williams, "The Beautiful Beast" (born 1984), is a Bronx-born stand-up comedian, host, and actress. She hosts CW's Totally Funny Kids (2024), was runner-up on NBC's Bring the Funny, appeared in Kevin Hart's The Next Level, and toured with Katt Williams' Dark Matter Tour.
Takalo
Takalo is the traditional war dance of Niue, a formal challenge performed by warriors before battle and today used to welcome dignitaries and mark celebrations.
Takarazuka Revue (宝塚歌劇団)
The Takarazuka Revue (宝塚歌劇団, Takarazuka Kagekidan) is an all-female musical theater company in Takarazuka, Japan, founded in 1913 by Kobayashi Ichizō, with about 400 performers in five troupes.
Takarazuka Revue venues
The Takarazuka Revue venues are the three company-owned theaters of Japan's Takarazuka Revue: the Takarazuka Grand Theater in Hyogo, the Tokyo Takarazuka Theater, and the Takarazuka Bow Hall.
Takashi Wakasugi
Takashi Wakasugi (若杉昂志), nicknamed Waka, is a Japanese stand-up comedian performing in English in Australia and Japan; MICF Directors' Choice winner 2023 for Japanese Worry and Taskmaster Australia season 4 contestant.
Takeda Izumo II
Takeda Izumo II (竹田出雲, 1691–1756) was a Japanese jōruri playwright who led Osaka's Takemoto-za puppet theater during its golden age and co-authored Kanadehon Chūshingura (1748).
Taledanda
Taledanda, whose Hindi version is Rakt Kalyan, is a 1990 Kannada play by Girish Karnad about the rise of Basavanna's radical anti-caste movement in 12th-century Karnataka.
Taleem-e-Balighan
Taleem-e-Balighan (تعلیمِ بالغان, "Education of Adults") is a classic Urdu satirical play by Khawaja Moinuddin, first staged in 1954 and treated as Pakistan's first classic drama.
Tamao Yoshida
Tamao Yoshida (吉田玉男), born Ueda Sueichi in Osaka, was a Japanese Bunraku puppeteer designated a Living National Treasure in 1977, famed for Tokubei in Sonezaki shinjū.
Tamara Toumanova (Тамара Туманова)
Tamara Toumanova (Тамара Туманова), born Tamara Tumanishvili, was a Russian-born ballerina and film actress who starred with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo as one of the three 'baby ballerinas'.
Tango
Tango: music, dance, and poetry born in the late 19th century among the lower classes of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, Río de la Plata; UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage since 2009, jointly for Argentina and Uruguay.
Tanya
Tanya (Таня) is a chamber drama in four parts by the Soviet playwright Alexei Arbuzov, written in 1938 and premiered in 1939, which became his most staged play.
Tap dance
Tap dance: an American percussive dance form in which metal-plated shoes turn the dancer's feet into rhythm instruments; born from West African and Irish/British step-dance fusion, with rhythm tap and Broadway tap as its two traditions.
Tarell Alvin McCraney
Tarell Alvin McCraney, American playwright and screenwriter from Miami's Liberty City, author of The Brother/Sister Plays and In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, basis of the Oscar-winning film Moonlight; MacArthur fellow, former Yale playwriting chair, Geffen Playhouse artistic director.
Tartuffe
Tartuffe (Le Tartuffe ou l'Hypocrite / l'Imposteur) is Molière's 1664 comedy about a religious hypocrite exploiting the wealthy Orgon; banned for five years, authorized in five acts on 5 February 1669, and the Comédie-Française's most-performed play.
Tarzzan (타잔)
Tarzzan (타잔), born Lee Chaewon in 2002 in Ulsan, is a South Korean rapper, dancer, and model in THEBLACKLABEL's co-ed group ALLDAY PROJECT, which debuted June 23, 2025. Distinguished from other Tarzans by his contemporary dance training at Korea National University of Arts, awards at the 2021 Tanzolymp Asia competition, and pre-debut modeling for luxury houses.
Tawaif
Tawaif (tawa'if), North Indian women performers and courtesans of the late Mughal and nawabi era, trained in kathak, thumri, and poetry in kothas; distinguished from devadasis and from the colonial 'nautch girl' label that degraded their status.
Taxi dancer
Taxi dancer: a woman hired by a dance hall to dance with male patrons paying per dance, also called dime-a-dance girl. Peaked in 1920s-30s America; studied by Cressey (1932); declined after WWII but persisted.
Tayf al-Khayal
Ṭayf al-Khayāl (طيف الخيال, "The Phantom") is a shadow play written in Cairo by the Mosul-born ophthalmologist Ibn Dāniyāl around the start of the Mamluk period.
Taylor Louderman
Taylor Louderman (born 1990, Madison, Wisconsin) is an American actress and singer, the original Regina George in Broadway's Mean Girls (2018 Tony nominee), Broadway debut in Bring It On, Kinky Boots, and co-founder of the Write Out Loud songwriting contest.
Taylor Tomlinson
Taylor Tomlinson, American stand-up comedian, host of CBS's After Midnight, four Netflix specials (Quarter-Life Crisis, Look At You, Have It All, Prodigal Daughter), first book Actually, Nevermind (2026).
Teacher in role
Teacher in role, a drama education strategy created by Dorothy Heathcote in 1973 and developed with Gavin Bolton, has the teacher adopt a fictional role inside process drama or Mantle of the Expert to guide learning from within the fiction.
Teatro de carpa
Teatro de carpa, or tent theater, is a Mexican popular theater tradition staged in portable canvas tents, flourishing from 1930 to 1950 as an alternative to opera and drama.
Teatro Degollado
Teatro Degollado, originally Teatro Alarcón, is a Neoclassical theater in Guadalajara, Jalisco, designed by Jacobo Gálvez, inaugurated 13 September 1866 with Ángela Peralta, and home of the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra.
Teatro Oficina
Teatro Oficina (Teat(r)o Oficina Uzyna Uzona) is a São Paulo theater company and venue founded in 1958 by Zé Celso, rebuilt by Lina Bo Bardi and Edson Elito with a 50-meter internal street; distinct from the 1994 Coimbra theater of the same name.
Teatro Olimpico
Teatro Olimpico is a theater in Vicenza, Italy, designed by Andrea Palladio and completed in 1585. It retains the original wooden scenery of the seven streets of Thebes.
Teatro quechua colonial
Teatro quechua colonial is the body of dramatic works written in Quechua in colonial Peru, chiefly around Cuzco in the 17th and 18th centuries, with Ollantay its best-known play and Atahualpa-death dramas still performed today.
Teatro San Cassiano
Teatro San Cassiano (Teatro Tron di San Cassiano), Venice: the world's first public opera house, opened to a paying audience in 1637 with Manelli and Ferrari's L'Andromeda; owned by the Tron family, demolished 1812, subject of a reconstruction project.
Teatro x la identidad
Teatro x la identidad is an Argentine theater movement, founded in 2000, that stages plays to support Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo in restoring stolen children's identities.
Ted Robbins
Ted Robbins is the name of an American NPR Arts and Culture supervising editor based in Culver City, and of Edward Michael Robbins (born 1955), an English comedian known as Den Perry in Phoenix Nights and for a 2015 stage collapse.