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Teeth (musical)
Teeth is a 2024 Off-Broadway dark comedy horror musical by Anna K. Jacobs (music) and Michael R. Jackson (lyrics), adapted from Mitchell Lichtenstein's 2007 film about Dawn O'Keefe; it premiered at Playwrights Horizons and transferred to New World Stages before closing January 5, 2025.
Teller (magician)
Teller (Raymond Joseph Teller), silent half of magic duo Penn & Teller, met Penn in 1974, debuted Off-Broadway 1985, headlines Las Vegas Rio show, directs Shakespeare and Tim's Vermeer.
Telugu drama
Telugu drama (తెలుగు నాటకం) is the Telugu-language tradition of stage plays in southern India, spanning folk forms, verse dramas, and the modern theater movement begun in the nineteenth century.
Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier Williams, 1911-1983) was an American playwright of The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, a Pulitzer winner whose lyric Southern dramas and late experimental plays still shape theater.
Teodor Currentzis
Teodor Currentzis (Θεόδωρος Κουρεντζής), Greek-Russian conductor born in Athens in 1972; founder of musicAeterna (2004) and Utopia (2022), chief conductor of the SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart 2018–2024, Sony Classical recording artist and founder of the Theta label.
Terence
Terence (Publius Terentius Afer, c. 185-159 BC, Carthage) was a Roman comic playwright of African origin, a freed slave of Terentius Lucanus, who wrote six fabula palliata (166-160 BC) adapted from Menander and Apollodorus, distinguishing him from the freer Plautus.
Terence Lewis (choreographer)
Terence Lewis (born 1975) is an Indian choreographer, dancer and TV judge, founder of the Terence Lewis Contemporary Dance Company and Training Institute in Mumbai, creator of the Indo-Contemporary style, Dance India Dance judge (2009-2012) and multiple Guinness record holder.
Terrence Mann
Terrence Vaughan Mann (born 1951, Ashland, Kentucky) is an American actor, singer, and director, original Broadway Rum Tum Tugger in Cats, Javert in Les Misérables, and the Beast in Beauty and the Beast; three-time Tony nominee, also Ug in Critters, Whispers in Sense8, and Brother Dusk in Foundation.
Terrence McNally
Terrence McNally (1938–2020), American playwright and librettist known as the "bard of the American Theater"; five Tonys, an Emmy for Andre's Mother, wrote Ragtime, Master Class, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Corpus Christi, and the Dead Man Walking opera libretto; died of COVID-19 in Sarasota, Florida.
Tevye
Tevye (Tevye der milkhikher, Tevye the Dairyman) is Sholem Aleichem's fictional poor Jewish dairyman, narrator of monologue stories written 1895-1916, later the protagonist of Fiddler on the Roof (1964) played by Zero Mostel and Chaim Topol.
Thalia Theater (Hamburg)
Thalia Theater Hamburg: leading German spoken-word state theater, founded 1843 by Chéri Maurice as a comedy-only house, rebuilt 1912 by the Kallmorgens, restored 1960; Sonja Anders intendant since 2025/26.
That Very Munchausen
That Very Munchausen (Тот самый Мюнхгаузен) is a tragicomic play and screenplay by Grigory Gorin that reworks the Baron Munchausen legend into a parable about truth.
Thayne Jasperson
Thayne Jasperson (born 1980, Provo, Utah) is an American actor, dancer, and singer, original Broadway cast member of Hamilton as Samuel Seabury, the only original cast member still with the show after 10 years and 3,200-plus performances; also Newsies and Matilda original casts.
The Adventure of the Head of Mamluk Jabir
The Adventure of the Head of Mamluk Jabir (Mughamarat Ra's al-Mamluk Jabir) is a two-act Arabic play by Syrian playwright Saadallah Wannous, completed in 1970.
The Afrikaans drama tradition
The Afrikaans drama tradition is South Africa's hundred-year body of Afrikaans plays and professional theater, conventionally dated from 1925 and now centered on arts festivals.
The Amazing Johnathan
The Amazing Johnathan, born John Edward Szeles (1958 to 2022), was an American stand-up comedian and magician whose gory, botched magic act headlined Las Vegas for 13 years.
The Ancient Gods
The Ancient Gods (Hin Astvatsner) is a four-act drama written in 1909 by the Armenian writer Levon Shant and published in 1912, a landmark of Armenian drama depicting the clash between pagan and Christian consciousness.
The Aristocrats
The Aristocrats is a 2005 documentary directed by Paul Provenza with Penn Jillette, in which over 100 comedians tell variants of the vaudeville-era obscene joke whose punchline is "The Aristocrats"; it revived attention after Gilbert Gottfried's post-9/11 Friars Club telling.
The Australian Ballet
The Australian Ballet is Australia's national ballet company, a not-for-profit ensemble of about 80 dancers founded in 1962 and resident at the Sydney Opera House and Arts Centre Melbourne.
The Bacchae (Βάκχαι)
The Bacchae (Βάκχαι) is Euripides' last tragedy, written 407 BCE in Macedonia and staged posthumously in 405 BCE, winning first prize at the City Dionysia; Dionysus destroys King Pentheus, torn apart on Cithaeron by his mother Agave.
The Bald Soprano
The Bald Soprano (La Cantatrice chauve), Eugène Ionesco's 1950 "anti-play" about empty conversation, premiered at the Théâtre des Noctambules and has run at the Théâtre de la Huchette, Paris, since 1957, a Theatre of the Absurd record holder.
The Balkan Spy
The Balkan Spy (Balkanski špijun) is a tragicomedy in three acts by Serbian playwright Dušan Kovačević, first staged in Belgrade in 1983, about a former political prisoner who becomes convinced his tenant is a foreign spy.
The Barber of Seville (play)
Beaumarchais's four-act prose comedy Le Barbier de Séville ou la Précaution inutile (1775, Comédie-Française), source of the Paisiello and Rossini operas, about Count Almaviva's rescue of Rosine from Bartholo via Figaro.
The Battles of Coxinga
The Battles of Coxinga (Kokusen'ya kassen) is a five-act jōruri puppet play by Chikamatsu Monzaemon, premiered in Osaka in 1715, based on the Ming loyalist Koxinga.
The Beautiful Game (musical)
The Beautiful Game is a 2000 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with book and lyrics by Ben Elton, set in Belfast during the Troubles. It ran 391 performances at the Cambridge Theatre, was reworked as The Boys in the Photograph, and never reached Broadway.
The Beauty Queen of Leenane
The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a 1996 dark comedy in two acts by Martin McDonagh, about lonely Maureen Folan and her manipulative mother Mag in Connemara.
The Beggar's Opera
The Beggar's Opera: 1728 ballad opera by John Gay, premiered at Lincoln's Inn Fields; 69 Pepusch-arranged tunes, characters from Sheppard and Wild, satire of Walpole, ancestor of the musical.
The Birthday Party (play)
The Birthday Party is Harold Pinter's 1957 three-act play, his first full-length work, about strangers Goldberg and McCann destroying boarder Stanley Webber at a seaside boarding house; a 1958 London flop later classed as comedy of menace and Theatre of the Absurd.
The Black and White Minstrel Show
The Black and White Minstrel Show (1958–1978) was a BBC television variety series in which white performers sang and danced in blackface, adapted from radio's The Kentucky Minstrels. It drew 16.5 million viewers by 1963, faced a 1967 CARD petition, and stage revivals followed its axing.
The Black Hermit
The Black Hermit is a play by the Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, his first major drama, premiered at the Uganda National Theatre in Kampala in November 1962.