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The Good Person of Szechwan
The Good Person of Szechwan (Der gute Mensch von Sezuan) is a parable play by Bertolt Brecht in which the prostitute Shen Te invents a ruthless alter ego to survive, premiered in 1943.
The Government Inspector
The Government Inspector (Ревизор) is Gogol's 1835 five-act satirical comedy, premiered 19 April 1836 in St. Petersburg, in which officials mistake Khlestakov for an inspector; plot suggested by Pushkin, revised through 1842.
The Great Indian Laughter Challenge
The Great Indian Laughter Challenge, an Indian Hindi stand-up comedy competition produced by Endemol India for STAR One and STAR Plus, ran five seasons from 2005 to 2017; winners included Sunil Pal, Rauf Lala, and Kapil Sharma.
The Great Theatre of the World
The Great Theatre of the World, or El gran teatro of Spain, is an auto sacramental by Pedro Calderón de la Barca that allegorically dramatizes life as a play before God.
The Greatest Event in Life
The Greatest Event in Life (Zhongshen dashi) is a one-act play by Hu Shih, published in New Youth in March 1919 and modeled on Ibsen's A Doll's House.
The Greatest Showman (musical)
The Greatest Showman (musical): Disney Theatrical Group's stage adaptation of the 2017 P.T. Barnum film, with Pasek and Paul songs, premiered at Bristol Hippodrome in 2026 and opens at Theatre Royal Drury Lane, West End, spring 2027.
The Groundlings
The Groundlings is a Los Angeles nonprofit improv and sketch comedy theatre and school founded by Gary Austin in 1974, housed at 7307 Melrose Avenue, known for character-driven comedy, its Pee-wee Herman origins, and its long Saturday Night Live alumni pipeline.
The Hairy Ape
The Hairy Ape is an eight-scene 1922 play by Eugene O'Neill, in which stoker Yank Smith, rejected by a wealthy passenger, searches industrial New York for a place to belong.
The Ham Funeral
The Ham Funeral is a two-act play by Patrick White, written in postwar London in 1947 and first staged in Adelaide in 1961 after the Adelaide Festival rejected it.
The Heidi Chronicles
The Heidi Chronicles is a 1988 comedy-drama by American playwright Wendy Wasserstein that won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play.
The History Boys
The History Boys is Alan Bennett's 2004 National Theatre play, directed by Nicholas Hytner, about eight Yorkshire grammar-school boys coached for Oxbridge; it won three Oliviers and six Tonys and was filmed in 2006 with the original cast.
The House of Bernarda Alba
The House of Bernarda Alba (La casa de Bernarda Alba) is Federico García Lorca's 1936 rural tragedy in which Bernarda Alba locks her five daughters into eight years of mourning, exploring repression, patriarchy, and marriage economics.
The Humans (play)
The Humans is Stephen Karam's Tony-winning 2016 dark-comedy play about the Blake family's Thanksgiving in a Chinatown duplex; Pulitzer finalist, Broadway run 2016-17, adapted to a 2021 A24 film.
The Hunger Games: On Stage
The Hunger Games: On Stage is the first stage adaptation of Suzanne Collins' novel, adapted by Conor McPherson, directed by Matthew Dunster, playing London's purpose-built Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre from October 2025 with Mia Carragher as Katniss.
The Iceman Cometh
The Iceman Cometh, Eugene O'Neill's 1939 four-act drama first staged on Broadway in 1946, set in Harry Hope's 1912 New York saloon, where salesman Hickey strips the derelict roomers of their pipe dreams; famous for the 1956 Quintero/Robards revival and near-five-hour length.
The Imaginary Invalid
The Imaginary Invalid (Le Malade imaginaire) is a three-act comédie-ballet by Molière with music by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, first performed in Paris in 1673, in which he played Argan and died a week later.
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest (A Trivial Comedy for Serious People) is Oscar Wilde's 1895 three-act comedy of double identities, bunburying, and Lady Bracknell, satirizing Victorian marriage and class; it closed early on Wilde's arrest but remains among the most revived English plays.
The Improv
The Improv is an American chain of stand-up comedy clubs, founded by Budd Friedman in New York City in 1963 and widely credited as the first comedy club.
The Injustice to Dou E
The Injustice to Dou E (竇娥冤) is a four-act zaju tragedy by the Yuan dynasty playwright Guan Hanqing, in which the widow Dou E is wrongfully executed for murder.
The Invention of Love
The Invention of Love is a 1997 Tom Stoppard play about scholar-poet A. E. Housman, his lifelong unrequited love for Moses Jackson, first staged by the Royal National Theatre.
The Irkutsk Story
The Irkutsk Story (Иркутская история) is a 1959 two-part drama by Soviet playwright Alexei Arbuzov, set at the Irkutsk hydroelectric plant on the Angara River in Siberia.
The Jade Hairpin
The Jade Hairpin (玉簪记) is a Ming dynasty chuanqi play by Gao Lian, completed in 1570, about the love of Pan Bizheng and the nun Chen Miaochang.
The Jade Ring
The Jade Ring (玉環記, Yuhuan ji) is a Ming-dynasty chuanqi play in 34 scenes by Yang Rousheng, dramatizing the Tang-era love story of the scholar Wei Gao and the courtesan Yuxiao.
The Just Assassins
The Just Assassins (French: Les Justes) is a 1949 play in five acts by Albert Camus about the 1905 assassination of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich.
The Kid Mero
The Kid Mero (Joel Martinez) is a Bronx-raised Dominican-American comedian, podcaster, and Hot 97 morning host, formerly half of the Desus & Mero duo on Viceland and Showtime.
The Killing of the Dog
The Killing of the Dog (Shagou ji, 杀狗记) is a Chinese nanxi play in which a wife kills a dog disguised as a corpse to reconcile her husband with his brother.
The King is the King
The King is the King (الملك هو الملك) is a 1977 play by the Syrian playwright Sa'dallah Wannous, built on a tale from One Thousand and One Nights.
The King of Betajnova
The King of Betajnova (Kralj na Betajnovi) is a three-act drama by the Slovene writer Ivan Cankar, published in 1902 and first staged in Ljubljana in 1904.
The Kipper Kids
The Kipper Kids: British performance art duo Brian Routh and Martin von Haselberg, both performing as Harry Kipper, active 1971 onward, known for drunken stylized 'ceremonies' and based in California from the 1970s.
The Knight of the Burning Pestle
The Knight of the Burning Pestle is a 1607 metatheatrical comedy by Francis Beaumont in which a grocer and his wife force their apprentice Rafe into a play as a chivalric knight.