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The Krankies
The Krankies, Ian and Janette Tough, a Scottish husband-and-wife comedy duo; Janette plays schoolboy Wee Jimmy Krankie (catchphrase "Fan-dab-i-dozi"). Cabaret act that found fame on Royal Variety 1978 and BBC's Crackerjack, with 1980s series and long pantomime career.
The Lady of the Camellias (ballet)
The Lady of the Camellias (Die Kameliendame) is a full-length narrative ballet by John Neumeier, set to music of Frédéric Chopin and adapted from Alexandre Dumas fils's 1848 novel.
The Laramie Project
The Laramie Project: 2000 documentary play by Moisés Kaufman and Tectonic Theater Project on Laramie, Wyoming's reaction to Matthew Shepard's 1998 murder, built from over 200 resident interviews, premiered at the Denver Center and adapted for HBO.
The Last Days of Mankind
The Last Days of Mankind (Die letzten Tage der Menschheit) is a documentary anti-war drama in five acts by Austrian satirist Karl Kraus, written between 1915 and 1922.
The Last Five Years
The Last Five Years is a two-character musical by Jason Robert Brown about Jamie Wellerstein and Cathy Hiatt, told in opposing timelines; premiered 2001 in Chicago, won 2002 Drama Desk Awards, filmed 2014, reached Broadway 2025.
The Learned Ladies
The Learned Ladies (Les Femmes savantes), also translated as The Learned Women, is a comedy in verse by Molière, first performed in Paris in 1672, satirizing pretentious learning.
The Lieutenant of Inishmore
The Lieutenant of Inishmore is a dark comedy by Martin McDonagh, premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2001, about an INLA paramilitary avenging his cat's apparent death.
The Life of Man (Жизнь Человека»)
The Life of Man (Zhizn Cheloveka) is a 1907 allegorical five-scene play with prologue by Leonid Andreyev. Its unnamed hero Man, observed by Someone in Grey with a candle, premiered at Komissarzhevskaya's theatre under Meyerhold, then at the Moscow Art Theatre under Stanislavsky.
The Light Shines in Darkness
The Light Shines in Darkness (И свет во тьме светит) is an unfinished five-act drama by Leo Tolstoy about a landowner who renounces wealth, published posthumously in 1911.
The Lion and the Jewel
The Lion and the Jewel is Wole Soyinka's 1959 comedy set in the Yoruba village of Ilujinle, where chief Baroka and schoolteacher Lakunle compete for Sidi; first published 1962/1963, staged at London's Royal Court in 1966.
The Living Theatre
The Living Theatre is an American experimental theater company founded in New York City in 1947 by Judith Malina and Julian Beck, devoted to political, participatory theater.
The London Merchant
The London Merchant, or the History of George Barnwell, is a 1731 tragedy in five acts by George Lillo, widely treated as the founding work of domestic tragedy.
The Lonely Island
The Lonely Island is an American comedy trio of Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone, formed in 2001 in Berkeley. Known for SNL Digital Shorts like "Lazy Sunday" and "Dick in a Box" and comedy hip-hop albums Incredibad, Turtleneck & Chain, and The Wack Album.
The Lost Boys (musical)
The Lost Boys is a 2026 Broadway musical adaptation of the 1987 Joel Schumacher vampire film, playing the Palace Theatre with book by Hornsby and Hoch, score by The Rescues, direction by Michael Arden, and 12 Tony nominations including Best New Musical.
The Love Suicides at Amijima
The Love Suicides at Amijima (心中天網島) is a 1720 Japanese puppet play by Chikamatsu Monzaemon, dramatizing the real double suicide of a paper merchant and a courtesan in Osaka.
The Mad Phoenix
The Mad Phoenix (南海十三郎) is a two-act Cantonese play by Raymond To about the opera playwright Jiang Yuliu, first staged by the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre in 1993.
The Magic Circle (organisation)
The Magic Circle is a London society of magicians founded in 1905 at Pinoli's Restaurant, Soho, with over 1,700 members worldwide. Entry requires an audition or thesis, degrees include MMC, AIMC, and MIMC, and headquarters at 12 Stephenson Way opened in 1998.
The Maids
The Maids (Les Bonnes) is a 1947 one-act play by Jean Genet, in which two maids, Claire and Solange, ritually rehearse the murder of their mistress Madame.
The Makropulos Affair
The Makropulos Affair (Věc Makropulos) is a 1922 comedy by Czech writer Karel Čapek about a woman kept alive for centuries who chooses to die.
The Man of Mode
The Man of Mode is a Restoration comedy of manners by George Etherege, first performed in 1676, whose central character Dorimant is read as a portrait of the Earl of Rochester.
The Man Who Came to Dinner
The Man Who Came to Dinner is a 1939 Broadway comedy by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman about a celebrity critic who takes over an Ohio family's home.
The Man Who Turned into a Stick
The Man Who Turned into a Stick (棒になった男, Bō ni natta otoko) is a one-act play by Kobo Abe in which a man who falls from a department store roof turns into a stick.
The Man with a Gun
The Man with a Gun (Chelovek s ruzhyom, Russian: «Человек с ружьём») is a 1937 play by Soviet dramatist Nikolai Pogodin, the first part of his Lenin trilogy.
The Master Builder
The Master Builder (Bygmester Solness) is a three-act 1892 play by Henrik Ibsen about Halvard Solness, an aging architect, and Hilda Wangel, who drives him to climb a tower one last time.
The Miracle Worker
The Miracle Worker is William Gibson's Tony-winning drama about Annie Sullivan teaching deafblind Helen Keller language, first a 1957 teleplay, then a 1959 Broadway hit, the 1962 Oscar-winning film with Bancroft and Duke, and an annual outdoor staging at Ivy Green.
The Misanthrope
The Misanthrope (Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire amoureux) is a five-act comedy in verse by Molière, first performed at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris in 1666.
The Miserly Knight
The Miserly Knight (Скупой рыцарь) is a one-act verse tragedy by Alexander Pushkin, first of the 1830 Little Tragedies, about a baron whose hoarded gold destroys his bond with his son.
The Mistress of the Inn
The Mistress of the Inn (La locandiera) is a three-act prose comedy by Carlo Goldoni, first performed in Venice in 1753 and centered on the innkeeper Mirandolina.
The Moon Cuckoo
The Moon Cuckoo (Саран хөхөөний намтар) is a nineteenth-century Mongolian drama by the Fifth Noyon Khutagt Danzanravjaa, staged at his monastery theater from 1832 and seen as the start of Mongolian professional theater.
The Most Happy Fella
The Most Happy Fella is a 1956 Broadway musical with book, music, and lyrics by Frank Loesser, based on Sidney Howard's play They Knew What They Wanted.