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The Prince of the Pagodas
The Prince of the Pagodas is Benjamin Britten's only full-length ballet score (Op. 57), premiered 1 January 1957 at Covent Garden with John Cranko's choreography, later restaged by Kenneth MacMillan in 1989 for Darcey Bussell and by David Bintley in 2011.
The Princess of Andalusia
The Princess of Andalusia (أميرة الأندلس) is a 1932 prose drama by Egyptian poet Ahmad Shawqi, his only play in prose, centered on the poet-king al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad of Seville.
The Profitable Post
The Profitable Post (Russian: «Доходное место») is an 1856 comedy in five acts by Alexander Ostrovsky about a young official trying to live honestly in a bureaucracy built on bribes.
The Public Theater
The Public Theater is a nonprofit New York theater founded by Joe Papp in 1954 as the New York Shakespeare Festival, home of Free Shakespeare in the Park, Hair, Hamilton, Joe's Pub, and Public Works at 425 Lafayette Street.
The Puppet Show
The Puppet Show (Balaganchik) is a short lyrical drama by Russian poet Alexander Blok, finished in 1906 and premiered in St. Petersburg, directed by Meyerhold.
The Quare Fellow
The Quare Fellow is a tragicomic prison play by Irish writer Brendan Behan, set in Dublin's Mountjoy Prison before a hanging; it premiered in 1954.
The Queen of Versailles (musical)
The Queen of Versailles is a Stephen Schwartz–Lindsey Ferrentino musical based on Lauren Greenfield's 2012 documentary, starring Kristin Chenoweth and F. Murray Abraham, which ran on Broadway at the St. James Theatre in late 2025.
The Recruiting Officer
The Recruiting Officer is a 1706 comedy by Irish playwright George Farquhar, following Captain Plume and Captain Brazen as they recruit soldiers and court women in Shrewsbury during the War of the Spanish Succession.
The Red Plum Blossom
The Red Plum Blossom (Hongmei ji, 红梅记) is a 34-act Ming dynasty chuanqi play by Zhou Chaojun about the ghost of the murdered concubine Li Huiniang.
The Removalists
The Removalists is a 1971 play by Australian playwright David Williamson, a dark satire in which a domestic-violence complaint escalates into a police beating. It premiered at La Mama in Melbourne.
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui) is Bertolt Brecht's 1941 parable play, written in Finnish exile, satirizing Hitler's rise as a Chicago gangster's takeover of the vegetable trade; premiered 1958 in Stuttgart.
The Rite of Spring (Весна священная)
The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps, Весна священная) is Stravinsky's 1913 Ballets Russes ballet with Nijinsky choreography and Roerich designs, whose Paris premiere caused a famous scandal and whose score became a landmark of twentieth-century music.
The Rivals
The Rivals is Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 1775 comedy of manners set in Bath, his first play, source of the word malapropism via Mrs. Malaprop, and still regularly revived on stage.
The Road to Mecca
The Road to Mecca is a 1984 two-act play by Athol Fugard, set in New Bethesda, South Africa, about an elderly widow's cement sculpture garden.
The Roaring Girl
The Roaring Girl is a 1611 Jacobean city comedy by Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton about Moll Cutpurse, a cross-dressing thief based on the real London figure Mary Frith.
The Rockettes
The Rockettes (Radio City Rockettes) are an American precision dance company founded in 1925 in St. Louis as the Missouri Rockets, in residence at Radio City Music Hall since 1932 and famed for the Christmas Spectacular, eye-high kick lines, and the Parade of the Wooden Soldiers.
The Rose (theatre)
The Rose was an Elizabethan playhouse built on Bankside in Southwark, London, in 1587 by Philip Henslowe, and the site of the first recorded performances of two Shakespeare plays.
The Rose and the Cross
The Rose and the Cross (Roza i krest) is a 1913 drama in four acts by the Russian poet Alexander Blok, set in thirteenth-century Languedoc and Brittany.
The Roxy (New York City)
The Roxy (New York City) covers several venues: the 1927 Rothafel movie palace at 153 West 50th Street (demolished 1960), the 1978-2007 West 18th Street nightclub, the 1932 RKO Roxy/Center Theatre, and the Roxy Hotel.
The Royal Ballet
The Royal Ballet is Britain's leading classical ballet company, based at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Founded as the Vic-Wells Ballet by Ninette de Valois in 1931, renamed Sadler's Wells Ballet in 1940, chartered as The Royal Ballet in 1956; sister lineage to Birmingham Royal Ballet.
The School for Scandal
The School for Scandal is a five-act comedy of manners by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, first performed at London's Drury Lane Theatre in 1777 and famous for its screen scene.
The School for Wives
The School for Wives (L'École des femmes) is a 1662 five-act comedy in verse by Molière, in which Arnolphe loses his ward Agnès to Horace.
The Scottish play
The Scottish play (also the Bard's play) is the theatrical euphemism for Shakespeare's Macbeth, avoided by name in theatres because of the famous stage superstition that speaking the title brings bad luck.
The Seagull (Чайка)
The Seagull (Чайка) is Anton Chekhov's 1895 four-act comedy about art and unrequited love. It failed at its 1896 Saint Petersburg premiere, succeeded at the 1898 Moscow Art Theatre revival, and pioneered subtext-driven modern drama.
The Season at Sarsaparilla
The Season at Sarsaparilla is a 1962 two-act play by Patrick White, set in a fictional Sydney suburb and following three adjoining households through conformity and repressed desire.
The Second City
The Second City is an improv and sketch comedy theater founded December 16, 1959, in Chicago's Old Town by Paul Sills, Bernie Sahlins, and Howard Alk; known for its satirical revues, Training Centers, and alumni pipeline to Saturday Night Live.
The Second Mrs Tanqueray
The Second Mrs Tanqueray is an 1893 play in four acts by Arthur Wing Pinero about a widower's marriage to a woman with a past, which made a star of Mrs Patrick Campbell.
The Second Shepherds' Play
The Second Shepherds' Play, also known as the Secunda Pastorum, is a 15th-century English mystery play from the Towneley collection that joins a comic sheep-stealing plot with the shepherds' visit to Bethlehem.
The Servant of Two Masters
The Servant of Two Masters (Il servitore di due padroni) is a 1746 comedy by Carlo Goldoni about the hungry servant Truffaldino secretly serving two masters at once.
The Shubert Organization
The Shubert Organization, founded by Sam, Lee, and Jacob J. Shubert of Syracuse, is America's oldest professional theatre company and Broadway's largest theatre owner, with 17 Broadway houses, Telecharge ticketing, and a 1956 antitrust consent decree history.