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The Youth Memories (梦中的那片海)

The Youth Memories (梦中的那片海) is a 38-episode Chinese period drama premiered June 1, 2023 on CCTV-8 and Tencent Video, directed by Fu Ning, starring Xiao Zhan and Li Qin as 1970s Beijing youths spanning 30 years; Douban 7.5, Tencent heat over 30,000.

The Zanuck Company

The Zanuck Company, also the Zanuck Co., is a Beverly Hills film production company formed in 1988 by Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck, and Jerry Perenchio after the Zanuck/Brown partnership ended; its debut was Driving Miss Daisy, Best Picture winner.

The Zero Theorem

The Zero Theorem is Terry Gilliam's 2013 dystopian sci-fi film, written by Pat Rushin, starring Christoph Waltz as Qohen Leth, a hacker tasked with proving life is meaningless; shot in Bucharest for $8.5 million, released 2014.

The Zeta Project

The Zeta Project is a 2001–2002 Kids' WB animated series, a Batman Beyond spin-off created by Robert Goodman, following the conscience-stricken NSA synthoid assassin Zeta (Diedrich Bader) and runaway Ro Rowan fleeing Agent Bennet while searching for Dr. Selig; cancelled after 26 episodes in two seasons.

The Zone (YTV)

The Zone (YTV): flagship weekday 4-6 p.m. afterschool block on Canada's YTV, begun as the Afterschool Zone on September 2, 1991, hosted by program jockeys (PJs) such as PJ Phil and Carlos Bustamante; hosting ended April 28, 2023.

The Zone of Interest (film)

The Zone of Interest (2023), Jonathan Glazer's Holocaust drama starring Sandra Hüller and Christian Friedel as the Höss family beside Auschwitz, loosely based on Martin Amis's 2014 novel; Cannes Grand Prix winner and Oscar winner for Best International Feature and Best Sound.

The Zone: Survival Mission (더 존: 버터야 산다)

The Zone: Survival Mission (더 존: 버텨야 산다) is a Disney+ Korean reality game show from the Running Man producers, starring Yoo Jae-suk, Lee Kwang-soo, and Kwon Yuri surviving four-hour disaster simulations; three seasons ran 2022–2024.

The Zoo (动物园)

The Zoo (動物園) is a 2026 Taiwanese 10-episode workplace romantic comedy on Disney+, directed by Su Wen-sheng, starring Shao Yu-wei and Wang Po-chieh as an ad executive turned trainee zookeeper and a keeper at Kaohsiung's Shoushan Zoo.

The Zoo Story

The Zoo Story is a one-act play by Edward Albee, written in 1958 and premiered in Berlin in 1959, in which the stranger Jerry forces a conversation on the publishing executive Peter in Central Park.

The Zookeeper's Wife (film)

The Zookeeper's Wife is a 2017 Focus Features historical drama directed by Niki Caro, starring Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh, and Daniel Brühl, adapted from Diane Ackerman's 2007 book about the Żabińskis sheltering about 300 Jews at the Warsaw Zoo.

The Zoya Factor (film)

The Zoya Factor is a 2019 Hindi romantic comedy-drama directed by Abhishek Sharma, adapted from Anuja Chauhan's 2008 novel, starring Sonam Kapoor as lucky charm Zoya Solanki and Dulquer Salmaan as cricket captain Nikhil Khoda; released 20 September 2019 by Fox Star Studios and a box-office failure.

Thea Queen

Thea Dearden Queen, also called Mia or Speedy, is Oliver Queen's half-sister in The CW's Arrow (2012–2020), played by Willa Holland; an original Arrowverse character adapted from DC's Mia Dearden who becomes the vigilante Speedy after Lazarus Pit revival.

Theater (structure)

A theater is a building, or part of one, constructed wholly or mainly for the public performance of plays, ranging from small studio spaces to opera houses.

Theater Camp

Theater Camp is a 2023 American mockumentary comedy directed by Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman, starring Ben Platt, Gordon, and Noah Galvin as staff saving AdirondACTS, an upstate New York theater camp, after founder Joan falls into a coma.

Theater drapes and stage curtains

Theater drapes and stage curtains, known together as soft goods, are the cloth elements used to surround, conceal, and transform a theater stage, from the main curtain to backdrops.

Theater in the United States

Theater in the United States spans Broadway, nonprofit regional theaters, and community companies, from colonial-era stages and the 1935–1939 Federal Theatre Project to the postwar regional movement and today's $1.91 billion Broadway seasons.

Theater of Tegea

Theater of Tegea: Hellenistic theater of the Arcadian polis Tegea, east of its agora at Palaia Episkopi; 4th-century BC origin, marble cavea funded by Antiochus IV (175 BC), cavea 80 m, buried under a Byzantine church.

Theater of Thought

Theater of Thought (Theatre of Thought) is Werner Herzog's 2022 documentary on the human brain and neurotechnology, made with Columbia neuroscientist Rafael Yuste; premiered at TIFF 2022, limited US release December 13, 2024, no streaming release.

Theatre

Theatre, the art of live performance before an audience by actors using speech, song, gesture, and staging; Western theatre arose in Athens around 534 BC with Thespis, with independent Sanskrit and East Asian traditions.

Theatre companies of Asia, Africa and Oceania

Theatre companies of Asia, Africa and Oceania operate under state, private, and foundation models, from Nairobi's 1952 national theater to Mumbai's NCPA and Australia's thirty major companies.

Theatre companies of Southeast Asia

Theatre companies of Southeast Asia are producing groups across Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore, ranging from registered professional companies and artist-run collectives to traditional-form troupes like mak yong ensembles.

Theatre Company of the Philippines (Tanghalang Pilipino)

Tanghalang Pilipino, the resident drama company of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, was founded in 1987 and is the country's National Performing Arts Company for Theater.

Theatre director

Theatre director: the artist who unifies text, design, and performance under one vision. Also called stage director, regisseur, or Intendant. Emerged as a distinct creative profession in the late nineteenth century with Saxe-Meiningen, Antoine, Stanislavsky, Appia, and Craig.

Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier

The Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier is a Paris theater in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, founded by Jacques Copeau in 1913 and the second hall of the Comédie-Française since 1993.

Theatre festivals in Asia, Africa and Oceania

Theatre festivals in Asia, Africa and Oceania range from Bharat Rang Mahotsav in India, billed as the world's largest, to Cairo's CIFET and the Kampala and Kenya festivals.

Theatre for development

Theatre for development (TfD), also called popular theatre, is participatory community theatre rooted in Freire and Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, widespread since the 1970s in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, using research, devising, and forum-style performance to address local development issues.

Theatre for young audiences

Theatre for young audiences (TYA) is professional theater created by adult artists for children, teens, and family audiences, distinct from participatory youth theater, spanning touring ensembles, festivals, and mainstream stages.

Théatre Gallo-Romains

Gallo-Roman theatres (theatres gallo-romains): provincial Roman theatres of Gaul, Germania, and Britannia with cavea beyond a semicircle, reduced stage, dual theatre-amphitheatre use; Mandeure, 142 m, is the largest in Gaul.

Theatre historiography

Theatre historiography is the study of how theater history is researched, written, and periodized, examining what counts as evidence and where one era ends and another begins.

Theatre in Asia

Theatre in Asia is not one art form but hundreds of distinct traditions, most fusing drama, dance, and music, with roots in Indian epics and religious practice.