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Théâtre Libre
The Théâtre Libre, or Free Theatre, was a private theater company founded by André Antoine in Paris in 1887 to stage naturalist drama outside commercial and censorship constraints.
Théâtre national algérien (المسرح الوطني الجزائري)
Théâtre national algérien (المسرح الوطني الجزائري) is Algeria's national theater, created by decree in 1963 and housed since independence in the former Opera of Algiers in central Algiers.
Théâtre national Mohammed V (محمد الخامس)
The Théâtre national Mohammed V (محمد الخامس) is Morocco's state-run national theater in Rabat, built in 1961–1962 and named for King Mohammed V; it hosts drama, opera, and ballet.
Theatre of ancient Greece
Theatre of ancient Greece, or ancient Greek drama: theatrical culture born in 6th-century BC Athens as tragedy, performed at the Dionysia and Lenaia festivals of Dionysus, with genres of tragedy, comedy (486 BC), and satyr play, pioneered by Thespis, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.
Theatre of ancient Rome
Theatre of ancient Rome: Roman drama and performance from the 364 BCE ludi scaenici through Plautus, Terence, mime, and pantomime, and the Theater of Pompey, the first permanent Roman playhouse of 55 BCE.
Theatre of Argentina
Theatre of Argentina is the national stage tradition of Argentina, founded in 1884 when the Podestá family adapted the gaucho novel Juan Moreira for their circus, later producing Florencio Sánchez.
Theatre of Australia
Theatre of Australia: the nation's live performance tradition, from 1789 convict staging of The Recruiting Officer and Robert Sidaway's 1796 Sydney theatre to the post-1955 national repertoire, First Nations companies like Ilbijerri, and Creative Australia's Partnership Framework funding.
Theatre of Bangladesh
Theatre of Bangladesh spans Sanskrit drama, folk jatra, and modern urban theater, with about 250 nonprofit group theaters defining the stage after the 1971 War of Liberation.
Theatre of Blood
Theatre of Blood (US title Theater of Blood) is a 1973 British black comedy horror film directed by Douglas Hickox, starring Vincent Price as actor Edward Lionheart, who murders theatre critics using deaths copied from Shakespeare plays; adapted for the National Theatre in 2005.
Theatre of China
Theatre of China covers traditional opera (xiqu, 戏曲), 300-plus regional sung genres with four skills and role types, and Western-derived spoken drama (huaju) from around 1900, through Yuan-Ming-Qing maturation, model theater, and today's heritage preservation.
Theatre of Cruelty
Theatre of Cruelty (theatre of cruelty), avant-garde drama theory by Antonin Artaud in two 1931 and 1933 manifestos collected in Le Theatre et son Double (1938); spiritual not physical cruelty, sensory staging, sole production The Cenci (1935), influential on Brook's 1964 season, the Living Theater, and later performance art.
Theatre of Denmark
Theatre of Denmark (teater i Danmark): Danish theatrical tradition from medieval liturgical drama through the 1722 Lille Grønnegade stage, Holberg's comedies, and the 1748 Royal Theatre to today's regional, touring and independent scenes.
Theatre of Dionysus (Θέατρο του Διονύσου)
Theatre of Dionysus (Θέατρο του Διονύσου), ancient Athenian theatre on the Acropolis' south slope where Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes premiered; Lycurgan stone phase (340-330 BC) seated 15,000-17,000; birthplace of Greek drama, now an excavated visitor site.
Theatre of Egypt
Theatre of Egypt is the tradition of staged drama in Egypt since the 19th century, blending European forms with local performance into a national drama in Egyptian Arabic.
Theatre of India
Theatre of India (भारतीय रंगमंच) covers Sanskrit classical drama rooted in the Natyashastra, regional folk forms such as Jatra, Yakshagana, Tamasha, and Pandwani, and modern theatre shaped by Parsi theatre, street theatre, and post-Independence directors like Habib Tanvir.
Theatre of Ireland
The Theatre of Ireland is the national theater tradition of Ireland, conventionally dated from 1897, when Yeats, Lady Gregory, and Edward Martyn founded modern Irish drama.
Theatre of Memory
Theatre of Memory, or Teatro de la memoria, is a current in Chilean and Southern Cone theater in which staged works construct and contest collective memory of the dictatorships of the 1970s and 1980s.
Theatre of Pain
Theatre of Pain is Mötley Crüe's third studio album, released June 21, 1985 on Elektra/Asylum. Known for Home Sweet Home and Smokin' in the Boys Room, it pivoted the band toward glam metal, went 4x platinum, and received a 40th-anniversary BMG box set in 2025.
Theatre of Pakistan
Theatre of Pakistan is the live stage tradition of Pakistan, spanning Urdu drama inherited from Parsi theater, a commercial Punjabi stage in Lahore, and political theater.
Theatre of Poland
Theatre of Poland: national theatrical tradition from medieval liturgical drama and the 1765 National Theatre of Stanisław August through Grotowski, Kantor, and post-1989 repertory and independent scenes.
Theatre of Pompey
Theatre of Pompey (Theatrum Pompei), Rome's first permanent stone theater, dedicated 55 BC by Pompey the Great on the Campus Martius, with a Venus Victrix temple workaround, the Curia where Caesar was assassinated, and remains under modern Rome.
Theatre of Sri Lanka
The theater of Sri Lanka is a layered tradition running from masked kolam folk drama and South Indian nadagam to urban nurthi, modern Sinhala and Tamil stage, and string-puppet Rukada Natya.
Theatre of the Oppressed
Theatre of the Oppressed (Teatro do Oprimido) is Augusto Boal's interactive theatre method, influenced by Freire, in which spectators become spect-actors who intervene in Forum, Image, Invisible, Rainbow of Desire, and Legislative Theatre scenes to rehearse responses to oppression.
Theatre of Turkey
Theatre of Turkey: traditional forms (meddah, Karagöz, ortaoyunu, village plays) plus Western-style modern theatre from the Tanzimat era; Şair Evlenmesi 1860, Dârülbedayi 1914, State Theatres 1949.
Theatre Olympics
The Theatre Olympics is an international invitational theater festival founded in Delphi, Greece, in 1993, with no medals or prizes; its largest edition drew 465 works from 35 countries.
Theatre Passe Muraille
Theatre Passe Muraille, French for "theatre beyond walls," is a professional theater company in Toronto founded in 1968 by Jim Garrard at Rochdale College, one of Canada's first alternative theaters.
Théâtre populaire
Théâtre populaire is a French movement seeking to bring theater to workers, provincial audiences, and the poor, embodied in the Théâtre du Peuple de Bussang (1895) and the TNP.
Theatre Royal Haymarket
The Theatre Royal Haymarket is a Grade I listed West End theater in London, first built in 1720 and the third oldest London playhouse still in use.
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane is London's oldest continuously used theatre site, operating since 1663 under Charles II's patent to Thomas Killigrew. Current Grade I building by Benjamin Dean Wyatt dates from 1812; owned by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Theatre traditions by country and culture
Theatre traditions by country and culture surveys how theater arose independently worldwide, from India's Natyashastra and Java's ten centuries of wayang puppetry to Japan's Noh and China's 600-year-old Kunqu.