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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre: professional live theatre in New York City's 41 large (500-plus-seat) midtown theatres, defined by venue, not style. Records show $1.91 billion gross and 14.6 million attendances in 2025–2026; counterpart market is London's West End.

Brocade

Brocade (Italian broccato, 'embossed cloth') is a richly decorative fabric woven with supplementary, non-structural wefts, often silk with gold or silver thread; continuous or discontinuous, on draw or jacquard looms.

Broccoli City Festival

Broccoli City Festival is an annual hip hop and R&B music festival in Washington, D.C., founded in 2013 by Brandon McEachern and Marcus Allen and now part of Live Nation Urban.

Broccoli haircut

Broccoli haircut, also called Zoomer perm or bussin cut: textured fringe cut with curly, often permed top and faded sides, a Gen Z teen boys' trend spread via K-pop and TikTok from 2020.

Brochevarevarura (బ్రోచేవారెవరురా)

Brochevarevarura (బ్రోచేవారెవరురా), also Brochevarevaru Ra, is a 2019 Telugu crime comedy written and directed by Vivek Athreya, starring Sree Vishnu, Nivetha Thomas, Nivetha Pethuraj, and Satyadev, released 28 June 2019 with music by Vivek Sagar.

Brock Peters

Brock Peters (George Fisher, 1927–2005), American actor and singer known for Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird, Crown in Porgy and Bess, Admiral Cartwright in Star Trek IV and VI, Joseph Sisko on Deep Space Nine, and his 1990 SAG Life Achievement Award.

Brockhampton (band)

Brockhampton, also known as BROCKHAMPTON, was a Los Angeles hip-hop boy band founded by Kevin Abstract via the KanyeToThe forum. The 14-member collective released the 2017 Saturation trilogy, topped the Billboard 200 with Iridescence, and disbanded in 2022.

Brockmire

Brockmire is an IFC comedy series (2017-2020, four seasons) starring Hank Azaria as Jim Brockmire, a disgraced MLB announcer rebuilding his career with the minor league Morristown Frackers, co-starring Amanda Peet; it grew from a 2010 Funny or Die short.

Broderick Crawford

Broderick Crawford (1911–1986), American actor; Oscar winner as Willie Stark in All the King's Men (1949) and star of the syndicated TV series Highway Patrol as Chief Dan Mathews.

Brody Dalle

Brody Dalle, born Bree Joanna Alice Robinson (also reported as Bree Leslie Pucilowski), Australian singer-guitarist of the Distillers, Spinnerette, and solo album Diploid Love.

Brody Jenner

Brody Jenner (Sam Brody Jenner, born 1983) is an American reality TV personality, model, and DJ, son of Caitlyn Jenner and Linda Thompson, known for The Princes of Malibu, The Hills, Bromance, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, and The Hills: New Beginnings.

Brody Stevens

Brody Stevens (Steven James Brody, 1970-2019) was an American stand-up comedian and actor from the San Fernando Valley, known for energetic confrontational sets, warm-up work, Hangover roles, and the series Enjoy It!.

Brogue shoe

Brogue shoe: a leather shoe defined by broguing, decorative punched perforations and pinking, from Gaelic bróg. Originated in Ireland and Scotland as water-draining outdoor footwear; types include quarter, semi, full (wingtip), and longwing brogues.

Brohug

BROHUG is a Swedish bass house DJ trio of Christopher Lunde, Niklas Lunde, and John Dahlbäck, formed in Stockholm in 2016 and known for releases on Tchami's Confession label.

Broke (2025 film)

Broke (2025) is a contemporary western drama, Carlyle Eubank's debut feature, starring Wyatt Russell as rodeo bronc rider True Brandywine, with Dennis Quaid and Mary McDonnell; released digitally May 6, 2025 by Sony, later on Netflix.

Broke Records

Broke Records (broke records) is a New York independent label founded in 2023 by Andre Benz and Brandon De Oliveira under Create Music Group; distinct from the UK breakbeat Broke Records of The Autobots.

Brokeback Mountain

Brokeback Mountain, Ang Lee's 2005 romantic drama starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, adapted from Annie Proulx's 1997 New Yorker short story; won three Oscars, grossed $178 million, lost Best Picture to Crash.

Brokeback Mountain (short story)

Brokeback Mountain is Annie Proulx's 1997 New Yorker short story about Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, Wyoming ranch hands in a secret 20-year affair; collected in Close Range, it won a National Magazine Award and an O. Henry prize and inspired Ang Lee's 2005 film.

Brokeback to the Future

Brokeback to the Future, also called Brokeback To The Future, is a 2006 viral recut trailer by Emerson College's Chocolate Cake City pairing Back to the Future footage with Brokeback Mountain's score to imply a Marty-Doc romance.

Brokedown Palace

Brokedown Palace is a 1999 American drama film directed by Jonathan Kaplan, in which two American graduates, played by Claire Danes and Kate Beckinsale, are imprisoned in Thailand.

Broken (2012 film)

Broken (2012 film), Rufus Norris's feature debut, a British coming-of-age drama adapted from Daniel Clay's novel, starring Tim Roth, Eloise Laurence, Cillian Murphy, and Rory Kinnear; opened Cannes Critics' Week 2012 and won Best British Independent Film at the BIFAs.

Broken Angels (novel)

Broken Angels (2003) by Richard K. Morgan is the second Takeshi Kovacs science fiction novel, a military SF war-and-salvage story set on Sanction IV, where Kovacs joins a covert team hunting an intact Martian spacecraft, published by Gollancz and Del Rey.

Broken Arrow (1950 film)

Broken Arrow (1950) is Delmer Daves' Twentieth Century-Fox Western starring James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, and Debra Paget, the first major sound-era Hollywood Western to portray Native Americans sympathetically, based on Elliott Arnold's Blood Brother, with three Oscar nominations.

Broken Arrow (1996 film)

Broken Arrow is a 1996 American action thriller directed by John Woo, starring John Travolta and Christian Slater as pilots fighting over stolen nuclear warheads.

Broken Bells

Broken Bells is an American indie rock duo of Shins frontman James Mercer and producer Brian "Danger Mouse" Burton, formed after meeting at Roskilde 2004; albums Broken Bells (2010), After the Disco (2014), Into the Blue (2022).

Broken Blossoms

Broken Blossoms (1919), also The Yellow Man and the Girl, is D.W. Griffith's silent drama adapted from Thomas Burke's Limehouse Nights, starring Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, and Donald Crisp; his first United Artists release and a 1989 National Film Registry selection.

Broken But Beautiful

Broken But Beautiful is a Hindi-language ALTBalaji romantic drama web series (2018-2021), created by Ekta Kapoor, starring Vikrant Massey and Harleen Sethi in seasons 1-2 and Sidharth Shukla and Sonia Rathee in season 3, with an 8.5 IMDb rating.

Broken by the Scream

Broken by the Scream (ブロークンバイザスクリーム, BBTS) is a Japanese metal screaming idol group formed in 2017, mixing high screams, low growls, and clean vocals; current lineup Io, Tsubaki, Shizuku, Yayoi since 2024; Metal Blade signees touring Europe and Wacken 2026.

Broken City

Broken City (2013) is a political crime thriller directed by Allen Hughes, starring Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe, and Catherine Zeta-Jones; released January 18, 2013 by 20th Century Fox, grossing $19.7M, with 26% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Broken Country

Broken Country is a 2025 historical novel by Clare Leslie Hall (also published as Clare Empson), her North American debut from Simon & Schuster. Set in Dorset across 1955, 1968, and a 1969 murder trial, it follows Beth Johnson's love triangle and grief; a Reese's Book Club pick.