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Performing Arts

Theatre

B

Bahr, Hermann
Bakst, Léon Nikolayevich
Bancroft
Bankhead, Tallulah Brockman
Barker, Howard
Barlach, Ernst
Barnum, P(hineas) T(aylor)
Barrault, Jean-Louis
Barrett, Lawrence
Barrie, Sir James Matthew
Barry, Elizabeth
Barrymore, Ethel
Barrymore, John
Barrymore, Lionel
Bart, Lionel
Bataille, (Félix) Henri
Bates, Sir Alan
Baty, Gaston
Baylis, Lilian Mary
Beaton, Sir Cecil Walter Hardy
Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de
Beaumont and Fletcher
Beckett, Samuel Barclay
Becque, Henry François
Behan, Brendan
Behrman, S(amuel) N(athaniel)
Béjart
Belasco, David
Belgrade Theatre
Benavente y Martínez, Jacinto
Bennett, (Enoch) Arnold
Berliner Ensemble
Bernard, Jean Jacques
Bernard, Tristan
Bernhardt, Sarah
Bernstein, Henry-Léon-Gustave-Charles
Betterton, Thomas
Bhavabhuti
Bibiena
Bojer, Johan
Bolshoi Theatre
Bond, Edward
Booth, Edwin Thomas
Booth, John Wilkes
Boucicault, Dion
Boyd, Michael
Bracegirdle, Anne
Brahm, Otto
Branagh, Kenneth
Brecht, Bertolt
Bredero, Gerbrand Adriaenszoon
Brice, Fanny
Brieux, Eugène
Bristol Old Vic
Broadway (theatre)
Brome, Richard
Brook, Peter
Büchner, (Karl) Georg
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Bunraku
Burbage, Richard
Burgtheater
Burlesque

C

Cabaret
Calderón de la Barca y Henao, Pedro
Callow, Simon
Cambridge Theatre
Campbell, Mrs Patrick
Camus, Albert
Carey, Henry
Castro y Bellvís, Guillén de
Chapman, George
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
Chettle, Henry
Chichester Festival Theatre
Chinese Theatre
Chorus (theatre)
Churchill, Caryl
Cibber, Colley
Cibber, Theophilus
Circus
Cirque du Soleil
Citizens' Theatre
Classical Indian Drama
Clown
Clurman, Harold Edgar
Clwyd Theatr Cymru
Cohan, George M(ichael)
Colbert, Claudette
Coliseum (theatre)
Colman, George
Colum, Padraic
Comédie-Française
Comedy
Comedy Theatre
Commedia dell'Arte
Congreve, William
Connelly, Marc
Cook, Peter Edward
Cooney, Ray(mond) George Alfred
Cooper, Dame Gladys
Copeau, Jacques
Coquelin, Benoît Constant
Corneille, Pierre
Corneille, Thomas
Cornell, Katharine
Costume, Theatrical
Coventry Plays
Coward, Sir Noel Pierce
Craig, Edward Henry Gordon
Cratinus
Criterion Theatre
Crowne, John
Crucible Theatre
Cruz, Ramón de la
Cueva de Garoza, Juan de la
Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Curel, François de
Cusack, Cyril James
Cziky, Gergely

E	Echegaray y Eizaguirre, José Edinburgh International Festival Encina, Juan del Epicharmus Etherege, Sir George Evans, Dame Edith Mary Everyman Theatre Ewald, Johannes Eyre, Sir Richard

I	Ibsen, Henrik Johan Improvisation (theatre) Independent Theatre Society Indian Theatre Inge, William Motter Ionesco, Eugène Irving, Sir Henry

J	Jackson, Glenda Jacobi, Sir Derek George Japanese Drama Jarry, Alfred Jefferson, Joseph Jessner, Leopold Johnson, Terry Jolson, Al Jongleurs Jonson, Ben

M

Mackintosh, Sir Cameron
Macklin, Charles
MacNeice, Louis
Macready, William Charles
Maeterlinck, Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard, Count
Magic (conjuring)
Mamet, David
Mansfield, Richard
Manzoni, Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio
Marceau, Marcel
Marivaux, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de
Marlowe, Christopher
Marlowe, Julia
Marston, John
Martin-Harvey, Sir John
Masque
Massey, Anna
Massinger, Philip
McPherson, Conor
Meiningen Theatre Company
Melodrama
Menander
Mermaid Theatre
Meyerhold, Vsevolod
Middleton, Thomas
Mielziner, Jo
Miles, Bernard James, Baron Miles
Miller, Arthur
Miller, Sir Jonathan Wolfe
Miller, Max
Mime
Minstrel Show
Miracle, Mystery, and Morality Plays
Mirren, Dame Helen
Modjeska, Helena
Molière
Molnár, Ferenc
Moncrieff, Gladys
Montherlant, Henry Marie Joseph Millon de
Monzaemon Chikamatsu
Moore, George Augustus
Mummers' Play
Munk, Kaj Harald Leininger
Murray, (George) Gilbert Aimé
Music Hall
Music, Theatrical
Musical

N	National Theatre, Royal New London Theatre Noble, Adrian Keith Noel Coward Theatre Noh Theatre Nottingham Playhouse Novello Theatre Nunn, Sir Trevor

O	O'Casey, Sean O'Neill, Eugene Gladstone O'Toole, Peter Oakley, Annie Odets, Clifford Oehlenschläger, Adam Gottlob Old Vic Theatre Olivier, Laurence Kerr, 1st Baron Olivier of Brighton Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park Opera Operetta Osborne, John Otway, Thomas

Q	Queen's Theatre

S

Sachs, Hans
Sardou, Victorien
Satyr Play
Savoy Theatre
Schiller, (Johann Christoph) Friedrich von
Schlemmer, Oskar
Schnitzler, Arthur
Scofield, Paul
Scribe, (Augustin) Eugène
Sellars, Peter
Sembène, Ousmane
Shadwell, Thomas
Shaffer, Sir Peter
Shaftesbury Theatre
Shakespeare, William
Shaw, Fiona
Shaw, George Bernard
Shepard, Sam
Sher, Sir Antony
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
Sherwood, Robert E(mmet)
Shirley, James
Showboat
Siddons, Sarah Kemble
Silva, António José da
Sim, Alistair
Simon, (Marvin) Neil
Sirk, Douglas
Site-Specific Theatre
Skinner, Cornelia Otis
Smith, Dame Maggie
Son et Lumière
Sondheim, Stephen Joshua
Sophocles
Sophron
Sothern, Edward Hugh
South East Asian Theatre
Soyinka, Wole
St Martin's Theatre
Stafford-Clark, Max
Stage Directions
Stanislavski, Konstantin
Stanislavski Method
Steele, Sir Richard
Stock Company
Strasberg, Lee
Street Theatre
Strehler, Giorgio
Strindberg, (Johan) August
Sudermann, Hermann
Svoboda, Josef
Synge, John Millington

U	Unruh, Fritz von Ustinov, Sir Peter Alexander

V	Vanbrugh, Sir John Variety Vaudeville Vaudeville Theatre Ventriloquism Vestris, Lucia Elizabeth Vicente, Gil Victoria Palace Vilar, Jean Vitez, Antoine Vondel, Joost van den Vörösmarty, Mihály

Y	Yeats, William Butler Young Vic Theatre

Z	Ziegfeld, Florenz Zorrilla y Moral, José Zweig, Arnold

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