Theatre

Articles about stage performance, plays and the performing arts.

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Miranda (Shakespeare)

Miranda (character in Shakespeare's The Tempest)

Monologue

Monologue — extended speech in drama, poetry, and prose

Moulin Rouge

Much Ado About Nothing

Musical theater

Musical theater: overview, history, structure, and notable works

My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady

A landmark mid-20th-century musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion; notable for its score, themes of class and language, and m

Mystery play

National Theatre (Prague)

National Theatre (Prague) — Národní divadlo

Nightclub

Nightclub: an overview of evening entertainment venues

Noh

Noh (Nō): Japan's Classical Musical Drama

Oklahoma! (musical)

Oklahoma! — landmark 1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical

Olga Harmony

Olga Harmony — Mexican Playwright and Drama Educator

Oliver!

Oliver! (musical) — stage musical by Lionel Bart

Opera

Opera: the musical drama — history, structure, and performance

Opéra de Monte-Carlo

Opera house

Opéra-Comique

Operetta

Orchestra pit

Orchestra pit: design, function, and notable examples

Othello

Othello — Shakespeare’s Tragedy of Jealousy and the Moor of Venice

Pantomime

Pantomime: British Family Musical Comedy Tradition and Seasonal Theatre

Paris Opera

Paris Opera (Opéra National de Paris) — institutions, history, and repertoire

Pas de Quatre

Pas de Quatre: the 1845 Romantic ballet for four celebrated ballerinas

Patience (operetta)

Patience; or, Bunthorne's Bride — a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta

Performance

Performance (performing arts)

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Petit Théâtre de la Reine

Petit Théâtre de la Reine — Marie Antoinette's private theatre at Versailles

Phantasmagoria

Phantasmagoria: 19th‑Century Ghost Projection Shows and Their Legacy

Play (theatre)

Play (theatre): form, genres, history and production

Playwright

Playwright: the craft of writing for the stage

Prince Escalus

Prince Escalus (Romeo and Juliet)

Professional wrestling

Pro Wrestling: Staged Athletic Performance, Storytelling, and the Promotions Industry

Puck (Shakespeare)

Punch and Judy

Puppet

Puppet: Forms, Techniques, History and Cultural Uses

Puppeteer

Puppeteer: craft, techniques, and role in performance

Pygmalion

Radio drama

Rehearsal

Rehearsal: practice and preparation for performance

Rent (musical)

Richard II (play)

Richard II — Shakespeare's history of kingship and deposition

Richard III (play)

Richard III (play) — Shakespeare’s history drama and its legacy

Roman Theatre

Roman theatre: architecture, history, and notable examples

Romeo (Shakespeare)

Romeo (Shakespearean character)

Romeo and Juliet

Rosemont Theatre

Rosemont Theatre — Concert Hall and Performing Arts Venue in Illinois

Royal Opera House

Royal Variety Performance