Theater Character

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (March 4, 1678 – July 28, 1741), nicknamed il Prete Rosso ("The Red Priest"), was a Venetian priest and Baroque music composer, as well as a famous virtuoso violinist; he was born and raised in the Republic of Venice. The Four Seasons, a series of...

King Arthur is a fabled British leader and a prominent figure in Britain's legendary history, said in many medieval tales and chronicles to have taken the mantle of rulership over Britain and defended his land against Saxon invaders following the withdrawal of Rome....

Wilhelm Reich (March 24, 1897 – November 3, 1957) was an Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Reich was a respected analyst for much of his life, focusing on character structure, rather than on individual neurotic symptoms. He promoted adolescent...

Glinda (or Glinda the Good Witch) is a fictional character in the Land of Oz created by American author L. Frank Baum. She is the most powerful sorceress of Oz, ruler of the Quadling Country south of the Emerald City, and protector of Princess Ozma. Baum's beloved...

Fanny Brice (October 29 1891 – May 29 1951) was a popular and influential American comedienne, singer, theatre and film actress and entertainer, remembered best for her many stage, radio and film appearances and her recordings. She was the creator and star of the top...

Estragon (affectionately Gogo; he tells Pozzo his name is Adam) is one of the two main characters from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. His name is the French word for tarragon. Estragon represents the impulsive, simplistic side of the two main characters, much in...

Vladimir (affectionately known as Didi; a small boy calls him Mr. Albert) is one of the two main characters from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. The "optimist" (and, as Beckett put it, "the major character") of Godot, he represents the intellect side of the two...

Pozzo is a character from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. His name is Italian for "well" (as in "oil well"). On the surface he is a pompous, sometimes foppish, aristocrat (he claims to live in a manor, own many slaves and a Steinway piano), cruelly using and...

Lucky is a character from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. He is a slave to the character Pozzo. Lucky is unique in a play where most of the characters talk incessantly: he only utters two sentences (one of which is more than seven hundred words long; see The...

юIn Shakespeare's play The Tempest, Miranda is the beautiful daughter of the old Duke Prospero. Cast away with her father since she was three years old, she has lived an extremely sheltered existence. Though she has received a well-rounded education from her father,...

The Little Prince is the fictional title character of Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince), French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's most famous book.

Elphaba is the name given to the Wicked Witch of the West in Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, as well as in the Broadway adaptation, Wicked. In the original L. Frank Baum book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the witch is...

King Hamlet is a character from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, also known as The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. He should not be confused with his son, Prince Hamlet, who is the central figure of the play. In the stage directions, King Hamlet is referred to...

Prince Hamlet is the protagonist in Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. He is the Prince of Denmark, nephew to the usurping Claudius and son of the previous King of Denmark, called Old Hamlet. Throughout the play he struggles with whether, and how, to avenge the murder of...

Peter Pan is a character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie (1860–1937). A mischievous boy who flies and magically refuses to grow up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood adventuring on the small island of Neverland as the leader of his...

Harry McAfee is the current band director of Hoover High School in Hoover, Alabama. Hoover High School has recently been the subject of a new T.V. show on MTV called Two-A-Days. Mr. McAfee most recently was filmed and put on air for being the central role in the band...

Damián (pronounced dah-mee-ah-ah-n) is the Spanish-language version of the general Europe name Damian.

Angel Dumott Schunard is a character in the award-winning rock musical RENT. Wilson Jermaine Heredia won a Tony award for originating this role. Angel is a drag queen and a street musician. He is also the lover of Tom Collins. Angel, like Collins, has AIDS. Angel is...