Stage Directions
The area of the stage closest to the audience.
What is Down Stage?
All the areas behind the stage that the audience doesn't see
What is Backstage?
This famous stage name, born and raised in New York, wrote famous shows like In The Heights, Hamilton, and Moana.
Who is Lin Manuel Miranda?
The series of related events that make up a story.
What is the Plot?
The group of actors that support the leads in a play or musical.
The middle of the stage or 'playing area'
Where the audience sits during a performance?
What is the House?
This famous name wrote plays such as Macbeth, Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet.
Who is William Shakespeare?
The main message and what the author wants you to know or learn from a story.
What is the Theme?
This area of New York City is the home of most of the musical theater or plays in the United States.
What is Broadway?
The area of the stage to the performer's left, when facing the audience
What is Stage Left?
The hidden areas to the side of the stage where actors wait to enter?
What are the Wings?
This Marvel hero was on a Broadway stage as a child performer before he became famous.
Who is Tom Holland (Spiderman)?
The smallest division of a play is called...?
Scene
Hand held items that an actor brings on stage to use in the show.
What are props?
The area of the stage to the performer's right, when facing the audience
What is stage right?
What is a Backdrop?
This hit musical involves a Scottish character and his animal best friend.
What is Shrek?
The exchange of words spoken by characters in a play.
What is dialogue?
A long speech done by only one character?
What is a Monologue?
The part of the stage in front of the proscenium arch
What is the apron?
What is the house?
This famous name wrote stories such as The Lorax, One Fish Two Fish, and Oh The Places You'll Go.
The time, place, and environment in which a story takes place.
What is the Setting?
The actor who learns a role in case they need to perform it due to injury, illness, or emergency.
Who is an Understudy?