A three act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder that depicts the story about an average town's citizens in the early twentieth century as depicted through their everyday lives.
What is Our Town?
100
Wrote famous plays like Death of a Salesman and All My Sons.
Who is Arthur Miller?
100
Two famous South African playwrights (in notes).
Who is Athol Fugard and Wole Soyinka?
100
Type of theater that includes opera, operetta, and musical comedy.
What is musical theater?
100
Satire of a serious form of literature.
What is Burlesque?
200
A 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams. The play is set in New Orleans.
What is A Streetcar Named Desire?
200
Playwright whose enigmatic style ranges from selective realism to more experimental forms. Wrote The Goat, Or Who is Sylvia.
Who is Edward Albee?
200
Two British composers who wrote Phantom of the Opera and Evita respectively.
Who is Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.
200
The rise of the choreographer as director came about in 1965 in _______________?
What is American musicals?
200
Spoken (as opposed to sung) portion of the text of a musical play.
What is book?
300
A 1952 play written by American playwright Arthur Miller, and is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials.
What is The Crucible?
300
Wrote Midsummer Night's Dream.
Who is Peter Brook?
300
This 1943 musical composed by Rodger and Hammerstein and choreographer Agnes deMille.
What is "Oklahoma!"?
300
What helped move African Americans into mainstream theater?
What is ragtime?
300
Techniques and theories about acting, which promote a naturalistic style stressing "inner truth" as opposed to conventional theatricality.
What is the Stanislavski system?
400
A 1953 play by Samuel Beckett. The main characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait for someone to arrive.
What is Waiting for Godot?
400
An American playwright, essayist, screenwriter and film director. He appeared on a episode of the Colbert Report which we watched in class.
Who is David Mamet?
400
This country see the return of the Peking Opera.
What is China?
400
A type of realism that heightens certain details of action, scenery or dialog while omitting others. One example is the play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
What is American Selective Realism?
400
Departure from realism that attempted to present dramatically the working of the subconscious.
What is Surrealism?
500
A 1959 play written by Lorraine Hansberry about the Younger family and their fight over $10,000.
What is A Raisin in the Sun?
500
Wrote the Cherry Orchard.
Who is Anton Chekhov?
500
Latin American theater was most prevalent in what five countries south of the United States?
What is Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Peru?
500
This type of theater has nonsensical language, existential characters, ridiculous situations, and expresses the idea that life is ridiculous and can't be logically explained.
What is theater of the absurd?
500
Twentieth-century Japanese theater that incorporated western ideas about playwriting and theater production.