The people who help you find your seat before the show starts.
What is an Usher?
The offstage places used for storage and where cast members wait to enter.
What are the Wings?
What is Pantomime?
What is a Puppeteer?
There is no place like this place.
What is Home?
Always turn this off before a show to respect the actors and other audience members.
What is a Cell Phone?
The movements and actions given to an actor by the director.
What is Blocking?
Acting without preparation or rehearsal.
What is Improvisation?
The type of theatre that does not have a linear storyline or normal plot structure.
What is Absurdist Theatre?
The time in which we should seize the day.
When is Now?
The part of the show where the actors and crew take a brief break. This is the best time for audience members to move or use the restroom.
What is Intermission?
The room backstage that serves as a holding room for the actors.
What is the Green Room?
A character's main goal or motivation.
What is an Objective?
These stories feature characters who are often larger than life and have exaggerated characteristics.
What are Tall Tales?
The type of puppet Pinocchio is.
What is a Marionette?
The part of the show when the actors bow and the audience applauds their work.
What is the Curtain Call?
The type of theatre with audience members on all sides.
What is an Arena Theater or Theatre in the Round?
This is what happens right before a scene starts.
What is a Moment Before?
The musical Mr. Harris' little plant figurine is from.
What is Little Shop of Horror's?
This is how a theater signals to the audience that the show is about to start.
What is Dimming the Lights?
The type of stage with audience members on one side (the AK stage).
The methods or strategies a character uses to reach their goals.
What are Tactics?
Who is Pecos Bill?
The play that has the creepy old lady rocking in the rocking chair the entire time and she never dies.
What is Rockaby by Samuel Beckett?