This oldest form of Japanese theatre is deeply rooted in religion and ceremony and features actors wearing masks.
What is Noh theatre?
100
This playwright was known as the comic trendsetter of the Restoration period and wrote The Country Wife.
Who is William Wycherly?
100
Just after the Restoration period, Richard Brinsley Sheridan gained fame for writing The School for Scandal and this play.
What is The Rivals?
100
He wrote Our Town in which the "stage manager" narrates the lives and deaths of the people in Grover's Corners.
Who is Thornton Wilder?
100
The days of Shakespeare, Marlowe and Jonson, those with little money stood in the pit, or bare dirt floor in front of the stage, and were called this.
What are groundlings?
200
Bunraku theatre is another type of Japanese theatre in which the characters are portrayed by these.
What are puppets?
200
He was considered the greatest actor of Restoration theatre because he was equally skilled at both comedy and drama. He also wrote plays and invented a way to hide lighting instruments from the audience.
Who was David Garrick?
200
This playwright was known for his lewd behavior and books as much as he was known for writing his most famous play, The Importance of Being Ernest.
Who is Oscar Wilde?
200
Sharing the name of the "Volunteer State," this playwright is famous for his beautifully tragic plays often set in southern locales, such as A Streetcar Named Desire.
Who is Tennessee Williams?
200
These commedia dell'arte stock characters were the only two to not wear masks and were the romantic leads of most plays.
What are the inamorato and inamorata?
300
Kabuki theatre is the newest form of Japanese theatre and is known for its elaborate makeup and costumes. It uses only these as actors.
Who are men?
300
This is one of only two theatres that received official sanction from the king after the English Royal Patent of 1662 legitimized theatre.
What is Drury Lane or Covent Garden?
300
Early American theatre borrowed heavily from the plots of plays from this country.
What is Britain?
300
Marilyn Monroe was once married this writer of such plays as The Crucible and Death of a Salesman.
Who is Arthur Miller?
300
A play based on Christ's final week of life is called this.
What is a passion play?
400
Peking Opera, or Beijing Opera, is a type of theatre that combines dance, singing and acrobatics and hails from this country.
What is China?
400
He was one of the two men that were assigned to supervise the restoration of theatre and was also rumored to be Shakespeare's son by a mistress.
Who was William Davenant?
400
The first American theatre was built in this Virginia town in 1716 and was quickly foreclosed upon in 1723.
What is Williamsburg?
400
This staple of dinner theatre's plays are still very popular with older and younger theatergoers alike, including The Odd Couple and Brighton Beach Memoirs.
Who is Neil Simon?
400
Plautus, Terence (a freed African slave) and Seneca were all playwrights from this classic civilization.
What is the Rome?
500
Noh theatre plays often also contain a kyogen, or comic interlude, within similarly to the way Ancient Greek playwrights wrote this type of play to accompany their trilogies.
What is a satyr play?
500
The Restoration Era of theatre symbolically ended when this happened to both the Covent Garden and Drury Lane theatres.
What is burning down/a fire?
500
Fleeing England after Charles II's restoration to the throne in 1660, this religious group came to early America, and their strict beliefs meant theatrical performances were banned here until the early 1700s.
Who are the Puritans?
500
One of America's most famous playwrights, his most well-known plays include The Iceman Cometh and A Long Day's Journey Into Night.
Who is Eugene O'Neill?
500
These Medieval plays told stories that illustrated the difference between what was right and what was wrong.