They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway.
A male person who performs a role in a play, work of theater, or movie.
What is an Actor?
The planning and working out of the movements of the actors on stage.
What is blocking?
An actor's first performance.
What is a Debut?
A spontaneous style of theater through which scenes are created without advance rehearsal or a script.
What is Improvisation?
Any of the lines of sight between the spectators and the stage or playing area in a theater.
What are sight lines?
A Female person who performs in a role in a play, work of theater, or a movie.
What is an Actress?
A moment of high Tragedy at the emotional climax of a play is followed by an emotional cleansing for the characters and the audience.
What is catharsis?
The conversation between actors on stage.
What is Dialogue?
What is Metaphor?
A silent motionless depiction of a scene created by actors, often from a picture.
What is a Tableau?
A section of the stage floor which projects towards or into the auditorium. In proscenium theaters, it's the part of the stage in front of the house tabs, or in front of the proscenium arch, above the orchestra pit.
What is the apron?
The center area defined as the stage.
What is center stage?
The manner in which an actor utters or pronounces words or sentences.
What is Ennuciation?
Not taking place on the stage and so not visible to the audience.
What is Off Stage?
A form of drama based on human suffering that invokes an accompanying emotion.
What is a Tragedy?
The assembled spectators or listeners at a public event, such as a play or movie.
What is an audience?
A word or phrase repeated for an effect.
What is chanting?
This is the closed curtain seen by the audience before the show begins, again at intermission, and after the show ends. It makes a barrier between the stage and the audience.
What is the Grand Curtain?
The most traditional stage set-up. The stage is removed from the audience and framed by an arch that separates it from the audience.
What is the Proscenium?
Usually a member of the ensemble, this actor will be responsible for learning the part of a leading or supporting actor. They take over if the leading actor is ill or must be absent.
What is an understudy?
A brief trial performance held to appraise an actor's or musician's talent or suitability.
What is an audition?
The art and craft of designing the moves, pace, flow, structure and execution of a piece of dance, or any other piece of rehearsed movement.
What is choreography?
The area of the theater where the audience sits watching the production.
What is the House?
The written text of a play.
What is the Script?
These are off-stage sides of the acting spaced, hidden from the audience view.
What are Wings?