Stage Types
Stage Use
Stage Directions
Theater Vocabulary
Extra Credit
100
A space where a play is performed.
What is a stage?
100

The type of stage WBECHS has.

What is a Proscenium?

100
Area of the playing space closest to the audience.
What is downstage?
100

The area out of sight of the audience

Backstage?

100
The place where a proscenium was first used.
What is Greece?
200
A stage with a distinct arch above the plaster line.
What is a Proscenium Stage?
200

An alternate use for an Arena stage.

What is a concert, wrestling match, ice skating?

200

The area of the stage to the actors Right

What is Stage Right?

200

Place where actors wait for their cue.

Wings OR greenroom?

200

The classroom.

What is a black box theatre?

300
A stage with the audience seated on three sides.
What is a thrust stage?
300

The downstage area in front of the curtain

What is the apron

300

Font used for stage directions.

What is italics/parenthesis?

300
Place where the entire audience sits.
What is the house?
300

The area above the house where lights are stored.

What is a catwalk?

400
Stage with audience on all four sides. Could be a circle.
What is Theatre in the round/Arena Stage?
400
The fabric that hangs upstage and is used for special lighting techniques.
What is a cyc(clorama)?
400

The area to the audience's left.

What is stage right?

400

The main performing space in a venue.

What is the MAIN STAGE?

400
The definition of Proscenium, in Greek.
What is "In front of the scenery"?
500

A Stage that can be arranged in many ways.

What is a black box theatre?

500

The drape that separates the audience from the actors on stage

What is the Main Curtain?

500

The abbreviation for down stage left.

What is DSL OR DL?

500

A person who introduces an act

The EMCEE?

500

Thheater teacher at WBECHS

Who is Ms. LaFoe?

M
e
n
u