Types of Stages
Known as the most popular type of stage in America, this theatre has a picture-frame like piece of architecture surrounding it.
What is a proscenium theater?
The Greek god of theatre, wine, and vegetation
The person who determines what an actor will wear in a production.
What is a costume designer?
What is down stage?
A musical about a princess, a donkey, and an ogre.
What is Shrek the Musical?
This theatre is outdoors, uncovered, and uses the sun for all of its lighting.
What is an open-air theater?
The group of actors that act as one body and sing the narration in a play.
What is the Greek chorus?
Anything that an actor holds or interacts with physically in a play.
What is a prop?
The back of the stage, furthest from the audience.
What is up stage?
A play that features the spontaneous combustion of a woman's abusive husband.
What is Poof?
This theater space is often used for rehearsal and/or very intimate plays, and features all-black walls, floors, and chairs.
What is a black box theater?
Who is Thespis?
The term for cutting off all of the lights onstage at once.
What is a blackout?
The exact middle of the stage.
What is center stage?
A murder mystery play about a woman who killed her husband, a dead bird, and the women who covered up the crime to protect her.
What is Trifles?
This theatre space is often set up like a tennis match, with audience members on two sides (or more) of the stage area.
What is an arena stage?
The name for anyone who participates in or enjoys theatre.
What is a thespian?
In theatre, it is customary to yell this when altering the lighting in a room or on stage.
What is "lights!"?
The part of the stage where the actor cannot be seen.
What is backstage (or offstage)?
A musical featuring an American immigrant icon, his rise to the top, and his self-destruction.
What is Hamilton?
This theatre space is the most difficult to design for or direct in since it features audience seats on all sides of the stage area.
What is theater in the round?
The emotional response after viewing a piece of art.
What is catharsis?
The backdrop, setting, or furniture in a play.
What is a set?
Areas/ locations of the stage determined by the actors' point of view (not the audience).
What are stage directions?
Prominently featuring a common haircare product, this musical will be very well-know at Greer High in the next year.
What is Hairspray?