The first recorded performance was in this place in about 2000 BC.
Where is Egypt?
100
To finance their endeavors and to maintain their reputations, Renaissance actors sought the patronage of these people.
Who are Noblemen?
100
In the Medieval period, these plays were based on the lives of saints and stories from the Bible.
What are Miracle plays?
100
The Japanese theatre style named after its three parts (singing, dancing, and acting).
What is Kabuki?
100
The eventual greatness of the American stage was almost overshadowed by the sudden impact of this.
What is film?
200
The chorus member who stepped away from the chorus and engaged in dialog with them, the first actor.
Who was Thespis?
200
All of the acting in Greek plays was done by these.
What are men?
200
A spectacular play which used excess and extravagance to glorify nobility.
What is a Masque?
200
The comic trendsetter of the Restoration period who wrote the Country Wife.
Who was William Wycherly?
200
The author of Death of a Salesman and The Crucible.
Who was Arthur Miller?
300
The Greek chorus originally danced around an altar singing this tragos.
What is goat song?
300
This man wrote Oedipus the King and Antigone, and is often compared to Shakespeare as the greatest playwright of all time.
Who was Sophocles?
300
The Elizabethan writer who is credited for introducing blank verse and who wrote The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus.
Who was Christopher Marlowe?
300
The playwright who challenged audiences to think, and who wrote Arms and the Man and Saint Joan.
Who was George Bernard Shaw?
300
Wrote Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Night of the Iguana.
Who was Tennessee Williams?
400
The Greeks are credited with starting theatre to honor this god.
Who is Dionysis?
400
This playwright wrote about women, such as Medea, and he originated the prologue to summarize the plot for the audience prior to the action of the play.
Who was Euripides?
400
The bitter Elizabethan writer who got into trouble for writing whatever he felt.
Who was Ben Jonson?
400
The Japanese style of theatre that uses dolls or puppets.
What is Bunraku?
400
She wrote about a black family's struggles in A Raisin in the Sun.
Who was Lorraine Hansberry?
500
The writer of Euminides and the man who is often called the "Father of Tragedy."
Who was Aeschylus?
500
The only writer of Greek comedy whose plays exist in whole today, wrote Birds and Frogs.
Who was Aristophanes?
500
In commedia dell'arte, what the flirtatious maidservant was called.
What is Fontesca?
500
Wrote the Iceman Cometh and A Long Day's Journey into Night.
Who was Eugene O'Neill?
500
The American stage borrowed its early plots from the plays of this country for much of its youth.