Types of Stages
A simple indoor performance space with plain black walls. Typically designed to provide flexibility in the configuration of the stage and audience seating.
What is a Black Box Theatre?
An Artist who designs, creates, and directs the dances within a production.
Who is a Choreographer?
What is a Call Board?
The precise placement and movement of actors on the stage to enhance storytelling, guide audience attention, and create meaningful stage pictures.
What is blocking?
A person who learns someone elses part so they can step in and do it if the main person gets sick.
Who is an understudy?
A performance platform that extends into the audience, with spectators seated on three sides of the stage.
What is a Thrust Stage?
The musical leader of an ensemble.
Who is a Conductor?
A long, narrow, elevated walkways or platforms located above the stage or audience that provide access for stagehands to hang, maintain, and operate lighting.
The specific time actors are told to show up to rehersals.
What is call time?
The people who help bring a show to life and make it seem more realistic. (They often times end up dancing)
Who is ensemble?
A theatre setup where the audience sits on all sides of the central acting area.
What is an In-The-Round Stage?
A member of the production team who ensures the smooth and efficient operation of a theatrical production
Who is the Stage Manager?
A place you go to build the sets of a show.
What is the set shop?
A technical rehearsal where the production's lighting, sound, scenic changes, and other technical elements are practiced and refined without the presence of the actors.
What is dry tech?
A part that isn't as large as a Lead Part, but still very important to the development of the storyline. They are oftentimes love intests of the protagonist.
Who are supporting characters?
A theater design that features a large proscenium arch that frames the entire performance space.
What is a Proscenium Stage?
Responsible for overseeing a production from start to finish, managing both the creative and business aspects.
Who is the producer
The section of the stage that extends forward, past the proscenium arch and into the audience area.
What is an apron?
A technical rehearsal where the production's lighting, sound, scenic changes, and other technical elements are practiced and refined with the presence of the actors.
What is wet tech?
The people who move set pieces, to scene transitions, and all of the backstage things.
Who are the run crew?
An open circular building with a central space surrounded by tiers of seats for spectators. (Used especially in Greek and Roman architecture)
A literary expert and researcher who serves as an advisor and interpreter for a theatrical production or a playwright.
Who is a Dramaturg?
The offstage areas on either side of the stage, typically hidden from the audience's view.
What are the wings?
What is an invited dress?
The person in charge of doing reserch about the show. They work with the director to make sure all of the little details are accurate to the shows timeline and other given circomstances.
Who is a Dramaturg?