General Terminology
Another word for staging.
Blocking
Cheating Out
This type of theatre has an arch framing the action on the stage.
Proscenium
The area that the actors stand on while acting.
The stage (or deck).
This person is in charge of everything the audience hears during a production.
Sound designer
When the spelling is "Theater" it indicates this.
A building or physical structure where theatre is performed.
An actor who walks from far away from the audience to close to them has crossed what direction?
Downstage
Theatre performed in a place that is not a theater.
Site-specific
The name for where the audience sits.
This person is in charge of finding or making anything in a play that an actor touches.
Prop Master
A character's goal in a scene or a play.
Objective.
The correct symbol for annotating a cross when writing down staging.
X
The audience sits on three sides of the stage, and there may or may not be a proscenium arch.
Thrust
The small room in the back of the theater where the stage manager calls the show, and board ops run lights and sound.
The booth.
The person with whom all designers collaborate in the creation of their designs.
Director
How a character achieves their goal in a scene or play.
Tactic or Action
Where should an actor be facing when determining SR from SL?
The audience.
This type of theater is small, and can be any configuration.
Black Box
The areas offstage left and offstage right from where the actors enter.
Wings
A costume designer creates costumes that can easily be put on or removed in order to facilitate this.
A quick change.
A stage floor that is tilted towards the audience.
A rake.
XDL then XUL translates to this.
Cross Down Left then Cross Up Left.
The audience sits on all four sides of the stage.
Theatre in the Round
The area above the stage and audience where technicians can move around, and lights are hung.
Lighting is used primarily to communicate these two things.
Setting and Mood