Category 1
The people involved in a production who build sets, make props, design makeup, costumes, and light and sound effects, and more.
Crew
A person who writes plays.
Playwright
The way the audience acts to help the performers give their best performance possible.
Audience Etiquette
An opportunity to "try out" for a role in a performance.
Audition
A group of actors that perform in a show.
Cast
The written text of a performance which can include lines, stage directions, scenes, and more.
Script/Play
The area in the theatre or auditorium where the audience sit.
House
Performing without any rehearsal or preparation, and having to come up with everything on the spot.
Improvisation
The person who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production on a play.
Director
When you practice for a performance before it’s officially time to perform.
Rehearsal
A smaller section of a play that involves the characters engaging in action and/or dialogue.
Scene
The time the cast and crew need to be on set and ready to work.
Call Time
The items actors use on stage when performing.
Props
A rehearsal of a play in costume and with stage properties shortly before the first performance.
Dress Rehearsal
A way to divide a script into large sections that have multiple scenes.
Act
The instructions written into the script of a play that tell the actors and directors what to do.
Stage Directions
A list in a script that tells about the characters in the play. This sometimes includes physical descriptions.
Cast of Characters
When an actor is performing and slips out of character and behaves as themselves.
Breaking Character
A signal for an actor to begin speaking, playing, or doing something on stage.
Cue
The imaginary wall between the action on stage and the audience.
4th Wall
The way an author or actor describes or shows what a character is like, and the act of posing as a character.
Characterization
To allow oneself to believe that something is true even though it seems impossible.
Suspension of Disbelief
A term used in theatre to describe the location of actors on the stage and he movements that they make.
When an actor performs a script having little or no time to prepare beforehand.
Cold Reading
**BONUS QUESTION**
The playwright of the shows Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and more.
William Shakespeare