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The person responsible for running the whole show.
Who is the stage manager?
A photograph of a performer, head and shoulders only.
What is a headshot?
A command from the stage manager that means all actors have to take their designated positions before going onstage.
What are places?
The sunken area of the theatre where the conductor and musicians are located.
What is the orchestra pit or the pit?
Taking the stage set apart.
The term for the the whole cast and crew.
What is the company?
The list of all actors in a production.
The process of marking the stage to indicate where props, furniture and set pieces will stand.
What is marking out?
The are of the theatre and the people who deal with the audience.
What is the front of house?
A theatre group that rehearses several plays at once.
What is a repertory theatre?
People responsible for getting in and out of their costumes.
Who are the dressers?
A reading of the the script that is totally new to the actor.
What is a cold reading?
The term that refers to when actors are still using their scripts in rehearsal.
What is being on book?
A screen of cloth on stage that separates the audience from the performers.
What is the curtain?
A small room or place in the theatre where all technical aspects (lights and sound) are controlled.
What is the control booth or booth?
The person responsible for anything to do with the audience.
Who is the house manager?
An additional round of auditions for the same production.
What are callbacks?
An imaginary wall between the audience and actors on the stage.
What is the fourth wall?
An opening on the stage where something or someone can be hidden.
What is the trap?
A pause of varying length in the scene, usually to emphasize an emotion or a thought.
What is a beat?
An actor who learns one of more roles to substitute in case principal actors cannot perform.
Who is the understudy?
After the auditions, when the cast comes together and reads the entire script.
What is a read-through?
Rehearsal where the whole show is being run from beginning to end.
What is a run through?
What is the green room?
The time it takes to run through the stage show, including intermissions.
What is the running time?