Vocabulary
The stage area hidden from the audience by curtains, wings, or scenery.
What is Offstage?
A young orphan girl with psychic abilities escapes a cruel orphanage and finds a new home with a kind teacher.
What is Matilda the Musical?
“Wait for me, I’m coming!”
What is Hadestown?
This type of Greek theater structure was a circular performance space where the chorus performed.
What is the orchestra?
Actors traditionally avoid wearing this color on stage because historically the dye was poisonous.
What is Green?
A rehearsal where actors run the show without stopping from beginning to end.
What is a run-through?
Wives of an English king compete in a pop concert to tell their side of history.
What is Six the Musical?
"Somewhere that's green"
What is Little Shop of Horrors?
This 20th-century American composer revolutionized musical theater with complex characters and dark themes.
Who is Stephen Sondheim?
This famous award is named after actress Antoinette Perry.
What is the Tony Awards?
The movement patterns actors follow on stage that are planned by the director.
What is blocking?
A young American soldier falls in love with a performer in Berlin as the city descends into political chaos.
What is Cabaret?
“I’m not afraid of anything, except maybe dying alone.”
What is Next to Normal?
This American playwright wrote A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie, two of the most influential plays of the 20th century.
Who is Tennessee Williams?
In theater slang, this final line of a show often signals the audience to applaud immediately.
What is the button?
A brief comedic or dramatic scene performed between longer plays in medieval theater festivals.
What is an interlude?
A group of theater-loving teens try to help a bullied girl get cast in her high school musical in Indiana.
What is The Prom?
"Don't waste your time in pretending there will be some happy ending"
What is Death Becomes Her?
This 1943 musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II revolutionized musical theater storytelling.
What is Oklahoma?
This Broadway theater is considered haunted and once housed productions like Sweeney Todd and Death Becomes Her.
What is the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre?
A theatrical approach that removes traditional stage barriers, often involving audience movement through performance spaces and direct interaction with actors.
What is immersive theater?
A musical set during the 1913 trial of Leo Frank, blending American history with Southern politics and antisemitism.
What is Parade?
“There’s a hole in the world like a great black pit.”
What is Sweeney Todd?
This Polish theater director and theorist pioneered “poor theater,” emphasizing the actor’s physicality and presence over elaborate sets and costumes.
Who is Jerzy Grotowski?
What is Ms.T's go to karaoke song?
What is Let it Go?