Show:
The Stage
The Rehearsal Room
Front of House
The Shops
The Back Room
100
This light burns onstage at night for safety purposes.
What is the ghost light?
100
This is the time the actors arrive at the theatre.
What is call?
100
The person in charge of the ushers is called…
What is the House Manager?
100
In the theatre “Prop” is short for…
What is property?
100
The person who interprets a playwright’s and director’s words into visual imagery for a production; usually has a strong background in interior design, architecture, and art history, as well as theatrical conventions of various periods.
What is a set designer?
200
The people who work backstage during a production are called…
What is the Running Crew?
200
The stage manager keeps all the blocking and cue notes in a...
What is a prompt book?
200
In theatre lingo a “house” is…
What is the place where the audience sits?
200
The person who supervises all the construction crews is called…
What is the Technical Director, or TD?
200
The person is in charge of the overall creative vision or goal of the ensemble.
What is the Artistic Director?
300
Before they make their entrances, actors often wait in this quiet, comfortable room near the stage.
What is the Green Room?
300
Objects actors use in rehearsal to develop character, action, gestures, and blocking.
What are rehearsal props?
300
People who promote a theatre and its upcoming productions.
What is the publicity department?
300
A person who mounts and operates curtains, sets, and anything else that must move via the fly system above the stage; also called “flyman.”
What is a rigger?
300
This person is the liaison between playwrights, agents and the theatre. They also write grant applications to help support play development and stage readings of new plays.
What is the literary agent?
400
These curtains frame the top and sides of the stage.
What are teasers and legs?
400
This person works with actors to stage safe, realistic onstage fights.
What is the Fight Director?
400
A room or area where audience members enter the theatre, collect their tickets, and enjoy refreshments.
What is the lobby?
400
This area consists of sewing machines, fabric-cutting tables, fitting rooms, and laundry facilities needed to create and maintain the costumes for a theatrical production.
What is the Costume Shop?
400
A theatre’s purpose and key objectives, which can include quality, diversity, and accessibility, as well as the type of theatre to be produced.
What is a mission statement?
500
This member of the production crew conducts technical rehearsals, fills out rehearsal reports, authorizes the opening of the house to let the audience in, authorizes when an understudy goes on, times the length of the show, and calls for brush-up rehearsals.
What is the Stage Manager?
500
A literary advisor and expert in theatre history who helps directors, designers, and actors better understand the specifics and sensibilities of a play.
What is a dramaturg?
500
This adminstrative team sells and distributes tickets for the show.
What is the box office?
500
A person who, after studying the costume designer’s drawings and renderings, cuts fabric into patterns that realize the design.
What is a draper?
500
Months before a play begins rehearsal the designers and directors often meet to discuss the production’s look and style as well as the interpretation of the playwright’s script. What is this meeting called?
What is the Concept Meeting?