Types of Stages
Tech Stuff
Audience Stuff
Actor Stuff
Other!
100
A stage shaped like a picture frame. The audience sits on one side to watch the action through the frame. Actors enter and exit from the sides of the stage. The most common stage format.
What is a Proscenium?
100
All areas behind the stage that are not the acting space
What is Backstage?
100
Area where audience gathers before and after the performance
What is the Lobby?
100
Private or semiprivate rooms where actors can put on makeup, change clothes, or store costumes
What are the Dressing rooms?
100
Toward the front of the stage
What is Downstage?
200
A stage where the audience members sit all around it. Actors enter and exit from aisles or tunnels under the audience
What is an Arena?
200
Located at the rear of the house or balcony. Area for technicians who control lights, sound or music
What is the Booth?
200
Where tickets are sold
What is the Box Office?
200
A term used for when you have the script memorized
What is Off-Book?
200
Toward the back of the stage
What is Upstage?
300
A combination of proscenium and area stages. The audience sits on three sides of the acting area, which goes out into the audience
What is a Thrust?
300
Area for building and painting set pieces
What is the Scene Shop?
300
Where the audience sits during the performance
What is the House?
300
Area on sides of stage, unseen by the audience
What are the Wings?
300
Area for musicians to sit and play music during the performance
What is the Orchestra Pit?
400
Picture frame that sits around a proscenium stage through which the action and scenery can be viewed
What is a Proscenium Arch?
400
Area above the stage where lights and scenery can be “flown”, or suspended from the ceiling by ropes
What is the Fly Space?
400
Upper seating area that projects over the lower seats
What is the Balcony?
400
Lounge area where actors can wait when they are not onstage for longer lengths of time
What is the Green Room?
400
The front curtain, made of more luxurious material
What is the Grand Drape?
500
Acting area in front of proscenium arch that extends beyond the arch
What is the Apron?
500
A system of ropes and pulleys used to fly objects into and out of the fly space
What is the Rigging?
500
Immediate/upper seating area that sits between two main stories and does not project over the lower seats
What is the Mezzanine?