Backstage Areas
This is a waiting room backstage.
What is the green room?
This is the furthest downstage drape.
What is the main rag, or main drape?
This is the frame around the stage.
What is the proscenium or proscenium Arch?
This is the type of theater area that has audience on three sides.
What is 3/4 or thrust?
This is the item that a perfomer speaks or sings into
What is a Microphone?
This is the room where scenery or other items are built.
What is the scene shop?
This drape is the furthest upstage drape in the theater, usually white.
What is the cyc, or cyclorama?
This is the area where the musicians may perform during a musical.
What is the orchestra pit?
This is a performance area with audience surrounding the performers.
What is in the round, or arena?
This is the equipment which produces sound.
What is a speaker?
This is the room where people can put on costumes, or makeup.
What is a change room?
This is the curtains on the sides of the stage, helping shape the performing area and blocking audience view of backstage.
What are legs?
This is the seating area on the sides of the theater, Lincoln was shot in one.
What is box seating?
This is an entrance from the audience area, usually through some sort of tunnel.
What is a VOM or Vomitorium?
This is the item the processes the microphone.
What is a mixer?
This is the room where furniture may be held until needed.
What is the storage room?
This is the top curtain which helps shape the stage, and blocks view of the lighting fixtures.
What is the border?
This is the seating area raised above another seating area.
What is the balcony or mezzanine?
This is the sports field which may be the precursor to alley staging.
What is a tennis court?
This is the sound making equipment for performers to hear.
What is a monitor speaker?
This is the room where tickets are sold.
What is the box office?
This is the drape that is opaque when light shines on the front, and tranluscent when light shines on the back.
What is a scrim?
This is the acting area downstage of the proscenium.
What is the apron?
This is the type of stage of Globe theater in London.
What is 3/4 or thrust?
This is a peice of software that can be used to create scenic designs.
What is CAD software?