Shakespearean Stages
In this Shakespeare comedy, four young lovers get mixed up in the forest thanks to a mischievous fairy named Puck.
What is A Midsummer Night's Dream?
This musical, based on a Disney animated film, follows a girl who falls for a prince trapped in the form of a beast.
What is Beauty and the Beast?
In this stage musical, a street kid finds a magic lamp and a wish-granting genie in the city of Agrabah.
What is Aladdin?
This area of the stage, out of the audience's view on either side, is where actors wait before their entrance.
What are the wings?
This mischievous fairy from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" loves to play pranks on humans using a magic flower.
Who is Puck?
This Shakespeare comedy is set in the Forest of Arden and features the famous line "All the world's a stage."
What is As You Like It?
This musical follows the Von Trapp family as their governess teaches them to sing before they flee Austria.
What is The Sound of Music?
In this stage musical, a mermaid princess longs to trade her fins for legs and live in the world above the sea.
What is The Little Mermaid?
If an actor is told to move to this part of the stage, they walk toward the back, away from the audience
What is upstage?
This role, made famous by Idina Menzel, requires the actress to sing the show-stopping song "Defying Gravity."
Who is Elphaba?
Many actors believe it's bad luck to say the real title of this Shakespeare tragedy out loud inside a theatre, so they call it "The Scottish Play" instead.
What is Macbeth?
This musical, later a hit film, tells the untold story of a green-skinned girl named Elphaba before her rise as one of Oz's most feared witches.
What is Wicked?
In this stage musical, a princess with icy powers accidentally traps her kingdom in eternal winter and sings a powerful ballad about letting go of her fears.
What is Frozen?
If an actor is told to move to this part of the stage, they walk toward the front, closer to the audience.
What is downstage?
This governess in "The Sound of Music" teaches the Von Trapp children to sing, including the song "Do-Re-Mi."
Who is Maria?
In this comedy, a shipwrecked young woman named Viola disguises herself as a boy named Cesario to serve a duke.
What is Twelfth Night?
This Lin-Manuel Miranda musical tells the story of a Founding Father through hip-hop and R&B.
What is Hamilton?
This stage musical follows a Greek hero-in-training who must prove himself a true hero to reclaim his place on Mount Olympus.
What is Hercules?
Stage directions are always given from the actor's point of view while facing the audience, not from the audience's point of view — this fact determines which side is called "stage right" and which is called "stage left."
What is the actor's perspective (facing the audience)?
This former convict turned kind innkeeper and mayor is the central figure of "Les Misérables," pursued for years by Inspector Javert.
Who is Jean Valjean?
This famous theatre, rebuilt in 1997 near its original London site, was where many of Shakespeare's plays were first performed.
What is the Globe Theatre?
Based on a Disney film set in the African savanna, this musical is famous for its opening number "Circle of Life" and its elaborate animal puppetry and masks.
What is The Lion King?
This stage musical follows a band of young newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York who go on strike against a powerful publisher.
What is Newsies?
This part of the stage sits front and center, often used for a solo moment when an actor steps forward, closest to the audience.
What is downstage center?
This clever young woman disguises herself as a man for most of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" while serving a duke she secretly loves.
Who is Viola?