The most common type of staging in which the audience is only on one side of the stage?
What is a proscenium stage?
100
Where the audience gathers before and after a performance.
What is the lobby?
100
The curtain closest to the audience, usually made of a plush fabric in a dark color.
What is the main drape (or the grand drape)?
100
Offstage areas on the left and right sides of a stage where actors can wait to make their entrances without being seen by the audience.
What are the wings?
100
This person attends all production meetings and rehearsals and is responsible for calling all the cues in the show.
What is a stage manager?
200
A stage that extends into the auditorium, with seating on three sides.
What is a thrust (or 3/4 thrust) stage?
200
A booklet handed to the audience members as they enter the house; contains a director's note, lists of the cast and crew and advertisements.
What is a playbill?
200
The curtain hung at the back of the stage.
What is the back-traveler (or rear traveler)?
200
A table backstage where items carried on or off stage by the actors are kept.
What is the prop table?
200
This person collaborates with the director on establishing a costume design for the production of the play.
What is a costume designer?
300
A stage located in the middle of the auditorium with audience seating on four sides.
What is arena (or theatre-in-the-round)?
300
The part of a performance venue that is open to the public.
What is the front of house?
300
The metal or fireproof fabric across the front of a stage that would prevent fire from spreading between the house and backstage.
What is the fire curtain?
300
A private entrance to the theatre for actors and other theatre personnel.
What is the stage door?
300
This person organizes the technical needs of the show.
What is a technical director?
400
A stage in which audience seating can be located anywhere and changed to fit each performance; usually inside a room that is painted black.
What is a black box?
400
This person is responsible for managing tickets sales and customer service to theatre patrons.
What is a box office manager?
400
The curtain hung in the middle of the stage.
What is the mid-traveler?
400
An area where actors may wait while not on stage.
What is the green room?
400
This person answers to the producer, makes decisions on the artistic components of the show, and rehearses the actors.
What is a director?
500
A stage with audience seating on two sides opposite of each other.
What is a galley (or traverse) theatre?
500
This person is responsible for ensuring that the audience has a safe, relaxed and pleasant experience in the theatre. He or she works with the box office manager, stage manager, and ushers.
What is the house manager?
500
A white muslin panel that is hung furthest upstage and is usually used for sky effects (often through front-lit projection).
What is the cyclorama (or "cyc")?
500
The area above a stage where lights, scenery, and furniture can be suspended on wire ropes and then "flown in" during a performance.
What is the fly space?
500
This person is responsible for the overall financial and managerial functions of a production or venue, raises or provides financial backing, and hires personnel for creative positions.