Playwrights
This Playwright is known for creating the style of Drame Bourgeois.
Who is Denis Diderot?
This movement of theatre began during the Renaissance.
What is Neoclassicism?
This style of theatre was characterized by stereotyped stories of african-american characters being portrayed by white actors.
This actor was the first famous african-american theatre performer.
Who is Ira Aldridge?
This caused a decline in theatre around 1913.
What are Motion Pictures?
This Playwright is one of two known for turning Commedia into a literary genre, he focused on making commedia more realistic.
Who is Carlo Goldoni?
This movement was developed out of Germany with large emphasis on emotion and outbirst.
What is Storm and Stress?
This style of theatre was characterized by parodying well know serious plays.
What is Burlesque?
This theatre practitioner was known for thinking that "Progress is only attained by implementing scientific factors to everything".
Who is Emile Zola?
This caused theatre to decline around 1915.
What is WWI?
This Playwright is one of two known for turning Commedia into a literary genre, he focused the whimsical side of commedia in his works.
Who is Carlo Gozzi?
This movement was created out of the storm and stress movement and was very popular in the the early 1800s. It included supernatural elements for the first time in about 150 years.
What is Romanticism?
This form of theatre was characterized by incidental music being played while the actors talked.
What is Song Drama?
This playwright was a major player in the storm and stress movement, and was also known as the father of the modern Director
Who is Goethe?
This group took control of producing theatre in the late 1800s/early 1900s.
What is the Syndicate?
This 19th-20th century playwright was well known for using comedy when many of his contemporaries used only tragedy.
Who is George Bernard Shaw?
These 2 movements were born out of the Romanticism movement, name one.
What is...?
This style of theatre started in France and became very popular in the US in the 1800s
What is melodrama?
This man developed the acting theory that emphasized large movement and expressions to show what a character was feeling or thinking.
Who is Delsarte?
This group took majority control out of hands of the Syndicate in the mid-1900s
What is the Schubert organization?
This playwright is known predominantly for his acting method that has become one of, if not the, most popular in the modern world.
Who is Konstantin Stanislavski?
These 2 movements were born out of or became popular due to the Romanticism movement, name one.
What is...?
This style of theatre was considered to be for the upper class only in the 19th century.
What is Opera?
There are two men known as the fathers of the modern director, name one that hasn't already been named for a question similar to this.
Who is David Garrick?
This is Mr. LeRoy's favorite musical. (Just for the fun of it)
What is Bandstand?