Famous Plays & Playwrights
This Shakespearean play features two star-crossed lovers from feuding families.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
This character in Commedia dell'Arte is known for his jester-like nature and black mask.
Who is Arlecchino?
This Stanislavski exercise helps actors ask themselves what they would do in their character's situation.
What is the "Magic If"?
In theater, this term refers to the location and appearance of the play’s action.
What is a set?
This period in theater history began in Italy and was known for a revival of classical ideas and themes.
What is the Renaissance?
This playwright wrote Hamlet, Othello, and A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Who is William Shakespeare?
Commedia dell'Arte actors often wore half-masks to identify these standard character types.
What are stock characters?
In Shrek the Musical, this main character is an ogre who finds himself on a journey for acceptance.
Who is Shrek?
This type of lighting effect is used to create a spooky atmosphere, commonly seen in plays like The Phantom of the Opera.
What is Dim lighting?
Renaissance theater was influenced by the artistic ideas of this classical civilization.
What is Ancient Greece?
The Phantom, a character in The Phantom of the Opera, hides his face with this type of accessory.
What is a mask?
This stock character is the foolish, elderly man often tricked by younger characters.
Who is Pantalone?
The Phantom of the Opera is known for blending this type of dramatic music with a love story.
What is an opera?
This is the term for a rehearsal where actors wear costumes to get accustomed to their movement on stage.
What is a dress rehearsal?
The Renaissance led to the development of this "neoclassical" style, aiming to mimic ancient rules and decorum.
What is Neoclassicism?
This classic Italian character in Commedia dell'Arte is known as the clever, often trickster-like, servant.
Who is Arlecchino?
Commedia actors performed scenarios without a script but relied on outlines and set character traits. This type of performance is called this.
What is improvisation?
This high-energy form of musical theater uses expressive dance, song, and often humor to tell a story.
Musical Comedy
Theatrical productions involve many creative areas, including costumes, sets, lights, and this essential auditory component.
This Italian Renaissance form of comedy involved stock characters and improvised performances.
What is Commedia dell'Arte?
Known for plays like Waiting for Godot, this playwright was a major figure in the Theater of the Absurd.
Who is Samuel Beckett?
In Commedia dell'Arte, this witty, servant character often created comedic chaos and clever solutions.
Who is Colombina?
The main character is Cady Heron but who is the antagonist?
Who is Regina George
During production, this crew member is in charge of keeping track of actors' entrances, cues, and stage directions.
Who is the stage manager?
These rigid guidelines established by Neoclassicism dictated unity of time, place, and action in a play.
What are the Three Unities?