Stage Directions
Elements of a Play
Physical Stage
Broadway Productions
Theatre Games
100

This is the front portion of the stage

Downstage

100

Written Conversation 

Dialogue 

100

 The audience area

House

100

A Broadway take off of the Wizard of Oz. It was the story told of the witches in Oz

Wicked 

100

This is a game where you sit down next to someone and act as a character

Park Bench

200

The back portion of the stage 

Upstage

200

A complete scene or play in a format to be produced by actors and directors

Script

200

The drop farthest upstage in most settings. Also a large curtain, sometimes with a picture or design

Backdrop

200

This was a play based on the one of the founding fathers of America

Hamilton

200

This game is to help with quick thinking, attention, and eye contact

Zip, Zap, Zop

300

The actor's left side of the stage 

Stage Left

300

A long speech said by a single actor to themselves, the audience, or to another character

Monologue 

300

The usually curved area of the stage closest to the audience

Apron

300

A play about the New York Newsboy Strike. It was also a Disney movie.

Newsies

300

This game originates from a real group of people called the...

Mafia

400

The box shape in the middle of the stage

Center Stage

400

A long speech said by a single actor to themselves or the audience, but not to another character

Soliloquy 

400

The areas to the left and right of the stage out of view to the audience. A part of the backstage area

The Wings

400

The story of a  half masked man who lives in Paris. It is a dark romance and is the longest running Broadway production

The Phantom of the Opera 
400

In this you ask the person... and you have to act as what they tell you 

What are you doing?

500

This is where the people coming to watch sit

In the Audience 

500

The story of the play as the curtain rises.

Preliminary Situation

500

An arched opening through which the audience sees the stage. Also a style of theater with the audience seated predominantly in front of the stage

Proscenium

500

This play was about  a Jewish milkman living in a small Russian town. The name of the play has to do with the top of a house.

Fiddler on the Roof

500

In this game, you add to the scene to create one big scene.

Martha