Common Terms
A system for giving crew and actors silent cues by light.
What is a Cue Light?
The document sent out at the end of each night detailing what happened in rehearsal and communicating needs and requests.
What is a Rehearsal Report?
Measuring ground plans, taping out the rehearsal room, attending production meetings, creating paperwork templates, and analyzing the script are all part of this phase.
What is Pre-Production?
A stage manager’s _________________ is based on their unique history, experience, skills, education, preferences, and level of self-awareness and attributes that make up their personality.
What is Style?
The ______ in which a production process occurs greatly influences how it unfolds and how the collaborative team interacts. (examples include genre, location, and regulation)
What is an environment?
The theatrical term for "stop"
What is "Hold"?
When we finish blocking the play, we often do a _____ to see it all put together.
What is a run-through?
This is often the first time collaborators meet in person and begin to build relationships that will drive the process during which the stage manager, along with other leaders in the room, sets the tone for the rehearsal environment.
What is First Rehearsal?
Emotional intelligence, resilience, empathy, growth mindset, and many more are all examples of this.
What are "soft skills"?
The union that regulates traditional stage management environments
What is AEA (Actors Equity Association)?
Another term for the stage
What is the Deck?
The time used to discuss the play in depth and answer dramaturgical questions, typically the first few days of the rehearsal process
What is Table Work?
This phase is where the stage management team settles into a routine, building upon everything that has been established during the previous phases of the process. Stage Managers care for the project's interaction with the audience and the challenges of repeating and maintaining the show.
What are Performances?
A summary that the PSM sends out each day which outlines what happened in rehearsal that day, needs for the next day, etc.
What is a Rehearsal Report?
Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Regional theaters are all examples of ______ environments.
What is Regulated?
Stage movements and positions that the director works out with the actors in rehearsal
What is Blocking?
The union whose rules the SM is responsible for knowing and upholding in the rehearsal room.
What is AEA (Actor's Equity Association)?
This is the phase in which the company's preparatory work is considered complete - it is a culmination of all the previous phases, usually celebrated with a party.
What is Opening?
The process of notating and charting the movement of actors, props, costumes, and scenery during the course of the play.
What is Tracking?
The personal relationships and bonds that exist between individuals.
What is informal authority?
A mark noting the position of an object. Used to keep positioning consistent.
What is Spike?
The Stage Management Team works on this paperwork during the rehearsal phases. (Name 3 pieces of paperwork)
What is:
Props Tracking
Props List
Costume Tracking (and Quick Change Tracking)
Entrance-Exit Plot
Run Sheet
Anything else specific to the show
In this phase, the stage management team prepares for technical rehearsals, requiring the team to embrace two phases simultaneously.
What is Pre-Tech?
All of the small decisions we make about how we interact with collaborators and the room all come together to build ____.
What is trust?
The established roles and responsibilities of the individuals, based on the existing organizational structure.
What is Formal Authority?