Theatre History
The birthplace of theatre.
What is Ancient Greece?
What are the wings?
This musical, which tells the untold story of a certain witch in Oz, premiered in 2004.
What is Wicked?
The name of the sonnet form that he developed.
What is Shakespearean? (English is also acceptable)
One of the most famous playwrights; author of Romeo and Juliet.
Who is William Shakespeare?
This is the most famous street for musicals in New York.
What is Broadway?
The part of the theater where the actors and set are located.
What is the stage?
This Tony award winning musical tells the story of some of our founding fathers.
What is Hamilton?
The three types of plays that Shakespeare wrote.
What are tragedies, comedies, and histories?
Shakespeare plays that end in a wedding.
What are comedies?
This is the technical name for the area of a stage closest to the audience.
What is downstage?
The part of a theater where the audience sits.
What is the house?
This off-broadway musical set in Westerburg, Ohio is based on the cult classic of the same name, starring Winona Ryder.
What is Heathers?
The play that contains this quote:
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
What is Macbeth?
Author of Rumors, Brighton Beach Memoirs, and The Odd Couple.
Who is Neil Simon?
The Greek God of theatre.
Who is Dionysus?
The part of a stage that goes past the curtain and into the auditorium.
What is the apron?
This broadway musical based on a cult classic starring Winona Ryder is set to close in January of 2023.
What is Beetlejuice?
This Shakespeare comedy is a story of mistaken identity, twins, and love.
What is Twelfth Night?
Tennessee Williams play about a girl, her brother, her mother, and glass figurines.
What is The Glass Menagerie?
The nickname given to musicals produced in the 1940s and 1950s.
What are Golden Age Musicals?
Flexible performance spaces.
What are blackbox theaters?
Jenna, Dawn, and Becky are three of the main characters in this 2015 musical based on a 2007 movie.
What is Waitress?
The place where Shakespeare was born.
What is Stratford Upon Avon?
This playwright's witchy drama mirrors the Red Scare and McCarthyism.
Who is Arthur Miller?