Types of Stages
Stage that can be anything.
What is a Black Box?
This is where the audience sits.
What is a house?
This rehearsal uses all types of tech.
What is a tech rehearsal?
This is the middle of the stage.
What is center stage?
This is the area behind the stage.
What is backstage?
Stage that has audience all around.
What is an arena?
The part of the stage that juts into the audience.
What is the apron?
This is the pole that holds the lights/curtains/scenery.
What is a baton?
This is the side of the stage on the audience's left.
What is stage right?
These are the curtains that travel across the stage.
What is the mid and back travelers?
Stage that has an arch and audience on one side.
Part of the stage under the apron where musicians sit.
What is the pit?
This is the area above the house that holds lights.
What is the catwalk?
This is the side of the stage on the audience's right.
What is stage left?
These curtains hide the actors in the wings.
What are the legs?
Stage that has audience on 3 sides.
What is a Thrust?
This is a curtain that separates the audience from the stage.
What is the Grand Drape?
This is the area above the stage that houses our lights.
What is the grid?
This is the back of the stage.
What is upstage?
What is the cyc/cyclorama?
This stage is on an incline.
What is a Raked stage?
This is the sides of the stage where actors stay when they aren't on stage.
What are the wings?
These items are used to decorate the set, held by the actors, and used as furniture.
What are properties/props?
What is downstage?
This is the part of the stage that holds the grand drape.
What is the Proscenium Arch?