The Greeks
Many popular Greek tragedies premiered in this capital.
What is Athens?
This famous Shakespeare tragedy is about two young, “star-crossed” lovers who die at the end of the play.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
This city is the theatre capital in the U.S.
What is New York City?
What is “Zoot Suit?”
Many movie musicals have won this prestigious film award.
What is the Oscar? Or what is the Academy Award?
Many of the plays performed in Ancient Greece were based on these popular stories.
What are myths? Or What is mythology?
What are comedies, tragedies, and histories?
What is Broadway?
This famous Lorraine Hansberry play tells the story of a Black family in south Chicago in the 1950s trying to improve their financial situation as they face racism and housing discrimination.
What is “A Raisin in the Sun?”
This 2007 movie musical tells the story of Tracy Turnblad in 1960s Baltimore. It features Zac Enron as Link Larkin, and it premiered on Broadway in 2002.
What is “Hairspray?”
This playwright wrote the tragedy Antigone.
Who is Sophocles?
Shakespeare also wrote poems called these.
What are sonnets?
This playwright wrote plays like “The Crucible,” “All My Sons,” and “Death of a Salesman.”
Who is Arthur Miller?
This theatre company was founded in 1965 in California as part of the United Farm Workers and Chicano movement, and it had the support of Cesar Chavez.
What is El Teatro Campesino?
This movie musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda is set in Washington Heights, NYC.
What is “In the Heights?”
This playwright wrote the Oresteia trilogy.
Who is Aeschylus?
What is the Globe theatre?
This playwright wrote “A Streetcar Named Desire,” “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” and “The Glass Menagerie.” Clue: His first name is also the name of a U.S. state.
Who is Tennessee Williams?
This playwright is often referred to as “the theatre’s poet of Black America” and is known for plays like “Fences,” “The Piano Lesson,” and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.”
Who is August Wilson?
Ariana DeBose made history as the first queer woman of color to win the 2022 Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Anita in the movie remake of this famous 1957 musical. Rita Moreno won the same award for the same role in 1962.
What is “West Side Story?”
The most famous festival in Ancient Greece honored this god of wine and theatre.
Who is Dionysus?
Shakespeare died in this year.
What is 1616?
What is “Long Day’s Journey into Night?”
This is name of the 10-play cycle written by August Wilson. Clue: It has the of a city in Pennsylvania in its title.
What is the Pittsburgh Cycle?
Who is Jonathan Larson?