Stage Directions
Right in the middle!
What is center stage?
The most common stage found in theatre.
What is the Proscenium Arch?
This person tells actors, technicians, and designers what to do to fulfill their artistic vision.
What is a director?
A verbal cue that is giving as a warning when backstage.
When the audience sits on 4 sides of the stage, sometimes in a circle.
What is Theatre-In-The-Round?
When an audience member is looking at the right side of the stage where an actor enters, they are standing on Stage ______
What is Stage Right?
This stage combines a proscenium arch with a stage that juts into the audience- the audience sits on three sides.
What is a Thrust Stage?
This person runs the show every night, overseeing its execution, and calling every technical cue.
What is a Stage Manager?
The ropes and pulley system that bring set pieces and curtains up and down onto the stage.
What is the Rigging System?
This is a flexible theatre space that can be transformed into many different kinds of theatre forms. Often painted black.
What is a Studio Theatre or Black Box?
If I am as far back from the audience as I can be I am standing ______stage.
What is Upstage?
Theatre that is done in untraditional spaces- like warehouses, restaurants, movie theaters, etc.
What is Site-Specific theatre?
This person is in charge of all of creating, making, buying, or borrowing the physical things an actor holds or interacts with.
Who is a Props Master?
Who helps actors get into costumes and facilitate quick changes.
What is a Dresser?
When someone associated with the production, often the artistic director, comes onstage and welcomes the audience to the show.
What is a curtain speech?
I'm an actor waiting to go on. I'm standing here.
What are the wings?
This is where we watch theatre outside.
What is an Open-Air Theater?
This person holds the most power in a theatre company.
What is an Artistic Director or Board of Directors?
This refers to the moment when the cast bows at the end of a show.
What is a curtain call?
This is said after the stage managers calls, "Places!" by actors.
What is "Thank you Places"
Where a director gives the curtain speech.
What is the apron?
This theater is set up like a runway; the audience sits on either side.
What is a Traverse Stage?
This person manages the technical elements of a production and works closely with the director.
What is a Technical Director?
Entrances that are from behind or beneath the audience.
What is a vomitorium?
This booklet contains information about the show, cast, crew, and often donors.
What is a playbill?