This stage is like a picture frame, where the audience sits on one side to watch the action through the frame.
What is a Proscenium Stage?
100
An idea about how a play should look and feel is known as this.
What is the Production Concept?
100
This is the area including the stage, where the actors perform, and the fly space above, where lights and scenery may be flown, or suspended on ropes.
What is the Stagehouse?
100
This is the area immediately outside of the scenery, on either side of the stage, unseen by the audience. It is also where actors typically enter and exit the stage.
What are the Wings?
100
On a proscenium stage, right and left refer to the actor's right and left when they are facing this direction of the stage.
What is Downstage?
200
This is how stage directions can be labeled on an arena stage.
What is as compass points or as clock hours?
200
This is what we call the auditorium, or the area where an audience sits, no matter how it is arranged.
What is The House?
200
This is the name of the "Picture Frame" which the audience in a Proscenium theater looks through.
What is the Proscenium Arch?
200
This is where all items are carried onstage by the actors are placed.
What is the Prop Table?
200
This is what its called when a stage is slanted upward.
What is Raked?
300
In this stage, the audience sits on two or three sides of the acting area, which projects into the audience area from a rear wall.
What is a Thrust Stage?
300
In many theaters, this is the name of the down front seats, closest to the stage.
What is the Orchestra?
300
This is used in between scenes and is made of light fabric and decorated to keep with the mood of the play.
What is the Act Curtain?
300
This is a bulletin board on which are posted rehearsal times, performance changes, and special notices.
What is a Callboard?
300
If an actor's back is to the audience, he is facing this stage direction.
What is Upstage?
400
This type of stage is also called "In-The-Round" because the audience sits all around the acting area.
What is the Arena Stage?
400
This is the name of a lower balcony that does not hang over a seating section.
What is a Mezzanine?
400
This is the front curtain of a theater and is typically made of a luxurious fabric.
What is the Grand Drape (or Main Curtain)?
400
This is a private door for actors and theater personnel, not accessible to the audience.
What is a Stage Door?
400
If an actor is standing towards the back wall of the stage, in the middle of the stage, they are considered to be in this stage position.
What is Upstage Center.
500
This stage is a combination of the arena and proscenium stages.
What is a Thrust Stage?
500
What technical booth's are located to the rear of the house, and/or, the top of the balcony?
What is The Light Booth and Sound Booth
500
In proscenium or thrust stages, this is what separates the stage from the backstage area.
What is the Backwall?
500
This is located in the wings and is where all lighting and sound cues are called from.
What is the Stage Manager's Booth?
500
A Proscenium stage has how many stage areas (positions) and they are called these terms.
What is 9; Up Right, Up Center, Up Left, Right, Center, Left, Down Right, Down Center, Down Left.