The Stage
Curtains separating the stage from the audience.
What are Tabs?
The seating section of the theatre where the audience sits.
What is House?
Any instruction for the actors in the script of a play.
What are Stage Directions?
A reading of the entire play or act without blocking.
What is a Read Through?
The scenery and furniture on stage.
What is the Set?
The backstage area spaces to the left and right of the stage.
What are Wings?
The area backstage where actors rest before, during and after a show.
What is the Greenroom?
Repetitive practice of the play in preparation for performance.
What is Rehearsal?
The actors in a play or a show.
What is the Cast?
A break between acts.
What is Intermission?
The area at the end of the stage past the proscenium arch.
What is the Apron?
Where the musicians play, usually directly in front of the stage.
What is the Orchestra Pit?
The smallest division of action in a play or a very short pause.
What is a Beat?
An actor familiar with another actor's role so that he or she can substitute in an emergency.
What is Understudy?
A practice of the play with all actors wearing full costumes.
What is Dress Rehearsal?
The performance area of the stage for actors.
What is the Deck?
The boundary between the stage and the audience; it appears to form an arch over the stage.
What is Proscenium?
An actor's movement around a set for staging purposes.
What is Blocking?
The process of setting up the theatre for the show.
What is Load In?
A saying for actors before they go out on stage, meaning "good luck".
What is "Break a Leg?"
The traditional phrase that means an actor is performing on a wooden stage.
What is "Treading the Boards?"
What is an Actor?
An actor's movement from one point on the stage to another.
What is Crossing?
To remove set pieces from the stage, or to disassemble the entirety of the set.
What is Strike?
When the actors come to the front of the stage to bow at the end of a performance.
What is Curtain Call?