Superstitions
What do we call the play that must not be named (instead of it's actual title)?
What is The Scottish Play?
Largely considered to be Shakspeare's masterpiece.
What is Hamlet?
This 1990 musical by Jonathan Larson, inspired in part by Puccini's La Bohème, follows a group of young artists living in New York City's Alphabet City.
What is Rent?
A prolific playwright known for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie, and A Streetcar Named Desire, among others. (One of my favorite playwrights.)
Who is Tennessee Williams?
This famous acting teacher, and celebrated actress, helped to bring Stanislavski's method into theatre classrooms across the United States.
Who is Uta Hagen?
This superstition of what not to do in a theater dates back to the days when sailors worked as crew-hands.
What is whistling?
The day that our glorious forefather William Shakespeare was "born".
What is April 23rd 1564?
This musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda tells the story of an immigrant neighborhood in Washington Heights and incorporates salsa, hip-hop, and traditional musical theatre.
What is In the Heights?
The playwright of Death of a Salesman (he was also once married to Marilyn Monroe).
Who is Arthur Miller?
After the Great Fire of 1666, this building is the only London establishment allowed to have a thatched roof in.
What is Shakespeare's Globe?
Something you should always turn on before leaving a theatre.
What is a ghost light?
In this play, a mother eats her children who have been murdered and baked into a pie.
The painting that inspires the musical, Sunday in the Park with George, is housed at the Art Institute of Chicago and depicts Parisians relaxing along this river.
What is The Seine?
This playwright is credited with bringing realism to American theatre.
Eugene O'Neill
A metatheatrical three-act play by Thornton Wilder
What is Our Town?
The famed spirit that haunts theaters.
Who is Thespis?
This play contains the famous line: "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." This character says it.
What is As You Like It? Who is Jaques?
This musical is often considered the first on Broadway.
What is Showboat?
This Russian playwright had work that was frequently produced by Stanislavski at the Moscow Art Theatre. He is also credited as being one of the first playwrights to bring modernism to theatre.
Who is Anton Chekhov?
This famous choreographer was the first person to win a Tony, Emmy, and Oscar in the same year.
Who is Bob Fosse?
A traditional gift that actors give their director (but you should never do this because it seems weird, unsafe, and could harm my adorable cats).
What is a graveyard bouquet?
Shakespeare's children.
Who are Susanna, Judith, and Hamnet?
You will never find yourself sitting in this letter row in a broadway theater.
What is "I"?
This prolific British playwright is known for her controversial work... including such titles as Far Away, Cloud Nine, and Top Girls.
Who is Caryl Churchill?
This playwright, most famous for his comedy of manners, once said: "I love acting. It is so much more real than life."
Who is Oscar Wilde?