Theater History Review

The School for Scandal was written by David Garrick.

What do we call the arch at the front of a stage what creates the "picture frame"?

Aescheylus wrote what kind of plays?

The Country Wife was one of the first famous realistic plays.

What type of play emphasizes the story rather than the characters?

Where is the Guthrie Theater?

Restoration actresses were not very talented.

Who was the famous Spanish playwright who wrote over 700 plays?

Which type of plays did the Romans prefer?

What major change did Charles II bring with him from France?

Menander wrote what kind of plays?

What character's costume looks like a patchwork quilt?

Who wrote Cats & Phantom of the Opera?

How many Theaters did the Romans build?

Who was one of the theater's first women playwrights?

Who was a famous Russian playwright?

Aristophanes wrote what kind of plays?

What two designers moved toward 3-dimensional scenery?

What does the term Renaissance mean?

Who wrote Oklahoma! and Sound of Music?

Romantic heroes relied on what to guide them?

Henrik Ibsen is known as the father of what?

What book did Aristotle write?

What was the major dramatic form during the 20th Century?

Masks showed us what?

Charles II lived in exile in France

A set of Tropes performed together are known as?

Where did the Romantic movement begin?

David Garrick was England's greatest actor.

What century was Romanticism the major art form?

What two issues are the subjects of George Bernard Shaw's plays?

Who wrote West Side Story, Company, and A Little Night Music?

What developed out of the elaborate Italian productions?

Lorraine Hansburry was the first African American playwright and wrote this important play..

How many people attended the yearly festival honoring Dionysus?

Sophocles wrote what kind of plays?

What Greek Technical Theater element is this?

Wandering troupes during the Renaissance performed what type of popular entertainment?

What type of plays were becoming popular by the end of the middle ages?

Who shut down the Roman theatre?

What Greek Technical Theater element is this?

What director brought a real room on stage?

What Greek Technical Theatre Element is this?

Who is considered the first actor?

What were the names of the performers during the Middle Ages?

What type of scenery did the Italians develop?

Who wrote the play & novel, The Three Musketeers?

What musical was the first to have over 3,000 performances on Broadway?

What do most historians agree was the first musical?

Euripedes wrote what kind of plays?