Theater Appreciation.
What is the seating capacity of the Gershwin Theater?
19333
When did the Off Off Broadway movement begin?
1958
When was Aristotle born?
384 BC
How many elements of theater did Aristotle identify?
6
How many of the last 9 Pulitzer Prize winning plays got their start Off Broadway?
8
It is rumored that Tennessee Williams first got the idea for A Streetcar Named Desire from the image of..
A bare lightbulb
A theater company that is mostly operated by people who have day jobs and do theater in their spare time is probably a ...
A community theater
Which of the plays below was not mentioned in the Best Plays of 2012 montage?
A man for all Seasons
What would you call a theater company that presents productions that are produced by other companies?
A presenting company
What would you call a theater company - like a Regional Theater - that produces its own work?
A producing comapny
According to the video on the History of the Tony Awards, who were the awards named in honor of?
Antoinette Perry
What is the name of a theater space with a stage that has audience on all four sides, or a stage that has audience all around?
Arena Stage
Where was Patsy Rodenburg when she had the experience with the gentleman that she used to illustrate why she does theater?
Australia
What is the name of a theater space that is very flexible with seating that is usually not permanent?
Black Box
Generally, Plays, Musicals, and Theatrical Performances that happen in Theaters with a minimum of 499 seats between 41st Street and 54th Street and between Sixth and Eighth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan are considered ...
Broadway Productions
What is it called when an actor goes to an initial audition and then gets invited to come back and audition again for the same part the next day?
Call back
A play that does not take place in chronological order and has multiple layers of reality has a...
Cinematic Plot Structure
What is the name for the final scene or scenes that come after the point of resolution?
Conclusion
A play that has many scenes that focus on the subject but otherwise do not have any direct connection to each other has a..
Contextual structure
What is it called when there is a night in a theater when there is no show playing?
Dark
The vocabulary that is used in the formation of a play and the order in which the vocabulary is organized is what Aristotle referred to as ...
Diction
What is the sequence of scenes that leads to the answer to the dramatic question?
Falling Action
Diction is the meaning of the play, sometimes called the message or the idea.
False
Imdb.com, facebook.com, and twitter.com are the three websites that the lecture specified as good websites to research what's playing on Broadway.
False
What would you call a space like the corner of a lobby, a park, a street corner, a dump, or a fire escape where theater takes place?
Found Space
What's another name for Off Off Broadway?
Indie theater
Who wrote the play Anton in Show Business?
Jane Martin
What show won the 2013 Tony Award for Best Musical?
Kinky Boots
Aristotle used the word _______________ to refer to everything the audience hears.
Music
A play or motion picture in which the storyline is interspersed with or developed by songs, dances, and the like is a ...
Musical
What show won the 2012 Tony Award for Best Musical?
Once
Aristotle was a student of ...
Plato
What is the title of Aristotle's essay on the study of literary expression?
Poetic.
What is the name of a theater space that looks like a movie theater that's missing the screen and only has audience on one side of the stage?
Proscenium Theater
What is a stage that is higher off the ground in the back than it is in the front - near the audience?
Raked
Professional theater companies that operate outside of New York City are called
Regional theater
What is the sequence of scenes in which events complicate the plot and heighten suspense?
Rising Action.
Who wrote the music and lyrics for Wicked?
Stephen Schwartz
What is the name of the place in Times Square where you can purchase half price tickets for Broadway and Off Broadway shows on the day of the performance?
TKTS Booth
What is the largest theater on Broadway?
The Gershwin theater
What is the name of the Off Broadway show that your instructor credits as the reason he tells people not to ignore Off Broadway and claims is still the best show he has ever seen?
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
What is the name of the arch that covers a stage?
The Proscenium
What theater company won the 2012 Regional Theater Tony Award?
The Shakespeare theater company
Which of the theaters listed below is an example of an Off Broadway Theater that is within the "Broadway Box."
The Snapple theater
What is an example of a Broadway theater that is located outside of the "Broadway Box"?
The Vivian Beumont theater
Where do students in the BFA Acting Program of Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts train during their junior year?
The globe in lodon
What is the area of a theater, also called the auditorium, that is designated as a place where audience members can sit?
The house
What is the name of the person on the staff of a theater who has been placed in charge of the house and everything in "Front of House?"
The house manager
What is the area of seating in a theater that is closest to the stage?
The orchestra
Which of the following is not a performance venue for the Rutgers Theater Company that is listed in the Unit 03 Lecture?
The rose Wagner theater
What did Aristotle call the organizing traits of a play?
The three Unities
What is the name of a theater space with a stage that extends out into the audience and has audience members on three sides?
Thrust Theater
Who directed the Broadway production of Hamilton?
Tomas Kail
Theater can happen anywhere as long as the audience and the performers are informed about where the event is going to happen.
True
These are the five primary ways that theater companies advertise: 1) Direct Mail, 2) Print Advertisements and Announcements, 3) Radio and Television, 4) Telemarketing, and 5) The Internet.
True
Aristotle referred to characters as "the agents for the action."
True.
A play that takes place in one single location adheres to the ...
Unity of place
What is it called when an actor is not given a script until they walk into an audition room?
cold read
A play that happens in chronological order without any breaks has a...
continuous plot structure
In a recent production of a new play that your instructor was in, what was all over his face as he played a scene in the cab of a truck?
easy cheese
A play that happens in chronological order, includes breaks in time passage, and moves forward in time during those breaks has a...
episodic linear plot structure
An audience is not a necessary part of theater and does not directly influence the experience of watching a play.
false
On Broadway, most straight plays (non-musicals) have much longer runs than musicals.
false
What is the term Constantine Stanislavski used to refer to the collective elements that made up the world of the play?
given circumstances
What was the first show your instructor saw on Broadway?
hairspray
What are the early scenes in a play in which characters and circumstances are introduced?
introduction
Use playbill.com to answer this question: Where does the Off-Broadway production of Sleep No More play?
mckittrick hotel
_____________ are Straight Plays, Musicals, and Theatrical Performances that happen in Theaters with less than 499 seats and more than 99 seats in New York City.
off Broadway productions
Any theater in New York that seats less than 99 people and operates without union contracts is considered...
off off Broadway
Which current Broadway musical has been playing the longest?
phantom of the opera
What is the correct way to refer to the act of writing a play?
play writing playwright is one who writes the play
Generally, a theater company that pays its employees is considered...
professional
What is an excerpt from a script that is given to actors to read from in the audition room?
side
Aristotle used the word ________________ to refer to everything the audience sees.
spectacle.
A play that is not a musical is known as a ...
straight play
What is the name for what a character wants more than anything else throughout the entire play?
super objective
What did Aristotle say was "the life and soul of the drama"?
the plot
If a play has one simple plot with a beginning, middle, and end and unfolds in chronological order, it adheres to the ...
the unity of Action
Student Rush, Standing Room, and The Lottery are the three primary types of discount tickets for Broadway and Off-Broadway shows.
true
The Curtain Call, The 4th Wall, and Asides are all examples of...
understood conventions.
A play that happens in one passage of consecutive time, adheres to the ...
unity of time
Should you turn off your cell phone in a theater?
yes
