Drama Glossary
Key theatre terms and definitions including related shows.
A person who teaches the performers how to perform a fight sequence.
A style of cinematographic film marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, and menace.
The last section of a piece of music, a scene, or an entire show, often dramatic and exciting.
Genre of music inspired by oral traditions and often without a specific composer, sharing stories of national or cultural identity. Folk music is regional and found worldwide.
The political upheaval that began in 1789 and ended with the overthrow of the Bourbon monarchy in France in 1799. It marked a watershed moment in European history.
A musical composition in which one or two themes are repeated or imitated by successively entering voices and contrapuntally developed.
A gesture is a movement of any part of the body that helps to express an idea.
A period of rapid economic growth in America during the last thirty years of the nineteenth century.
The information provided by the playwright about the character and situation.
References an era of book musicals written roughly between the 1940s and the 1960s.
A Broadway musical written and produced between 1943 and 1965.
The financial and industrial slump of 1929 and subsequent years.