Drama Glossary
Key theatre terms and definitions including related shows.
Paired, rhyming lines of poetry (usually iambic pentameter) favored by poets in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Description of the perspective that heterosexuality is the normal and preferred sexual orientation.
Hurry
The makeup or process of emphasizing facial features, using a makeup shade lighter or brighter than the foundation.
A genre of music that uses stylized rhythms and quick lyrics. Hip-hop is a larger cultural expression that first developed in the 1970s among African-American, Latinx, and Caribbean American communities, especially in New York City. Hip-hop includes DJ, turntable scratching, beatboxing, and music sampling.
A counterculture originating in the United States in the 1960s, typically characterized by unconventional dress and behavior, communal or transient lifestyles, opposition to war, and liberal attitudes toward sexuality and drugs.
The alignment of a historical event in the past with current reality in order to comment on contemporary life.
A genre of play that is based on the narrative of true historical events and people, often considered a subgenre of tragedy.
A large room where people waiting to audition are held until their appointed time.
Lightweight walls made of wood with boards on edge as a frame.
The systematic genocide of six-million Jewish people during World War II.