Drama Glossary
Key theatre terms and definitions including related shows.
A popular company of actors during the Elizabethan and Stuart eras.
A trade organization for Broadway producers and theatre owners that negotiates labor agreements and contracts with the theatre artist unions in New York City.
The northernmost borough of New York City, between the Harlem River & Long Island Sound.
A series of 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison, designed to persuade New Yorkers to ratify the United States Constitution.
A system of practice defined for different parts of the body: body, hands, eyes, hair, and feet.
The training undertaken by performers in Cantonese opera. Chang (singing), Zuo (body movement), Nian (recitation or spoken acting), and Da (martial arts or acrobatics).
The oldest experimental theatre company in the USA.
Ancient treatise by Aristotle that sets out the rules of dramatic poetry, including comedy and tragedy.
A theory and practice of realistic and naturalistic acting developed by Konstantin Stanislavsky, focusing on inspiration, emotion, and impulse.
An organization established in 1896 which controlled booking in most of the major theatrical attractions in the United States.
Violent sectarian conflict from about 1968 to 1998 in Northern Ireland between the Protestant unionists (loyalists), who desired the province to remain part of the United Kingdom, and the Roman Catholic nationalists (republicans), who wanted Northern Ireland to become part of the republic of Ireland.
A form of experimental theatre that was proposed by the French actor and theorist Antonin Artaud. It uses sensory details such as expressions, gestures, sounds, and lights to shock audiences.