Theatre Appreciation, Test 2: Chapter 6

Question 1

True/False: The proscenium theatre is the final and perfected development of theatre space.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

True/False: Spectacle is most important in the thrust stage.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

True/False: “The Road” is a term for touring productions usually put together in New York City.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

True/False: “Broadway” includes all professional theatre outside New York City.

Answer 4

False

Question 5

True/False: “Regional theatres” provide jobs for professionals and live theatre for audiences far from Broadway.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

True/False: Educational theatre is a kind that enjoys healthy subsidies.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

True/False: “Political theatres” are those subsidized by the big political parties.

Answer 7

False

Question 8

True/False: The National Endowment for the Arts makes important funding available to theatres around the country.

Answer 8

False

Question 9

True/False: Broadway musicals are the mainstay of the regional theatres.

Answer 9

False

Question 10

True/False: “Broadway” can be used to describe a street, a part of New York City, and a kind of theatre.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

True/False: The typical Broadway audience is made up of students.

Answer 11

False

Question 12

True/False: Theatrical labor unions have helped hold down the costs of Broadway productions.

Answer 12

False

Question 13

True/False: Many of Broadway’s problems stem from money.

Answer 13

True

Question 14

True/False: The long run developed primarily because actors needed more job security.

Answer 14

False

Question 15

True/False: Most regional professional theatres, unlike those on Broadway, are organized as not-for profit enterprises.

Answer 15

True

Question 16

True/False: New plays never begin anywhere but New York.

Answer 16

False

Question 17

True/False: Educational theatre first appeared after World War Two.

Answer 17

False

Question 18

True/False: Most training for the profession of theatre now takes place in colleges and universities.

Answer 18

True

Question 19

True/False: Feminist, black, and gay theatres have nothing in common.

Answer 19

False

Question 20

True/False: “Off-off Broadway” refers to theatres outside the New York City limits.

Answer 20

False

Question 21

True/False: The spaces on each side of the stage in a proscenium theatre are called slip stages.

Answer 21

False

Question 22

True/False: The real estate market in Manhattan contributes to the increasing costs of Broadway productions.

Answer 22

True

Question 23

True/False: The aisle ways running through the audience to the stage in a thrust stage are called vomitories.

Answer 23

True

Question 24

True/False: Stages in which an audience is on two sides of the stage is called a booth stage.

Answer 24

False

Question 25

True/False: Most commonly theatres are staffed by professional theatre artists.

Answer 25

False

Question 26

MC: Off-Broadway theatres are defined by their:

Answer 26

e. answers a and b (a. location in Manhattan and b. seating capacity)

Question 27

MC: To protect their investments, Broadway producers tend to:

Answer 27

d. all of the above (work with already established playwrights, select plays that have already been successfully produced, and select small-cast, limited-set shows)

Question 28

MC: The best theatre shape is:

Answer 28

d. all of the above because there is no “best theatre shape.” (a. proscenium, b. arena, c. thrust)

Question 29

MC: “Educational theatre” refers to:

Answer 29

d. Theatre in colleges, universities, and schools

Question 30

MC: “Thrust stage” describes a kind of theatre:

Answer 30

b. where scenery is less important

Question 31

MC: Which statement is MOST true:

Answer 31

c. In some theatre spaces, no curtain is used

Question 32

MC: Commercial theatre (that is for-profit theatre), is strongest in which grouping?

Answer 32

c. The road, dinner, and Broadway theatre

Question 33

MC: Regional theatre’s contributions include:

Answer 33

d. New plays, varied repertory, job opportunities

Question 34

MC: “Political theatre” refers to:

Answer 34

b. Activist theatre