Theatre Appreciation, Test 2: Chapter 6 Flashcards
True/False: The proscenium theatre is the final and perfected development of theatre space.
False
True/False: Spectacle is most important in the thrust stage.
False
True/False: “The Road” is a term for touring productions usually put together in New York City.
True
True/False: “Broadway” includes all professional theatre outside New York City.
False
True/False: “Regional theatres” provide jobs for professionals and live theatre for audiences far from Broadway.
True
True/False: Educational theatre is a kind that enjoys healthy subsidies.
True
True/False: “Political theatres” are those subsidized by the big political parties.
False
True/False: The National Endowment for the Arts makes important funding available to theatres around the country.
False
True/False: Broadway musicals are the mainstay of the regional theatres.
False
True/False: “Broadway” can be used to describe a street, a part of New York City, and a kind of theatre.
True
True/False: The typical Broadway audience is made up of students.
False
True/False: Theatrical labor unions have helped hold down the costs of Broadway productions.
False
True/False: Many of Broadway’s problems stem from money.
True
True/False: The long run developed primarily because actors needed more job security.
False
True/False: Most regional professional theatres, unlike those on Broadway, are organized as not-for profit enterprises.
True
True/False: New plays never begin anywhere but New York.
False
True/False: Educational theatre first appeared after World War Two.
False
True/False: Most training for the profession of theatre now takes place in colleges and universities.
True
True/False: Feminist, black, and gay theatres have nothing in common.
False
True/False: “Off-off Broadway” refers to theatres outside the New York City limits.
False
True/False: The spaces on each side of the stage in a proscenium theatre are called slip stages.
False
True/False: The real estate market in Manhattan contributes to the increasing costs of Broadway productions.
True
True/False: The aisle ways running through the audience to the stage in a thrust stage are called vomitories.
True
True/False: Stages in which an audience is on two sides of the stage is called a booth stage.
False
True/False: Most commonly theatres are staffed by professional theatre artists.
False
MC: Off-Broadway theatres are defined by their:
e. answers a and b (a. location in Manhattan and b. seating capacity)
MC: To protect their investments, Broadway producers tend to:
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)
MC: The best theatre shape is:
d. all of the above because there is no “best theatre shape.” (a. proscenium, b. arena, c. thrust)
MC: “Educational theatre” refers to:
d. Theatre in colleges, universities, and schools
MC: “Thrust stage” describes a kind of theatre:
b. where scenery is less important
MC: Which statement is MOST true:
c. In some theatre spaces, no curtain is used
MC: Commercial theatre (that is for-profit theatre), is strongest in which grouping?
c. The road, dinner, and Broadway theatre
MC: Regional theatre’s contributions include:
d. New plays, varied repertory, job opportunities
MC: “Political theatre” refers to:
b. Activist theatre
