Masque: History and Key Facts
The masque was a form of festive courtly entertainment that flourished in 16th- and early 17th-century Europe, though it was developed earlier in Italy, in forms including the intermedio (a publi
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La Cage aux Folles (musical): History and Key Facts
La Cage aux Folles (French pronunciation: [la kaʒ o fɔl]) is a musical with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman and a book by Harvey Fierstein.
Melodrama: History and Key Facts
A melodrama is a dramatic work in which plot, typically sensationalized for a strong emotional appeal, takes precedence over detailed characterization.
Call Me Mister: History and Key Facts
Call Me Mister is a revue with sketches by Arnold Auerbach and words and music by Harold Rome.
Calling All Stars (1934 musical): History and Key Facts
Calling All Stars is a 1934 musical revue with music by Harry Akst, lyrics by Lew Brown, and orchestrations by Hans Spialek and Conrad Salinger.
Camelot (musical): History and Key Facts
Camelot is a musical with music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics and a book by Alan Jay Lerner.
Canterbury Tales (musical): History and Key Facts
Canterbury Tales is a British musical based on Chaucer's fourteenth-century collection of stories published under the same title.
Mummers' play: History and Key Facts
Mummers' plays are folk plays performed by troupes of amateur actors, traditionally all male, known as mummers or guisers (also by local names such as rhymers, pace-eggers, soulers, tipteerers, w
Candida Cave: Biography and Background
Candida Cave is a British painter, playwright and art historian.
The Capeman: History and Key Facts
The Capeman is a musical play with music by Paul Simon and book and lyrics by Simon and Derek Walcott based on the life of convicted murderer Salvador Agrón.
Music hall: History and Key Facts
Music hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment that was most popular from the early Victorian era until around World War I.
Jason Charles: Biography and Background
Jason Charles is a London-based novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and poet.
Carmen Jones: History and Key Facts
Carmen Jones is a 1943 Broadway musical with music by Georges Bizet (orchestrated for Broadway by Robert Russell Bennett) and lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II which was performed at The Br
Music theatre: History and Key Facts
Music theatre is a performance genre that emerged over the course of the 20th century, in opposition to more conventional genres like opera and musical theatre.
Mystery dinner: History and Key Facts
A mystery dinner is a popular type of dinner theater in which the play is a murder mystery, and the diners are invited to solve the mystery as they eat and watch the play.
Carousel (musical): History and Key Facts
Carousel is the second musical by the team of Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics).
Ten Nights in a Bar Room Handbill: Museum Object and Cultural History
Ten Nights in a Bar Room Handbill: Object Name: Playbill. Physical Description: paper (overall material). Physical Description: ink (overall material).
Haemo-Vac Evacuated Container for 500 ml. of Plasma: Museum Object and Cultural History
Haemo-Vac Evacuated Container for 500 ml. of Plasma: Object Name: plasma bottle with theatrical blood. ID Number: 1985.0252.055. catalog number: 1985.0252.055.
Poppy Corbett: Biography and Background
Poppy Corbett (born 18 August 1986) is a playwright, director and teacher of creative writing.
Carrie (musical): History and Key Facts
Carrie (also known as Carrie: The Musical) is a musical with a book by Lawrence D.
Opera: History and Key Facts
Opera is a form of Western theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.
Joseph Stirling Coyne: Biography and Background
Joseph Stirling Coyne (1803–1868) was a humorist and satirist in the tradition of Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope.
Castles in the Air (musical): History and Key Facts
Castles in the Air is a musical comedy, with a book and lyrics by Raymond Wilson Peck and music by Percy Wenrich (additional lyrics by R.
Pantomime: History and Key Facts
Pantomime (; informally panto) is a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment, generally combining broad and topical humour and cross-dressing actors with a story
Oral interpretation: History and Key Facts
Oral interpretation is a dramatic art, also commonly called "interpretive reading" and "dramatic reading", though these terms are more conservative and restrictive.
Catch My Soul (musical): History and Key Facts
Catch My Soul is a rock musical produced by Jack Good, loosely adapted from Shakespeare's Othello.
Participatory theatre: History and Key Facts
Participatory theatre is a form of theatre in which the audience interacts with the performers or the presenters.
Parade (French street entertainment): History and Key Facts
A parade is a type of French street entertainment which originated during the Renaissance.
Cats (musical): History and Key Facts
Cats is a sung-through musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Passion Play: History and Key Facts
The Passion Play or Easter pageant is a dramatic presentation depicting the Passion of Jesus: his trial, suffering and death.
Pasku: History and Key Facts
Pasku Sinhala essy is a Roman Catholic Passion Play which originated in the Catholic areas of Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka in the late 19th century.
Nicholas de Jongh: Biography and Background
Nicholas de Jongh is a British writer, theatre critic and playwright.
Postdramatic theatre: History and Key Facts
The notion of postdramatic theatre was established by German theatre researcher Hans-Thies Lehmann in his book Postdramatic Theatre, summarising a number of tendencies and stylistic traits occurr
Problem play: History and Key Facts
The problem play is a form of drama that emerged during the 19th century as part of the wider movement of realism in the arts, especially following the innovations of Henrik Ibsen.
Carol Ann Duffy: Biography and Background
Dame Carol Ann Duffy (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish poet and playwright.
James Wedgwood Drawbell: Biography and Background
James Wedgwood Drawbell (1899–6 February 1979) was a British writer, playwright, and journalist, known in equal measure for his literary works and professional association (of variable closeness)
Randai: History and Key Facts
Randai (Jawi: رنداي) is a folk theater tradition of the Minangkabau ethnic group in West Sumatra, Indonesia, which incorporates music, singing, dance, drama and the martial art of silat.
Michael J. Ellis: Biography and Background
Michael J Ellis also known as Michael Ellis is a British playwright noted for a series of stage works produced at a time when the representation of black and ethnic minority experience on the Bri
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical): History and Key Facts
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a musical based on the 1964 children's novel by Roald Dahl, with book by David Greig, music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Shaiman and Scott Wittman, with orig
Real time (media): History and Key Facts
Real time within a narrative is a method in which events are portrayed at the same rate at which they occur in the plot.