Theatre

Theatre is a branch of the performing arts. Any performance may be considered theatre; however, as a performing art, theatre focuses almost exclusively on live performers enacting a self-contained drama before an audience. A performance qualifies as dramatic by creating a representational illusion. The word "theatre" derives from the Ancient Greek theatron (θέατρον) meaning "a place for viewing." A theatrical performance may include music, dance and various elements of stagecraft such as costumes, sets, lights, stage properties and sound engineering, among others.
Modern Western theatre derives
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A Stage Set for Villains
Everything's Coming Up Rosie
Bring the House Down
Hey guten Morgen, wie geht es dir?
Too Soon
Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
Fat Ham
Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival
A Bright Ray of Darkness
The Hypocrite
Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life
Hummingbird
The Story of My Anger
My Father Always Finds Corpses
Upstaged
Hamlet
Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Waiting for Godot
Othello
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Tempest
King Lear
A Streetcar Named Desire
A Doll's House
Death of a Salesman
Much Ado About Nothing
Millennium Approaches by Tony KushnerThe Normal Heart by Larry KramerBent by Martin ShermanTorch Song Trilogy by Harvey FiersteinPerestroika by Tony Kushner
Best Gay Plays
59 books — 55 voters
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsDeath of a Salesman by Arthur MillerThe Crucible by Arthur MillerWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward AlbeeThe Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Best American Plays
250 books — 367 voters

Joy & Sorrow by Peter Sean DalyDaisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins ReidThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeGirl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierStation Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
ATY 2020 - A Book Related To The Arts
311 books — 124 voters
Kafka Was the Rage by Anatole BroyardHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergChronicles, Volume One by Bob DylanThe Gift of the Magi by O. HenryAnother Country by James Baldwin
Greenwich Village
127 books — 18 voters

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine HansberryFences by August WilsonDutchman & The Slave by Amiri BarakaPorgy and Bess Fantasy for Two Pianos by George GershwinFor Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rain... by Ntozake Shange
African American Plays
42 books — 32 voters
Les Misérables by Victor HugoHamlet by William ShakespeareThe Phantom of the Opera by Gaston LerouxA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Best Plays or Musicals
340 books — 193 voters


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Antonin Artaud
Theater of Cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of performance, it is not the cruelty we can exercise upon each other by hacking at each other’s bodies, carving up our personal anatomies, or, like Assyrian emperors, sending parcels of human ears, noses, or neatly detached nostrils through the mail, but the much more terrible and necessary cruelty which things can exercise against us. We are not free. And the sky can still fall on our heads. And t ...more
Antonin Artaud, The Theater and Its Double

Stella Adler
Acting is in everything but the words.
Stella Adler, The Art of Acting

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