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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Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!
Everything's Coming Up Rosie
Les Figurants
Bring the House Down
A Scar like a River
Hey guten Morgen, wie geht es dir?
Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
The Hypocrite
Hummingbird
Fat Ham
Summer Stage
Here for the Drama
A Bright Ray of Darkness
Too Soon
I Only Read Murder (Miranda Abbott, #1)
Hamlet
Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth: Moment by Moment
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Waiting for Godot
Othello
The Tempest
The Importance of Being Earnest
King Lear
A Streetcar Named Desire
A Doll's House
Death of a Salesman
Much Ado About Nothing
Hamlet by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareThe Crucible by Arthur Miller
Best Play Ever
522 books — 457 voters
Dr. Faustus by Christopher MarloweEdward II by Christopher MarloweThe Complete Poems by Ben JonsonThe Complete Plays by Christopher MarloweThe Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd
Shakespeare's Contemporaries
106 books — 28 voters

Ballet Boy by Anfaney GladwinGiraffes Can't Dance by Giles AndreaeFlora and the Flamingo by Molly IdleBarnyard Dance by Sandra BoyntonRap A Tap Tap by Leo Dillon
Picture Books About Dance
198 books — 66 voters

Will in the World by Stephen GreenblattShakespeare by Bill BrysonA Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James ShapiroShakespeare by Harold BloomShakespeare After All by Marjorie Garber
Best Books About Shakespeare
275 books — 169 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
43 books — 34 voters


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