Theatre

Theatre

Terms of or in relation to a collaborative form of fine art which uses live performances to express fictional or non-fictional stories to an audience in a particular place.

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Run-through

Performing arts; Theatre

A type of rehearsal in which an act or the entire play is rehearsed without interruption. Usually this is done later in the rehearsal schedule after the director has worked through blocking and ...

Summer stock

Performing arts; Theatre

A type of repertory theatre which, as the name implies, often presents its work during the Summer season. Generally, the repertory theatre of Summer Stock involves a weekly change of bill.

A loosely woven material used on stage, often to represent glass or some other transparent substance. If lighting is thrown on the front of a scrim drop, with no lighting behind, it becomes opaque. ...

Pipe batten

Performing arts; Theatre

A metal pipe suspended from the grid and from which lighting instruments or scenery is hung.

Spatter

Performing arts; Theatre

A method of painting in which a paint brush is struck against a hand so that small dots of paint are thrown onto a flat. Related to sponge painting, this method is used to break up a painted surface ...

Border (cloth)

Performing arts; Theatre

A narrow strip of muslin or other cloth used to mask the flies from the sight of the audience. Sometimes the border cloth was shaped to appear as foliage or clouds. In TCT's debut production in the ...

Catwalk

Performing arts; Theatre

A narrow walkway suspended between "fly floors", the raised areas from which scenery and drops were flown (and still is at the Lyric) before the adoption of the counterweight system.