Theatre

The World Goes Round at Theatre UCF was a spectacular conglomeration of musical performances that were brought to life through excellent acting and use of lighting. Throughout my years as a student I have seen a plethora of plays ranging from high school productions to off-off Broadway. Walking into this production I expected the same level of performance as in my local community college (with a slightly bigger budget). However, after the first song I knew that I was going to be proven wrong.…

Question: Does the amount of productions, (meaning musicals/plays), people have performed in have any relations to how much they like theater on a scale of one to ten? I want to know whether or not the amount of shows has anything to do with how much they like theater. Is it possible that a person who has been in a very little amount of productions versus someone who have been in more than a dozen can like theater just the same? Hypothesis: The amount of productions people have been in, has no…

reality we choose to see, and we have the power to do that than ever before. Theatre is one of the last things that eliminates that.” These are the words from my biggest inspiration Lin-Manuel Miranda. He created and starred in the Tony award winning musical Hamilton. These words ring true to me because I have seen how theatre can change a person. I, myself have grown into the person I am today as a result of participating in theatre. I have acted in about a dozen on-stage productions with a…

What is theatre? This question could have many answers and many definitions. When I looked at the meaning of the word” theatre” in the dictionary, I found this” theatre is a building designed for the performance of plays, operas, etc.” But is this the real meaning of theatre? When I was a child, I just know that theatre was place where I could see my heroes and where people dressed differently to tell stories. Now, I have another definition of theatre. In my opinion theatre is the place where…

In addition to literature and music, Jewish people were also productive in the theatre. According to Shoef, Jewish theatre emerged in the late 19th cenury (67). In 1876, the first Jewish theatre performance took place in a coffee shop in the Rumanian town of Iasi, performed by Abraham Goldfaden's group of joke-tellers (ibid.). The town was sheltering Jewish refugees who eventually “needed a communal meeting place other then [sic] the conventional synagogue – a place where they could share their…

The Manhattan Theatre Club is an extremely prestigious acting company that works both on and off Broadway in New York City. In my interview conducted over the phone with the Assistant Education Director, Amy Harris, I was able to gather a substantial amount of information about the company, like how it functions and how to get a job with the company. The Manhattan Theatre Club started as an Off-Off Broadway company and since 1970 has grown into one of the most acclaimed theatre organizations in…

There are five playwrights involved with creating greek theatre . A lot of the greek tragedies still around today are works made by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.The comedies were made by Aristophanes, and Menander, and others who were not as important but still had an impact. The specific date of when Greek drama was created is not known absolute certainty, most people believe it began with the worship of Dionysus, the god of fertility and wine. People of the group that followed Dionysus…

This essay is a comparative study of two Absurd plays. But before we start with the essay let’s look at what the Theatre of the Absurd is. The ‘Theatre of the Absurd’ is a post- World War II concept. The first and the most important playwrights of this movement were Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Arthur Adamov and Jean Genet. These plays focus on or represent the absurdity of human existence. Absurdity in this context means disharmony or meaninglessness. This style of writing was first used by…

American musical theatre. An array of factors have emerged and collided over the past decade to bring what was once a niche staple of American culture to the forefront of the media and culture around the world. The sum of an evolving variety of music genres within the form, an increased interest and engagement by A and B list celebrities, an increasingly globalized Western culture, among other influences have allowed for the growth and current peak prosperity of the musical theatre genre across…

In the everyday race of life, one can overlook and even forget the most mundane or trivial of choices. However, upon slowing down and considering the alternatives, one can rationalize and improve almost every choice to find the best path. This generalized analysis applies to even One Act plays. When choosing which genre to perform, potential casts will find it most beneficial to weigh the pros and cons of each plausible possibility. A well-educated, correct decision will stow favorable memories…