General articles: Arts and culture
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Theater drapes and stage curtains
Theater drapes and stage curtains, known together as soft goods, are the cloth elements used to surround, conceal, and transform a theater stage, from the main curtain to backdrops.
Theater in the United States
Theater in the United States spans Broadway, nonprofit regional theaters, and community companies, from colonial-era stages and the 1935–1939 Federal Theatre Project to the postwar regional movement and today's $1.91 billion Broadway seasons.
Theater of Tegea
Theater of Tegea: Hellenistic theater of the Arcadian polis Tegea, east of its agora at Palaia Episkopi; 4th-century BC origin, marble cavea funded by Antiochus IV (175 BC), cavea 80 m, buried under a Byzantine church.
Theater of Thought
Theater of Thought (Theatre of Thought) is Werner Herzog's 2022 documentary on the human brain and neurotechnology, made with Columbia neuroscientist Rafael Yuste; premiered at TIFF 2022, limited US release December 13, 2024, no streaming release.
Theatre
Theatre, the art of live performance before an audience by actors using speech, song, gesture, and staging; Western theatre arose in Athens around 534 BC with Thespis, with independent Sanskrit and East Asian traditions.
Theatre companies of Asia, Africa and Oceania
Theatre companies of Asia, Africa and Oceania operate under state, private, and foundation models, from Nairobi's 1952 national theater to Mumbai's NCPA and Australia's thirty major companies.
Theatre companies of Southeast Asia
Theatre companies of Southeast Asia are producing groups across Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore, ranging from registered professional companies and artist-run collectives to traditional-form troupes like mak yong ensembles.
Theatre Company of the Philippines (Tanghalang Pilipino)
Tanghalang Pilipino, the resident drama company of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, was founded in 1987 and is the country's National Performing Arts Company for Theater.
Theatre criticism
Theatre criticism (النقد المسرحي) is the disciplined analysis and judgment of plays and performances; in Egypt, the first applied criticism appeared in 1898 as a review of Romeo and Juliet.
Theatre director
Theatre director: the artist who unifies text, design, and performance under one vision. Also called stage director, regisseur, or Intendant. Emerged as a distinct creative profession in the late nineteenth century with Saxe-Meiningen, Antoine, Stanislavsky, Appia, and Craig.
Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier
The Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier is a Paris theater in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, founded by Jacques Copeau in 1913 and the second hall of the Comédie-Française since 1993.
Theatre festivals in Asia, Africa and Oceania
Theatre festivals in Asia, Africa and Oceania range from Bharat Rang Mahotsav in India, billed as the world's largest, to Cairo's CIFET and the Kampala and Kenya festivals.
Theatre for development
Theatre for development (TfD), also called popular theatre, is participatory community theatre rooted in Freire and Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, widespread since the 1970s in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, using research, devising, and forum-style performance to address local development issues.
Theatre for young audiences
Theatre for young audiences (TYA) is professional theater created by adult artists for children, teens, and family audiences, distinct from participatory youth theater, spanning touring ensembles, festivals, and mainstream stages.
Théatre Gallo-Romains
Gallo-Roman theatres (theatres gallo-romains): provincial Roman theatres of Gaul, Germania, and Britannia with cavea beyond a semicircle, reduced stage, dual theatre-amphitheatre use; Mandeure, 142 m, is the largest in Gaul.
Theatre historiography
Theatre historiography is the study of how theater history is researched, written, and periodized, examining what counts as evidence and where one era ends and another begins.
Theatre in Asia
Theatre in Asia is not one art form but hundreds of distinct traditions, most fusing drama, dance, and music, with roots in Indian epics and religious practice.
Theatre in Cuba and the Spanish Caribbean
Theatre in Cuba and the Spanish Caribbean covers stage traditions in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic, from colonial religious performance to state-sponsored and exile theater.
Theatre in Ghana
Theatre in Ghana spans pre-colonial Akan ritual and storytelling, the colonial concert party, and the written drama of playwrights like Efua Sutherland and Ama Ata Aidoo.
Theatre in Kenya
Theatre in Kenya is the country's staged performance tradition, running from colonial regulation of indigenous performance through the Kamiriithu community theater of the 1970s to the Kenya National Theatre, built in 1951.
Theatre in Mexico
Theatre in Mexico is the performance tradition of present-day Mexico, from colonial religious drama and indigenous dance-dramas through the commercial stages of the nineteenth century and modern state institutions.
Theatre in Portugal
Theatre in Portugal is a national tradition running from medieval liturgical drama to the present, shaped by Gil Vicente and by Almeida Garrett's Romantic reform and National Theatre.
Theatre in Tanzania
Theatre in Tanzania is a performance tradition rooted in ngoma drum-dance events and Kiswahili popular drama, now competing with video film and Bongo Flava music.
Theatre in the Baltic states
Theatre in the Baltic states is the tradition of state-subsidized repertory theaters in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, marked by high attendance and auteur directing consolidated in Soviet-era Lithuania.
Theatre in the Netherlands and Flanders
Dutch-language theater is the theatrical tradition shared by the Netherlands and Flanders, from the chambers of rhetoric and the 1638 Amsterdam Schouwburg through Golden Age drama to the modern system.
Theatre in the Pacific Islands
Theatre in the Pacific Islands is modern scripted stage drama by island-based companies and universities across Hawai‘i, Fiji, Sāmoa, and Oceania, flourishing since the late 1960s alongside decolonization.
Theatre in the Roman provinces
Theatre in the Roman provinces was the performance culture of the Roman Empire outside Italy, spreading from the Greek East to Britain, with over 400 theaters cataloged.
Theatre in the United Kingdom
Theatre in the United Kingdom is a four-nation tradition running from medieval church drama to the West End, funded mostly by private money rather than the state.
Theatre in Uganda
Theatre in Uganda spans indigenous performance in the round, colonial and mission drama, and a national tradition built around the Uganda National Theatre from 1959.
Theatre in Ukraine
Theatre in Ukraine encompasses theatrical traditions in Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, and Church Slavonic, dating to 1619 and shaped by imperial censorship, the Berezil theater, and repression.