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Theater of Nuceria Alfaterna
Theater of Nuceria Alfaterna: Hellenistic-Roman theater at Pareti, Nocera Superiore, Campania, built 2nd-1st century BC; cavea about 96 m in diameter, among the largest in Campania; served the ancient city that led Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabia, and Sorrento.
Theater of Priene
The Theater of Priene is a Hellenistic Greek theater built in the 3rd century BC at Priene in southwestern Turkey, the standard example of a Hellenistic theater.
Theater of Pyrrhus
Theater of Pyrrhus: the Hellenistic theater at Dodona, Epirus, Greece, built early 3rd century BC under King Pyrrhus (297-272 BC) for the Naia games; 135 m cavea, four building phases, later an Augustan arena, restored and again hosting performances.
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.
Theater of Zea
Theater of Zea, ancient Hellenistic theater in Pasalimani, Piraeus, Greece, built early 3rd century BC and modeled on Athens' Theater of Dionysus; hosted dramatic competitions and is being restored by DIAZOMA.
Theater-temple complex, Monte San Nicola
Theater-temple complex, Monte San Nicola (Teatro-Tempio di Pietravairano): late 2nd-1st century BC Roman Republican sanctuary at 409 m in Caserta, Campania, with a Tuscan three-cell temple above a 2,000-seat theater, discovered from the air in 2000 by Nicolino Lombardi.
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.
Théâtre antique de Tarquimpol
Théâtre antique de Tarquimpol: buried Gallo-Roman theatre at Decempagi (Decem Pagi), Moselle, France, revealed by 1981 aerial crop marks and geophysical survey; classified Monument Historique since 1930, never excavated.
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.