Theater

📖 In short

Theater is an art where actors stand on a stage in front of an audience and act out a story live before their eyes. They speak, move and sometimes sing, and the audience sits in the hall watching and clapping. The word “theater” also means the building where plays are put on.

🤩 Did you know?

The Maly Theater was built in Moscow in 1824 and is one of the city's oldest theaters.
The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art was founded in London in 1904.
The big red curtain is one of the famous signs of the theater.
Actors rehearse for many weeks before performing a play.

🔎 Find out more

🌟 Who works in the theater?

The playwright writes the script, the director guides the actors, set designers make the scenery, lighting technicians set the lights, and costume designers sew the characters' clothes.

🔍 Theater long ago

More than two thousand years ago the Greeks built big open-air theaters shaped like a half-circle of stone steps, so the whole audience could hear the actors clearly.

💡 Puppet theater

One lovely kind of theater is puppet theater, where artists move puppets with their hands or strings. And the Arabs have shadow theater, where puppets' shadows move on a lit screen.