boy actors
Young male thespians
Boy actors are young male performers, particularly associated with Elizabethan and Jacobean theater, where boys played all female roles before women were permitted on the English stage.
The term also applies more generally to child actors who are male: The film launched the careers of several boy actors who became major stars.
- HollywoodAmerican film industry center
- show businessEntertainment industry sector
- talent agentPerformer's career representative
- auditionsPerformance tests for casting
- stageRaised performance platform
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- Early TheaterShakespeare, Elizabethan theatre, Globe Theatre, Marlowe, morality plays
- Elizabethan entertainersplayers, clowns, fools, jesters, theatrical troupes
- Elizabethan theaterBlackfriars, Globe Theatre, groundlings, heavens, trap door
- Jacobean TheatreThe Alchemist, King's Men, John Ford, masque, Globe Theatre