theater arts
Performance and production
Theater arts encompasses the disciplines involved in creating live dramatic performance—acting, directing, stagecraft, design, and playwriting.
The term appears most often in educational contexts: She's majoring in theater arts, the theater arts department.
It covers both the craft of performance and the technical elements that support it.
- dramaturgyArt of theatrical structure
- rehearsalPre-performance practice session
- dress rehearsalComplete practice performance
- tech weekFinal rehearsals before opening
- propsTheater accessories or praise
ensemble · Greek chorus · actor · director · producer · Tony Awards · set design · lighting design · Stanislavski · method acting · dialogue · stage manager · playwright · sound design · blocking · costume design · historical context · cultural critique
- arts educationart class, art education, art appreciation, dance class, drama class
- humanitiesphilosophy, history, literature, philosophy class, novels
- school programsAP, honors, scholarship, honors program, AP classes
- youth theaterschool plays, drama club, drama class, drama camps, child actors
- theater trainingacting schools, drama schools, acting workshops, voice training, improvisation
- art schoolpainting studios, studio, BFA, gallery, MFA
theater artsfilm studies
Academic analysis of movies
cinema · film production · motion pictures · film · television production
theater artsvisual arts
Sight-based creative disciplines
studio art · sculpture · painting · photography · graphic design
theater artsapplied sciences
Practical technical disciplines
engineering · vocational training · computer science · STEM fields · hard sciences