theatrical tradition
Playhouse inherited practice
A theatrical tradition is an established body of conventions, techniques, and practices passed down through generations of stage performance.
Different cultures develop distinct theatrical traditions—Greek tragedy, Japanese Kabuki, British pantomime, American musical theater.
The phrase can also mean a custom specific to a theater or production: It's a theatrical tradition to say "break a leg" rather than "good luck".
- Greek tragedyClassical dramatic form featuring downfall
- tragic heroCharacter whose flaw causes ruin
- Chinese operaTraditional staged musical drama
- fourth wallInvisible stage-audience barrier
- Commedia dell'arteItalian improvised masked theater
Elizabethan drama · folk opera · kabuki · playwright · dramatic arts · Method acting · stage presence · morality plays · musical drama · summer stock · mystery plays · costume drama · vaudeville · mime · matinee · repertoire · footlights · classical
- theatreBroadway, acting, theatre, stage, actor
- ShakespeareRomeo, Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello
- theaterplays, stage, play, onstage, acting
- speechesspeech, addresses, historic speeches, lecture, soliloquy
- British TheatreWest End, Macbeth, Globe, King Lear, pantomime
- Greek TheaterGreek tragedy, tragedy, Greek drama, comedy, Sophocles
theatrical traditionradio drama
Narrative broadcast through speakers
screen acting · literary tradition · digital media · novel · cinema
theatrical traditionexperimental theater
Unconventional staged performance art
immersive theater · avant-garde · avant-garde theater · breaking the fourth wall · breaking with tradition
theatrical traditionnaturalism
Worldview excluding the supernatural
realism · everyday speech · method acting · slice of life · spontaneity