Theatre Geekery

While it is now known that melodrama has exaggerated plot with clearly good and cleary bvad characters, the first technique for melodrama w...

The beginnings of melodrama started with August Friedrich von Kotzebue . He was born in the Weimar, Germany, but in 1783, he entered the R...

Theatre of the Oppressed, sometimes referred to as TO, is a form of theatre that was developed in the 1970s by Augusto Boal. Boal was a Bra...

Readers Theatre became popular during World War II. It is also known as Chamber Theatre or Interpretive Theatre. The reason that Reader...

Theatre of cruelty took place in France in the 1930s and 1940s. The idea was developed by Anton Artaud and it grew out of Surrealist Theat...

Surrealist theatre mainly took place in Paris, France in the 1920s. It depicted the subconcious experience. Sometimes one idea was presen...

Epic theatre took place in the early to mid 20th century. The idea in Epic theatre is to make audiences think about what is being presente...

Poor theatre took place between 1959 and 1970. This was non-commercial theatre and most of the works did not reach performance. The main ...

Romanticism in the theatre happened in the early 1800s to the mid 1800s. However, sometimes a start date of the late 1700s is given and an...

American Avant-Garde theatre started in the 1940s. The exact time frame of the movement probably lasted until around the mid 1980s. While...

Theatre of the absurd (or absurdist theatre) is a movement that happened in the 1950s and 1960s. The movement started in Paris, France in t...

Naturalism developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Europe. In naturalism, the theatre tries to create the illusion of reali...

Neoclassical theatre probably began sometime in the mid-17th century. It focuses on realism and dignified behavior based on the classical ...

Dada theatre started in Zurich, Switzerland in 1916. A poet named Hugo Ball founded a cafe in the city that he called Cabaret Voltaire. I...

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The exact date of when theatre start in Germany is difficult to determine. It is known that Renaissance theatre happened from the 10th cen...

Waitress is a musical with a book by Jessie Nelson and music by Sara Bareilles. It is based off of the 2007 movie Waitress by Adrienne S...

During the 18th and 19th centuries, groups in Latin America were working on creating their own theatre. They would use Western European th...

Theatre in Central and South America goes back to the roots of early Aztec, Incan, and Mayan civilizations. Each of these civilizations had...

Since Turkey and Greece are closely related, the beginning of Turkish theatre is Greek theatre history . However, there was also tradition...