Theatre Geekery

Today, I am having to take a break from the Jobs in the Theatre series because I got caught in some bad weather while traveling. I thought...

The stage manager is the person who assists the director and supervises rehearsals. Assisting the director is done by making sure to have ...

A choreographer is the person responsible for creating and teaching dance and other stylized movement to actors on the stage. It is import...

The music director is the person that oversees all aspects of a theatrical production that involve music. This music can be live or record...

People often think that a dramaturg is only responsible for historical research and bringing that into the theatre. However, the dramaturg...

The marketing director is in charge of finding out the particular wants and needs of patrons and possible future patrons of the theatre. T...

The business manager in a theatre is the person who is in charge of all the financial aspects. In a large theatre, the business manager wi...

A company manager is in charge of many things for a theatrical company. Just like it sounds, this position should be filled when a company...

Camae, the newly hired maid of the the Lorraine Motel stands on the bed while wearing the jacket and shoes of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, ...

Two men are on a bench and one starts tickling the other. The one being tickled can't control his laughter and states that the parakee...

A director is the person that is responsible for guiding actors all throughout rehearsals in order to achieve the vision that the director ...

When a theatre has a production manager, that person is responsible for supervising all aspects of a production and allocating the budget f...

The executive director is basically the person that is in charge of all non-artistic operations of a theatre. Everybody on the theatre dep...

The artistic director is the person who is responsible for maintaining and developing the major artistic goals of the theatre. Once again,...

In the United States, in professional theatre, the producer is the person that raises the money for a theatrical performance or a run of th...

A position on the Board of Directors in a theatre usually is not a job. The board of directors is usually made up of volunteers. Often, t...

I am getting ready to do a series on theatrical jobs (or jobs in the theatre). Tonight and early this morning (because it is so hot during ...

While I gather my thoughts and get ready to start a new series, this post is just a small break between series. Thanks to many people in t...

A movical is a stage musical based on a movie. Many times the movie was already a musical, but that is not a requirement of the movie for i...

In yer-face-theatre is a term applied to many plays written in Britain during the 1990s. The term refers to plays that were written in ord...