Theatre Geekery

If you guessed that Wandelprobe was related to sitzprobe in a way, you'd be correct. It is technically pronounced as "von-dell-p...

I am not certain what is going on with my Internet connection, but it is extremely slow. Hopefully that'll be fixed soon in some way. ...

Due to the fact that my internet is extremely slow tonight, and I've been waiting and hoping to be able to write a blog post, but it ha...

In the majority of theatres, when a cast rehearses music, either with the canned music or a band or orchestra, it is just called a music re...

Today, the word claptrap is used to mean nonsense. We tend to like the word claptrap because of the rhyming just like when we use words or...

Most people in the theatre are familiar with the term ham meaning an actor who overacts. They may also be used to the phrase "ham it ...

Anybody reading this probably knows what a person is. A person is any human - a man, a woman, a boy, a girl, somebody that identifies as n...

When something is amazing in the theatre, these days, people just tend to say it was amazing or give other similar adjectives. However, ba...

A greedy scene sounds like it means the scene is eating, or perhaps there is a lot of eating in the scene. However, a greedy scene actuall...

These days, people don't tend to attribute certain names to actors that they can't hear on the stage. There isn't a movement i...

If somebody says there's not a dry eye in the house, that tends to mean that everybody was crying. However, usually not every single p...

Get the show on the road means to get an activity started. This can be any activity. A parent may tell children to get the show on the ro...

If a person is known to chew the scenery, that doesn't mean that the person is like Cookie Monster, who will eat anything, and actually...

Bring the house down sounds like it means to literally find a house on top of a hill or a mountain and bring it down to the base. It also ...

When something is done behind the scenes, that means that it is done in secret from the public. Only a few people who are involved with th...

A curtain call is the time the cast of a show comes out after the curtain closes (if it does) and then reopens at the end of the show. It ...

Theatre in the round is a style of theatre where the audience surrounds the stage where the actors perform on three or four sides. The sta...

Many people associate the phrase footloose and fancy free with dancing. This is most likely because of the 1984 movie, Footloose . Someti...

In the theatre,a ghost light is not a luminescent plant or fungus. It is a light that is left on after everybody has left the theatre and i...

In theatre, many people will say "The Scottish Play" rather than saying "Macbeth." (Yes, this is the play Macbeth by ...