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    Theatre is a form of art, but instead of painting or taking a photograph, the actors tell a story through live performances. The theatre is a place for seeing, watching, and hearing. It taps into the audience's emotions, helping them experience what an art can do. Art is used for emotional power and pure beauty. It can also teach the audience and actors, about different cultures and ways of life. Art comes in many forms, painting, photography, music, but bringing all of the forms together is theatre

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    performing them is even more fun. Theatre helps with brain development and learning new things. Plays and musicals are fun to watch , plus performing them and learning, blocking, and memorizing lines can be fun as well. Even if you don't want to perform but learn all about theatre, taking theatre classes can be very helpful and enjoyable. Theatre activities help student involvement, watching, learning, and performing theatre is very fun and enjoyable for all. Musicals and theatre involvement can help student

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    Sophocles This is the role that sophocles played in shaping what is theatre today; what made him such a good playwright? Was it his Views on Religion? Did he differentiate himself on his opinion of women in his plays that of other playwrights of his time? Is he originally creative or just imitating other playwrights of his days? In this paper you will find the answers to all these questions and see the impact he has on today's theatre. Sophocles regarded the popular mythology/religion of that time as

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    Musical Theatre- a Powerful Experience “Ninety percent of people feel stage fright when they face the prospects of a public performance” (Sharma). This statistic reveals that many people suffer from being unable to speak or perform publicly. Being a part of musical theater can help overcome those fears, and give individuals the ability to have less anxiety. In order to fully appreciate the benefits of musical theater, an individual must first know what makes this genre special, how participants can

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    2b Theatre Company strives to create theatre that is “vital, innovative, and challenging” (Barry, Black), while investigating the meaning of what it is “to be.” They use their own experiences, influenced by the “urban intellectual style” (Barry, Black), of Halifax, Nova Scotia to explore the phenomena of various shared aspects of the human experience and allow that to reflect into their work. They also “believe that at the core of the theatrical event is a unique and particular interaction between

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    In the 19th and 20th century, realism in theatre was a common occurrence. Realism is presenting a person, thing, or event in its true colors (“Realism”). Even throughout the Great Depression, Broadway and theaters managed to stay afloat. Its popularity began to surge, and there were 200 to 275 new shows coming out per year (Early 20th Century Theatre). Most of these shows were strictly for entertainment. Themes were often romantic, about happy endings and true love. However, some productions began

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    The National Comedy Theatre is a modern thrust theatre. The theater is located at 347 West 36th St in NYC. As you walk into the theatre, you can see a small bar on the left side. On the right, there is a box office for picking up the tickets. As you walk deeper in the middle you can see the entrance of the theatre. There are total 115 seats in this theatre. The seat is divided into three sections, each section has a different number of seats. The seat section that is close to the entrance has 66

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    Christian theology and theatre have never intersected for me. I’ve always kept each role separate in its own category. I felt each role was different enough that they would never cross over into each other’s world. Or maybe, they have crossed over and I just did not realize the connection. I never thought that the roles had any similarities. After taking this class, I’ve learned differently. According to Johnson & Savidge, there is a “symbiotic connection between theatre and Christianity; they

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    Spring Shorts is a collection of short plays by John Cariani, Craig Pospisil, Don Nigro, Paul Dooley, and Winnie Holzman and was directed by Shezwae Powell. The production took place at Mt. San Jacinto College’s lab theatre at the Menifee Valley Campus which provided a black box space and the props were good at changing the setting of the play from a living room, outside on a ledge, at the Super Center, in an apartment, in the kitchen, and more! The design aspects of scenery, costume, lighting, and

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    mine has been theatre. When I was younger I participated in multiple shows at my church, and I started getting serious about acting when I was given roles in plays done at my middle school. When high school came around, I was ecstatic to continue my acting career. My freshman and sophomore years I was accepted into the advanced, audition-only theatre class at school, and even though for those two years I was not cast in any main stage shows, I was still optimistic. Nevertheless, theatre class my sophomore

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