Theatrical Forms and Sites

• Actors Equity Association
• agitprop
• amphitheater
• arena theater
• auditorium
• avant-garde
• ballet
• benefit
• big time
• black comedy
• borscht belt
• Broadway
• bunraku
• burlesque
• cabaret
• chronicle play
• circus
• classical theater
• closet drama
• comedy
• comedy of manners
• commedia dell' arte
• community theater
• dinner theater
• drama
• experimental theater
• farce
• floor show
• fringe theater
• Globe Theatre
• Grand Guignol
• Great White Way
• guerrilla theater
• happening
• high comedy
• improv
• improvisation
• Kabuki
• legitimate stage
• little theater
• low comedy
• masque
• melodrama
• minstrel show
• miracle play
• morality play
• music hall
• musical
• musical comedy
• mystery play
• national theater
• neighborhood playhouse
• No
• odeum
• off Broadway
• off off Broadway
• olio
• one-acter
• open-air theater
• opera
• operetta
• pageant
• pantomime
• passion play
• performance art
• performance space
• play
• playhouse
• playlet
• puppet theater
• repertory company
• revue
• road show
• send-up
• shadow play
• showboat
• showcase
• sketch
• skit
• slapstick
• stand-up
• strawhat
• street theater
• summer stock
• theater
• theater of cruelty
• theater of fact
• theater of the absurd
• theater-in-the-round
• tragedy
• tragicomedy
• variety show
• vaudeville
• Yiddish theater