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Learning About the Stage and Auditions | Artopia

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Learning About the Stage and Auditions | Artopia
Learning About the Stage: The Green Room where actors wait to go onstage, or rest between scenes. Why is it called a Green Room? Apparently no one really knows, although there are several theories...
Sound Studio | Artopia

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Sound Studio | Artopia
In the theater, sound refers to sound effects and music, as well as the audibility of the actors. Adding music and sound effects, like lighting, can change the mood of a production. Sound can also...
Lighting Studio | Artopia

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Lighting Studio | Artopia
Theater lighting is an important aspect of the stage picture. The first thing theater lights do is to illuminate the stage and actors so they can be seen. Lighting can create the mood of a scen and...
Costume Shop: Fashion in Shakespeare's Time | Artopia

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Costume Shop: Fashion in Shakespeare's Time | Artopia
In Shakespeare's day fashion made a major statement. Wealthy people wore expensive, uncomfortable clothes because they demonstrated a person's prosperity and high social standing. To dress the actors...
Scene Shop: How To Build A Set | Artopia

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Scene Shop: How To Build A Set | Artopia
Scenery is a very important element to stage productions. The scenery or set helps create a time and a place. A set designer, carpenters and painters are needed to build sets. Before building a set...
Lighting Designer | Kids Work!

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Lighting Designer | Kids Work!
The Lighting Designer creates the stage lighting for the performance. Students will play the role of a lighting designer to understand that the lighting designer creates stage lighting for...
Playwright | Kids Work!

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Playwright | Kids Work!
A Playwright writes a play that is performed by actors on a stage. Students will understand the components that make up a script including characters, background, setting, acts, and scenes. This...
Lillian Hellman | Artopia

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Lillian Hellman | Artopia
Illustration by Maria Manhattan Lillian Hellman was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on June 20, 1905. She spent her early days moving back and forth between New Orleans and New York. She studied at New...
Anton Chekov | Artopia Theater: One Minute Art Lesson | Artopia

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Theater: One Minute Art Lesson | Artopia
Watch a brief animated history of theater. TRANSCRIPT Hey let’s put on a show! That’s theater, folks, and it’s like a human thing! Humans all over the world do plays and puppet shows and pantomimes...