3. THRUST
• The Complete Works of William
Shakespeare (abridged) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqmfrqAVeK0
• 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling
Bee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoGxLRhCJOI
7. BROADWAY
• “The Great White Way”
• 58 Theaters
• 500 seats or more
• Mainstream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qiKCKzgiMo
• Alternate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56TRT4dhQLM
• Non-Musical https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpepikAJsdc
8. OFF-BROADWAY
• 40-60 small professional theaters
• Into the Woods
• 1https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSTM2NCmP-g
• 2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ESBsXDIHVc
• Blue Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnGlsQUhqlg
9. OFF-OFF BROADWAY
• Fewer than 100 seats
• Any theater in NYC that is not Broadway
or Off-Broadway
• Wide range of production value
• De La Guarda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoupCi9e9yQ
10. REGIONAL THEATER & SUMMER STOCK
Marie Antoinette @steppenwolf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elBzWQs7YuI
The Tempest @Chicago Shakes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILKzklzLxLA
11. AMATEUR THEATER
• Dinner Theater
• Death of a Salesman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlTz6i4z6xU
• Educational Theater
• Midsummer Night’s Dream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnmMvcjWdGY
• Community Theater
• Miracle Worker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJtEzAW9WSw
Editor's Notes
Romeo & Juliet from 8:25 – 21:22 (13 minutes)
Flexible Space
Black Box
What do you think are the plusses and minues of each of these spaces? What do you get out of one that you don’t get out of another?
Staging difficulty (orienting to the audience):: matt schwader’s third person in the conversation theory
Your text says there are 44 theaters on broadway but there are 58 right now listed on Broadway.com
Mainstream: Oklahoma
Alternate: deaf west spring awakening
Non-Musical: the humans <3 Sarah Steele
Produced on lower budgets in smaller venues than broadway. In the past they have tended to be freer in style and more imaginative than those on broadway
Going the way of broadway in terms of taking fewer risks; needing to be more commercial
Right now broadway.com lists 66 different shows under “Off-Broadway” but some of them are the operas at the Met
Into the woods traditionally done with a full orchestra and a cast of over 20 (clip from the 2002 revival of the 1988 show) but done here with 11 people one of whom is accompanying the show on an upright piano
Theater mania right now lists 22 different TYPES of off-off-broadway shows including:benefit, cabaret, comedy, concerts, dance, drama, family, interactive, magic, mature, musicals, puppet, revue, and stand-up
A regional theater, or resident theater, in the US is a professional or semi-professional theater company that produces its own seasons outside of NYC.
Different from touring houses
Some of the best theater companies in the world are located 60 miles south of us