the word theater comes from the Greek word theatron, meaning "seeing place."

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These two masks have come to symbolize the theater and its

These two masks have come to symbolize the theater and its

two major dramatic categories, comedy and tragedy.

Theater, one of the oldest and most popular forms of entertainment, in which actors perform live for an audience on a stage or in an other space designated for the performance.

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D R A M A Scene from Marat/Sade This scene is

D R A M A

Scene from Marat/Sade

This scene is from the

Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1966 production of a play by Peter Weiss called The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade.
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T R A G E D Y Modern Production of Oedipus

T R A G E D Y

Modern Production of Oedipus Rex

The

National Theater of Greece staged this production of the ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles in 2000 at the Colosseum in Rome.
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C O M E D Y A Midsummer Night’s Dream Fairies

C O M E D Y

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Fairies emerge from

doorways in space, and Bottom’s bed hangs suspended before the moon in this 1998 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon.
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O P E R A La Traviata at La Scala Opera,

O P E R A

La Traviata at La Scala

Opera, drama in

which the text is set to music and staged. The texts of operas are sung, with singing and stage action nearly always given instrumental accompaniment.
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B A L L E T Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker

B A L L E T

Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker