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18th century
Early form of modern theatre with exaggerated movement, special effects, and costumes

Facts
- Many of shakespeare's plays were preformed
- In earlier years, plays were allowed to be shown at only 2 theaters in London
- One of the special effects that they used to switch scenes was a scene painted on long cloth that was attached onto a track so when the actors moved across the stage, the scene moved with them

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1558 — 1648
England, Spain, Italy
Brand new awakening where art and theatre became popular

Facts
- They made a lot of pee and poop jokes
- Women were finally allowed on stage
- They use the same stage designs that we have today

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14th century
Japan & China
Traditional Japanese theatre with dance, music, and demon masks

Facts
- Noh and Kyogen are the oldest forms of Japanese theater
- All the puppet plays that they preform today are still in their original form
- Most plays of Noh was exorcism from demons

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16th century BC — 1046 BC
China
Important form of theatre with very specific movements and religious preformances

Facts
- A chair could be any prop you want
- There were specific masks for each different character
- it was a rule not to look at the people on stage wearing black because they were supposed to be invisible

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1885 — Now
America
Modern performances of broadway and off broadway shows with many different genres

Facts
- The Broadway show The Phantom of the Opera has the most performances of all time, 12,830 performances in total
- The Lion King made more than 1 billion dollars in theaters
- Broadway Street in New York City is the city's largest street

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1500s — 1650s
England
William Shakespeare's form of theatre with many famous tragedies and comedies

Facts
- Plays had to be preformed in daylight
- Women's parts were played by men
- Long speeches that were preformed gave actors a chance to change their outfits

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Sometime in after Roman Theatre and before Renaissance Theatre

Dark ages where preforming from carts was the only way of entertainment since theatre was “banned”

Facts
- Basically all the plays were based on the entire history of the bible
- They would have several carts preforming acts like a craft show
- They preformed right in the streets, there were no buildings

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1 AD — 1400 AD
South Asia
Traditional drama based of Sanskrit language and culture

Facts
- Most of the plays had monkey men invading monkey forces
- There were required nose movements for theatre
- Some plays had 10 acts

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364 BCE — 533 AD
Roman Empire
An interesting take on ancient theatre with theatre with a lot of death and confusing stories

Facts
- Almost all the music in Roman theatre was flute music
- Actors were punished or killed if they didn't do a good job
- A lot of the shows had no plot except for death and people with no clothes

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525 BCE — 385 BCE
Greece
One of the earliest forms of theatre where limited actors would preform tragedies and comedies about stories and greek gods

Facts
- Theatre was considered as medicine
- Standing in certain places on their stages, you could hear a coin drop from the back row