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In Greek Theatre, it began early on starting with the beginning tragedy being stated as Aeschylus Persai in 472 BC. In 625 BC, the performer Arion of Corinth, started the Dithyrambic Chorus which was where a chorus of men sung to honor Dionysus.

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In Roman Theatre, it often began as translations of Greek forms often being official forms or stories. When Rome was alive and thrilling there was 175 festivals a year, but 101 days of these festivals were dedicated to Theatre.

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Chinese Theatre ( 1046 BC to 19th Century ) 

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Chinese Theatre ( 1046 BC to 19th Century ) 

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Chinese Theatre often consisted of poems, songs, and dance as they were based on oral story tradition along with Buddhists stories. In the AD time period they were already writing their own play scripts, and during the Ming period ( 1368 to 1644 ) the theatre was split into three categories with the audience: imperial court, social elite, and the general public.

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Japanese Theatre ( 710 BC to 14th Century ) 

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Japanese Theatre ( 710 BC to 14th Century ) 

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Japanese Theatre has five major types Noh, Kyōgen, Kabuki, Bunraku and Yose. Often it’s based on Kabuki Kyōgen ( play ) or Kabuki Buyou ( dance play ) and one of the first forms was Kabuki Odon which was preformed specifically by women. Lately now all Kabuki actors are men, while both men and women were allowed to preform mostly Kyōgen until 1430.

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In Sanskrit Theatre, actor means ( nata ) and play means ( nataka ). This type of theatre is almost five millenniums old, and they share a yaksgana which is a popular all-night dance.

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 Middle Ages Theatre ( 0500 AD to 1642 AD ) 

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 Middle Ages Theatre ( 0500 AD to 1642 AD ) 

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During this period, often church had a big part of making productions happen of religious stories, etc. Popular genres began to pop up such as morality plays, farces and masques. The church didn’t allow for traveling actors to preform but traveling actors and kind of the church kept it alive.

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During this period, theatre’s were often built to be three stories tall and they were always exquisite. The first theatre, ‘Red Lion’, yet it failed in 1567. Often the actors costumes where bright with color and expensive.

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In Elizabethan Theatre, the crowds reached up to 3000 people during this period. James Burbage, built the first theatre standing in 1576. Then Puritans had ordered all theatre’s to be pulled down in 1648.

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North American Theatre ( 1700 to 1850 ) 

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North American Theatre ( 1700 to 1850 ) 

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This theatre era had arrived in North America with Lewis Hallam’s English Troupe during 1752. After this theatre’s had gotten built all around the country especially in Charleston, Boston and New York. Yet live theatre died out in North America in the 1920s but happened to be revived.

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During this theatre period, early on Broadway was called the, ‘Great White Way.’ As we look at the long list of Broadway shows, Phantom of the Opera, is the longest in running. Recently it was figured out though that 66% of Broadway is female running and in our time that is simply just revolutionary.