Will It Make a Theatre?

By  Eldon Elder

Guidance for

This documentation explains the usage of the Script Analysis Worksheet, a downloadable Excel file that helps you capture and organize all production elements as you work through your script. Instead of scattered notes and missed details, you'll have everything in one organized system—making your production meetings, design process, and technical rehearsals run more smoothly. The design is clean, simple, and flexible enough to work for any production.

The Script Analysis Worksheet is a downloadable Excel file that helps you capture and organize all production elements as you work through your script. Instead of scattered notes and missed details, you'll have everything in one organized system—making your production meetings, design process, and technical rehearsals run more smoothly.

Stage lighting is an art form. It’s used to illuminate a performance venue and make an impact on an event, giving visual direction and shaping the environment. From stage lighting setup to installation and types of systems, this article provides the foundations of stage lighting that are helpful for anyone in the live performance space.

This article explains the building blocks of lighting design, based on the script and the director's concept of the production. From these elements you can begin to create a plan that translates into effective stage lighting.

Before we start to look at how we use color on stage, we need to take some time and look at how color works/ This article does exactly that, explaining in detail how theatrical lighting works with color, and how this affects mood, character, and much more.

Once you know what lights you have available, you need to decide where to position them in the lighting rig. We refer to the positions that we hang lights in as the ‘lighting angles’ and there are five basic lighting angles that you are most likely to use in your show. The lighting angles refer to the light’s positions relative to the actor.

Costumes help define characters, set the tone, and transport audiences into the world of the play.  This article explores the importance of theatre costumes, key elements of costume design, and tips for creating costumes that support the needs of the play and the performers.
 

This template in MS Word is designed to list all cast and crew members of a production, including name, role/position, phone/text number, and email address.

A shift plot lists the stage management assignments and technical cues for a production. Stage managers and crew are assigned to tasks like operating flying pieces, moving set pieces between locations, and handling props and actors.

This template is in MS Word. A version is MS Excel is also available for download.