The theater experience

The audience : its role and imagination

Background and expectations of the audience

The critic and the audience

Acting : offstage in the past

Staging acting today

The director and the producer

The text : subject, purpose, and perspective

Tragedy and other serious drama

Comedy and tragicomedy

Musical theater

Theater of diversity

Conventions of dramatic structure

Dramatic structure : climactic, episodic, and other forms

Dramatic characters

Stage spaces

Scenery

Stage costumes

Lighting and sound

Epilogue: Integrating the elements and predicting the future

Appendix A: Technical terms

Appendix B: Major theatrical forms and movements

Appendix C: Historical outline.