The word theater comes from the Greek and means "place to contemplate." It is an art that seeks to represent stories in front of an audience, combining acting, speech, gestures, scenery, music and sound. The literary genre that develops the works that will be represented on stage and even the discipline that seeks to train actors to perform in this or other dramatic arts such as film or television is often also called theater.
The theater has various forms, it can be opera, pantomime, ballet and many other variants.
In turn, the theater is usually made up of a diversity of elements that are necessary to its nature. For example, text based on first-person dialogues, although a work can also be represented through mimicry or dance, without the need for written text. Direction and acting are also fundamental in a work. Other accessory elements are the scenery, costumes and makeup.
In terms of acting, different methods can be counted, such as the famous Stanislavski Method or Method, whereby actors work together to develop their skills in an experimental setting. This method was continued by the Actor’s Studio run by Lee Strasberg. His best-known students include Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, and Dustin Hoffman.
There are different types of theater, for example, the Japanese kabuki theater, or the puppet theater, which are very different from the Elizabethan theater, and even the avant-garde theater. The theater of the absurd or improvisation theater, more common in the twentieth century, can also be counted.
Some of the most renowned playwrights or playwrights are William Shakespeare, Molière, Bertolt Brecht, and more recently, Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Among the most famous plays are Romeo and Juliet or, for example, Cats on Broadway. In turn, various literary works have been adapted to be dramatically interpreted.
