- Funding for the NEA has increased by one-third in recent years.
Your answer:
True
False
- Cuts in government funding of not-for-profit theatres has led to
Your answer:
a) fewer new plays
b) fewer large cast shows
c) fewer musicals
d) less scenery
e) all of the above
- Which theater featured African American performers in the 19th Century?
Your answer:
The African Grove Theater
The Detroit Playhouse
The Provincetown Players
The Moscow Art Theater
- Which government funded initiative during the Depression significantly changed black theater in the 1930s?
Your answer:
the National Endowment for the Arts
the Federal Theater Project
the Humanities Council
the Public Works Project
- Which play is the most important post-WWII era production in relation to the African American experience?
Your answer:
Native Son by Richard Wright
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Fences by August Wilson
Othello by William Shakespeare
- Which African American playwright won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for drama?
Your answer:
Charles Fuller
Suzan-Lori Parks
August Wilson
Amiri Baraka
- The first Asian American theatre company was founded in
Your answer:
San Francisco
Seattle
New York
Honolulu
Los Angeles
- Which modern musical sparked the portest of Asian American theater artists over its casting practices?
Your answer:
The King and I
Miss Saigon
Song for a Nisei Fisherman
M. Butterfly
- Which theater company was first associated with Chicano theater and the civil rights movements of the 1960s?
Your answer:
Federal Theater Project
The Travelling Theater
El Teatro Campesino
Teatro de la Esperanza
- Nuyorican is a term connected to
Your answer:
Cuban American culture in Florida
Hispanic culture in the Southwest
Puerto Rican culture in New York
Latin American culture in the Midwest
- Native American theatre
Your answer:
a) had a long tradition
b) was encouraged by the government in the nineteenth century
c) is primarily historical and ceremonial today
d) none of the above
- Who of the following is NOT an early female playwright writing before the 20th century?
Your answer:
Aphra Behn
Hrostwitha
Beth Henley
Susanna Centlivre
- There are more Feminist theatre companies today than ever before.
Your answer:
True
False
- In 1968 which play brought gay life to the attention of mainstream audiences?
Your answer:
The Boys in the Band by Mart Crowley
The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer
Angels in American by Tony Kushner
Torch Song Trilogy by Harvey Fierstein
- Today, performance art is typically written and performed by an individual artist.
Your answer:
True
False