Trivia questions with answers about plays and on stage trivia

Was Macbeth a real person?
A: Yes.

A US singer / dancer of the 1930s with the real first name of Ethel, she appeared in musicals such as Dames and 42nd Street. Who was she?
A: Ruby Keeler.

Who wrote and starred in Hay Fever, Private Lives, and Blithe Spirit?
A: Noel Coward.

Which dramatist's works include Arms and the Man, Man and Superman and St. Joan?
A: George Bernard Shaw.

Which contemporary playwright acted in the films The Right Stuff and Steel Magnolias?
A: Sam Shepard.

Which monarch protected Moliere from attacks caused by his satires?
A: Louis XIV.

The brother of which British prime minister wrote Lloyd George Knew My Father and The Chiltern Hundreds?
A: Alec Douglas-Home.

Which English actress, formerly a child performer in her parent's music-hall act, starred in films 10 and Victor / Victoria?
A: Julie Andrews.

Who made the film The Life of Brian?
A: Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Of which art is Marcel Marceau a leading exponent?
A: Mime.

Where was William Shakespeare born?
A: Stratford-upon-Avon.

Which playwright and poet wrote Peer Gynt and Ghosts while in exile form his native Norway?
A: Ibsen.

Name the 17th century octagonal theater recently reconstructed in Southwark?
A: The Globe.

Around the altar of which god were the earliest Greek dramas performed?
A: Dionysus.

In which country was the British playwright Tom Stoppard born?
A: Czechoslovakia.

Which playwright said in a 1960 revue 'Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key'?
A: Alan Bennett.

In which country are No and Kabuki traditional types of drama?
A: Japan.

In the Shakespeare play Twelfth Night, what is the name of Olivia's hard-drinking uncle?
A: Sir Toby Belch.

Which great actor was the first director of Britain's National Theatre company?
A: Laurence Olivier.

Which playwright's first successful novel, The Good Companions, was about a travelling theater company?
A: J B Priestley.

Which Oscar-winning actor starred in the 1984 Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman?
A: Dustin Hoffman.

In which of Aristophanes' plays do the women of Athens refuse to make love to their husbands until a war is over?
A: Lysistrata.

Which humorist wrote 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty?
A: James Thurber.

The first national theatre was founded in Paris by Louis XIV in 1680. What is its name?
A: The Comedie Francaise.

Where in Germany was the Wagner theatre established in 1876?
A: Bayreuth.

Which English ballet dancer was born Margaret Hookham in 1919?
A: Margot Fonteyn.

Whose shows included Gay's the Word and Glamorous Night?
A: Ivor Novello.

Which English actor shared the management of the Old Vic with Laurence Olivier form 1944 to 1950?
A: Ralph Richardson.

Who wrote the poetic drama Murder in the Cathedral?
A: T S Eliot.

In which type of play is St. George a major character?
A: Mummers' play.

Which play of marital strife by Edward Albee was filmed with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton?
A: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Which show contains the song 'Ol' Man River?
A: Showboat.

Which Caryl Churchill play of 1987 satirized London's brash young financial brokers?
A: Serious Money.