Q.1
Which of the following did NOT happen in October?
The Rockefeller Foundation announced it would subsidize 20,000 11th graders from New York City schools to see “Hamilton” on Broadway for $10.
Theater composer Andrew Lloyd Webber pledged $150,000 for musical instruments in 20 NYC public middle schools
The Broadway League announced BwayZone.com, a new interactive website designed to attract children aged 8-13.
The New York City Department of Education committed to providing certified theater teachers for the 78 percent of New York City public schools that have none.
Q.2
Which of these plays that opened Off-Broadway in October is most appropriate for Halloween?
Barbecue
Empanada Loca
Kill Floor
Ugly Lies The Bone
Q.3
In which of the six shows that opened on Broadway in October do we see somebody rowing a boat in real water?
Dames at Sea
Fool for Love
The Gin Game
Old Times
Sylvia
Thérèse Raquin
Q.4
True or false. Kathleen Turner is both acting in and directing a play Off-Broadway about a woman in a lesbian relationship who undergoes sex reassignment surgery.
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True
False
Q.5
Which movie star did not make their Broadway debut in October?
Keira Knightley
Lupita Nyong'o
Clive Owen
Q.6
Which of the following Off-Broadway shows that opened in October did NOT announce a transfer to Broadway?
Eclipsed
First Daughter Suite
The Humans
Q.7
Eighty playwrights signed a letter to the theater editor of the New York Times asking him to include the names of the designers of a show in the newspaper’s reviews and listings.
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True
False
Q.8
Actor/playwright John Cariani will turn his nationally popular play Almost Maine into a young adult novel, it was announced in October. In which musical on Broadway is he currently performing in a starring role?
Aladdin
Hamilton
Something Rotten
Spring Awakening
Wicked
Q.9
The following shows that opened in October are revivals. Which is the oldest?
Cloud Nine
Dames at Sea
Fool for Love
The Gin Game
Old Times
Sylvia
Q.10
True or false. The understudy for the original, Off-Broadway production of Fool for Love was a young actor named Bruce Willis
True
False
Q.11
“I never write anything good that does not somehow make me blush.” Which playwright, the centennial of whose birth was celebrated in October, liked to say this?
Horton Foote
Lillian Hellman
Arthur Miller
Eugene O’Neill
Tennessee Williams