film, smoker, skin flick, X-rated film.
     act, scene, tableau; induction, introduction; prologue, epilogue;
libretto.
     performance, representation, mise en scene[French], stagery[obs3], jeu
de theatre[French]; acting; gesture &c. 550; impersonation &c. 554; stage business, gag, buffoonery.
     light comedy, genteel comedy, low comedy.
     theater; playhouse, opera house; house; music hall; amphitheater,
circus, hippodrome, theater in the round; puppet show, fantoccini[obs3]; marionettes, Punch and Judy.
     auditory, auditorium, front of the house, stalls, boxes, pit, gallery,
parquet; greenroom, coulisses[Fr].
     flat; drop, drop scene; wing, screen, side scene; transformation
scene, curtain, act drop; proscenium.
     stage, scene, scenery, the boards; trap, mezzanine floor; flies;
floats, footlights; offstage; orchestra.
     theatrical costume, theatrical properties.
     movie studio, back lot, on location.
     part, role, character, dramatis personae[Lat]; repertoire.
     actor, thespian, player; method actor; stage player, strolling player;
stager, performer; mime, mimer[obs3]; artists; comedian, tragedian; tragedienne, Roscius; star, movie star, star of stage and screen, superstar, idol, sex symbol; supporting actor, supporting cast; ham, hamfatter [obs3]; masker[obs3]. pantomimist, clown harlequin, buffo[obs3], buffoon, farceur, grimacer, pantaloon, columbine; punchinello[obs3]; pulcinello[obs3], pulcinella[obs3]; extra, bit-player, walk-on role, cameo appearance; mute, figurante[obs3], general utility; super, supernumerary.
     company; first tragedian, prima donna[Sp], protagonist; jeune
premier[French]; debutant, debutante[French]; light comedian, genteel comedian, low comedian; walking gentleman, amoroso[obs3], heavy father, ingenue[French], jeune veuve[French].
     mummer, guiser[obs3], guisard[obs3], gysart |, masque.
     mountebank, Jack Pudding; tumbler, posture master, acrobat;
contortionist; ballet dancer, ballet girl; chorus singer; coryphee danseuse[Fr].
     property man, costumier, machinist; prompter, call boy; manager;
director, stage manager, acting manager.
     producer, entrepreneur, impresario; backer, investor, angel[fig].
     dramatic author, dramatic writer; play writer, playwright; dramatist,
mimographer[obs3]. 
     V. act, play, perform; put on the stage; personate &c. 554; mimic &c.
(imitate) 19; enact; play a part, act a part, go through a part, perform a part; rehearse, spout, gag, rant; “strut and fret one’s hour upon a stage”; tread the boards, tread the stage; come out; star it. 
     Adj. dramatic; theatric, theatrical; scenic, histrionic, comic,
tragic, buskined[obs3], farcical, tragicomic, melodramatic, operatic; stagy. 
     Adv. on the stage, on the boards; on film; before the floats, before
an audience; behind the scenes. 
     Phr. fere totus mundus exercet histrionem [Lat][Petronius Arbiter];
“suit the action to the word, the word to the action” [Hamlet]; “the play’s the thing” [Hamlet]; “to wake the soul by tender strokes of art” [Pope].