Dramatic arts

The dramatic arts (also known as theater, especially in North America) are those areas of the arts involving performance, especially of the spoken word. This is to be distinguished from theatre (a performance hall) as well as from the sense of drama meaning a genre of literature. Both are derived from the Greek "θέατρον" via the French "théâtre". The term "drama" comes from the Greek "δρᾶμα" (a deed or act; by extension an action (praxis) represented on a stage).