✚ How are theater, music, and circus related and different as performing arts? ✚ What are the prospects for analyzing their relationships with literature and the visual arts? ✚ What are musical and theatrical keys to literature? ✚ How has theatrical space evolved? ✚ What are the methods for analyzing stage productions? ✚ What role does the audience play in theater? ✚ What are the differences between a play, a concert, and a performance?