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Creating Performing Arts

Actors are performing artists, but their art may be viewed on screen, while their audi- ences sit in a movie theater—or their home living rooms.

and off-Broadway productions of plays. They act in the movies. They act on TV shows. Actors who are also talented singers act in musical theater shows, singing some of their scenes instead of speaking them. Music is another broad category of performing arts. You might think mostly of symphony orchestras or operas when you think of art and