| American | English |
| Bells, Chimes | Barbells (chimes that play in the lobby five minutes before show comes down to alert front of house staff) |
| Blackout curtain, full stage black | Full Black |
| Board, Console | Desk |
| Booth | Box |
| Building the set onstage | Fit Up |
| Call the half-hour at 30 minutes to curtain | Call the half-hour at 35 mins to curtain |
| Calls include Half, Fifteen, Five, Places | Calls include Half, Quarter, Five, Beginners |
| Consumables, Perishables | Comestibles |
| Cueing | Plotting |
| Curtain Warmers | Tab warmers (lights on the house curtain before it rises) |
| Flashlight | Torch |
| Gaff | Gaffa |
| Headsets, radios, walkie-talkies | Comms, Cans |
| House closed | Clearance (front of house gives to stage manager when lobby clear and ready to start show) |
| House Curtain | Tabs |
| Intermission | Interval |
| Load-In | Load-In (or simply In) |
| Masking Softgoods | Blacks |
| Monitors in dressing rooms | Show Relay |
| Monitors in dressing rooms, God mic | Tannoy (speaker system in dressing rooms used by stage manager to communicate backstage) |
| Opening Night | First Night |
| Paper Tech | Cue Synopsis |
| Performance Report | Show Report |
| Places | Beginners |
| Plaster Line | Setting Line |
| Preshow Checklist | Checks |
| Production Calendar | Provisional Schedule |
| Promptbook | Book, Prompt Copy |
| Props Checklist | Tick Check |
| Raised platform of any shape or size | Rostra |
| Reset | Reset (at end of show before next) |
| Reset (props, set, costumes, lighting, etc.) | Setting Back |
| Run Sheets | Running Plot |
| Scrim | Gauze |
| Special Thanks | Credits |
| Spikes | Marks |
| Stage Left / Right | Prompt Side / Off Prompt (P and OP, usually P is SR but this can vary) |
| Stage Manager's Podium (Down Stage Left) | Corner, Prompt Corner |
| Stage Right | Opposite Prompt |
| Strike | Get Out |
| Tapeout | Mark Out / Mark Up |
| Tech (Tech rehearsal) | Technical |
| Tech Week | Pre-Production W eek |
| To forget a line | To dry |
| Theatrical Housing | Digs |
| Traveler | Split Curtain |
| Turntable | Revolve |
| Wagon | Truck |
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