Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Dramatic structure serves as the backbone of storytelling, shaping ...

When you watch a lot of film and television, you begin to sense a pattern. In the beginning, you meet characters. In the middle, you see them struggle. At the end, you watch as they succeed or fail.

The five-act structure is a plot formula that divides a story into five sections: the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. From these classical explorations comes our ...