There is no denying the fact that theater is truly a link between all civilizations and comes in many forms: spiritual rituals, storytelling, hymns, odes, and plays. It was used during the many downfalls of civilizations as a means of communication and was truly shaped by the Greeks. The origins of theater can be traced back to the Greeks as a religious ritual aimed at their gods, their implementation of the technical aspects of theatre, through their performances and also through the actual stages they built. These aspects have proven to have a lasting effect even in today's society and without the Greek influence on theatre, theater as we know it, would cease to exist (Schanker and Ommanney 298). The origins of Greek drama began as a religious ritual to honor their gods, although the best known is the Greek god Dionysus, god of fertility, wine and revelry (Wilson and Goldfarb). There were two main rituals that took place twice a year in the city of Athens (Fiero 90) and were performed by the choir. The choir danced and sang songs, in the orcoast around an altar where a goat was sacrificed to commemorate the death of the gods. (Schanker and Ommanney 298). When the first actor, Thespis, stepped out of the chorus it proved to be a sea change within the theater and was known as the first actor, since then the term “thespian” has been given to every actor (Schanker and Ommanney 298). These rituals then evolved into dramatic competitions and became part of a festival that lasted five to six days. On each of the final three days, four plays were presented, each by a different playwright (Schanker and Ommanney 298). It has been documented that in 534 BCE Thespis was not only the first playwright and actor... at the center of the paper... of humans themselves. Human desires such as desires, needs, imagination, desire to question, understand and analyze others and oneself. Although many levels of entertainment emerged and transformed after the advent of the Greeks, all forms of entertainment present in modern society can be traced back to Greek theater. As Walter Benjamine stated “memory is not a tool for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, just as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie buried.” The contributions made by the Greeks through the origins of drama, to their plays, to the technical aspects of theater and to the actual construction of the stage have proven to leave a lasting effect on civilizations around the world and remain evident in modern entertainment since singing to dancing, from YouTube to television, from cinema to real theatre.