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theater vs theatre

theater

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noun

  1. a region in which active military operations are in progress
  2. a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented
  3. the art of writing and producing plays

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The play attracted a great deal of interest: the leading members of the State Yiddish Theater in Moscow (known by the acronym GOSET) came to see it, and the work was the first of several plays to tour other performance halls throughout the Moldavian Republic, including Tiraspol and Chernovtsy.

My constant fear is that we're going to run out of writers in Chicago, " said Mr. Griffith, 27, who in his spare time is a theater critic for The Chicago Reader, an alternative paper.

Saw her awhile back at the Community Theater, as a matter of fact.

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theatre

Definitions

noun

  1. a region in which active military operations are in progress
  2. a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented
  3. the art of writing and producing plays

Examples

I walked out of the theatre feeling a little odd, as I often do when I have been deeply immersed in a film.

He moved to Paris in 1767, and after a couple of years had become so popular that he received regular commissions to write two or three operas a year for various theatres.

The cup-marked stone shown below, in the Sma’ Glen, near Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland, is situated in a large man-made concave-shaped amphitheatre in the hills, and has a prominent dumb-bell shaped cup-mark on its surface.

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