How To Use Theatre In A Sentence

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.
The brothers then went on tour, filling theatres with ghostly music, flying coats and spirit voices.
There may be a chill in the air this winter, but if you're in the vicinity of the Royal Theatre in Castlebar chances are it will come from the Ice Ballet.

The dangers for girls were especially acute: “It is estimated that two-thirds of the girls who appear before the Court charged with immorality owe their misfortune to influences derived directly from the movies, either from the pictures themselves or in the ‘picking up’ of male acquaintances at the theatre!” A Renegade History of the United States
But Frye's dreams of systematizing and co-ordinating a literary universe also rose to meet counterparts in Frances Yates's 1967 account of the zodiacs and theatres of the encyclopaedic memory systems of Bruno and Camillo.
For two days it had been snowing, great flakes so plume-like that they seemed almost artificial, making one think of the blizzards which originate high in theatre-flies under the sovereignty of a stage-hand who sweats at his task of controlling the elements. Then I'll Come Back to You
He perceived they were entering the great theatre of his first appearance, the great theatre he had last seen as a chequer-work of glare and blackness in his flight from the red police. When the Sleeper Wakes
His closest friends had no time for biblical Christianity, his church attendance lapsed, and his work became increasingly secular, including writing for the theatre.
The Christian conspectus or theatre in the old sense has a happy ending, whether the protagonist triumphs or is damned, because God's justice has been done.
The whole front of the theatre, a curtain of matting, is rolled up at intervals and, when the feat in progress is at its most thrilling climax, is let fall. In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
At the bottom were the Théâtre de la Gaieté for pantomimes and harlequinades, the Porte-Saint-Martin Theatre for melodramas, and the Théâtre des Variétés for ‘little plays of the bawdy, vulgar or rustic genres'.
Eminent theatre personalities Zohra Segal and Ebrahim Alkazi and noted 'mridangam' Carnatic artist Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman are the other three chosen for Padma Vibhushan award by the government which, in all, named 130 people, including 13 in the category of foreigners, NRIs and PIOs. 43 are Padma Bhushan and 83 are Padma Shri. The Times of India
She had to leave school aged 16 and worked in a tax office and as an assistant stage manager for a theatre group. Times, Sunday Times
Surprisingly, Albee points to the new-play development programs found in theatres across North America (involving dramaturges, readings, workshops) as a source of the blandness of so much of the drama of the past 20 years.
There may also have been some influence from painted scenery used in the theatre.
A halfway house between the theatre and cinema is possible. Olivier created one in his imaginative "Henry V" in 1945.
It's not just the flummery - the full-bottomed wigs, men walking backwards and so on - but the way this exercise in constitutional theatre is playing to the wrong audience.
AS THE chug of a train rumbles overhead, Andy Arnold takes a seat amid the lunchtime bustle of the Arches theatre bar in Glasgow's city centre.
Since then theatre and cinema owners claim that attendances have declined sharply. Times, Sunday Times
As Toronto theatre critics dispense increasingly disparate opinions, some shows are savaged in one rag and lionized in another.
I could hardly hear myself speak above all the hubbub in the theatre bar.
Six theatre companies have been selected to take part in this year's festival.
The director creatively allows the audience to look beyond the confines of the theatre space.
His flair and showmanship won new audiences and gained the theatre great prestige.
Yet several works were commissioned for smart urban dance, music-theatre and performance-art events; five of the 22 tracks are clever transcriptions of Shostakovich piano pieces.
Presiding over the amphitheatre was a beast-headed god, his head half turned away. Henry’s Demons
She specialises in conveyancing, probate, wills and matrimonial work, and in her spare time enjoys skiing, sailing, riding, theatre and eating out.
In the darkened theatre, I asked myself what became of her, but I found her in the seat behind me, gin-soaked and belching while she dozed.
It creates a startling atmosphere of intensity and highly unusual inwardness - sometimes disturbing - and makes it utterly distinct from anything in Western dance and theatre.
Matcham's theatres were widely disparaged by architects.
Nicholas Hytner is booked up years ahead on both opera and theatre.
Years later, when I was in high school, I would borrow the old family Chevrolet and take my girlfriend to the drive-in theatre.
It does take some readjustment, however, to accept that a national theatre has any business putting non-professionals on a stage.
I was overwhelmed by a feeling of helplessness as I watched her being wheeled into the operating theatre.
Many Roman traditions and institutions also disappeared or simply became redundant in the process, not least the arenas and amphitheatres for the circuses and games once supported by the state and municipal authorities.
He has also designed extensively for theatre, opera, Broadway musicals, and film.
But witnesses said a section of the theatre then collapsed, crashing on to people below. The Sun
Three million people will visit theatres in the annual six-week season.
John Power, Antonio Forcione and Jason Lockett complete the bill in the Globe Theatre.
As always, theatre acquires an extra resonance when it deals with the real world.
Several small actions took place - street theatre, guerrilla gardening, sitdowns.
Beer followed pizza and we looked round the Roman amphitheatre which had been built by Roman legionnaires 1,800 years before.
I have a vague sense that dramaturgs may be a partial answer to the director capture problem, but I don't know enough about theatre to say.
Such an institution might boast not only the healthcare equivalent of hot-desking (which, to some extent, already happens) but also, for instance, operating theatres without walls.
The opening scene is an interview - about the wretchedness of conditions in the theatre, poking fun at the cumbersome bureaucracy which soils it.
This is one of the few amphitheatres that was used for both Roman political rallying and brutal gladiatorial sports – but tonight it is to host a dance competition.
Was she trying to wriggle free of boutique theatre? Times, Sunday Times
The rain was falling heavily when the theatres let out, and the brilliant throng which poured from the places of amusement was hard put to find cabs. CARRYING THE BANNER
They formed a union and hired themselves out to theatres much the way longshoremen are sent out to different ports.
Wave on wave of the audience entered into the theatre.
Professor Pearson gave the inaugural lecture in the new lecture theatre.
Comedy and theatre designs are shaped by a happy combination of intellect and emotion. Times, Sunday Times
More than 100 people packed a lecture theatre at the Steam Museum to hear the MPs underline their commitment to the war and listen to the views of their constituents.
This was a right old mishmash of high art and low culture, sport and theatre.
Well, Stanley Donwood's artwork reminds me of the playbills from Victorian music halls or a rickety theatre troupe travelling across the land.
Its brief run here features a string of celebrity couples donating their talents to raise money for the Sacramento Theatre Company.
It also gave him a valuable insight into the world of theatre and inspired him to develop his childhood talents.
Designed by the eminent architect C. J. Phipps, the Royal has enjoyed a history of live theatre since 1884.
The theatre company will kick off the season with a production of The Playboy of the Western World.
Our experience of Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter, directed by Landon Johnson for Vespertine Productions at The Flight Theatre at The Complex Theatres, is not so much that of a fly on a wall; a fly's buzz would unbalance Johnson's tersely orchestrated suspense tale of two hit men in a Birmingham basement. James Scarborough: Hollywood Fringe: The Dumb Waiter, Vespertine Productions & Girl Band in the Men's Room, Dirty Blonde Productions
The enthusiasts' tactics include presenting science as theatre, magic tricks and fantasy.
Spectators standing in the pit or seated on hard benches in the gallery are visible in the daylight and there is a constant feeling of motion that animates the geometries of the theatre's space.
If you're a fan of the theatre, don't mind luvvies being luvvies and enjoy an elongated version of a Sunday night period melodrama, with an abundance of tomfoolery, then this should tickle your fancy.
Scores of wannabees thronged to the auditions for the York Theatre Royal pantomime, Babes In The Wood.
The Prince of Wales shivered in the chill of an unheated theatre yesterday as he launched a campaign to help one million children to become involved in the arts over the next five years.
Dramatics seem to have been part of a student's life early in the history of the University, surprisingly, because attendance at the theatre was forbidden.
Today retirees are increasingly leaving the shires and suburbs for the inner city, to be closer to theatres and restaurants. Times, Sunday Times
London has suddenly gained a new concert hall and two theatres. Times, Sunday Times
However a theatre director who was once worked for the Wharf Theatre in Devizes, which is a member of Sir Ian's Little Theatre Guild, was jailed in 2008 for having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
I had considered an earlier return to blogging during the Edinburgh Fringe when I went to my usual unplanned and eclectic mix of dance, exhibitions, theatre and the uncategorisable. Archive 2008-08-01
For all its gingerbready charm, the American Airlines Theatre unlike London's 482-seat Duchess Theatre, where Ms. Aitken directed "Man and Boy" six years ago simply doesn't lend itself to the kind of concentrated intimacy needed to do justice to a small-cast, single-set play. Fraud in the Family
Seated in the theatre's lower gallery, I found myself distracted, not for the first time, by the endless gropings of the groundlings.
Tonight is your last chance to catch the play at your local theatre.
Unusual theatre from around the world including workshops on puppetry and storytelling with the body. Times, Sunday Times
The play aspires to the weight and import that American theatre had in the glory days of Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and Tennessee Williams.
An independent school without its own orchestra, theatre and art studio would be out of business. Times, Sunday Times
For understandable reasons we prefer to think of ourselves as rational agents who live meaningful lives rather than as muddled actors in a theatre of the absurd.
In fact, I have been extremely encouraged by the high level of support for the theatre that your article has generated.
Contemporary dance artists Forecast will be performing their new show Ready at Lancaster University's Nuffield Theatre on Tuesday.
It was a risk for Invisible Theatre to choose a work whose success depends on the skill of teenaged actors.
A good museum in the castle is stuffed with antiquities, while a Roman amphitheatre overlooks all.
Theatres were closed during the Commonwealth.
Public dissections were popular in the 16th century, with anatomical theatres open to audiences all over Europe.
The tractor landed me at the construction site of the new city theatre.
But Charles Beatty was one of those people who compartmentalized the arts in their lives and left them behind at the theatre door. AN OLDER WOMAN
Expensive costumes were a vital part of the visual appeal of theatre, and characters of high social rank were represented by appropriately luxurious clothing.
Yet in today's multimedia world, satire has entered the mainstream via theatre, television, music, newspaper cartoons, radio, and the internet.
Being one of theatreland's most respected commentators has its advantages.
The profit motive makes theatre become pedestrian. Times, Sunday Times
Strauss devised his music for Enoch Arden to strengthen his Munich position with Ernst von Possart, intendant of the Court Theatre.
This time all three of the spaces at the Theatre Royal - the auditorium, the studio and the foyer - will be pressed into action.
Anacreon", written during this time, had to be performed in the small Theatre de la Foire Saint-Germain (where he directed the performances from 1789-1792) because the grand opera house was closed to him. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
By night, check out the shows in the open-air theatre or take to the beach for fireworks and live music. The Sun
During a guest performance in Sassari, Fo is arrested for having blocked access to the theatre for policemen seeking to stop the performance. Dario Fo - Biography
Luckily for Berwick, washing the cast's nether garments is about the only job he doesn't take on in the annual Theatre Royal panto, in which he is the star, writer and co-director.
The intimacy of the theatre-in-the-round contributes to the evening's startling intensity. Times, Sunday Times
I always keep that in mind, even when going to the theatre for a performance.
Cookery demonstrations and street theatre will add to the entertainment. Times, Sunday Times
I wanted to be an actress but the furthest I ever got was selling ice-creams in a theatre.
A brilliantly staged, choreographed and performed piece of theatre. Times, Sunday Times
Thomas Kellaway felt very small and timid as he passed between the tall columns outside the amphitheatre. Burning Bright
They had a skeleton theatre staff for emergencies and there was no spare theatre space. Times, Sunday Times
As a reward, they let him buy them an early meal at the theatre's café before they returned to the balcony to watch the show.
Cinema, which borrows heavily from theatre in terms of choreography, has a few distinct features of its own that can be exploited.
The city cleverly combines cultural attractions such as museums, galleries, theatres and opera houses - with a very strong fun-loving steak.
Her behaviour was always the same on the ward rounds, in clinics, and in theatre.
He subsequently taught in an inner-city comprehensive school in London, England, before returning to Canada after a year to serve as dramaturge, then associate director and finally artistic director at Toronto Free Theatre. Issue 0.034
Work is due to start in April on the three-storey school, which will include a lecture theatre, IT rooms, restaurants and sports facilities.
I'll meet you at the entrance to the theatre.
The roof of the theatre was boldly defined against the sky.
The house was near Drury Lane, very handy for the theatre.
Besides being a movie theatre, this place presented vaudeville shows. THREE IN ONE
With much less stage time than her co-stars, she considers the play to be her perfect introduction to theatre.
The run has been extended in London after a sell-out tour of eight provincial theatres. Times, Sunday Times
It goes without saying that theatre can be a bit rough and ready, and lord knows our William seems to want to bawdily go where no one has gone before.
We managed to grab a bite at the theatre before the show started.
These relatively conventional works were succeeded by a period of experiment in musical theatre, to which such works as Britten's church parables are a noteworthy contribution.
The praises of the toy theatre have been a common theme for essayists, the planning of the scenes, the painting and cutting out of the caste, penny plain twopence coloured, the stink and glory of the performance and the final conflagration. Archive 2010-04-01
In thirteen weeks the builders demolished the old gallery and amphitheatre, and constructed a new large amphitheatre with 600 seats instead of benches. A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
This is a favourite haunt of buskers and artists, hanging out amid the theatres and restaurants in a manner reminiscent of Paris.
Behind the house is a border like a theatre set, its foreground dashed with red, yellow and blue of flowering bushes against a backdrop of a hundred greens.
It will be modelled on the Elizabethan galleried theatres in the shape of a horseshoe, with a projecting stage.
Fortunately, it is being mounted in one of Broadway's most intimate and well-proportioned spaces, the 804-seat John Golden Theatre. A Perfect Night on Broadway
Local taxes and surcharges on luxuries like theatre tickets were also reintroduced as a means of subsidizing hospitals.
In this, the national theatre's centenary year, this new production of the Abbey's signature play does not suffer in comparison with Garry Hynes's Druid staging last February.
They appeared even less interested in ecology than I was, going through the motions in their wellingtons and anoraks, as if they were stood in a draughty lecture theatre rather than in one of the most beautiful places on the planet.
The new theatre company director is a person of great artistic vision.
Live theatre, games, dancing, arts and crafts and archery, bring to life the Middle Ages.
The play takes the audience back to 1898 through presentations of wild west acts, musical extravaganzas, ridiculous comedy, a touch of burlesque and boxing - all of which actually took place in the Palace Grand Theatre.
Visit Aberdeen, with sights such as the Maritime Museum, the Lemon Tree, His Majesty's Theatre and great shops.
She described the theatre's closure as "a straw in the wind" as companies faced up to the realities of life after the lottery.
A female usher was seen at the bottom of the theatre talking on a two-way radio.
Having proved that she is more than capable of working in an operational theatre, HMS Echo is now beginning to demonstrate her true capabilities and value to the Fleet.
The new play at the National Theatre's a wow.
More than two million of these were Americans bound for the European theatre of war.
The actor was recently seen at the Minerva Theatre in Chichester playing William Shakespeare in the Edward Bond play Bingo. Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » Patrick Stewart Knighted By Queen Elizabeth II
The theatre visits schools to tap young talent.
It's great theatre: it's irreverent, rude to the establishment and is prepared to take chances.
Going to the theatre is one of my favourite hobbies. The Sun
Dissident theatre which relied solely on its political dissidence quickly became redundant, and many theatres collapsed. Times, Sunday Times
Lively conversation and anecdotes will abound as the duo discuss the art of writing for theatre.
Regular updates on movies screened at the theatres and film news will be e-mailed to the web site's of registered users.
Members of the newly-formed Actors' Community Theatre will perform their revue, The Opening Act, from Thursday to Saturday.
You miss the honesty and imaginative leaps when you return to adult theatre. Times, Sunday Times
It sits in a natural amphitheatre in a dip in the surrounding fells. The Sun
Veteran usher, Neil, has worked at the same theatre for seven years.
I had to turn down a job offer from a theatre because the pay was too low.
Telling Verus' story takes viewers into his world, showing how gladiators really fought and trained and how the greatest amphitheatre of all was built.
Sandra trained as a dancer and worked as a theatre set painter and then a trapeze artist.
He admits that the theatre production has precipitated a renewed interest in making the complex story into a film.
Meanwhile, the unsubsidised commercial theatre looks on and thinks its private thoughts. Times, Sunday Times
The historic and beautifully renovated Alex Theatre is a live venue also known for its screenings of classic films.
Chester also had the usual components of a legionary fortress, including a headquarters building (principia), smart houses for the commander (praetorium) and senior officers, amphitheatre, stone defensive walls and a main baths building (thermae), not to mention a large harbour and a bridge crossing the River Dee. Archive 2009-06-01
Two decades intervened between the completion of the design and the opening of the theatre.
Two of the three theatres in the Kyogle Cinema show all the latest movies in comfort with thick seats (hate that sore bum thing) and cheap prices.
The campaigners sought the divorcement of studios from their theatre chains, and in 1948 their wish was granted.
Fans of "The Weir" - and there had better be some, for Scena Theatre is slated to open its own production in a month - may fret that such continuously dampened acting won't light the play's slow-burning but potent fuse. Theater review: 'The Weir' presented by Keegan Theatre
First there is a courthouse and across from it a theatre and then a bakery and a coffee shop; not to mention the imposing plain-coloured sound stages (eight of them, in total) that look like airplane hangars.
But her narrative gains from the tangible physicality of theatre and gleefully combines eroticism and wit.
The first staging of one of O'Neill's works came when an amateur theatre group in Provincetown, Cape Cod put on his 1914 one-acter Bound East For Cardiff, a play set onboard a fogbound vessel in the middle of the Atlantic. This week's new theatre and dance
The crannog will provide open air theatre facilities and will become very popular with school groups and parties next Summer.
Fleetwood that the owner of the Theatre was a "stubborne fellow," and advised that he be sent for and "bounde" -- would have given advice and information so unfriendly to their own manager, and there cannot be the slightest doubt that Burbage was "the owner" of the Theatre from 1576 to Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592
The trio before me represents three of the four co-founders of the theatre group, an ensemble in the midst of preparing for their second production.
The officers of the amphitheatre were still employed in the task of fixing the vast awning (or _velaria_) which covered the whole, and which luxurious invention the Campanians arrogated to themselves: it was woven of the whitest Apulian wool, and variegated with broad stripes of crimson. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6
Theatre audiences might be asked to vote at the end of the play, or march en masse on the local town hall. The Times Literary Supplement
A movie theatre concession girl, Debbie, meets the store clerk at a laundromat and tries to make awkward, one-sided, monosyllabic conversation.
An operating theatre should be a sterile environment.
The gardens, with a semi-circular water-theatre and nymphaeum are fed by an axial sequence of waterfalls, and are one of the best and most famous examples of early Italian Baroque landscape.
Up to 200 men, women and children will be dressed in costume for this piece of street-theatre and pageantry.
The play is being presented by Open Door Theatre with an all-star cast.
Coming out of the theatre in the cold and the rain, I felt a warm glow inside me and fervently prayed for a kinder new year.
The theatre's always been a bit of a ticklish subject with me.
One of its latest initiatives to take theatre close to the masses is opening up rehearsals to the public.
Women have been banned from the stage for years and pretty boys are apprenticed to theatre owners to learn stagecraft and female roles.
On another occasion, at the same theatre, the prima donna was taken suddenly ill in the midst of a terzetto, in which Tamburini had the bass, and, while supporting her on the stage, this accomplished musician actually took the soprano in his falsetto, and performed the part of the indisposed lady in a manner which drew down universal applause. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
He distinguished himself in British theatre at a very early age.
It is rare to see this much theatre performed in one evening, and the beauty of the Lorca Trilogy is that the plays may be viewed together, yet stand on their own as individual productions.
Japan and the United States have agreed to jointly develop the Theatre Missile Defence ( THD ) system.
Similarly, she arranged and encouraged folk dancing groups in the town, monthly reading circles and visits to theatres.
These were individuals who practised traditional Japanese arts such as ikebana or Kabuki theatre "in a supreme way". ANC Daily News Briefing
He has the largest body of work of any American writer with over 30 volumes of novels, screenplays, teleplays, theatre-works and essays.
Explore the castle gardens, hawk and owl centre and maze, or join in with a theatre workshop. Times, Sunday Times
Gitalis and I could sleep at the theatre overnight, and we could surely find a boardinghouse that would provide you ladies snug harbor. PAINT THE WIND
Il faut bien juger leur suffisance, mais non pas leurs moeurs, ni eux, par cette montre de leurs écrits qu'ils étalent au théatre du monde. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
Not content with rescuing one theatre, Sally Green has taken on another.
I guess since it was the only series I actually paid real money to see in surround-sound at the theatre (and not even a matinee all the time!), the Lord of the Rings trilogy must be it. Movie Tag!
Answer your phone at the cinema or theatre? Times, Sunday Times
This has been attributed to the workings of the claque of a rival singer; but whatever the truth of the matter, it was Albani's first and last appearance in that theatre.
At the top beneath the castle is a tiny ancient amphitheatre. Times, Sunday Times
She enjoyed the camaraderie of the theatre where she was admired and much loved. Times, Sunday Times
I climbed over massive flat pavements of grey silty sandstone, making the whole cliffside seem like the world's largest amphitheatre.
He was essentially a man of the theatre.
(At this very moment, Franca is on stage in a theatre in Italy but will join me the day after tomorrow. Dario Fo - Nobel Lecture
They launched ‘Revuedeville’ - a nonstop round of showgirls, variety acts and comedians - and when other theatres copied them she hit on the idea of nudity.
For Karolina transvestitism is like acting in a male theatre in Japan, where the women are not allowed and men perform all the parts.
The posters depicted rolling stock, landscapes and other scenes including Blackpool, the Garrick Theatre in Southport and Brixham harbour in south Devon.
The courtroom became a vaudeville theatre, as the MP lampooned his interrogators, accusing them of making ‘schoolboy howler’ mistakes.
A spokesman for the theatre said: 'People will be coming to see a pantomime. Times, Sunday Times

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