Definition of Theatre

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Theatre

An edifice in which dramatic performances or spectacles are exhibited for the amusement of spectators; anciently uncovered, except the stage, but in modern times roofed.

Any room adapted to the exhibition of any performances before an assembly, as public lectures, scholastic exercises, anatomical demonstrations, surgical operations, etc.

That which resembles a theater in form, use, or the like; a place rising by steps or gradations, like the seats of a theater.

A sphere or scheme of operation.

A place or region where great events are enacted; as, the theater of war.

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Theatre Quotations

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
Oscar Wilde

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
William Blake

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
Orson Welles

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.
Josef Albers

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
Francis Bacon

Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.
Susan Sontag

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
Quentin Tarantino

Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.
Christopher Walken

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Alfred Hitchcock

The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.
Stella Adler

Theatre Translations

theatre in Afrikaans is teater
theatre in Danish is teater
theatre in Dutch is schouwburg, toneel, theater
theatre in German is Schauspielhaus, Theater
theatre in Italian is teatro
theatre in Norwegian is teater
theatre in Portuguese is teatro
theatre in Spanish is teatro, comedia
theatre in Swedish is teater, operationssal

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