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the only place where pretending to die can earn you a standing ovation.
means A building or space designed for live dramatic performances, or by extension the art and profession of staging plays, or any room arranged for an audience (a lecture theater, an operating theater).
from From Greek 'theatron,' literally 'a place for viewing,' built from 'theasthai' — to behold, to gaze at — the same root that watches over 'theory' and 'theorem.' It traveled through Latin 'theatrum' into Old French 'theatre' before settling into English, carrying its original sense intact: not where actors act, but where watchers watch. The spelling split — 'theatre' versus 'theater' — is a much later Atlantic quarrel, with the '-er' ending favored in American usage.
- break a leg
- Wishing luck directly was thought to curse the show
- oldest standing
- Greece's Theatre of Dionysus seated 17,000 people
- the scottish play
- Saying Macbeth backstage is dreaded as bad luck
- dark night
- Mondays off let exhausted casts and crews recover
- thrust stage
- Audiences surround actors on three sides, no hiding
broadway — commercial theater district in new york city with 41 theaters on 42nd street and surrounding blocks
west end london — commercial theater district in london's shaftesbury avenue and surrounding streets, equivalent to broadway
globe theatre — shakespeare's playhouse in london, first built in 1599, reconstructed in 1997 on original site