Definition of Theatre

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 think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.
Vaclav Havel

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.
Tallulah Bankhead

You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theatre because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.
Harvey Fierstein

Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.
Harvey Fierstein

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

In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me.
Judi Dench

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

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

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.
Gwyneth Paltrow

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

The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.
Helen Hayes

I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost.
Jenny Agutter

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
Denis Diderot

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
Sarah Bernhardt

For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.
Sarah Bernhardt

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.
Sarah Bernhardt

When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.
Vivien Leigh

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.
Vivien Leigh

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.
Harold Pinter

This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.
Jacqueline Bisset

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.
Stephen Sondheim

My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
Orson Scott Card

I love the theatre and theatre people.
Cyril Cusack

To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task.
Cyril Cusack

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.
Cyril Cusack

I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre.
Cyril Cusack

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

A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.
Franz Liszt

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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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