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Theatre (disambiguation)


Theatre (disambiguation)


Theatre or theater refers to representational performing arts, and semantically related to a stage.

It may also refer to:

  • Theater (structure), a building with a stage and audience seating for performances
  • Movie theater, a building used to show films to an audience
  • Theatrical troupe, a group of actors or acting company

Popular culture

  • Theatre (band), a mathcore band from South Africa
  • Theatre (album), a 1983 album by George Gruntz
  • "The Theatre", a song by the Pet Shop Boys on the 1993 album Very
  • "Theater" (song), the German entry to the 1980 Eurovision Song Contest
  • Theatre (novel), a 1937 novel by W. Somerset Maugham
  • Theatre (film), a 1928 German silent film

Other uses

  • Theater (Metro Rail), a rail station in Buffalo, New York
  • Theater (warfare), large geographic area where conflict occurs
  • Operating theater (or operating room), a room for carrying out surgical operations
  • Pejorative term, in the sense of "an act"(pretense): actions taken by an individual or authority to create the impression of doing something useful or valuable, while achieving little. For example:
    • Security Theater, actions carried out by an authority to give the public the impression of security while doing little or nothing to actually achieving it.
    • Hygiene Theater, the practice of taking hygiene measures that are intended to give the illusion of improved safety while doing little to actually reduce any risk.

See also

  • The Theatre, an English playhouse in Shoreditch, London active from 1576, demolished 1598 (timbers used for construction of the original Globe Theatre)
  • The Theatre Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England
  • The Theatre, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
  • Theatre Journal, quarterly academic journal published by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education
  • The Theatre (magazine), published in London between 1877 and 1897
  • Gaiety Theatre (disambiguation)

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