(n.) A kind of theater in ancient Greece, smaller than the dramatic theater and roofed over, in which poets and musicians submitted their works to the approval of the public, and contended for prizes; -- hence, in modern usage, the name of a hall for musical or dramatic performances.
Example Sentences:
(1) For anyone involved in politics, that is the most disappointing thing you can hear.” At the Odeon cinema, Progress, the Blairite wing of the party, holds a packed rally.
(2) Let’s leave that discussion to another day, but imagine a combination of the two – sort of Transformers meets Ex Machina – in which a race of giant sexy robots battles it out with another race of really mean giant sexy robots while paltry human beings look on in awe, and teenage boys (and girls) experience incredibly conflicting and disturbing sensual awakenings in the front row of the Beckenham Odeon.
(3) "You could have fired a shotgun in any Odeon where it was showing and not hit a soul," he philosophically remarked.
(4) By comparison, the UK's biggest cinema chain, Odeon, confirmed it did not use zero-hours contracts for any of its 5,000 staff.
(5) Odeon cinemas said they had sold 60,000 tickets for the 113 midnight screenings, and over 700,000 tickets overall, for the long-awaited film’s opening weekend.
(6) Back in the 1940s, the ordinary chap in the Odeon's ninepenny stalls is baffled, even annoyed.
(7) It's transported me back to the time I was 11 and hyperventilated with excitement during the climax of the third film at the Wimbledon Odeon.
(8) We all remember the terrible letdown of The Phantom Menace , all of us saucer-eyed nostalgists and nerds excitably gathered outside the Odeon Leicester Square in London's West End, ready for the first-ever showing, and hardly able to believe that it was actually happening.
(9) With 3D tickets costing on average 30% more at Odeon and Vue cinemas than other films, and with the added cost of glasses, which small children and those who wear contact lenses and spectacles often find uncomfortable, the format is losing its lustre.
(10) I won't spoil the plot, but let's say my children were right to tell me in the Odeon that I didn't need to worry.
(11) Where to eat Cafe Odeon is a cheap, cosy, no-frills cafe serving omelettes (from €3), burgers and heavenly pancakes a short walk from the beach in Lagos.
(12) We flit through a new independent quarter, whose businesses include a new shop and cafe that sells – but of course – both vinyl records and cooked meats, and pass the Odeon: an ornate former cinema saved from demolition, and now the focus of work to turn it into a 4,000-capacity music venue .
(13) She then went to the Burnley Odeon to watch it all again.
(14) The short film, Virunga, made to support the WWF's Draw the Line campaign, will be shown in Odeon cinemas throughout October.
(15) Women were seen being physically carried and pushed back over barriers as green and purple smoke bombs filled the air outside the Odeon cinema in central London on Wednesday.
(16) Earlier this month mobile operator O2 said that it intended to screen two of England's rugby matches in this year's Six Nations tournament in 3D in 40 Odeon and Cineworld cinemas.
(17) Future Plus's free film title, Odeon Magazine, was top of the film sector, with an average distribution of 205,380.
(18) Drew Kaza, the executive VP of digital development at Odeon cinemas, said they were delighted to be bringing "the buzz and innovation of the fringe to local cinemas across the UK for the very first time".Nearly 30 cinemas are taking part, from Basingtoke and Dundee to Warrington.
(19) Gerald Buckle, the first manager of the Point multiplex, and now the head of digital development for Odeon Cinemas, was one of those twentysomethings who visited the training base of American Multi-Cinema Inc to learn the techniques they would bring to bear in Buckinghamshire.
(20) The Odeon and Empire cinema chains count vaping as smoking.
Theatre
Definition:
(n.) 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.
(n.) Any room adapted to the exhibition of any performances before an assembly, as public lectures, scholastic exercises, anatomical demonstrations, surgical operations, etc.
(n.) That which resembles a theater in form, use, or the like; a place rising by steps or gradations, like the seats of a theater.
(n.) A sphere or scheme of operation.
(n.) A place or region where great events are enacted; as, the theater of war.
Example Sentences:
(1) Michael Caine was his understudy for the 1959 play The Long and the Short and the Tall at the Royal Court Theatre.
(2) … or a theatre and concert hall There are a total of 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro; stops that were closed or never opened.
(3) Plays like The Workhouse Donkey (1963) and Armstrong's Last Goodnight (1964) were staged in major theatres, but as the decade progressed so his identification with the increasingly radical climate of the times began to lead away from the mainstream theatre.
(4) It should also be realised that, in a very few hospitals, swabs which do not have an opaque marker may occasionally be used in theatre.
(5) Maybe it’s because they are skulking, sedentary creatures, tied to their post; the theatre critic isn’t going anywhere other than the stalls, and then back home to write.
(6) McQueen later worked for Gieves & Hawkes and the theatre costumiers Angels , before being employed, aged 20, by Koji Tatsuno , a Japanese designer with links to London.
(7) Speaking in the BBC's Radio Theatre, Hall will emphasise the need for a better, simpler BBC, as part of efforts to streamline management.
(8) No one deserves to walk out of the theatre feeling scared, humiliated or rejected.
(9) An obsessional artist who was an enemy of all institutions, cinematic as well as social, and whose principal theme was intolerance, he invariably gets delivered to us today by institutions - most recently the National Film Theatre, which starts a Dreyer retrospective this month - that can't always be counted on to represent him in all his complexity.
(10) It was curious in that it was the only thing I was doing that was not directly related to theatre or film.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Daniel Radcliffe, centre, with Sarah Greene and Pat Shortt in The Cripple Of Inishmaan at the Cort Theatre in New York.
(12) You shouldn't get involved in theatre or film if you don't think they can do your book."
(13) Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian But is theatre even happening in the right places to begin with?
(14) This House , his witty political drama set in the whips' office of 1970s Westminster, transferred from the National's Cottesloe theatre to the Olivier, following critical acclaim.
(15) In his articles, he took on the theatre establishment, blaming it for siding with the actors and not the playwright.
(16) What we do know is that we cannot and will not see this decision as a vote of no confidence, and that we will find a way to continue through our own passion and dedication to making theatre that represents the dispossessed, tells stories of the injustices of our world and changes lives.
(17) In our play 2071 , which recently completed its inaugural run at the Royal Court theatre in London, directed by Katie Mitchell, we explore the science, its implications and the options before us.
(18) This paper describes a search for Gram-negative bacteria in an operating theatre and the steps taken to reduce the level of environmental contamination.A high rate of infection in clean wounds prompted a bacteriological survey.
(19) What's the best thing about making theatre in Britain?
(20) People want to talk to me – on city streets, in theatre queues, on aeroplanes over the Atlantic, even on country walks.