(n.) A building used for dramatic exhibitions; a theater.
(n.) A house for children to play in; a toyhouse.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Hey Diddly Dee, in Sky Arts' latest Playhouse Presents season, could only manage 71,000 viewers, despite the combined star power of Kylie Minogue, David Harewood, Peter Serafinowicz and Mathew Horne.
(2) Playhouse Presents … Timeless is on Thursday 19 June at 9pm on Sky Arts
(3) And, apart from appearing in plays at his Belper grammar school, Bates became a regular visitor to Derby Playhouse, where he admired the work of two unknown actors, and later friends, John Osborne and John Dexter.
(4) Photograph: Tristram Kenton An intriguing possibility is Thea Sharrock, who has run a small theatre (the Southwark Playhouse in London) and worked impressively at both the National, with a brilliant rediscovery of Terence Rattigan's After the Dance , and in the West End, directing Daniel Radcliffe and Richard Griffiths in Peter Shaffer's Equus, but, at 36, would be very young.
(5) His stage work included two memorable Shakespearean kings – Leontes in The Winter’s Tale at the National Theatre in 1988, and Lear at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2011 – and one quasi-Shakespearean ruler: a future King Charles III in Mike Bartlett’s blank-verse fantasy about the succession to the throne of the current Prince of Wales.
(6) We haven't tried to replicate them perfectly – in fact, we came to believe that the building they depict was architecturally impossible – but what we have tried to do is to create an indoor playhouse that Shakespeare would have recognised.
(7) At the Neighborhood Playhouse, he was taught movement by Martha Graham, who, he insisted, gave him the back injury that kept him out of uniform during the second world war.
(8) James Brining's revival of Sweeney Todd at West Yorkshire Playhouse last autumn was like a knife to the heart in its portrait of the madness of an austerity-hit Britain.
(9) That same year, with Dorothy McGuire and Mel Ferrer, Peck founded the La Jolla Playhouse in southern California.
(10) Swings, climbing frames, slides, playhouses and playcastles were responsible for 80% of the accidents.
(11) Outside the central London hotel where two episodes of Playhouse Presents are about to be shown to the press, there lurks not merely a solid phalanx of paparazzi, but a sizeable group of girls in their early teens, all craning to see if they can get a look into the lobby, where the object of their interest lies: Cara Delevingne.
(13) "The guy at Leeds Playhouse, Ian Brown, had this meeting and there was this business about, 'You should seek private sponsorship,' and he said: 'Well, if you tell me the billionaires I can find in Leeds I'll go and seek them.'
(14) There he enrolled at the Neighborhood Playhouse as Gregory Peck.
(15) In 1996 he wrote Blood Libel, a Norwich Playhouse commission.
(16) KS Cut: £283,000 (6.9% cut from Arts Council; 20% cut from city council) The Everyman, established in 1964, helped the early careers of a formidable list of theatrical talent including Julie Walters, Pete Postlethwaite and Alan Bleasdale, while the Playhouse is much older, built in 1866 as the Star Music Hall.
(17) Now Carrie: The Musical, based on the 1974 Stephen King horror novel, is to make its London debut at the Southwark Playhouse in May.
(18) Sky Arts champions single plays in Playhouse Presents.
(19) Their production of War and Peace is at the Playhouse, Nottingham (0115-941 9419), until Sunday, then tours.
(20) Koestler Trust (@KoestlerTrust) Thank you to all who have helped @KoestlerTrust 's transformation in recent years - now recognised by Arts Council National Portfolio status July 1, 2014 Updated at 12.20pm BST 12.06pm BST The Theatre Royal in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, which describes itself as the only surviving Regency playhouse has lost its funding.
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.