(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.
Toy
Definition:
(v. t.) A plaything for children; a bawble.
(v. t.) A thing for amusement, but of no real value; an article of trade of little value; a trifle.
(v. t.) A wild fancy; an odd conceit; idle sport; folly; trifling opinion.
(v. t.) Amorous dalliance; play; sport; pastime.
(v. t.) An old story; a silly tale.
(v. t.) A headdress of linen or woolen, that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women of the lower classes; -- called also toy mutch.
(v. i.) To dally amorously; to trifle; to play.
(v. t.) To treat foolishly.
Example Sentences:
(1) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
(2) The "Dream Toys" for Christmas list includes a few old favourites alongside some new, and sparkly, additions.
(3) In a statement, Fisher Price said: “We recently learned of a security vulnerability with our Fisher-Price WiFi-connected Smart Toy Bear.
(4) Pretty much every major toy brand, as well as apps like Angry Birds and Talking Friends, are spawning “webisodes” on YouTube as well as traditional ads, which often sit side-by-side within the same channel.
(5) An observational study was made of 1-2-year-old children, and of mentally handicapped children functioning at a similar level, to determine the extent to which they involved themselves in play with toys and other objects and the extent to which their day was "empty".
(6) The only 2 significant sex-of-parent x sex-of-child effects occurred at 18 months; fathers gave fewer positive reactions to boys engaging in female-typical toy play, and mothers gave more instruction to girls when they attempted to communicate.
(7) Incidental teaching and traditional discrete-trial procedures were used to teach two children with autism the expressive use of two color adjectives to describe preferred toys and food items.
(8) You can use absolutely anything - an unwanted T-shirt, some old curtains, something you picked up in a charity shop ... Garish 70s-style prints you probably wouldn't dream of wearing work surprisingly well in soft toys: they are cute, they can pull it off.
(9) In both experiments, videotapes of model monkeys behaving fearfully were spliced so that it appeared that the models were reacting fearfully either to fear-relevant stimuli (toy snakes or a toy crocodile), or to fear-irrelevant stimuli (flowers or a toy rabbit).
(10) Soft organic material (meat, cucumber peels) was found in four patients, chicken bones in six, pins and needles in six, other nonorganic materials (toys, stone, broken thermometer) in six.
(11) There are signs that Disney intends to respect its expensive new toy.
(12) However, when toys were absent, there were no significant differences in visual attention between ADHD and normal boys.
(13) White is doing his own bit to turn back the clock: at his gigs, he enforces a strict ban on the audience shooting pictures or video; at home, he only allows his children – Scarlett, eight, and Hank, six – to play with mechanical toys.
(14) Cars, furniture, books, dishes, TVs, highways, buildings, jewellery, toys and even electricity would not exist without water.
(15) Although it remains unclear why he chose to place the muddled woman in a kitchen – clinging to her mug and surrounded by children's toys – as opposed to say, in a laboratory or a truck, he claims all the words were authentically spoken by "women in dozens of focus groups around the country", prior to being stitched together in this latest triumph for the fashionable, verbatim school of drama.
(16) Many parents think hard about what kind of books to buy for their children; mull over the suitability of various TV shows and films; and compare the educational and entertainment value of different toys.
(17) That found parents play an important role in the choice of toys and “they consider construction toys to stimulate creativity and can be used differently each time a child plays with them”, the ONS said.
(18) The provision of structure in the form of thematically related toy sets, instructions, and modeling did not reduce the discrepancy between demonstrated play behaviors of toddlers with SLI-E and their normally developing peers.
(19) Now they’re having to downsize, changing cities and dispose of all their toys, like their big trucks and Ski-doos, but nobody wants to buy that stuff because they can’t afford it either.” “It’s very depressing,” says Seibel, who’s still unemployed despite sending several hundreds of resumes, including to McDonalds, where he was told he was overqualified.
(20) Parents' initial nonverbal responses to the toys, however, were more positive when the toys were stereotyped for the child's and parent's gender than when they were not.