A theatre is a place where performances are held. Ranging from huge traditional theatres with a large stage and red curtains, to a black box theatre with flexible seating/staging.
If you meant 'what is theatre?' then theatre really is anything with an audience. eg. a trial in a court, an argument in a shop, a lesson...
What is a theater?tickets Shakespeare said"All the worlds a stage and all the men and women merely players." Theatre is not just on a stage, it is life all around. It is holding the mirror up to nature.(Hamlet, speech to the players)
What is a theater?ballet opera theater
An area with seats where people can sit and view something informative or entertaining.
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the·a·ter /?θi?t?r, ?θi?-/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[thee-uh-ter, theeuh-] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. a building, part of a building, or outdoor area for housing dramatic presentations, stage entertainments, or motion-picture shows.
2. the audience at a theatrical or motion-picture performance: The theater wept.
3. a theatrical or acting company.
4. a room or hall, fitted with tiers of seats rising like steps, used for lectures, surgical demonstrations, etc.: Students crowded into the operating theater.
5. the theater, dramatic performances as a branch of art; the drama: an actress devoted to the theater.
6. dramatic works collectively, as of literature, a nation, or an author (often prec. by the): the theater of Ibsen.
7. the quality or effectiveness of dramatic performance: good theater; bad theater; pure theater.
8. a place of action; field of operations.
9. a natural formation of land rising by steps or gradations.
Also, theatre.
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[Origin: 1325–75; ME theatre %26lt; L theātrum %26lt; Gk théātron seeing place, theater, equiv. to theā-, s. of theasthai to view + -tron suffix denoting means or place]
—Synonyms 8. arena, site, stage, setting, scene.
—Pronunciation note Theater, an early Middle English borrowing from French, originally had its primary stress on the second syllable: /Fr. te??ɑtr?/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[Fr. tey-ah-truh] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation. As with many early French borrowings (beauty, carriage, marriage), the stress moved to the first syllable, in conformity with a common English pattern of stress, and this pattern remains the standard one for theater today: /?θi?t?r, ?θi?-/[thee-uh-ter, theeuh-]. A pronunciation with stress on the second syllable and the /e?/[ey] vowel: /θi?e?t?r/[thee-ey-ter] or sometimes /?θi?e?t?r/[thee-ey-ter] is characteristic chiefly of uneducated speech.
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n.
A building, room, or outdoor structure for the presentation of plays, films, or other dramatic performances.
A room with tiers of seats used for lectures or demonstrations: an operating theater at a medical school.
Dramatic literature or its performance; drama: the theater of Shakespeare and Marlowe.
The milieu of actors and playwrights.
The quality or effectiveness of a theatrical production: good theater; awful theater.
Dramatic material or the use of such material: "His summation was a great piece of courtroom theater" (Ron Rosenbaum).
The quality or effectiveness of a theatrical production: good theater; awful theater.
Dramatic material or the use of such material: "His summation was a great piece of courtroom theater" (Ron Rosenbaum).
The audience assembled for a dramatic performance.
A place that is the setting for dramatic events.
A large geographic area in which military operations are coordinated: the European theater during World War II.
[Middle English theatre, from Old French, from Latin theātrum, from Greek theātron, from theāsthai, to watch, from theā, a viewing.]
Word History: Theories about the development of the theater in the West generally begin with Greek drama; this is etymologically appropriate as well as historically correct, since the words theory and theater are related through their Greek sources. The Greek ancestor of theater is theātron, "a place for seeing, especially for dramatic representation, theater." Theātron is derived from the verb theāsthai, "to gaze at, contemplate, view as spectators, especially in the theater," from theā, "a viewing." The Greek ancestor of theory is theōriā, which meant among other things "the sending of theōroi (state ambassadors sent to consult oracles or attend games)," "the act of being a spectator at the theater or games," "viewing," "contemplation by the mind," and "theory or speculation." The source of theōriā is theōros, "an envoy sent to consult an oracle, spectator," a compound of theā, "viewing," and -oros, "seeing." It is thus fitting to elaborate theories about culture while seeing a play in a theater.
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theater
c.1374, "open air place in ancient times for viewing spectacles," from O.Fr. theatre (12c.), from L. theatrum, from Gk. theatron "theater," lit. "place for viewing," from theasthai "to behold" (cf. thea "a view," theates "spectator") + -tron, suffix denoting place. Meaning "building where plays are shown" (1577) was transferred to that of "plays, writing, production, the stage" (1668). Spelling with -re prevailed in Britain after c.1700, but Amer.Eng. retained or revived the older spelling in -er. Generic sense of "place of action" is from 1581; especially "region where war is being fought" (1914). Theatrical "pertaining to the theater" is recorded from 1558; in the sense of "stagy, histrionic" it is attested from 1709.
"The Theatre of the Absurd strives to express its sense of the senselessness of the human condition and the inadequacy of the rational approach by the open abandonment of rational devices and discursive thought." [M. Esslin, "Theatre of the Absurd," 1961]
Online Etymology Dictionary, ? 2001 Douglas Harper
WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This theater
noun
1. a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented; "the house was full"
2. the art of writing and producing plays [syn: dramaturgy]
3. a region in which active military operations are in progress; "the army was in the field awaiting action"; "he served in the Vietnam theater for three years" [syn: field]
WordNet? 3.0, ? 2006 by Princeton University.
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Main Entry: the·ater
Variant: or the·atre /'thE-%26amp;t-%26amp;r/
Function: noun
1 : a room often with rising tiers of seats for assemblies (as for lectures or surgical demonstrations)
2 usu theatre, British : a hospital operating room
Theater is defined by three things- A story to tell, somewhere to tell it and an audience to react to it.
i dont no what a theater is
1. a building, part of a building, or outdoor area for housing dramatic presentations, stage entertainments, or motion-picture shows.
2. A building, room, or outdoor structure for the presentation of plays, films, or other dramatic performances.
A theater is a place where people come to see shows.
