- Theatre - Wikipedia
Theatre or theater[a] is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage
- History of theatre - Wikipedia
The history of theatre charts the development of theatre over the past 2,500 years While performative elements are present in every society, it is customary to acknowledge a distinction between theatre as an art form and entertainment, and theatrical or performative elements in other activities
- Globe Theatre | Definition, History, Facts | Britannica
Globe Theatre, famous London theater in which after 1599 the plays of William Shakespeare were performed The Globe was pulled down in 1644, two years after the Puritans closed all theaters A reconstructed Globe opened at the original’s location in 1997
- Musical theatre - Wikipedia
Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole
- Theatre | History, Performance, Impact | Britannica
theatre, in dramatic arts, an art concerned almost exclusively with live performances in which the action is precisely planned to create a coherent and significant sense of drama
- Theatre of the Absurd - Encyclopedia Britannica
Theatre of the Absurd, dramatic work of certain European and American dramatists of the 1950s and early ’60s who agreed with the Existentialist philosopher Albert Camus’s assessment, in his essay ‘The Myth of Sisyphus,’ that the human situation is essentially absurd, devoid of purpose
- Hayes Theater - Wikipedia
The Hayes Theater (formerly the Little Theatre, New York Times Hall, Winthrop Ames Theatre, and Helen Hayes Theatre) is a Broadway theater at 240 West 44th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City
- Walter Kerr Theatre - Wikipedia
The Walter Kerr Theatre, previously the Ritz Theatre, is a Broadway theater at 219 West 48th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City The theater was designed by Herbert J Krapp and was constructed for the Shubert brothers in 1921
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