Theatre (disambiguation)
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Theatre or theater refers to representational performing arts, and semantically related to a stage.
It may also refer to:
- Theater (structure), a building with a stage and audience seating for performances
- Movie theater, a building used to show films to an audience
- Theatrical troupe, a group of actors or acting company
Popular culture
- Theatre (band), a mathcore band from South Africa
- Theatre (album), a 1983 album by George Gruntz
- "The Theatre", a song by the Pet Shop Boys on the 1993 album Very
- "Theater" (song), the German entry to the 1980 Eurovision Song Contest
- Theatre (novel), a 1937 novel by W. Somerset Maugham
- Theatre (film), a 1928 German silent film
Other uses
- Theater (Metro Rail), a rail station in Buffalo, New York
- Theater (warfare), large geographic area where conflict occurs
- Operating theater (or operating room), a room for carrying out surgical operations
- Pejorative term, in the sense of "an act"(pretense): actions taken by an individual or authority to create the impression of doing something useful or valuable, while achieving little. For example:
- Security Theater, actions carried out by an authority to give the public the impression of security while doing little or nothing to actually achieving it.
- Hygiene Theater, the practice of taking hygiene measures that are intended to give the illusion of improved safety while doing little to actually reduce any risk.
See also
- The Theatre, an English playhouse in Shoreditch, London active from 1576, demolished 1598 (timbers used for construction of the original Globe Theatre)
- The Theatre Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England
- The Theatre, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
- Theatre Journal, quarterly academic journal published by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education
- The Theatre (magazine), published in London between 1877 and 1897
- Gaiety Theatre (disambiguation)