Theatre (disambiguation)
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Theatre
or theater refers to representational performing arts.
Theater or theatre may also refer to:
In types of venue:
In music:
In places:
In popular culture:
In military:
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
or theater refers to representational performing arts.
Theater or theatre may also refer to:
In types of venue:
- Theater (structure)Theater (structure)A theater or theatre is a structure where theatrical works or plays are performed or other performances such as musical concerts may be produced. While a theater is not required for performance , a theater serves to define the performance and audience spaces...
, a building with a stage and audience seating for performances - Movie theaterMovie theaterA movie theater, cinema, movie house, picture theater, film theater is a venue, usually a building, for viewing motion pictures ....
, a building used to show films to an audience - Theater (warfare)Theater (warfare)In warfare, a theater, is defined as an area or place within which important military events occur or are progressing. The entirety of the air, land, and sea area that is or that may potentially become involved in war operations....
, large geographic area where conflict occurs - Operating theater (or operating room), a room for carrying out surgical operations
In music:
- Theatre (band)Theatre (band)Theatre was an experimental mathcore outfit formed in the lower suburbs of Somerset West, South Africa in 2008. They bring genre-smashing music to the foreground that is both unique in construction and chaotic in design, which is brought forth by means of a notably destructive yet emotive...
, a mathcore band from South Africa. - Theatre (album)Theatre (album)Theatre is an album by Swiss pianist, composer, and arranger George Gruntz's Concert Jazz Band '83 recorded in 1983 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:...
a 1983 album by George Gruntz
In places:
- Theater (Metro Rail)Theater (Metro Rail)Theater is a Buffalo Metro Rail station that serves the entertainment and theater districts of downtown Buffalo, New York. The station is located on Main Street between Chippawa Street and Tupper Street....
, a rail station in Buffalo, New York
In popular culture:
- Theatre, a novel by W. Somerset MaughamW. Somerset MaughamWilliam Somerset Maugham , CH was an English playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and, reputedly, the highest paid author during the 1930s.-Childhood and education:...
- "The Theatre", a song on Very (album) by the Pet Shop Boys
- Theater (song)Theater (song)"Theater" was the German entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1980, performed in German by Katja Ebstein. This was Ebstein's third Eurovision entry, she had represented Germany in 1970 and 1971, with "Wunder gibt es immer wieder" and "Diese Welt" respectively, both times finishing in 3rd...
, the German entry to the 1980 Eurovision Song Contest
In military:
- Theater (warfare)Theater (warfare)In warfare, a theater, is defined as an area or place within which important military events occur or are progressing. The entirety of the air, land, and sea area that is or that may potentially become involved in war operations....
, a region where a particular action takes place; a specific field of action, usually with reference to war