noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a theatre critic British English , a theater critcic American English (= of plays )
a theatre director British English , a theater director AmE:
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Laura Thompson is a theatre director now in the middle of rehearsals for 'Romeo and Juliet'.
a theatre district British English , a theater district AmE:
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The restaurant is located in the middle of New York’s theater district.
a theatre/concert ticket
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The special rate includes theatre tickets and transport from the hotel to the theatre.
alternative music/theatre etc
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Tucson’s alternative radio station
appear at a theatre etc
fringe theatre
hotel/theatre/cinema etc foyer
operating theatre
puppet show/theatre/play
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a 20-minute puppet show
television/film/theatre producer
theatre/business etc people (= people who work or are involved in the theatre etc )
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The hotel was full of business people.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
live
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Designed by the eminent architect C. J. Phipps, the Royal has enjoyed a history of live theatre since 1884.
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The site promises to be strong on interactivity, boasting online tours of museums and live theatre workshops.
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One natural source of finance and experience was the world of show business - live theatre and cinema.
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Colours of a dancer's mettle A stint in television made choreographer Lea Anderson long for the pure movement of live theatre .
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If live theatre turns you on you can choose from several plays or musicals each night.
local
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More than 40 homes were flooded, valuable shop stocks were ruined, and the local theatre turned into a swimming pool.
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Roy and Joyce Lee will arrange activities for you, including trips to the local theatre , and horse-riding.
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Why not support your local theatre ?
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Everyone locally is keen to support their local theatre .
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Our team visited schools, colleges, libraries, hospitals and even backstage at the local theatre .
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It includes everything from when the hairdresser is coming, to appointments at the hospital or outings to the local theatre .
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In addition, local theatre company Stage Beyond will provide street theatre, storytelling and face painting.
popular
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The most notable of these is the widespread use of popular theatre throughout the region.
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Richmond Theatre, a popular touring theatre , frequently shows West End productions.
■ NOUN
company
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Currently at the Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke, the theatre company are doing just that.
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Ghatak was a committed Marxist, who began his career working in a political theatre company .
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Academics will work with theatre companies to find ways of involving the public in social research.
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A leftwing theatre company sponsored the follow-up, organised on stage by a budding theatre director, Joseph Losey.
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See the famous plays of the Bard performed by one of the world's greatest theatre companies .
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Three of the six theatre companies selected to take part in this year's festival come from Northern Ireland.
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The Armada Festival, which also visited Derry last year, promotes contact between different theatre companies .
critic
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Indeed, his position as Town's theatre critic meant that she was getting some evenings out free as well.
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We challenged them to make our theatre critic , Joe Riley, laugh.
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Brandon Thomas opted to unveil his Aunt away from London fearful that the capital's theatre critics would tear it to pieces.
director
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The theatre director Schuh was there and he saw me sitting by myself during the interval.
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A leftwing theatre company sponsored the follow-up, organised on stage by a budding theatre director , Joseph Losey.
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In his speech he made no mention of her second husband, the emigre theatre director Fyodor Komisarjevsky.
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Stuart Browne, a playwright and theatre director whose only book this is, died just before Christmas.
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Philip who's a theatre director planned to follow in a week.
fringe
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We consider bingo in Plaistow. Fringe theatre in Islington is too bourgeois.
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Mime has never enjoyed a place on centre stage, it lives in the shadows of fringe theatre and the Big Top.
group
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There was a mushroom growth of grant-aided housing associations, community advice centres, radical theatre groups and co-operative bicycle repair shops.
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Another letter from the middle school was about a visiting theatre group and asked for money as well as a tear-off slip.
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At the age of 12, Tupac joined a Harlem theatre group and studied ballet and acting.
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Betty Caplan on the blossoming of an experimental theatre group Magdalena takes root.
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He spent two years with the Link-Up community theatre group and has directed for the Compass Theatre.
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Among the cast of clowns is the Brouhaha theatre group and poet Jegsy Dodd.
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A small theatre group takes on the task of mounting a Passion Play in Montreal.
lecture
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The centre also has a lecture theatre and processing lab.
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Everybody was assembled in the lecture theatre at the appointed time, but no lecturer had arrived.
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The interior, now a lecture theatre , has stucco decoration from the mid-17C.
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The lecture theatre disgorged its students.
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Kara was sitting on the far side of the lecture theatre , well away from the source of the cry.
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Magician's Road, in the well equipped lecture theatre or in the Museum galleries.
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A group of students hard at work in a lecture theatre in the University Building.
operating
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Spiralling leg fractures, cysts, ventricle failure also saw her whisked into the operating theatre .
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From the small gallery above the operating theatre the whole process was obscure, if sickeningly bloody, to the watching Cowley.
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You closed the door like a surgeon entering the operating theatre .
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His shaping room had the brightly lit intensity of an operating theatre , the mystery of a chemical laboratory.
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Once again she was aware of the sounds in the operating theatre .
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At the hospital, a surgeon was called and the boy was taken immediately into the operating theatre .
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A young woman is wheeled into the operating theatre for laparoscopy.
people
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I know theatre people are hardly your choice of party companions.
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There had been no announcement of her substitution, but theatre people were notoriously careless about such things.
puppet
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The workroom was extremely tidy and four chairs were set in a row in front of the puppet theatre .
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Last weekend the highlights were marionettes miming to Die Fledermaus at the puppet theatre and a country music festival.
street
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Beforehand there will be a historical walk around the city, a street theatre show and an ecumenical service.
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There will be celebrations, a writers' conference, a number of important art shows, street theatre and circuses.
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Nearby, there's an international festival of children's theatre and another of street theatre and music.
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In addition, local theatre company Stage Beyond will provide street theatre, storytelling and face painting.
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There was music, puppet shows, street theatre , side shows, stalls.
ticket
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Milton would get you theatre tickets , special hotel rates, restaurant reservations and still wonder if you needed anything more.
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This includes theatre tickets , and transport from the hotel to the theatre.
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The theatre special of £38.00 per person includes en-suite room, Yorkshire breakfast and theatre ticket .
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Reasonably priced theatre tickets and affordable health care are tangible.
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One concert or theatre ticket is included in the price, other tickets are available on request.
■ VERB
go
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A.R. You both went into the theatre together from the same drama school?
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She had to go back to the theatre and see this thing through, for tonight, at least.
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We looked forward to going to the theatre every evening.
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That is why we are going to the theatre .
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Stella and Geoffrey went back to the theatre without collecting the paint.
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Aristotle wrote about it in relation to drama and what we can gain by going to the theatre .
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For him, looking at X-rays is like going to the theatre or watching a good film.
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We did other things like going to the theatre and doing improvisation.
leave
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Just before Lisa left for the theatre I had a word with her.
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He'd come straight to her after leaving the theatre , and his impatience thrilled her to the core.
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But you left the theatre three months ago, Lee.
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The doorkeeper said nobody in costume had left the theatre .
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We can't wait to leave this theatre , this atmosphere, this trap.
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Her father was unwell, she explained; it would be helpful if everyone would leave the theatre as quickly as possible.
work
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Ghatak was a committed Marxist, who began his career working in a political theatre company.
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Do you enjoy working in the theatre ?
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Many people involved in film work as directors, writers and actors also work in advertising, theatre and television.
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The readings are given by Vanessa Rosenthal who has worked extensively in theatre , television and film.
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Academics will work with theatre companies to find ways of involving the public in social research.
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Is it coincidence that all your main actors usually work in the theatre ?
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I got this idea then because I was working in the theatre , so I was interested in the effects of light.
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Brooklyn born, he gave up academia in the 70's to work in theatre and write plays.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Many of NATO's nuclear weapons in the European theatre are obsolete.
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She does some TV work, but theatre remains her first love.
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the use of theatre in primary school education
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Anyhow, I married her out of lust and a sort of snobbism for the theatre in general and pretty actresses in particular.
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I've never been in a fire in a theatre before - thankfully they're almost unheard of.
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In the 1870s his career as a theatre architect started rapidly.
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In theory the theatre can hold about 2,800 people, although new security measures limit this on most occasions to around 2,000.
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It will probably be among the most wonderful experiences you've had in any theatre .
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The utopian theatre of 1917 Berlin and Vienna was still on the horizon.
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Those enthusiasms right now center on the theatre .