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auditorium

[aw-di-tawr-ee-uhm, -tohr-] / ˌɔ dɪˈtɔr i əm, -ˈtoʊr- /


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He added: "It's a big auditorium but it's incredibly intimate so the material selection has to be really considered because you get to look at the costumes close up."

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

In “Our Common Life,” he notes how folksongs pass orally from musician to musician, sometimes over decades, before finding their ways to the airwaves and the auditorium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Once the audience gets past their disorientation, the slapstick triggers enough silly goodwill that my auditorium squeezed out generous spurts of applause.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

The auditorium now has 10 wheelchair spaces and there is also an accessible dressing room.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

Frank and Joe split up and searched around the auditorium for a way to get to the ceiling.

From "Hopping Mad (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #4)" by Franklin W. Dixon

Sheffield Theatres' three auditoria have a total capacity of 2,500 - the same as the National's three venues.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2021

On comfy seats in big auditoria, writers pretend that the 200 souls in front of them represent the world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2020

The venue has two auditoria - one with 1,200 seats, where Peter Pan is playing, and another with a capacity of 800.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2019

Speaking to packed auditoria and hailed by adoring crowds, he’s been treated more like a movie star than a satirist.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 9, 2014

The auditoria are nearly all badly ventilated, and ill fitted up, the only exceptions being the Theatre Royal at Adelaide, and the Bijou in Melbourne.

From Town Life in Australia by Richard Ernest Nowell Twopeny

The peeling facades, faded signs and cavernous auditoriums of such cinemas are remnants of a time when going to the movies was itself the main event.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

The steady checks from the university took the pressure off my pages as they championed my books with launch events in their auditoriums, sharing good reviews on their vast website.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

Unlike Imax or Dolby Cinema, Infinity Vision isn’t a projection format; rather, it’s a designation for auditoriums that meet certain standards for screen size, projection and sound.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

Split across two 1,500-seat auditoriums, it will become the capital's biggest theatre by capacity, overtaking the 2,359-seat London Coliseum in the West End.

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026

During the late 1920s and 1930s black and white patrons integrated the audiences of numerous lectures, meetings, and concerts in government auditoriums and in private concert halls.

From "The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman




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