theater

Example Sentences

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A self-assured, naive young woman joins a dysfunctional theater company in Beryl Bainbridge’s darkly comic novel of mishaps and maturity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Viewers who aren’t reeling from the reveal in their theater seat will have just as much to parse from “The Drama” as those who go in totally blind.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

After graduation, though, she struggled to find her footing, eventually graduating summa cum laude from the City University of New York with a theater degree.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Her unsteady ascent toward womanhood coincides, hysterically, with the theater company’s descent into chaos.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

“I’m just saying it would be nice if we lived someplace where the closest first-run movie theater wasn’t seventeen hours away by train,” George groused.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz