little theater

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noun
  1. generally noncommercial drama, usually of an experimental nature and directed at a limited audience.

  2. a small theater, producing plays whose effectiveness would be lost in larger houses.

  1. amateur theatricals.

Origin of little theater

1
First recorded in 1765–75

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How to use little theater in a sentence

  • The cramped little theater itself struck one as mere scenery, which was precisely the intention.

    The Book of Susan | Lee Wilson Dodd
  • He seemed to her more distinguished than that other man whom she had seen indistinctly in the orchestra of her little theater.

    Woman Triumphant | Vicente Blasco Ibaez
  • He took her back to Paris, where he had a little theater, a hall of the dance—but he grew worse again, and came back here.

    The Holladay Case | Burton E. Stevenson