little theatre

noun

1. theatre experimental or avant-garde drama, usually amateur, originating from a theatrical movement of the 1920s

Example Sentences

Having seen little theatre in Cape Town, Sher could now watch the greats: John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier.

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I’d decided to make Chester my final destination on a little theatre tour through western Massachusetts last month.

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I did Cowboy Mouth, which he wrote with Patti Smith, in a little theatre in LA in 1979 and he came around to rehearsals.

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Still, his language is often beautiful: “How helpless desire is outside its little theatre of heat.”

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She grew up in Berkeley, California, and saw little theatre beyond school plays.

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