little theatre

British  

noun

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

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little theatre

This vicious circle sparks sequels and reboots, leaving little theatre space for "traditional art-house movies" like Saltburn, instead left to find an audience on streaming says media commentator Ian Whittaker.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2024

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

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 17, 2018

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

From Economist ● Jan. 21, 2016

Hattie Naylor's take on Lewis Carroll's second most famous novel should be a pleasure, too, in this lovely little theatre for children which makes all adults feel slightly over-sized.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 11, 2010

At length we were seated in the little theatre; and, after a fearful charivari from the orchestra, the curtain drew up, and we beheld, seated at a long table, a company of monkeys!

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various