playgoer
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of playgoer
Example Sentences
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It isn’t often that a serial playgoer, worn down by other, wordier dramatists, watches the lights come up and hopes they go back down.
From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2022
But she was an avid playgoer, at least, and had acted a bit when she was young.
From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2021
The average Broadway playgoer attends nine shows per year; the average off-off-Broadway attendee attends 23, according to an unpublished 2015 study provided by the New York Innovative Theatre Foundation.
From Slate • Oct. 6, 2019
But, whether you're a Goldman Sachs executive engaging in conspicuous consumption or a playgoer on a budget, people are spending money on Broadway.
From The Guardian • Jan. 17, 2011
"You're merely a playgoer, then? Tell me, how did you like the play, a country lad like yourself?"
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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