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
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Broadway playgoer attends nine shows per year; the average off-off-Broadway attendee attends 23, according to an unpublished 2015 study provided by the New York Innovative Theatre Foundation.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 at least for this stressed-out American playgoer, the greatest reassurance lay in shows that demonstrated live theater’s distinctive power to extract patterns from life’s chaos and to weave echoing dialogues from irreconcilable viewpoints.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2017
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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