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repertory company

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noun

  1. US name: stock company.  a theatrical company that performs plays from a repertoire, esp at its own theatre

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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A group of prominent actors approached Loewenberg with the idea of forming a classical repertory company.

From Los Angeles Times May 28, 2025

After five years as a member of Gleason’s on-the-air repertory company, Randolph virtually retired, opting to focus full-time on marriage and motherhood.

From Seattle Times Jan. 14, 2024

The days of being America’s grand repertory company, of 20-plus titles a year, could be slowly entering the rearview mirror.

From New York Times Jun. 8, 2023

The creation that would define his career came early: at 21, he was part of a travelling repertory company when he came up with a character of a snobbish, inadvertently offensive housewife.

From Reuters Apr. 22, 2023

It will be observed that in speaking of Stuart Walker's work I have used the phrase repertory company, not, repertory theater.

From More Portmanteau Plays by Walker, Stuart

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