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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

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“The idea was to form this repertory company and be like the Mark Taper Forum,” Loewenberg recalled.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2025

When a repertory company comes to town with two programs, and one has a Rennie Harris dance on it, choose that.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2024

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

Everybody's working at the height of their ability, you had this extraordinary repertory company, a perfect cast.

From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2022

It is the definite mission, or some part of it at any rate, of the repertory company to encourage new dramatists, new players, and new stage effects when such encouragement is advisable.

From More Portmanteau Plays by Walker, Stuart

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