repertory theater

noun

1. repertory.

Word History and Origins

Origin of repertory theater¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

Prior to taking on screen roles, Loe pursued a career on the stage, including repertory theater in northern England’s Crewe, where in 1968 she met fellow actor Richard Beckinsale, whom she would marry in 1977.

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Among the California institutions affected are the South Coast Repertory theater company, Los Angeles Theatre Works, the community-based Cornerstone Theater Company and Transit Books, a Bay Area publisher specializing in international literature with authors including Norwegian novelist and playwright Jon Fosse, who received the 2023 Nobel Prize in literature.

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Chamberlain’s early work on the American stage included starring in the Seattle Repertory Theater’s 1971 production of Shakespeare’s “Richard II,” a performance deemed by Times theater critic Dan Sullivan as “an astonishingly accomplished one.”

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My dad had a long career as an actor, transcending a fairly bleak working-class upbringing in the Pacific Northwest, to repertory theater and then innumerable roles in TV and movies.

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The proximity to repertory theater, the best video stores at the time.

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