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.

From Los Angeles Times

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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