summer theater
Americannoun
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a theater that operates during the summer, especially in a suburban or resort area, usually offering a different play or musical comedy each week.
Etymology
Origin of summer theater
First recorded in 1945–50
Example Sentences
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Sharon — who met her husband at a summer theater program — saw this as an opening: They’d get set up in California and use the movie as leverage to get Keke more work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2024
He worked for many years as a private detective, served as a photographic safari guide in Kenya and directed summer theater in Oxford, England, to name a few.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2024
That was in 1961, and the next year, while touring in summer theater during television’s off season, she starred with Ludden — by then a widower with three children — in the comedy “Critic’s Choice.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 31, 2021
His first real attraction to show business came with a summer job parking cars and doing errands at a summer theater.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2021
An account of a disastrous summer theater production was downright hilarious.
From Epistles from Pap: Letters from the man known as 'The Will Rogers of Indiana' by Hay, Douglas (Douglas N.)
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