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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“Someone said it was going back and seeing your favorite people from summer theater camp.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
At times, I wondered if I had accidentally stumbled upon a summer theater camp for pent-up actors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2023
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
When Reginald L. Douglas was a precocious 6-year-old attending a summer theater camp on Long Island, the program’s founder noted his habit of asking detailed questions about every aspect of putting on a play.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 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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