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
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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
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
The theater was poised to close until Andrew Russell, then an Intiman associate director, proposed to the board that the company reconfigure into a stripped-down summer theater festival under his leadership.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2023
And if you have, this “Scenes” feels less like a reimagining than like a highbrow stage revival — movie stars spending a few weeks doing Ibsen at a summer theater fest.
From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 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 Douglas (Douglas N.) Hay
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