summer theater

American  

noun

1. a theater that operates during the summer, especially in a suburban or resort area, usually offering a different play or musical comedy each week.

2. summer stock.

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Etymology

Origin of summer theater

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

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summer theater

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

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

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 Hay, Douglas (Douglas N.)