Theatre or theater [a] is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song ...

29/09/2022 · theatre, also spelled theater, in dramatic arts, an art concerned almost exclusively with live performances in which the action is precisely planned to create a coherent and significant sense of drama.

2. a large room or hall, usually with a raised platform and tiered seats for an audience, used for lectures, film shows, etc. 3. (Surgery) Also called: operating theatre a room in a hospital or other medical centre equipped for surgical operations. 4. (Theatre) plays regarded collectively as a form of art. 5.

a large room or hall, usually with a raised platform and tiered seats for an audience, used for lectures, film shows, etc. Also called: operating theatre a room in a hospital or other medical …

A2 [ C ] a building, room, or outside structure with rows of seats, each row usually higher than the one in front, from which people can watch a performance or other activity: the Lyceum …

The role of the audience. The theatre depends more than most arts upon audience response. If the house is not full, not only does the performance lose money but it also loses force. It is unusual—but not impossible—for new ideas, even for new ways of expressing old ideas, to achieve wide commercial success.

theatre design, the art and technique of designing and building a space—a theatre—intended primarily for the performance of drama and its allied arts by live performers who are physically present in front of a live audience. This article describes the different forms a theatre can take and the history of those forms. In doing so, it will use two terms—theatre design and theatre …