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theater

A theater is a building with a big room with a stage and places for many people to sit, so that people can watch a play with actors in it. We went to the theater to watch a play by Shakespeare. A theater is a place where movies are shown. We'll make it to the theater on time, there's twenty-nine minutes left before the movie starts.

theater

(= house) a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented the house was full (= dramaturgy) the art of writing and producing plays (= field, theatre) a region in which active military operations are in progress the army was in the field awaiting action he served in the Vietnam theater for three years

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Simple sentences

I don't know the theater play, but I know the author well.
Let's go to the theater together.
Great! We'll meet at the movie theater.
We go to the theater once a week.
There's an old movie theater in town.
We went to the theater early, so we could be sure that everyone could get a seat.
I was at a movie theater.
The movie is now showing at a theater near you.
The evening performance at the Royal Theater had ended, and the audience had gone home.
I went to the theater quite early with a view to getting a good seat.
Which theater is that?
The store is just across from the theater.
We are not supposed to drink in this theater.
I met Yoko on my way to the theater.
Let's meet in front of the theater.
He looked just like his picture on the wall of the theater.
On my way to the theater I saw a traffic accident.
Are you going to the theater tonight?
You cannot take a picture in the theater without permission.
Tom wishes he had gone to the theater last night.
That movie theater always shows good movies.
Do you like the theater?
Let's go to the theater early so that we can get good seats.
At the theater, Kathy changed seats with her mother.

Movie subtitles

Theater nerds.
Ernst takes his mother-in-law to the theater.
Select scenes were reconstructed and resequenced, using the script and synopsis found in 1922 theater programs.
This was once the Imperial Theater.
While employed as a moving picture operator is a small town. theater he was also studying to be a detective.
The target - the Odessa theater.
And Bordenave, accompanied by Rose Mignon, the star of his theater, and all of his crew, has come to offer his deepest condolences.
Were you at the theater last night?
I hope to see you at the theater.
Theater, hotels, trains.
Trains, hotels, theater.
She'll not be going to the theater.
That theater, half empty.
Tonight there is a line in front of the theater since 6:00.
Um, I'm not really a theater person, but I really loved that.
Young people know nothing about theater.
I like theater, but I'm fed up!
Young man, theater is a thing of the past.
So, it's the theater?
You told investigators you couldn't remember what time you left the theater.
The crime was discovered at 4:05 AM. So you must've left the theater at 3:55 AM.
I was in the theater at 2:30, watching the rehearsal.
I'd left the theater, but I know she's innocent.
No. Remember me from the theater on the night of the crime?
The theater cashier claimed he gave her 20,000 f.
She took me through the theater to the main entrance on the street.
This isn't a theater, it's a French courtroom! The defense is overstepping its bounds.
We go to the theater tomorrow evening.
You said you were going to the theater.
Theater, hotels, trains. Trains, hotels, theater.
The dancer's gone to the theater.
She's gone to the theater.
I often come here when you're at the theater.
You go to the theater.
Are you coming to the theater?

News and current affairs

For the US, China's rising power actually helps validate American forward military deployments in the Asian theater.
It is possible that the murder accusations against Bo's wife, Gu Kailai, are part of such political theater.
Coal contributes strongly to global warming, but no amount of political theater can alter the inescapable fact that it also provides benefits that we cannot yet replicate with renewable energy.
Like good theater, terrorism always acts out some moral drama, and to strike terror in the public mind, terrorists must act in public, without guilt or remorse.
Russian TV recently showed a bus shuttling from Grozny to Moscow, the very bus that brought to Moscow the 120 kilograms of explosives used in the siege of the Dubrovka theater where so many died in the attempt to rescue the hostages.
The horrific death toll among innocent theater-going Muscovites confirms Russia's struggle against Chechen rebels as a distinct and bloody front in the global war on terrorism.
At least half of the body of Greek theater and philosophy was produced in Asia Minor.
Turkey was the theater of exceptional violence in the twentieth century: its participation in WWI fueled hatred and gigantic massacres, with the genocide of the Armenians the last vicious spasm of the Ottoman Empire's brutal demise.
Indeed, after the hostage crisis in the Dubrovka Theater in Moscow in 2002, the same sort of harsh words flowed, but no extra money was spent.
She will strive to enter the Oval Office - the theater of her inner, outer, and planetary misery - on her own terms.
Are we threatened with a new arms race between Russia and the US, with Europe once again the theater of their rivalry?
Talks among representatives of Shia, Wahhabi-Ismaili, and other sects within the National Dialogue were recently televised, but this was pure theater of reform, nothing more, and the Saudi population is no longer willing to suspend its disbelief.
Maintaining these profits requires a population conditioned by this theater of fear to submit to anything - even the sexual quasi-abuse of themselves and their children.
But what is happening in Russia today - rampant organized crime, the conflict with Chechnya, and carnage like the theater hostage disaster and the Beslan school catastrophe - makes South Africa's transition to democracy look like a Sunday school picnic.
This time, the massacre site was a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, where accused shooter James Holmes murdered and injured dozens of moviegoers.
The EU also suffers from a well-known lack of capacity in strategic air transport, in-theater air transport, and combat support.
Kadyrov promised Zakaev amnesty and various positions ranging from director of the local theater to Minister of Culture.
Aside from the president of Serbia, the only leaders expected to be in attendance are from countries, such as China and Vietnam, that were not part of the European theater in World War II.
One school regards Syria primarily as a theater of battle against Al Qaeda and other extremists.
Nowhere does this question loom larger than in developing and emerging economies, which are outside the main theater of the crisis, but are more precariously positioned than the advanced countries.
Terrorism is a form of theater.

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