The phrase "a given theatre" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific theatre that is being discussed or considered in a particular context.
Example: "In a given theatre, the acoustics can greatly affect the audience's experience during a performance."
Alternatives: "a specific theatre" or "any particular theatre".
The precise nature of each architectural element and the exact combination of elements found in any given theatre will be determined by the ability of a theatre's architect to understand and give expression to what the culture or subculture believes to be ideal.
Patients entering are given theatre clothing and a change of shoes, the normal practice in many parts of the world.
Sony had given theatres in the US and Canada the option to bow out of showing The Interview in the wake of the threats.
Good question, but Lenkiewicz's plays at least give theatre a fighting chance in an easily distracted age.
Josie Rourke, the play's director, said: "Some of the nation's greatest actors are coming together this election night to give theatre a seat at the table of a national event.
One obvious name: that once-great theatrical innovator, Steven Berkoff, who made a preening idiot of himself in An Actor's Lament, the kind of moany, navel-gazing show that gives theatre a bad name.
The Tonys, with their glitz and glam, are important and give theatre a national platform every year to market itself.
"What Punchdrunk shows do," says David Jubb, BAC artistic director, "is give theatre back to audiences.
Sydney's latest big opening, Peter Gilmore's Bennelong at the Sydney Opera House, is distinguished by its three course a la carte offering giving theatre-goers the pleasure of a fine meal while finishing in time to see the curtain come up.
This is what stars are, or were: shorthand for the desirability of a given show on a given night at the theatre.
