They had dinner in a French restaurant, Savann, at 80th and Amsterdam and enjoyed a bit of neighborhood theater: the comedy of a squabbling couple at a nearby table, the scene at Fairway and the drama of the snow.
Just one day before the Reseda Boulevard Starbucks intervention, he led 40 disciples to a Los Angeles Wal-Mart for a bit of protest theater known as a Whirl.
"We hope we're seeing a little bit of political theater here," a senior State Department official said.
The idea is not so much to sate the appetite of Mr. Tyson, a 42-year-old former boxer who has been in and out of jail, as to create a bit of theater around a documentary film about him.
On Aug. 2 the group handed out fliers and performed a bit of street theater in Old Town Square, holding a symbolic soccer match between multinational corporations and representatives of the world's poor.
All of this amounts to little more than a bit of Kabuki theater, as $1.3 million is a drop in the bucket for Uber and its war chest and Uber drivers still won't park while waiting for a fare.
A trip to his old neighborhood yields a bit of the theater of the street, but the whole jaunt feels a little like a campaign stop, even with Mr. Avitabile revisiting the stuffy basement where he practiced as a youth.
Mr. Gore, for his part, hopped aboard an old-fashioned paddle boat to head down the Mississippi, indulging in a bit of political theater that wrapped his journey in a populist aura and evoked the sturdy, timeless values of the American heartland.
If there is a group of you trying to find quick money, put together a quick skit for a bit of street theater.
The drink and mixology experts Ben McFarland and Tom Sandham premiered "The Thinking Drinker's Guide to Alcohol," a bit of participatory theater where the audience is given half a dozen cocktails on which to sip while the experts expound on booze's heavy influence on historical figures from Jesus and Mohammed to Hemingway and Hitler.
