Sentence examples for early curtain from inspiring English sources

And not everyone has to like the show to like the early curtain.

The new flexibility has advantages; the Tuesday early curtain seems a good way to ease congestion and allow after-theater diners a little more time to digest.

Now, after six weeks, fewer people arrive late, but it is an open question whether the early curtain is pulling in more theatergoers.

To attract and maintain a loyal following, concert halls and theaters are offering customer-friendly accommodations like early curtain times, more flexible exchange policies and a greater variety of subscription packages.

So on Thursday, when the weather could not have been balmier, it was easy to take in a Stravinsky program at the symphony in the afternoon and then have dinner, with plenty of time to make an early curtain at the opera house for a new production of Offenbach's "Contes d'Hoffmann" ("The Tales of Hoffmann"), conducted stylishly by Patrick Fournillier.

The famed fungoids will perform three programs this weekend, starting today -- at an early curtain time to enable off-the-stage fireworks watching -- with Jonathan Wolken's new "Wedlock," the company classic "Untitled," and "Tsu-Ku-Tsu" and "Ben's Admonition," both by Alison Chase.

Mary and Martha (BBC1) | iPlayer Lightfields (ITV1) | ITVPlayer Food Glorious Food (ITV1) | ITVPlayer Heading Out (BBC2) | iPlayer Drama in aid of a worthy cause is not always more a pleasure than a duty, and Richard Curtis's feature-length Mary and Martha – an early curtain-raiser for Red Nose Day – was no exception.

His earliest curtain, "Jubilee" (1999), is a showstopper, decorative yet urgent.

At Sardi's, on West 44th Street, Ivan Lesica, the mâitre d'hôtel, said the earlier curtain time had made Tuesdays smoother by expanding the hours in which dinners were cooked and served for theatergoers.

Mr. White introduced Cathy Edwards and Craig T. Peterson as co-artistic directors and suggested that the earlier curtain time for evening performances (7 o'clock) might be convenient for all, especially parents like himself.

The Roundabout, which produces seven shows each season, has built its subscriber base to 46,000 from 17,000 in 1983 through customer-friendly programs like wine tastings and early-bird curtain times, and a sophisticated fund-raising operation in which 20 to 30 people work the phones to generate new subscriptions, renewals and outright contributions.