Sentence examples for shutdown theater from inspiring English sources

Government shutdown theater has given us some surreal moments.

Senator Marco Rubio (Florida): Rubio was a relatively minor player in the shutdown theater, but he stands to benefit enormously from it as far as Tea Party support goes, as it has weakened the chances that the immigration debate will return to front-and-center.

Tickets can be ordered online for any of three shows, including a production of "This," an Off Broadway comedy, by using the code word "shutdown," the theater says.

This shutdown is more than political theater to people.

(That medium led to the shutdown of thousands of movie theaters. Americans used to go to the movies four to five times a week. But after a few years it dawned on Hollywood that it could get very rich supplying content to the boob tube).

Later, he called for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims" entering the U.S. Outside the theater, Los Angeles police officers lined the sidewalk and used their bicycles to block the street.

After a nearly three-year shutdown and a 220-million-pound renovation, this 268-room theater district hotel on the banks of the Thames is scheduled to make its debut anew this weekend.

But all of that was small potatoes indeed, when stacked up against the Worst Political Theater of 2013 -- the entire "government shutdown" five-act play, brought to you by the Republican Congressional Players Troupe.

FRANKFURT — As far as the rest of the world was concerned on Tuesday, the shutdown of the United States government was little more than political theater with a somewhat baffling plot.

Not only has the government shutdown not shut down or even delayed Obamacare, the political theater that is Washington these days is all that the media and public are paying attention to.

Until then, the latest government shutdown and budget standoff is little more than poorly written political theater.