Sentence examples for small playhouse from inspiring English sources
Jackie had a small playhouse in the main house, like a dollhouse/playhouse kind of thing.
In my attempt to see some two dozen productions of "The Nutcracker" from coast to coast this season, I had already seen, among others, one at Rosecliff, a 1902 mansion with a heart-shape staircase in Newport, R.I.; another in a small playhouse on the Lower East Side of Manhattan; and a third in the 1928 Boston Opera House.
I'm ordering a sheet of it to test out a small playhouse and may raffle it off at an upcoming fair.
"It's a great way to occupy their time," said Mark Womble, who built a small playhouse for his children in a corner of his Costa Mesa back yard.
Maybe even a small playhouse.
Although a good many fine plays are staged in the small playhouses generally known as "off-Broadway", what Arthur Miller said some years ago remains approximately true: "The American theatre is five blocks long by about one and half blocks wide".
Had the show been in a smaller playhouse, of course, the gross potential would have been higher and there would have been more sold-out performances.
While he praises the diverse work of the Royal Court and the National Theatre, and smaller playhouses like the Bush, he criticises West End theatres for not tapping into the potential income stream of new audiences.
The whodunnit, Perfect Crime, by Warren Manzi, has been running at a small uptown playhouse since 1987, and is therefore a sort of American Mousetrap, but that is classified as an off-Broadway play and New York theatre is pernickety about such distinctions.
As a Jacobean playwright that would change, for after 1608 Shakespeare found himself writing not only for this cross-section of playgoers but also for a more exclusive audience at a small indoor playhouse inside the City walls at Blackfriars.
That "Bees" and "June" are engaged for open-ended runs at two of Manhattan's most desirable small commercial playhouses is an amazing feat for a fledgling Off Broadway company that lacks such basics as a theater of its own.
