Sentence examples for theater parlance from inspiring English sources
Later, the VCR and multiplexes — called hardtops in movie theater parlance — took a toll.
It may not be an overnight success story, but in theater parlance, it's certainly a fast-moving one.
Act I now has, in theater parlance, a curtain: a cliffhanging turn of events to draw audiences back after intermission.
In theater parlance, a show is "frozen" when — on a designated rehearsal day, usually about a week before opening night — no more fixes, cuts or additions are introduced.
Audience members were invited to return to see the play when it was truly, as theater parlance goes, "on its feet".
Within weeks, the production "went clean" -- theater parlance for selling out -- on its entire four-week run at the 2,200-seat 2,200-seatCanon larger than any theater on Broadwhich
Am I free to scream the equivalent of fire in a crowded theater or in common parlance creating a witch hunting atmosphere which exploits fear of political or sexual aggression.
Such universality might account for a proliferation of Object Theater pieces ("the new, cool puppetry parlance," according to Mr. Hurlin): the Broadway musical "Avenue Q and Paula Vogell's play "The Long Christmas Ride Home"; the films "Being John Malkovich" and "Illuminata".
LAS VEGAS — In the annual Hollywood ritual here known as CinemaCon, studio executives visit to wine and dine movie theater owners, or "exhibitor friends" in the parlance of the convention.
At the famed theater, he was known, in sketch-comedy parlance, as a "space man".
(In old-school parlance, legit is shorthand for the legitimate theater).
