Sentence examples for theater precedents from inspiring English sources

Though they deny any connection with performance art or theater, precedents exist for this type of "extreme" video art in some of the performance works of video pioneers like Chris Burden.

As a piece of pure political theater, one precedent for the show is F.D.R.'s fireside chats, the innovation of which was to make the president sound casual and unguarded.

Realizing that a full-time children's theater was without precedent on Broadway and therefore risky, the group restored the theater to its original turn-of-the-19th-century glory (at a cost of $11.4 million) so that it did not look like a children's theater and could be used for adult fare, if necessary.

We've reached October, and we're going to take a break from the heavy lifting and look at a case that's more "good theater" than "vital precedent". In Felton v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo 2018-168, the court had the task of examining amounts paid from a congregation to its pastor, and deciding whether those amounts represented "gifts" or taxable income.

A ballet with a decapitated first act is not a good precedent for Ballet Theater to follow in future seasons.

American musical comedy as we know it wouldn't exist without the precedent of Yiddish theater, whose jolly, fun-for-fun's-sake communal spirit goes to the essence of Broadway.

The local and international architectural precedents for the spherical theater are clear enough.

There's little precedent in dance or theater for a nonprofit arts incubator to be led by an artist of Jones's stature.

The suspension of activity also has precedents, among them the temporary disbanding of Ballet Theater (now American Ballet Theater) in the 1940's and in 1965.

Asked if the early reviews set a precedent, several Broadway producers and theater owners said on Tuesday that the show was an exception, given its long preview period and high cost.

Embraced especially by the Protestant denominations that were Tiffany's main clients the auditorium church featured interior design based not on ecclesiastical precedents but on a secular institution: the theater.