Definition of little theater
: a small theater for low-cost dramatic productions designed for a relatively limited audience
Examples of little theater in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web The studio opened that film in the middle of the day, in a little theater in Santa Monica, with no press.
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Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, "Hollywood Flashback: James Cromwell Reflects on 'Babe' 25 Years Later," 8 Aug. 2020 As a child, his mother even built him a little theater.
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Sanya Mansoor, Time, "Caroll Spinney, Beloved Puppeteer Behind Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, Dies at 85," 8 Dec. 2019 The first session is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday in the little theater in Hinsdale South High School, 7401 S. Clarendon Hills Road, Darien.
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Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, "Hinsdale District 86 to hold meetings on change in science course sequence some oppose," 8 Nov. 2019 But Ab-Ex was always a garish mode of painting, and a little theater has always been part of the American package.
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Jason Farago, New York Times, "Lee Krasner, Hiding in Plain Sight," 19 Aug. 2019 The company celebrated reaching unicorn status with a little theater.
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Joe Rubino, The Denver Post, "Mobile shopping app Ibotta becomes Denver’s only billion-dollar “unicorn” company," 8 Aug. 2019 But when tensions are high and the public is scared a recession is around the corner, a little theater can be therapeutic.
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Allison Schrager, Quartz, "The Fed finally cut rates. Will anyone notice?," 31 July 2019 There was this little theater around the corner from us in Philly that would have second-run movies for a dollar.
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Los Angeles Times, "Kevin Bacon on his shockingly corrupt ‘City on a Hill’ FBI man and heroes vs. bad guys," 19 July 2019 Dunkley’s pictures, which generally are not of particular places in his country, are in many instances like crosses between little theater sets and the creations of a landscape architect.
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Sanford Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, "Close Up and Far Away," 21 Mar. 2019
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