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arena theater

noun

Definition of arena theater

as in music hall

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Recent Examples of arena theater Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre The 250-seat in-the-round arena theater. — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025 In May, the jubilee kicked off with a 90-minute arena theater show which included more than 500 horses (one of the queen's favorite animals) and 1,000 performers showed off a look through history of the British Monarchy, beginning with Elizabeth I. — Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 2 June 2022

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Noun

Now reimagined as part of Atlantic Park, the new venue combines a multilevel indoor music hall with an outdoor lawn and has a total capacity of 5,000 guests.

— Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 12 Oct. 2026
The novel is built around an encounter between the mysterious title character and a music hall aficionado in London in 1938, the year before World War II.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 June 2026

Definition of music hall

Noun

London had been ravaged by plague since the summer of 1592, with high mortality rates in the city and suburbs meaning the playhouses were closed for business for twenty of the following twenty-two months.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2026
Russell adds a 30 Rock–esque backstage frame in which an assistant stage manager (Twiggy, looking divine) is thrust into the spotlight when the star of her regional playhouse’s production of The Boy Friend is nowhere to be found.

— Juan A. Ramírez, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of playhouse

Noun

Pinault also owns Venice’s Teatrino, a 225-seat auditorium that reopened in 2013 after a renovation by Tadao Ando, who also worked on the other two spaces in the city.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 4 Nov. 2026
Who hasn’t airballed a foul shot in front of a Catholic school auditorium filled with 50 people on a Saturday morning?

— Ryan Gaydos OutKick, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of auditorium

Noun

The Lakers unveiled a statue of their Showtime era coach outside their downtown arena last season.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2026
Cluff carried him through the arena for Grand Entry, dancing as intertribal drum groups took turns playing and hundreds of representatives of indigenous tribes danced.

— Sarah Gordon, Hartford Courant, 3 Nov. 2026

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