theater company
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2.7
- noun
- /ˈθiːətər ˈkʌmpəni/
- US
:
compañía de teatro
- Our community theater company is putting on a production of Shakespeare's Hamlet this spring.
- local theater company
- small theater company
- professional theater company
Examples
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The National Science Foundation recently gave a whopping $697,177 to a New York City-based theater company to produce a musical about climate change.
Blog text (4) -
From its humble beginnings as a touring group, the company has now become one of Seattle's largest mid-size theatre companies.
Blog text (3) -
I think it was the last real major theatre company in Boston, Regional Theatre Company.
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It's the name of my theater company.
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Whenever I travel for work, I look for a small local theatre company to see a show.
Blog text (12) -
And at 13, they formed their own theatre company called the Attic.
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Hundreds of professional theatre companies are creating new work for school and family audiences.
Academic text (1993) -
We're a traveling theater company.
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I work with this little theater company in Topanga.
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When Brenton finished college, he joined the Brighton Combination, a theater company, as an actor and a writer.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
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3.5
A group of actors, dancers, or other performers who work together
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4.4
A group of people who act or dance together
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7.4
A theater group that performs different plays on a regular schedule
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2.7
A group of local people who are not professional and perform plays for people in their town
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6.8
A group of actors who regularly perform different plays during a season
A group of actors who perform a set of plays regularly in one theatre
How Professional
- US
9
2.7
- US
7
2.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an organization that produces and performs plays' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'theater' (performance/plays) with 'company' (group/organization). This noun-noun compounding follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern in English, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Theater company joins theater and company: theater is a place for plays and company used to mean a group of people who travel or work together. Because actors often worked as a group, theater company came to mean 'an organized group that performs plays'.