professional theater
Compensated dramatic performance
Professional theater is stage performance as a paid occupation rather than a hobby or community activity.
The term distinguishes productions where actors, directors, and crew earn their living from amateur or educational theater.
Professional theater ranges from Broadway and the West End to regional repertory companies: She made the leap from college productions to professional theater.
- BroadwayManhattan theatrical district
- box officeTicket sales revenue
- sold outNo inventory remains
- stageRaised performance platform
- curtainFabric hung for privacy
curtain call · audience · spotlight · rehearsal · playwright · director · casting · audition · leading role · ensemble · costume · backstage · dramaturgy · repertory · marquee · ovation · standing room · matinee
- theater groupsacting company, troupe, acting troupe, stock company, touring companies
- theaterplays, stage, play, onstage, acting
- stage showsplays, musicals, dramas, comedies, tragedies
professional theateramateur theater
Noncommercial stage performance
community theater · amateur dramatics · amateur theatricals · little theater · school plays
professional theaterfringe theater
Experimental, non-commercial drama
street theater · guerrilla theater · experimental theater · black box theater
professional theaterfilm
Movie or coating
cinema · television · radio drama · movies · streaming content
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