summer stock
Resort town repertory
Summer stock refers to theatrical productions staged during the summer months, typically by repertory companies at resort towns or rural venues.
These productions historically gave young actors, directors, and designers practical experience while entertaining vacationing audiences.
The term evokes a particular era of American theater, roughly from the 1920s through the 1960s, when such companies flourished.
She spent three summers doing summer stock in the Berkshires before landing her Broadway role.
Collection of prepared works
- playhouseMiniature structure for children
- troupeTraveling group of performers
- ensembleUnified group or outfit
- performancesStaged artistic presentations
auditions · rehearsals · musicals · comedies · dramas · revivals · stage · backstage
Learning trade through employment
- actorsThose playing roles
- thespiansStage performers collectively
- experiencePractical knowledge from life
- craftSkilled manual art
stagecraft · improv · monologue · dialogue · dramaturgy · ensemble · understudy · audition
repertory
Collection of prepared works
- playhouseMiniature structure for children
- troupeTraveling group of performers
- ensembleUnified group or outfit
performances · auditions · rehearsals · musicals · comedies · dramas · revivals · stage · backstage · costumes
apprenticeship
Learning trade through employment
- actorsThose playing roles
- thespiansStage performers collectively
- experiencePractical knowledge from life
craft · stagecraft · improv · monologue · dialogue · dramaturgy · ensemble · understudy · audition · rehearsal
barn
Agricultural storage structure
lakeside · countryside · vacation · tourist · seasonal · community · regional · New England · Catskills · circuit
- performing artsacting, dance, music, drama, theater
- theater termsplay, actors, stage play, limelight, directing
- amateur theatercommunity theater, amateur dramatics, drama clubs, high school drama, school plays
- stage showsplays, musicals, dramas, comedies, tragedies
- Theatersmovie theater, cinema, playhouse, opera house, auditorium
- theater groupsacting company, theater troupe, troupe, repertory theater, repertory theatre
summer stockBroadway
Manhattan theatrical district
West End · commercial theater · professional theater · touring production · off-Broadway
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