tent show
Traveling canvas entertainment
A tent show is a traveling entertainment production—typically a circus, revival meeting, or theatrical performance—staged under a large canvas tent rather than in a permanent venue.
The term evokes early and mid-twentieth-century America, when such shows brought entertainment to rural areas and small towns: The medicine show was a kind of tent show that hawked patent remedies between acts.
- carnivalTraveling amusement attraction
- county fairRegional harvest celebration
- sideshowSecondary carnival attraction
- circusTraveling entertainment with performers
- revivalReturn after decline
vaudeville · canvas · midway · barker · traveling · itinerant · one-night stand · small town · fairground · performer · stage · sawdust · big top · troupe · spectacle · entertainment · roadshow · burlesque
- traveling showstraveling troupe, roadshow, circus, vaudeville, sideshow
- Victorian entertainmentvaudeville, music hall, pantomime, melodrama, burlesque
- circuscircus, big top, clown, clowns, ringmaster
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Venue for staged singing
Broadway theater · playhouse · concert hall · repertory theater · movie palace
tent showgrand opera
Fully sung dramatic spectacle
legitimate theater · ballet · Metropolitan Opera · gala performance · Royal Shakespeare Company
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