traveling troupes
Roaming theater companies
Traveling troupes are groups of performers—actors, musicians, acrobats, or dancers—who move from place to place to perform.
The term evokes an earlier era when entertainment came to audiences rather than audiences traveling to fixed venues: Traveling troupes brought theater to rural communities.
The phrase suggests itinerant artistic life, often with connotations of colorful, bohemian existence.
- circusTraveling entertainment with performers
- big topMain circus tent
- traveling showPortable entertainment visiting venues
- vaudevilleTheatrical variety entertainment
- variety actSolo entertainment segment
minstrel shows · medicine show · caravans · on the road · hit the road · theater · repertory company · costumes · mask · barnstorming · one night stand · props · wagon · street performers · medieval fairs · Harlequin · mountebanks · tent
traveling troupesrepertory theater
Venue rotating multiple productions
regional theater · home theater · community theater · Broadway company · national theater