vaudeville theater
Acts and stages
A vaudeville theater is a venue built or adapted for vaudeville—the variety entertainment format that dominated American popular culture from the 1880s through the 1930s.
These theaters hosted rotating bills of unrelated acts: singers, comedians, acrobats, magicians, trained animals.
Many were ornate palaces designed to attract middle-class audiences.
The old vaudeville theater downtown has been converted to a movie house.
- impresarioConcert or opera organizer
- orchestra pitRecessed area for musicians
- slapstickExaggerated physical humor
- comic timingHumor's rhythmic precision
- pantomimeDrama through gesture alone
traveling troupes · top billing · song and dance · Gilded Age · ventriloquism · contortionist · stagehand · burlesque · box seats · stage door · comedian · juggling · songstress · hoofers · marquee · magician · balcony seating · monologues
- Theaterscinema, playhouse, opera house, auditorium, concert hall
- venuesarena, auditorium, stadium, performing arts center, concert hall
- Victorian establishmentsapothecary, boarding house, coffeehouse, general store, gin palace
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Motion picture theater
movie theater · movie palace · multiplex · drive-in theater · nickelodeon
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Venue for staged singing
concert hall · legitimate theater · repertory theater · ballet theater · art house cinema
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Internet media delivery platform
Netflix · esports arena · podcast studio · YouTube · TikTok
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