Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who attends the theater.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who habitually attends theatrical performances.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who frequents playhouses, or attends dramatic performances.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who goes to
plays ; someone known to be a member of theaudience attheatric productions.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who attends the theater
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Examples
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The staging is complex and its intricacy continuously forces the audience to stay out of any sort of usual playgoer comfort zone.
Bill Swadley: Theater Review: How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found
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So, in a sense, a playgoer signs up with Albee for a long-term relationship, not a one-night stand.
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Part of what makes them so interesting is Mr. Gibbs's point of view, which was that of an unintellectual but highly intelligent playgoer who knew what he liked and was amply endowed with horse sense.
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The staging is complex and its intricacy continuously forces the audience to stay out of any sort of usual playgoer comfort zone.
Bill Swadley: Theater Review: How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found
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To the playgoer, though, it was his Shakespeare which won him most respect, notably with the Old Vic 1959-61, including a tour of the Soviet Union.
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Pearl was a regular playgoer, always the only foreigner in the crowd squatting in temple courtyards or on hillside threshing floors, and she was also by now an enthusiastic reader of the novels she had first gotten to know through the family cook.
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Pearl was a regular playgoer, always the only foreigner in the crowd squatting in temple courtyards or on hillside threshing floors, and she was also by now an enthusiastic reader of the novels she had first gotten to know through the family cook.
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Joseph Holloway 1861-1944, the tireless Dublin playgoer, noted in his journal that Yeats had made ‘a fool of himself in “going” for an article that appeared in this morning’s Independent.
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Adding insult to injury, the playgoer paid a lot of money for this disappointment.
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The setting of "Billy Elliot" is the British miners 'strike of 1984-85, about which the average American playgoer knows absolutely nothing.
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