How to Use street theater in a Sentence

street theater

noun
  • Pfleger is best at street theater, and this is another example.
    — Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2025
  • There are gigantic puppets used in street theater and outdoor pageantry.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Some provided food and water, others street theater and rites of mourning for Hussein.
    — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The street theater company’s seven members moved to San Diego a year later.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2026
  • Pauline, now known as Pomme (Apple), has become a singer involved in feminist street theater.
    — New York Times, 30 May 2018
  • As in street theater, furniture pieces are few and props are often two-dimensional renderings.
    — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 13 Nov. 2019
  • In a way, delivering street theater is what Lamborghini has always done.
    — New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Six of the film’s main protagonists were present, treating the crowd on the Croisette to a live street theater performance during their stay in Cannes.
    — Lise Pedersen, Variety, 21 May 2024
  • The Sisters are a nonprofit community group that mixes drag queen elegance with street theater panache.
    — Nora Mishanec, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Apr. 2023
  • For the next three or more months, the company criss-crossed the island, teaming up with community kitchens and other ad hoc groups to stage street theater, lead workshops, and develop new work.
    — Martha Bayne, Chicago Reader, 9 July 2018
  • For 10 days in July, close to two million people turn up to enjoy a riot of free concerts and street theater known as the Gentse Feesten.
    — National Geographic, 14 Nov. 2019
  • That’s the goal of surging heavily armed federal forces into blue states such as Minnesota and Maine—street theater of the most dangerous kind.
    — Hillary Rodham Clinton, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Concerts, dancing, street theater, chill-out zones and family workshops complement the market with antiques and handmade goods by local artisans.
    — Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
  • The procession is an annual piece of street theater, organized by Flock Theatre, a New London troupe.
    — Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The Madrid Carnival Parade features a mix of street theater, circus acts, giant puppets and fantastic creatures.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The architecture firm Marvel has designed a quick-deployment street theater made of shipping containers that could be elevated to let traffic pass underneath.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 26 Feb. 2021
  • McLaren might be less flamboyant than some of its rivals, but the LT’s dihedral doors and backlit engine bay, which glows red with mechanical malice, add some welcome street theater.
    — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 26 Jan. 2022
  • This form, which came to be called immersive theater, has its origins in the Happenings of the ’60s art world (or even further back, in participatory rituals and street theater).
    — New York Times, 9 Feb. 2022
  • The groups walk a thin line between civil disobedience and political street theater in a way that has caused a split within the anti-lockdown movement, some of whose proponents oppose such brazen challenges to the authorities.
    — David Montgomery, New York Times, 13 May 2020
  • Waters’s remark provided an intriguing moment of impromptu street theater, a mini-drama suffused with subtextual peril.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 25 July 2019
  • In a conservative village in the south of Egypt, dominated by patriarchy and full of despair, a lively group of Coptic girls refuse the traditional roles forced upon them by forming an all-female street theater troupe.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Symbolic action — protest marches, street theater, and similar efforts — reinvigorate activists themselves while targeting an injustice, with the aim of pressing public officials or other institutions to change policy.
    — Julia Shipley, Rolling Stone, 26 May 2021
  • Attendees can also enjoy live arts ranging from Baltimore Symphony Orchestra concerts to dance, opera, jazz, street theater performances, experimental music, and a comedy club.
    — Necee Regis, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2018

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