How to Use summer theater in a Sentence

summer theater

noun
  • The on- and off-set bonding had the feel of a summer theater acting troupe.
    — Stuart Miller, Variety, 10 Jan. 2023
  • After a more than a year’s hiatus, live summer theater is back.
    — Rachel Ryan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 June 2021
  • Then, at a summer theater camp before eighth grade, she was cast in a female role — a witch-like stepmother.
    — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2021
  • The theater is equipped to operate year-round, but its reputation is as a summer theater.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 11 Apr. 2021
  • To most people, a park that shares space with an industrial-size pile of road salt might not be an ideal setting for outdoor summer theater.
    — Gail Waterhouse, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2018
  • His first real attraction to show business came with a summer job parking cars and doing errands at a summer theater.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2021
  • Bravo to Disney for moving up the premiere by more than a year, and relieving our summer theater doldrums.
    — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Here’s a look the summer theater camps offered by Magik, The Public and the Woodlawn.
    — Deborah Martin, ExpressNews.com, 29 May 2020
  • The Cape Playhouse, started in the 1920s, is a famous summer theater there.
    — Lea Lane, Forbes, 6 July 2022
  • It’s been our amazing home for 12 years and the place our company grew from a small summer theater to a year-round professional training program.
    — cleveland, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The music circus was a summer theater in the round under a striped tent, which drew large audiences before closing in 1970.
    — Bonnie L. Cook, Philly.com, 31 May 2018
  • For opening night of the summer theater festival, Slater arrived in a white T-shirt with black trim, white canvas sneakers, and black trousers cropped at the ankles.
    — Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 12 June 2026
  • The vintage poster hanging by the windows is from Lakewood Theater, the longest-running summer theater in the country, which sits just across the lake.
    — Rhonda Reinhart, Country Living, 16 Aug. 2022
  • For 69 years running, this outdoor summer theater has shared a compelling story set in a beautiful Blue Ridge backdrop.
    — Washington Post, 16 July 2021
  • Year-round arts classes, summer theater schools, and community education are in the mix – as are dynamic projects that develop new theater works.
    — John Timpane, Philly.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Williams and Strong met at Williamstown, the summer theater festival in the Berkshires, in the early 2000s.
    — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 10 May 2022
  • This list of seven summer theater stops, both within Chicago and just beyond, should help those looking to experience theater in a way only summer can provide.
    — Jerald Pierce, Chicago Tribune, 12 July 2023
  • And so began the catalog shoots, summer theater camps, and commercial tryouts—a run at child stardom that her mother Janine would ultimately put the brakes on.
    — Mark Rozzo, Town & Country, 3 Oct. 2013
  • The hills around us were alive with lemons and grapes, which provided a backdrop for our greatest accomplishment, a walk to Ravello, known for its summer theater and great mountaintop views.
    — David G. Molyneaux, miamiherald, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Round House has created a Web series, that has employed local playwrights and actors, and will conduct virtual versions of its summer theater camps.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 9 June 2020
  • There’s also a dance school and art classes and a full schedule of comedy shows, community theater performances, local school productions, a summer theater camp, and lots of movies.
    — Johanna Seltz, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • After that first production, Volpe committed himself to filling in his knowledge gap, taking classes in nearby colleges and summer theater programs.
    — refinery29.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • The duo has been running the camp for at least five years, although the Carroll Arts Center has provided summer theater programing for a long time, Strosnider said.
    — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2023
  • The Ogunquit Playhouse, a landmark summer theater space that has stood in southern Maine for nearly a century, is planning a major renovation.
    — Neal Riley, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The Alabama Shakespeare Festival begins as a summer theater project in Anniston.
    — al, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Pink Umbrella's summer classes Pink Umbrella's summer theater classes and coaching are open for registration through its website.
    — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 June 2020
  • Included will be living-history performances, music in the courtyard, and summer theater on the lawn with the New Zenith Theater Company.
    — courant.com, 4 June 2021
  • What the Ritz does have are loyal fans — people who have watched family members or friends perform on its stage, have sent their kids to summer theater camp, or have enjoyed an inexpensive evening of solid theatrical entertainment close to home.
    — Kevin Riordan, Philly.com, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Lawrence Langner, one of the Theatre Guild’s founders, founded the Westport Country Playhouse in 1931 as a summer theater.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 26 May 2026
  • Also known for entertainment, Ogunquit features summer theater at the Ogunquit Playhouse, dating to 1933.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 13 Mar. 2020

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