Theater/Theatre
Printed From: Community Theater Green Room
Category: Archives
Forum Name: Closed Topics
Forum Discription: Uncategorized posts from the previous version of our discussion board. For browsing and searching.
URL: http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=563
Printed Date: 5/07/25 at 12:57pm
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 8.05 - http://www.webwizforums.com
Topic: Theater/Theatre
Posted By: Guests
Subject: Theater/Theatre
Date Posted: 7/12/03 at 3:39pm
|
What's the difference between "theater" and "theatre"?
|
Replies:
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 7/12/03 at 5:46pm
|
Theater is the verb, theatre is the noun
|
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 7/12/03 at 10:36pm
|
The difference between theater and theatre is the same as the difference between shop and shoppe. No important difference, though some find the off spellings a bit pretensious or psuedo intellectual.
|
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 7/13/03 at 1:02pm
My understanding is:
TheatER = the place where a show is held
TheatRE = the art of acting, etc.
|
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 7/13/03 at 2:02pm
To me
Theater = movie theater
Theatre = live performance space
|
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 7/14/03 at 12:20pm
|
I was curious so I actually looked this up...Theatre and Theater are both nouns that can be used interchangeably according to Websters. So use whichever spelling you prefer because they mean exactly the same thing.
|
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 7/14/03 at 12:49pm
Theatre is the original british spelling of the word. Theater is the americanized spelling. Unlike a lot of other british words (centre, colour, etc), theatre is still used in the US. Other then this there is no difference between the words, they mean the same things and can be used interchangably.
Dan
|
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 7/16/03 at 12:38am
|
I explain it Dan's way, except that the word "centre" is often used by real estate developers to give their organizations or product snob appeal. The names of arts buildings, especially those named for wealthy patrons, are often "theatres." To me, and may be JUST me, using the british spellings of anything reads as pretentious. It's just so wannabe. In use the words seem interchangeable, but choosing one versus the other does have a different connotation to different audience targets. For those reasons, and because I sense that a lot - not all - of people will spell it "theatre" to elevate their status, I actively fight to use "theatre" in any context. (I am an arts marketer, only 10% of what I do has anything to do with theater.)
|
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 8/08/03 at 1:23am
|
Some people ask questions because they whant to know the answers, some people ask questions because they don't know what else to do. What was your question? MELANIE
|
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 8/09/03 at 2:54pm
|
Thanks to all of you (except Melanie) who answered my question. My newly formed group was split on whether to use theater/re. We finally decided on theater.
|
|