A theater, theatre or playhouse, is a structure where theatrical works, performing arts, and musical concerts are presented. The theater building serves to define the performance and audience spaces.
The interior of the Palais Garnier, an opera house, showing the stage and auditorium, the latter including the floor seats and the opera boxes above
An opera production of Ihitai 'Avei'a – Star Navigator at a 'block box' events centre in Auckland, New Zealand
Backstage area of the Vienna State Opera
Maryland Theatre in Hagerstown, Maryland, showing the stage, proscenium and seating
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors, to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, o
Theater (structure)
…A theater, theatre or playhouse, is a structure where theatrical works, performing arts, and musical concerts are presented. The theater building serves to define the performance and audience spaces. The facility…
The best-preserved example of a classical Greek theatre, the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, has a circular orchêstra and probably gives the best idea of the original shape of the Athenian theatre, though it dates from the 4th century BC.
Greek Theatre of Taormina, Sicily, Magna Graecia, in present-day Italy
Roman theatre of Benevento
Roman mosaic depicting actors and an aulos player (House of the Tragic Poet, Pompeii)