Crossword clues for playhouse
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Playhouse \Play"house`\, n. [AS. plegh[=u]s.]
A building used for dramatic exhibitions; a theater.
--Shak.A house for children to play in; a toyhouse.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A theater; a venue for performing plays. 2 A toy house for children to play in; a cubby house or Wendy house.
WordNet
n. plaything consisting of a small model of a house that children can play inside of [syn: wendy house]
Wikipedia
Playhouse is a common Elizabethan term for a theatre, especially those built in London such as The Globe and The Rose.
It is also used as the name for theatres today:
The Playhouse is a theatre in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England.
Sleaford Playhouse is a Grade II listed Georgian building dating from 1820. Prior to it being restored and re-opened as a theatre in 2000 it had been used as a benefits office and library.
The Grade II listed Playhouse started life as a theatre and was built for a local printer and actor Joseph Smedley. In 1841 the theatre was sold to John Hyde and was later taken over by Jane Hill and William Pidd-Fischer in 1853. In 1855, despite attempts to re-open it as a theatre, the building was sold to Thomas Parry who in turn sold the building to the Church of England. Through a variety of donations and grants it was converted into the town's first infant school by local builders Parry and William Kirk, at a cost of £1,085.
Usage examples of "playhouse".
Many of these gentlemen, from despair, perhaps, of ever rising to the bench in Westminster-hall, have placed themselves on the benches at the playhouse, where they have exerted their judicial capacity, and have given judgment, i.
As is the fashion in some parts of the city, most of these buildings had shops in their lower levels, though they had not been built for the shops but as guildhalls, basilicas, arenas, conservatories, treasuries, oratories, artellos, asylums, manufacturies, conventicles, hospices, lazarets, mills, refectories, deadhouses, abattoirs, and playhouses.
Paul did not just read playscripts, he regularly attended the Liverpool Playhouse and the Royal Court, where he would sit up in the shilling seats by himself.
She looked back at the playhouse and called for Ryoo and Pooja to ease up.
He sees Ann, sitting on the backstairs of what, as we draw closer, we see is the playhouse.
When he found himself in the cellars of the enormous playhouse, his artistic, fantastic, wizard nature resumed the upper hand.
The next morning—cold and clear—they made coffee at the campsite, had a real breakfast at a cafe near the summer playhouse in Bigfork, and drove north to West Glacier.
The Doctor doubts the assertion, giving as his reason that highwaymen and housebreakers seldom frequent the playhouse, and that it was not possible for any one to imagine that he might rob with safety, because he saw Macheath reprieved upon the stage.
While two of the three playhouses in the city had been shut down early in the war, LaMut was still the cultural capital of the earldom, as well as the political one, and it was understandable that the nobility would want to spend time in the capital for any number of reasons.
Indeed even the prestigious -Playhouse 90- made use of Woolrich, turning -Rendezvous in Black into a feature-length teledrama (broadcast October 25, 1956) starring Franchot Tone, Laraine Day, and Boris Karloff.
But Woolrich and his mother continued to live in comfortable isolation, for his magazine tales proved to be as adaptable to television as they had been to radio a decade earlier, and series like -Ford Theater-, -Alfred Hitchcock Presents-, and -Schlitz Playhouse of Stars frequently presented 30-minute filmed versions of his stories, Indeed, even the prestigious -Playhouse 90- made use of Woolrich, turning -Rendezvous in Black into a featurelength telefilm (broadcast 10/25/56) starring Franchot lone, Laraine Day and Boris Karloff (see still photograph on p.