Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
theatricals
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
amateur
▪ When he had found her, on holiday in Bournemouth, she had been very keen on amateur theatricals.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Some evenings they put on theatricals in the parlor, elaborate productions that required weeks of rehearsals.
▪ When he had found her, on holiday in Bournemouth, she had been very keen on amateur theatricals.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Theatricals
Theatricals \The*at"ric*als\, n. pl. Dramatic performances; especially, those produced by amateurs.
Such fashionable cant terms as `theatricals,' and
`musicals,' invented by the flippant Topham, still
survive among his confraternity of frivolity.
--I.
Disraeli.
Wiktionary
theatricals
n. 1 (plural of theatrical English) 2 histrionics
Wikipedia
Theatricals
Theatricals is a book of two plays by Henry James published in 1894. The plays, Tenants and Disengaged, had failed to be produced, so James put them out in book form with a rueful preface about his inability to get the plays onto the stage.