summer theater

noun

1. a theater that operates during the summer, especially in a suburban or resort area, usually offering a different play or musical comedy each week.
2. summer stock.

Word History and Origins

Origin of summer theater¹

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

Sharon — who met her husband at a summer theater program — saw this as an opening: They’d get set up in California and use the movie as leverage to get Keke more work.

From Los Angeles Times

In 1956, when he was 30 and working as a press agent for a summer theater in Camden, Maine, Mr. Atlee began what became more or less a behind-the-scenes gig, even for a press agent accustomed to operating backstage.

From New York Times

He worked for many years as a private detective, served as a photographic safari guide in Kenya and directed summer theater in Oxford, England, to name a few.

From Los Angeles Times

“We were down in a warehouse by the water. The focus was on preparing us for the business part of acting. I was there for three years. I feel like I barely saw the city, because I was either working or in class or rehearsing, and in the summers I’d work in summer theater.”

From Seattle Times

The theater was poised to close until Andrew Russell, then an Intiman associate director, proposed to the board that the company reconfigure into a stripped-down summer theater festival under his leadership.

From Seattle Times